Lately, I’ve been defaulting to sativas. It’s not that I don’t like indicas, far from it. I LOVE indicas and indica leaning hybrids. But the problem is, while it works for pain…it makes me useless. I consume it and suddenly I’m waking up from a two hour nap that just kinda…happened. So, I’ve been sticking with sativas/sativa hybrids to find something to help me with my anxiety et. al., all while remaining a functional human being. I was recommended this strain by the budtender at The Pass and I figured I’d give it a whirl. Notes are as follows.
Strain name: Snowcaine
Strain type: Sativa
Percentage: 25.86% TAC
Date of production: 1/21/25
Date of testing (if applicable): 3/4/25
Where Purchased (if applicable): The Pass
Price (if applicable): $9.99
Amount smoked: 1 gram
Grind: Pretty good. Not overly chunky, some small, thin stems in it that come from the inside of bud nuggets. Nothing stem-y like main-stems or any leaf particulate. I’d say a medium grind to it, if I had to categorize it.
Smell: Really….really nice. Heavy on the basil and mint. Honestly, this stuff smells like an insalata caprese – slightly tangy, very herbaceous and chock-a-block with fresh, home-grown basil, with just a hint of some sort of fuel. It warms my Italian-American heart to smell this because it smells like my Nonna’s kitchen during meatball making.
High: Pretty solid high. It’s definitely sativa leaning, I think, although it could be a sativa hybrid. It’s creative and funky and it gets me singing Eric Clapton’s Cocaine every time I smoke it. I’m able to write fairly well on it and it does a good job of rounding out the rough edges of my pain. It’s very finicky to dose, though. Too little and nothing, too much and it’s a whirlwind of a brain storm. But when you hit that Goldilocks dose, it’s very functional. Not something I’d actively seek out because I feel there are other strains that do it better but I wouldn’t be opposed to smoking it again.
As said in the last few sentences of the high, this is an alright sativa. It can get pretty heady/speedy, where you’re kinda locked in with your thoughts on a runaway train of nonsense (which is not GREAT). However, it also won’t knock you into a cannabis induced coma, so there’s that going for it. That being said, I’d buy it if it were on sale for cheap but I wouldn’t search for this strain to any extent. It’s functional but nothing special, I feel. I want to say there’s better fitting sativas out there for me and this one just doesn’t completely fit the bill of what I need from my cannabis.