What happened to the good smell of weed?

[fasterspider]

I goto the store to buy my meds and out of 25 or 30 different kinds of weed in their store, they only have one that smells good like marijuana is supposed to smell and the rest smells like friggin perfume.
Then these moronic youngsters that have no fucking clue what good weed smells like sit there and say things like "This is the best marijuana out there" I take a whiff and almost puke because it smells like shit.
I have been smoking marijuana since September of 1973 and know what weed is supposed to smell like, kind of like skunk piss. Even dirty Mexican shwag that you can buy on the street from idiotic gang bangers smells better than the shit they sell in the stores and it has seeds & stems all in it still making it more appealing than the so called good shit from the stores.
Where did all the good weed go?
You youngsters have no clue, you have been deluded and then continue to delude yourselves.
Good marijuana smells like skunk piss, not Channel #5

fasterspider Reviewed by fasterspider on 01-23-2008. What happened to the good smell of weed? I goto the store to buy my meds and out of 25 or 30 different kinds of weed in their store, they only have one that smells good like marijuana is supposed to smell and the rest smells like friggin perfume. Then these moronic youngsters that have no fucking clue what good weed smells like sit there and say things like "This is the best marijuana out there" I take a whiff and almost puke because it smells like shit. I have been smoking marijuana since September of 1973 and know what weed is Rating: 5

[rudy2010]

Those buds may very well have had Chanel 5 on them.

My friends went to Harborside in Oakland and bought some weed. It is like a weed super store. They got a few different types and tried them out. One of the nuggets smelled like perfume and they actually went back and complained. It turned out that one of the employees in the back room who was making the eights had put on some perfume and while at work and actually got the smell on the buds. They actually gave a replacement eigth and took the bad one back then made a rule of no perfume in the weighing room.

I had some of the sea thai sticks described above. I took some to U of Washington for a party and wiped out every one in the room. A guy saw the large thai sticks in my tray and said I could knock out everyone in the room with the weed in my tray.

I have noticed that indoor weed seems to have a better smell but that outdoor weed is better overall. Sour Diesel, Chem Dawg, Cheese, Purple Kush, Afghan Goo and Pineapple Kush will all hold their flavor long after harvest when grown outdoors.

[MDFinest]

Mannn, this is a great topic and I always think about this.. almost everyday. As a student of cannabis and a grower of just a few years I try to learn the history behind what I'm doing. I personally believe that the strains cultivated and grown in the native climates of Hawaii, Columbia, Jamaica, etc blow these "medicinal" strains that we have today out of the water. I was born in 1987 so I never experience the 60's/70's strains but I just dont see how overbred, indoor grown nugs can beat a Sativa grown and bred for YEARS in a tropical or subtropical climate. You cant convince me of that. I've smoked just about all the major strains coming out of the California scene and I rate them a C+/B-. Sure the buds are more potent and have higher THC levels but the QUALITY of the high is shit. Who the fuck wants that couchlock, tired, sluggish feeling that you get from most of those buds. I've only had a few buds that gave me that psychedelic, smooth, trippy high that I appreciate and love. I think these funny modern growers need to stop crossbreeding everything they get their hands on, stop worrying about NPK values, and lumens per square ft and take some original strains and experiment with recreating the environment that these strains come from. This new stuff gets you pretty high and I've had stuff that one gram in your pocket will literally leave a trail of the smell wherever you go.. but the quality of the high.. meaning whether it's trippy, dull, or an energetic high.. the quality isn't that great.

[MDFinest]

I want earthy buds, with a smooth, natural, even fruity taste. The stuff I get my hands on now rarely has a distinct taste or smell and if it does its not natural or earthy.

I think anyone that started smoking after the 90's has gotten severely cheated out of some good nugs unless they just know a great cultivator. When I lived in GA and started smoking in 2000 we were getting some great stuff that was either grown in GA or FLA or some of it could've come from anywhere, but I remember getting golden brown nugs that were so sticky 8 little nugs stuck together in one big ball to make the 8th, or nugs that were completely white with a green tint behind it, and lime green nugs with a ring of orange hairs around it.

Nowadays all I get is this so called medicinal bud that you cant notice any nuances or subtleties between one bud to the next. Sure it gets you high in two or so hits but the highs are usually dull in quality and lack that psychedelic feel. I've had my golden years of cannabis consumption and it just makes me wonder how much better bud from the 60's 70's and 80's could've been. I think it's better to have variety of buds grown all over the world in different climates, different latitudes and under different controls & then shipped in of course in the right conditions and not poorly handled. I dont want to smoke all this indoor bud thats been crossbred 50 times. sorry just had to rant real quick!!!

[spin2start]

Oh dude, your words to God's ears...Color me...perfumed..

[iTokethings]

i like it when you smell a bud..and you just want to eat it

ive had weed that has stunk out my room when smoked and not got me that high
i call this 'trick weed'
coz it tricks you :jointsmile:

[HolyChrondon]

You prefer to have your bud severely handled, damaging the trichomes? You'll take brick weed over perfectly grown, perfectly handled, perfectly manicured buds? I can understand a preference in taste and smell, but man, how he weed is handled dictates how well the bud smokes just as much as genetics or environment. I'm just baffled.

I couldn't agree with you more man.
I remember when i first started smoking, I would be excited to see the corner of my sack, where it was "freshly" ripped from the brick. That shits nasty, especially when you can get a crystally light green plarp of nuggets.
The way to go is mids though, its not as bad as shwag, and its not as expensive as nuggets:thumbsup:

[Mississippi Steve]

I goto the store to buy my meds and out of 25 or 30 different kinds of weed in their store, they only have one that smells good like marijuana is supposed to smell and the rest smells like friggin perfume.
Then these moronic youngsters that have no fucking clue what good weed smells like sit there and say things like "This is the best marijuana out there" I take a whiff and almost puke because it smells like shit.
I have been smoking marijuana since September of 1973 and know what weed is supposed to smell like, kind of like skunk piss. Even dirty Mexican shwag that you can buy on the street from idiotic gang bangers smells better than the shit they sell in the stores and it has seeds & stems all in it still making it more appealing than the so called good shit from the stores.
Where did all the good weed go?
You youngsters have no clue, you have been deluded and then continue to delude yourselves.
Good marijuana smells like skunk piss, not Channel #5

We been smoking about the same amount of time...I been saying for a long time that the kids don't have a clue what really good weed is all about. I say its about 1 hit rocking your world, 2 hits and your locked down, 3 hits and you hear colors.

You know the stuff I am talking about... has no real smell at all until you crack open a bud, then it smells like pine trees.

To *MOST* of the kids on here, real, Northern Californian, Humboldt County Sensimillia is only a myth.... but thats what I grew up on.

There are problably only a select handfull on here that even know that *REAL* Thai sticks have the buds literally tied on bamboo sticks, let alone have had the pleasure of smoking the real thing.

Think back to 1979 or 1980 when "Sea Weed" showed up... it was real thai weed... a lot of it was tied on sticks. There were over 100 boxes that came to shore, each box was 1 cubic meter. Most got picked up by the Coast Guard. but there were several boxes that didn't get confiscated.
......that stuff was outstanding.
:stoned:

To this day, I will only buy or grow stuff that takes one hit and I'm good for the night

[friendowl]

i get a qp of some dense light green no seed "schwag" for 120.00 sometimes 130.00
when i sometimes get spoiled and buy "kush" or whatever i find myself getting
way more stoned smoking my regular shit.i cant take more than 3 fat bong rips of
the regular stuff cuz i get stuck.i mean real stoned like when the tv looks far away
and you get sick munchies and then laugh your ass to sleep

kush i can smoke all night long and i wont get to that level
it just tastes good and looks nice

[Purple Banana]

Where did all the good weed go?
You youngsters have no clue, you have been deluded and then continue to delude yourselves.
Good marijuana smells like skunk piss, not Channel #5

That's why I like the good mids around my area, the taste and smell are very earthy and piney, stuff that DOES in fact smell skunky, and that's why I stick with it for smoking and cooking. I don't really like sweet or fruity like the kind bud and headies, yeah, they're cool to smoke once in a while if someone's got it, and it'll get me pretty stoned, but I prefer my nice smelling mids.