Author: CannaBacchus

Supporting veterans is an easy thing for me. It takes no huge leap for me to do that. Hell, if things had worked out the way I was thinking, I’D be a vet. I was thinking of joining the Marine Corps for a bit until I realized…oh yeah…my body is absolute garbage. I even tried to get a job at Picatinny Arsenal after realizing that I’d never make the cut but that didn’t pan out either. Ah, the dreams of youth. Anyway, I like supporting veterans because A) it’s the right thing to do and B) most of them are cool as hell anyway. So it was an easy thing to support Leadfarmer once I saw it was in local shops. I mean, c’mon, the tube has “MAKES THE GRASS GROW” (BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD) written on it, it’s got a skull with NODs (QTNVGs to be exact), and it’s cannabis. How can I, a military obsessed little nerd, go wrong here? But did I go wrong? Here’s the review:

It sucks being disabled. It especially sucks to have C-PTSD. It works its way into the most benign things like an insidious worm that ruins fun. I recently went out to The Pass and picked up a few things, one of which was this pre-roll. When I decanted it, I knew that I’d have trouble with it because of my C-PTSD. You may not know this about me but I’ve had 35 surgeries, and countless hospitalizations, so I know my way around a hospital pretty well. From the sights, to the sounds, and, most critical, the smells. The smells of a hospital haunt me constantly. And this pre-roll, well, it had a smell. What smell was it? Um…

This sample was provided to me by Nanticoke.

When I was in college, if you wanted cannabis you got “weed”. I don’t mean that in a pejorative way, really, you just didn’t have many options in far upstate New York. My next door neighbor in college was a bit of a stoner and he’d occasionally (and I do me very occasionally) invite me over to partake/ hang out and he got “weed”. It was rare to find anything other than brick cannabis that wasn’t very good. But if you knew the right guy, who knew the right guy, who KNEW a guy…there WAS one bespoke strain you were getting from 2006 to 2010 and that was Sour Diesel. You loved and hated to get it: it smoked so delightful but it was impossible to hide due to the smell. Many of my fonder memories started with a sesh of Sour Diesel fresh from someone’s backyard or something. And I’ve been looking for that heady hit ever since so I love it when I get Sour Diesel in my rotation. So when Nanticoke handed me this to try out, I was pretty stoked. And surprised. That’s a high THC. Anyway, here’s the review:

I’ve heard a lot about White Widow, it being a classic strain and all, and I realized that I had never had it. When I stopped into my local, Dutchess Roots, I saw it on the menu and went “huh”. I said that for two reasons:

1. They had it in stock and I hadn’t noticed it on the website
2. It was from a brand that I’d heard literally nothing about before and that intrigued me.

I was a bit skeptical at first. I’d heard nothing about it and I try to do my research so I was dubious. How could it have slipped through my carefully woven research network? And it was a strain that I wanted but wasn’t sure if it’d be a good representation of the genre, so to speak. But after checking the price on it, I decided it was coming home with me to be evaluated. I had to try it at some point, why not now? But how did it fare? Well, let’s see…

Note: I received this sample from Jetty.

I got these at a recent Revelry and, frankly, had been too scared to try them. After my little foray into infused pre-rolls, I was wary of this one. I knew that I would be tempting a fickle mistress of THC with one of these after my Chernobyl experience. But I put on a brave face, dear readers. I did it for you. I decided it was time to give this a try not too long ago. I was in a rough patch in terms of pain and wanted something to give me a little mental boost to help me white-knuckle through it until I could get antibiotics for the infection. So I dipped into the humidified stash and pulled out this. What did I think of it? Well…

So this is the story of how I walked into Black Market Canna and said, and I quote, “I’m not afraid.”

I’m a sucker for land-race strains. I dunno what it is about them that gets to me but it really tickles my fancy. I guess it’s seeing where cannabis came from, almost like smoking an archaeology trip. Seeing the beginnings of something is often the best way of understanding the progression of things and, boy howdy has cannabis progressed. While even land-races are susceptible to selective breeding (i.e. picking the strongest, the prettiest, the most productive), they still are genetic precursors to a lot of the strains we have today because the idea of genetics and cross-breeding just…wasn’t thought of back then. It was just…cannabis, nothing special, just a crop to use and enjoy. So I guess it’s the simpler genetics and historical terroir that I like. That being said, let’s get to business on how the Ravens View Genetics land-race stacks up to some of the others that I’ve had.

This was a sample provided to me by PUFF.

Been going through my backlog of editorial considerations and came across this one decanted and ready in a humidity controlled jar. I’d heard good things about PUFF being economical but decent so I wanted to see for myself. These were provided to me by PUFF at a recent Revelry. Let’s find out how it did!

Note: This sample was provided by Supernaturals.

I got this at a recent Revelry and was pretty enthralled by it. Mostly, I’m not the type of person that can smoke FULL pre-rolls of pure flower. As I’ve discussed in my “Review Methods” page, I take apart all pre-rolls and decant them into jars to titrate a dose as needed. But with a THC content this low, I could…in theory…enjoy half a pre-roll and put it out. Y’know, like a normal consumer. I’m reviewing this one as a spliff but let’s see whether I found my new huckleberry in terms of actually burning a whole pre-roll down all by my lonesome.

SAMPLE PROVIDED TO ME BY SKYWORLD.

So, I’m Italian-American. I’m going to be harping on this a lot in this review so bear with me. I love me some garlic, probably more than the usual person. My favorite? Pickled garlic. Eat ’em like candy (when I can eat pickled things). Roasted garlic, fresh garlic, no canned garlic, fried garlic, all things garlic I love. So when I was given a sample called Garlic Gravity by Skyworld…a little part of my soul healed. I was so jazzed for it. A cannabis strain that tastes like garlic AND gets me high? My little Tony Soprano heart could barely contain itself.

But was it worth the hype? Let’s see!