I used to go to a dispensary in L.A. that had a wide selection and it was all in glass jars. They would always open the jar and let me smell it before I bought it and I still don’t understand why because it never seemed to indicate anything about the weed except what it would smell like… and that’s not really a big factor when buying weed for most people, is it?
Hey FlyingSquid! So, like, there are different types of mj aromas, which are solely dependent on the terpenes present in the plant. That’s a documented thing. There’s a over a hundred terpene types that can result in citrus, diesel, skunky, or woodsy smells, for example. However, as it’s been pointed out already, plants have been cross-bred so much over the years that individually named strains don’t always have their “known” unique characteristics these days. And that includes smell/aroma.
So yeah, it doesn’t really matter anymore. I wouldn’t put much stock in how flower smells, because it’s largely inconsequential save for personal preference. I prefer citrus-y flower cuz it smells better to me. There’s one strain I used to buy regularly from my dealer that had a really strong but pleasant grapefruit smell (and taste, just a little), it was awesome.
Also, wrt indica vs sativa… there’s never been any scientific data that can back the claim that they provide different kinds of high, like energizing versus relaxing. It’s just not true. Like the meme says, weed is weed.
Yeah, ‘weed is weed’ always applied to me too. Very occasionally I’d get a strain that I felt hit harder than others, but meh. I just get what’s cheapest now. That works fine.
Naaah, I bought my first bag of weed when I was 11 years old. The dude who sold it to me said, “smell this shit bro, it dank as fuck! It’s the shit that killed Elvis. You can tell by the smell!”
It’s been legal in my state for awhile now, I haven’t smoked in years, and any time anyone has pulled out their weed to show me what they picked up they still pop the jar or bag open and say some variation of, “Bro, smell dis shit. Good shit ain’t it?”
I’ve smoked weed that smelled awesome and barely gave me a buzz, but the smell check is just a part of the stoner culture.
I trafficked hundreds of pounds of cannabis at a time for a decade while it is illegal, the origin of this is for sure a mold test. A huge percentage of weed has spores on it and it was a requirement on purchasing large amounts to do sniff tests for mold. Small time dealers and weed people picked it up and are aping oenophiles but it is really important you learn how to identify mold on weed by smell, I still smell it in dispensaries and those are the bags I pass on.
edit to say it’s not to say there aren’t people who can learn a lot about weed with a trained nose, but these types of strains and rigidity with genetics didn’t come until long after we’ve been sniffing bags. The only thing most people can smell without training is mold though, I highly recommend you do this, no one wants moldy weed.
I used to go to a dispensary in L.A. that had a wide selection and it was all in glass jars. They would always open the jar and let me smell it before I bought it and I still don’t understand why because it never seemed to indicate anything about the weed except what it would smell like… and that’s not really a big factor when buying weed for most people, is it?
Hey FlyingSquid! So, like, there are different types of mj aromas, which are solely dependent on the terpenes present in the plant. That’s a documented thing. There’s a over a hundred terpene types that can result in citrus, diesel, skunky, or woodsy smells, for example. However, as it’s been pointed out already, plants have been cross-bred so much over the years that individually named strains don’t always have their “known” unique characteristics these days. And that includes smell/aroma.
So yeah, it doesn’t really matter anymore. I wouldn’t put much stock in how flower smells, because it’s largely inconsequential save for personal preference. I prefer citrus-y flower cuz it smells better to me. There’s one strain I used to buy regularly from my dealer that had a really strong but pleasant grapefruit smell (and taste, just a little), it was awesome.
Also, wrt indica vs sativa… there’s never been any scientific data that can back the claim that they provide different kinds of high, like energizing versus relaxing. It’s just not true. Like the meme says, weed is weed.
Yeah, ‘weed is weed’ always applied to me too. Very occasionally I’d get a strain that I felt hit harder than others, but meh. I just get what’s cheapest now. That works fine.
It is a mold test, it is to prove it was stored properly and doesn’t smell like an old basement.
That makes sense. It would have been nice if they had explained that at some point.
Naaah, I bought my first bag of weed when I was 11 years old. The dude who sold it to me said, “smell this shit bro, it dank as fuck! It’s the shit that killed Elvis. You can tell by the smell!”
It’s been legal in my state for awhile now, I haven’t smoked in years, and any time anyone has pulled out their weed to show me what they picked up they still pop the jar or bag open and say some variation of, “Bro, smell dis shit. Good shit ain’t it?”
I’ve smoked weed that smelled awesome and barely gave me a buzz, but the smell check is just a part of the stoner culture.
I trafficked hundreds of pounds of cannabis at a time for a decade while it is illegal, the origin of this is for sure a mold test. A huge percentage of weed has spores on it and it was a requirement on purchasing large amounts to do sniff tests for mold. Small time dealers and weed people picked it up and are aping oenophiles but it is really important you learn how to identify mold on weed by smell, I still smell it in dispensaries and those are the bags I pass on.
edit to say it’s not to say there aren’t people who can learn a lot about weed with a trained nose, but these types of strains and rigidity with genetics didn’t come until long after we’ve been sniffing bags. The only thing most people can smell without training is mold though, I highly recommend you do this, no one wants moldy weed.