Rolling Stoned

    (some time last week)      Needed some herb this morning --- yesterday had gotten some  Wedding Cake  from  Perpetual  a great strain on the cheap, as you can read in the link...so today I went with another strain from Perpetual, something I haven't tried before, Pineapple Bride...it sounds to be more sativa leaning, what I could use pre-work anyhow. Interesting genetics, a cross of Golden Pineapple with the aforementioned Wedding Cake, actually; crossed with Golden Pineapple, which is not related to Pineapple Express but does share a similar terpene profile to that strain's parent  Trainwreck  which I have also reviewed. But while Trainwreck is a deceptively sweet-smelling sativa that nonetheless packs a punch, the Bride has a more complex aroma laced with a bouquet of tropical fruit, more on the hybrid side but let's put it in the pipe: Candied pineapple, creamy and mild compared to that other shit, the Trainwreck; even well-c...

     A brief auto- bud -ography:          I been smokin' off n' on 25 years now. I been smokin' legal about 3 years.     I been goin' to Blue River Terps for 2 years and really don't go nowhere else no more.          The budtenders there are so friendly and knowledgeable, and while this may be the case at other places as well, by now they are friends, neighbors, almost family in a sense, as I see them at the beginning of so many days full of magic and wonder that they help provide, all allowed by our beneficent state of Massachusetts that then swoops in and takes a fifth  --- and the Church only took a tithe! and earned scorn and infamy as tyrant over souls --- of that hard-earned bread and adds it back on top of your cost --- which is precisely why I initially avoided dispensaries when they first opened in my area. Cambridge prided itself on awarding our first adult-use license to a Black-owned, community-t...

 One reason I use cannabis is to help with OCD --- and it don't always work, I tell ya! In the long run I wind up obsessing over smoking...how long has it been? What to smoke today? Indica, sativa, hybrid?...what strain? Do I need to relax, or does the day require energy, focus, creativity? Should I get something weaker so I can stay up later tonight? Etcetera!   Clearly, what I need is to stop giving a fuck about weed --- which means, in the long run, to abandon regular runs to the dispensary in favor of tactical purchase of precision ingredients to fine-tune my experience of reality --- as Otto says in the Simpsons to a beautiful fireworks display that enthralls all of Springfield: I don't need drugs to enjoy this --- just to enhance it! ---but in the short run down the street to the store to buy more weed, it means I should get something cheap and reliable.     So I grabbed some Wedding Cake from  Perpetual . One of my favorite strains of all time, desce...

     I just caved, after 2 days without smoking ; but I didn't want all-out indulgence so I went with the cheapest, 'least potent' (in terms of THC testings, which don't tell the whole story even when they are honest & accurate) sativa I could grab - luckily Blue River had some E-32 Trainwreck in stock, which happens to be my favorite strain by Perpetual. Even though they make some potent indicas that fuck you up and taste delicious, it leaves a certain 'ashes in the mouth' feeling and fails to fill a spiritual void too often and what am I talking about? but this shit do get you high after all. Why'dya think they call it train wreck?        This does happen by the way to be a parent strain of Pineapple Express, which I smoked almost exclusively for about a decade, on and off, taking periodic months-long breaks as I advise but is easier said than done now that there's a dispensary down the street even a few minutes shorter of a walk than my boy's ...

    I wake up at 6:00 Monday morning and don't even think about smoking. Still high from the night before, I stumble about the livingroom and collapse into the sofa, pick up The Two Towers and wait for the letters to sit still before my groggy eyes, crusted with stoned sleep and dreams I can't recall.      7:00 I absently scrape my little metal tool in the empty container and realize if I can get it all together there's one more dab of rosin left in here!     Now I'm high but I'll soon come down and gotta go to work...and the dispensary doesn't open till 9. Oh wouldn't it be nice to just come down to Earth, re-enter the real world and just take a break for a while.     But Nietzsche says there is no  'real world'        It's just a lie, an unattainable (and ultimately useless) ideal to slander life. In some ways, getting high becomes that ideal, that 'real world' for the compulsive stoner, thinking things would all ma...

       So after going on about that cheap shit I got from  Perpetual  the other day, I had to grab some fire instead. I wasn't altogether thrilled with my options after everyone had bought everything up for the holidays, but I decided to go with the Cherry Octane by  High Mark . Good shit.     I also been likin' High Mark's Pinot Noir, a hard-hitting sativa with a dense flavor profile that is sure to please. The grape notes are quite prevalent, at least when I pack a bowl or roll the flower myself. This morning I picked up a couple o' pre-rolls of Pinot Noir, smoked about a third of one walking back home from the dispensary...man, that walk down Cambridge Street past all the barbershops, crossing guards helping kids cross the street to school without getting run over by illegal immigrants on electric bikes delivering pastries to yuppies from overpriced Jewish delicatessens from Brooklyn taking over our beloved city, can't a guy get a cheap sl...

     Originals puts out some fire trees, and though I didn't mean to spend so much today I just had to try another cut of OG... I got this bowl a few weeks ago and I thought it was garbage; like no flower I've smoked out of it has tasted great  and sometimes the finish is terrible  but maybe I just haven't been smoking any good pipeweed lately...y'see, some herb is better rolled up and some out of glass, it depends on terpenes texture and in my case the wind factor though I was shielded by the umbrella I brought out to keep the bowl dry in the snow...so beautiful to smoke when it's snowing out, Christmas lights still up in January, everything glowing since you vaped this morning, but yeah this shit is DELICIOUS I have said about many Indicas "This is the best strain ever" but it's been a while since I have; well, to quote myself: "This is the best strain ever!" and I didn't even cash the bowl but it wasn't like I just had a tentative ...

 Some of my favorite and most memorable strains I've smoked over the past year: Trop Cherry: Anything from the Tropicanna family is sure to please. Delicious terpenes and a powerful sativa head-high balanced by the tropical flavors providing more of a well-balanced hybrid mood boost. Got some of the flower from  High Mark  about a year ago; I still remember that as being a significant high that didn't just effervesce in 15 minutes. Then I had a pre-roll pack for New Year's Eve - I was able to be incredibly, satisfyingly high all day long, have a few drinks, and still stay up through Return of the King (Extended Edition) and to watch the ball drop.  Runtz: Maybe the best strain of all time? From wake-and-bake (you're gonna have the best day of your life!) to right before passin' out on the couch watching the same sitcoms (sweet dreams) it's always a good time to smoke Runtz. Not overwhelming, but certainly whelming , usually testing around 27% THC, a well-balance...

  ****updated 5/28/25*******   Good Morning! I'm in the middle of a Super Scoop pre-roll right now: it is what it is...not great, but for 8 bucks I'm high, halfway through the joint, so... ****************************     Happy New Year! While I "resolve" to take a break from toking myself, for those of you looking for a dry January who might wanna try substituting legal cannabis for a while, BUT also happen to be broke after December's gone by...Perpetual Harvest got you perpetually high but---I need ta take a moment to clear my head and tell ya...      In fact I been lookin' for an opportunity to write in general---maybe I've been too high to pick up the pen? Too tired and worn out, head spinning from the Holy Daze busy breaking buds, lighting Christmas trees and Chanukkah candles, family time playing Switch with the kids and feeling like George Costanza freaking out, an adult child of divorced parents needing some heavy Indica pronto! Drinking tea w...

  Happy New Year from Rolling Stoned! After the Holidaze and before I take a little break from the Green Goddess to clear my head I am meaning to put up some more reviews, articles, vignettes &cetera for your enjoyment. THC you later...