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.