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Is this sativa or indica? (europe.pub)
submitted 6 months ago by FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online to c/weedtime@crazypeople.online
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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I can't stand budtenders honestly, like, I'm not looking for your vibes based appraisal of the weed in your store. I want a testing sheet.

I wanna look at a chart listing cannabinoids and cross-reffing them with their Strains.

I don't want to have to go look on leafly to see if a particular Strain contains Beta-Caryophyline or CBA or CBN. I'm a medical user, I have been doing this long enough I know what cannabinoids to look out for, I just don't understand why dispos don't cater to that.

Edit: autocorrupt

[–] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 months ago

Cause then it's hard to just lie to people and rebrand a strain with a catchy name and make it fly off the shelves.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And then they want a 10% tip for taking a half hour to pull 20 products out of a bin and ring them up.

[–] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just don't tip, nobody is making you. Some people like to have the option, let them. I will never understand the incessant complaining on payment terminals accepting tips. Press the big red button and move on?

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

People aren't complaining about it's mere existence.

They're complaining about the fact that its presence inherently implies an expectation to tip. And empathic people that are patronizing a merchant that has any amount of service provided will, when blatantly presented the option to tip, feel obligated to, especially since the person that will be getting the tip is typically staying at them while they complete the process.

Now you can say something like "get over it", but lots of people don't like being made to feel like that. Even the ones that do still put their foot down and refuse still don't enjoy being asked.

I would venture to guess that even people who like tipping enjoy it more when it's not an obvious option, because offering one at all makes it feel like a grander gesture.

The option to tip has always existed, but making it more streamlined and impossible to auto skip it is just uncomfortable. Not choosing to and intentionally choosing not to are different things, and it makes people uncomfortable.

[–] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 1 points 6 months ago

I agree with everything you are saying about the implication and the position it puts people in. I'm not sure that its preferable to always include a tip option.

However, people do complain about its existence. I have worked at places that have a tip option, and people do complain to the worker about the option being there. Nobody working there has asked for the option to be installed, just press "No tip".

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m a pretty long time user…how do you even get to the point where you can weigh the effects of each cannabinoid and know which ones best suit you? I don’t even think i can find the cannabinoid profile of buds I buy at the dispensary

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For a while I was using URB brand disposables and those list a full cannabinoid profile on them. Pair that with observation of effect and you can build up a list of cannabinoids you agree with

Barring that, go by smell! Lemony means limonene, earthy means pinene, peppery taste and burn means Beta-Caryophyline. These different terpenes and cannabinoids can combine and change the high with the entourage effect. Limonene is often uplifting, found in sativa type strains. Pinene will couchlock you, foind most often in indica type strains. Other cannabinoids are harder to identify by species though, so testing is usually required to identify them, I only know of the one with a strong flavor I can identify by taste.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just buy for taste.

Does it taste like kerosene? Then I'll pass.

Does it taste like grass/earth? I'll take a kilo please.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some of the new ones do taste like kerosene

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Good to know it’s not just me that gets those, the budtender at my dispensary just shrugged and said they don’t give refunds for not liking the flavor.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

They had something called Bleu cheese neer me recently. I understand it ain't up everyone's wheelhouse, but it is by far my favorite sense getting out of 10+ years of state supervision.

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If some kid wants to grow dope, they can come talk to me, instead of growing dope 6 or 7 times through denial and error, they're going to get it right the first time and have some good dope.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 9 points 6 months ago

They ought to give you your grade 10 for your service to the community

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sativa and Indica mean nothing anymore.

Everything is massively hybridized, there are no meaningful distinctions.

What there are distinctions between is THC, and CBD.

THC is the mild hallucinogenic stuff, that makes you giggly or goofy or paranoid or connect dots you don't normally connect.

CBD is the stuff that makes you feel kinda warm and fuzzy, acts as a mild to moderate pain reliever, calms you down.

Perhaps at one point in time, Indicas were much more CBD than THC, and Sativas were much more THC than CBD... but they're all massively hybridized now, not to mention significantly more potent/concentrated than back when the Hippies were toking up at Woodstock.

If your shit doesn't have labels, approved by some kind of state backed testing board or regulatory agency, that actually indicate the concentrations of shit that actually matters, your bud tenders have no clue what it is.

Even if it does have a label, it could still be wrong.... I mean, its not like a bunch of budtenders or anyone else involved in the supply chain for weed would ever make a mistake and then genuinely forget they did that...

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

From what I can tell from my formal biology degree, and experience closet tent growing, the only difference is how long you let it mature before harvest.

[–] Alpacalypse@crazypeople.online 8 points 6 months ago

"I really wish this strain would lean harder into its Sativaness"

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 6 points 6 months ago

"All we have is hybrid right now"

ok, so what's in it?

"I don't know"

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The best weed is the discounted on sale one.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So real! Just found one of the first (but not THE first) places near me. They sell their rock bottom high grade for $8/g & $5/g if improperly cured. Just discovered the actual first place that opened and they got $5/ for perfectly serviceable bud. Plus it's like four miles closer. Easy decision every time.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

$4.20 (heh.) a gram for the milled legal stuff in Canada. It's perfectly fine, even better as a dry vaper.

Some shops here are still way over priced for no good reason, so I gotta drive a whole kilometer further to Value Bud.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chaos potato can't be arsed to keep her strains separate

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chaos Potato would be a great band name. Something with flashing lights and buttons being pressed maybe...

I'm smoking weed about it.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 points 6 months ago

If I smoke enough weed my lack of talent won't be an issue anymore

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

facts. i can’t even really tell much difference between most weed. its basically all the same to me no matter what tier or strain it is, besides shit which is on the obviously very low end like brick weed and the highest tier stuff. for me it basically all gets me equally high in the same way and tastes basically the same with a little variation

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

I really only notice a difference with extracts. If it's honey in a vape, then they act like they are commonly said to. But flower, yeah no difference unless the trichromes got a dark red.

[–] Packet@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Mystery weed magic

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

Is he drinking salad dressing?

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you can't tell the difference, then you're either getting shitty stuff, or getting something that's mostly balanced with a slight leaning one way or the other.

Get some that's got a bigger split and then see how you feel. Sativa is way more fun, and is my preference most of the time. But I live in an area that for whatever reason most of what's available is indica, or a balanced hybrid. So better than none. But man I wish sativa was easier to get locally.

[–] Alpacalypse@crazypeople.online 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I hate to break it to you, indica VS sativa doesn't affect the high. It does influence the structure of the plant growth, but that's about it. It's a common myth and only perpetuated now by bs marketing.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Because the personalities that normally became wine snobs (Also proven to be BS) are getting into bud now too.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

no way bro, my friend smoked some last week and was high as shit!

/s

it's easy to sell shit to people who just want to get super high because typically, they're already super high.

same for drunks.

I sold so many candybars at the VFW as a kid I singlehandedly paid for every field trip for my classes.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

it does influence the structure

Nope. It doesn't even apply to the morphology.

[–] BeamBeamCable@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

This was an interesting read on the topic

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

There's no difference.

[–] Nanook@lemm.ee -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the British and French guys that made this up in the 19th century:

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

ah those darn western european... dots?

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Someone forgot a return char 😅

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It displays correctly for me.