Oct 29 2009
12 Ways To Know If You Bought Good Weed or Bad Weed
If you are going to go out and make a purchase of something, it is always good to know as much about it as possible beforehand. That’s why you research your car before you buy it or read reviews about products before you purchase them. It is part of being a smart consumer. Buying weed is no different. If you don’t know the ground rules of buying good weed and how to spot good or bad weed when you see it, it is going to be a problem for you in the long run. Smart dealers can tell a newbie buyer from a mile away so you will get hit with the “this is superchronicotilite weed” and really it is just some bullshit with a fancy, made up name.
Now to be fair, if you are trying to be economically sound and you would rather have quantity (more bad weed) over quality (less good weed) then be my guest but it is still important to be able to identify good/bad weed when you see it. Here are 12 tips on figuring out whether your weed purchase was a good one or not.
- Look for lots of crystals. The more the better. If you can look at your weed closely and see lots of crystals in it, it’s a safe bet that you are going to be pretty high soon.
- Shouldn’t be too dry. Good weed is not going to be dry or feel like it’s been sitting out in the sun for too long. If there is no stickiness or it just crumbles as you break it up, that is probably not a good sign. If it looks like this, you bought some bad shit.
- Lots of sticks and seeds is never a good sign. A few here and there are to be expected but if you have an excessive amount of sticks and seeds, that is a PROBLEM. Not only for the fact of you having to sort through all them but the fact that you know that the quality of the weed you just purchased isn’t the best.
- It should be green. Certain other colors are acceptable too but mainly it should be green. You can also find good weed they has hints of purple, orange or red and you can usually bet that it is going to be pretty good. Brown weed is NOT an acceptable color.
- Potency of the smell is a key to figuring out quality. Dank weed smells just like the word says, dank. Sometimes it will be so strong that you can smell it through the bag. Next time you have some weed, take some time to smell it and figure out what exactly good weed smells like. It is hard to describe but if you have bad weed it will usually have a very faint or no smell. Not good.
- Shouldn’t be too wet. Just like dry weed, if your weed is soggy that is not good. Even if its dank it will affect the way it breaks up and you don’t want that, especially in these hard recessionary times. We need to stretch the weed as far as we possibly can.
- Really leafy weed is not a good. Usually if you get sold weed that happens to be really leafy, that means that it is just a lot of fluff. It usually won’t break down well or be able to really be stretched out at all.
- Look for hairs. Those little hairs on the end of your weed are like gold. If there are a lot of them then that is gonna be some great weed.
- Avoid bullshit dealers. I can’t emphasize how important it is to have dealers you can trust. If you have a guy that consistently has good stuff, hold on to him as long as you possibly can (not literally). Check out this guide on the traits of good dealers if you don’t know one when you see one.
- It should feel sticky when you break it up. There is a reason why rappers always brag about having that “sticky icky icky.” Stickier weed that is harder to break up will always get you way higher than that weed that just crumbles as you break it up. Ack. Can’t stand that.
- Sometimes there is no way to tell until you smoke it. It’s a sad truth but sometimes you will never know whether or not the weed is good until smoke it. I have had weed that I thought was going to be magnificent based on all the tests above and it turned out to be horrible. On the other hand I’ve had weed that I smoked, expecting for it to have little or no strong affect and it turned out to be GRRRRREAT!!! Sometimes that’s just the way it goes.
- Experience counts for a lot. The reality is there are going to be times that you buy weed that sucks and times that you buy great weed. The more and more you buy it, the better you will become at figuring out what is what. Be patient, pay attention to what you buy and if you are a new weed buyer don’t make it obvious or else you will get taken advantage of.
What else did I miss? Please leave comments and let everyone know how you know when you bought good or bad weed.
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yah grow your own is a good plan. then you'll really know what good marijuana is. but if you have to buy be cautious and examine.
good post, dude!
lots of hairs does not mean good bud. look for trichomes its a much better indicator. if its sticky, stinks, and has no seeds, its gonna be some good bud.
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"lots of hairs does not mean good bud. look for trichomes its a much better indicator. if its sticky, stinks, and has no seeds, its gonna be some good bud."
True, hairs don't always mean good, but man i love finding a seed or 2 out of a gooey bag that i can pop in the dirt.
yeah i used to have trees that LOOKED like straight kush, nearly all orange hairs, but in reality it was just beasters, it was also pretty heavy. examining weed is also CRUCIAL for you first time buyers.
true story, i had a guy who used to buy from me but i wasn't good one day and he decided to try someone new. the guy told him he had kush for 400 an oz but it was wrapped up in several bags. the guy brought it home and it was LETTUCE, thats not a nickname for schwag, i mean edible LETTUCE.
how bout read a book about it. alot of the ways to "tell if you have good weed" is alot of the ways not to. dryness/wetness is its own thing, wet should mean its fresher(dry it out in a glass jar, you dont want it to mold) dried is cured. the longer you cure it, the more thc it produces (the curing process is supposed to take 3 exrta months but no one does this bc they want to keep the weight an make the money). you cant look at weed with the untrained eye and see if it has lot of crystals on it or not, bc if you zoom in, what you thought was crystals might really just be white hairs like on beasters. hairs dont get you high. hairs dont matter bc they contain no thc. im done now. yall keep on smokin an maintain.
Meet some one in east Oakland…The best weed in the world… Stupid Grapes! Like the stuff in the first picture… Im a veteran!
Dank is a terrible way to describe the smell of well produced cannabis. Earthy, Skunky, Fruity, or a combination of all is what you are looking (sniffing) for. Dank is a description of the smell of a basement. Don't buy pot that smells like a basement.
All the above recommendations are spot on, I woulkd empasize to my fellow smokers to never buy moist / wet weed. Even if it's from a great strain. The marijuana will irriate you lungs possibly giving you pneumonia.
My experience. Also always smell your weed. It should have a nice full earthy smell. Many dealers in New Yok have there marijuana shipped in with a formeldeyhyde coating over the rapped up weed bails. So watch out.
Know your dealer/
I agree with everybody about the smell factor i did want to say that I ended up with some stuff today that dissappointed me at first smell however when i got a good close up look it looked great there is a possibility that over time it lossed its smell due to storage or even the way they cured it i donno? My point is i love the smell of nice kush but further inspecting your buds with an LED Light can tell you alot My bud buster revieled to have plenty of chrystals from that batch. My conclusion is that if its not wet your counts are good not too much leaf and plenty of chrystals and hairs chances are it will "get you through"
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