Tasting and Testing

After a wretched smoking experience, these Snow Rocks gave dull effects. The store was “DJ’s Smoke Shop” in St. Petersburg, Florida, a state with medical but not adult-use cannabis. In such states, countless stores sell products with “hemp-derived cannabinoids.” These intoxicating chemicals are synthesized from CBD that (supposedly) came from hemp that complied with the […]

Tasting/Testing Journal, Ep. 8 Ocean Breeze Cannabis “Chef’s Kiss” Flower We like the “seaweed” pun on the box, and our testing urge couldn’t resist two products from the same batch of flower…   Today we discuss the “Chef’s Kiss” flower from Ocean Breeze. We’ve enjoyed unprocessed eighths of their flower previously, but this was our

Tasting/Testing Journal, Ep. 10 Jason Reposa’s Hemp This hemp trim did not age well in Jason Reposa’s garage, and readers guessed about the extent of Total CBD loss… The years aren’t kind to cannabis flower. Over long periods of time, it dries out, and terpenes evaporate. Microorganisms have time to proliferate, and reactions with oxygen

Tasting/Testing Journal, Ep. 2 “Espresso DO Drops” My favorite weed store in Cambridge is Yamba Market, and I was there shopping for a challenge for Jill Carreiro. I needed edibles for my training on the Lightlab 3, and had heard that chocolates are hard to analyze for cannabinoids. I figured these ones with flecks of