This bud is going to score lower than I would prioritize it in a real buying decision. For me all I ultimately care about is strength, and this stuff has that above all else. In some ways this is kind of what is weird about the market; for those of us that smoke regularly or like to get real baked when we smoke – potency is the ultimate decider and it’s not even listed on the menus of many dispensaries online. That seems nuts to me.

If I compare it to alcohol – I get why people buy expensive alcohols. They are (apparently) more complex and nuanced than regularly distilled alcohols. But we know that a cheap scotch and a thirty year old scotch both get you just as drunk.

I’m not saying the only goal of a drug experience should be to get as obliterated as possible. But with grass – the act of consumption is not nearly as lingering or as much a part of the overall experience as with booze. Like – I took a bong hit more than half an hour ago. It lasted 10 seconds. The experience is the afterwards part. Very different from sipping from a snifter over the course of 45 minutes or however long that crap takes.

I’ll be interested to see how the fancy and un-fancy versions of weed shake out as the industry matures. One thing I’m sure of is that this is not its final form.