Beasters question

[LaZ]

I was pretty mad after I got an 1/8th of beasters for kb price from my dealer. It has a nice appearance but smells like hay. It barely got me high. I don't even really want to do the rest. Seeing as beasters are grown with chemicals to make the buds bigger, my question is would the chemicals it's grown with make beasters a cancer risk when smoked?

LaZ Reviewed by LaZ on 12-27-2007. Beasters question I was pretty mad after I got an 1/8th of beasters for kb price from my dealer. It has a nice appearance but smells like hay. It barely got me high. I don't even really want to do the rest. Seeing as beasters are grown with chemicals to make the buds bigger, my question is would the chemicals it's grown with make beasters a cancer risk when smoked? Rating: 5

[LaZ]

Nobody? It just seems like the extra chemicals its grown with would be present in the bud when smoked.

[Spagett]

Make some baked goods with it!

[ldg420]

my knowledge of beasters is this: They are plants grown by Asian gangs, that are harvested prematurely, and the buds are then keifed before sale. I have heard of some being fed chemicals to produce larger flowers, if so you would hope that they flushed before harvest, but you cant be sure.. I am only repeating things that I have heard from various people who "think" they know. I could be completely wrong and if I am I'm sorry..Has anyone else ever heard these accounts???????:stoned:

[chongman420]

What the hell are beasters?

[nightlight]

What the hell are beasters?

there is a perfect explanation of beasters one post above yours.

[DRybes]

Well I know that the specific fertilizers used in it are suspected to account for some of the cancer that ends up in tobacco (radioactive Polonium), so it's possible they could do it to weed too, but I wouldn't be smoking Beasters anyway. You're not going to die from it and you're not going to make it any safer by eating than by smoking, but there's not necessarily anything bad in it. Use it up or give it away and then avoid it if it bothers you. I may be wrong but I thought that only specific heavy-duty fertilizers that a grower used way too much of impart bad things on a plant... most weed is grown with 'good' fertilizers because the quality of the product is more important than the size. Beasters sounds like just the opposite of that theory, so buying it is supporting sleaze.

[GraziLovesMary]

The name "Beasters" was originally used merely to indicate that the weed was grown in British Columbia somewhere, most likely commercially. There is no specific weed strain, nor is there one specific group of people that grow and produce commercially in that region. Similarly, there are multiple grow, yield, and post-production methods as they will vary from year-to-year and owner-to-owner.

In conclusion: there is no specific definition for any weed labeled as "beasters."

My advice? In the future when somebody calls a batch "beasters" expect the worst and hope for the best. Make sure you visually inspect and smell the weed, and preferably smoke it before buying it. Ive had some excellent B.C. bud, and Ive had premature weed like you were sold. Next time you see and smell weed like that, know whats going on and dont get it.


I just realized that I havent answered your question specifically... I think it is safe to assume that many large scale productions use chemical fertilizer during the grow cycle, and probably during the flowering in many. So you have a statistical probability of getting a chemical-laden batch. You can usually smell it, though, and you can definitely taste it when smoked.

Your smoking method will determine how many extra carcinogens are combusted and inhaled into your lungs. Is it possible that those extra chemicals could set-up or set-off a chain-reaction that begins mutating lung and/or throat cells into cancerous growths? Depending on what chemicals were used... I dont think its impossible. In fact, it could even become a probability if there were serious amounts of serious chemicals used. And you were distributing(and thereby smoking constantly) that batch of weed for months. But... I wouldnt worry about it too much.

Just avoid smoking weed that tastes like Miracle-gro.