From the LA Times:

“ The explosion in vape sales has created heavy demand for distillate. California vape sales tripled from 2020 to 2023 to become a $1.4-billion market, and now only slightly trail those of packaged flower.

To feed this demand, bulk oil manufacturers seek out lower-quality weed, much of it contaminated, to buy at discounted rates.

To meet state screening limits, the extracted oils, or distillates, are blended to dilute pesticides.

One manufacturer who solicits farmers for “dirty” weed defended the practice, saying he provided struggling growers an income source while keeping otherwise unusable cannabis out of the landfill.

The amber-colored bulk oil moves on an opaque market, traded by brokers who operate without license or regulation. It is bought by manufacturers who sometimes will use oil from the same batches to fill thousands of vape cartridges for competing brands.

This cheap commodity oil now dominates the market, selling for a fraction of the cost to produce a clean product.

The cannabis industry’s reliance on low-quality weed enrages old-style farmers such as Mary Gaterud, who nurtures her sun-grown plants on a Humboldt County farmstead that has been her principal means of support for decades.

She is offended by the pleas she regularly receives from those seeking “old, moldy or even dirty trim,” as a San Luis Obispo distributor put it in a text to her in February.

A Humboldt buyer, with “Turn That Trash into Cash” in the subject line, asked for “trim with all levels of pesticides and heavy metals.”

“The people who are doing it right get crushed,” she said. “The bad actors are encouraged and rewarded. And the consumers are poisoned while being told they are safe.”

Tested vapes contained chlorfenapyr, bifenazate, bifenthrin, etoxazole, malathion, myclobutanil, piperonyl butoxide, pyrethrins and spiromesifen, most of which are prohibited at any detectable level.”

Gulp!😵‍💫

Another of my favourite Free Streamers (for Movies & TV Series) has finally got the chop (fullmoviehd4k.to) which was one of the very few that simply worked!

Anybody know if its moved or have a reliable alternative?

Thanks Biggas!

Courtesy of Sir Edward of Hashbarington we have the Terp Bomb that I shall call Agent Orange and is in fact Mimosa Budder. I mean- Yum! right?🤤
Like all secret military nerve agents it demands respect so was gracefully introduced to Mimosa flower before being loaded into a shell casing (dosing capsule tee hee) and into the bomb bay of a B52 (Mighty).

Releasing it into the lush and verdant landscape of my lungs proved to be a powerfully invigorating Mimosa based experience. Powerful being the operative word. Normally a creeper, this Mimosa literally explodes. An intense sativa rush has the ants heading pant-wards. Normally one for air guitar shenanigans, this Mimosa has big band sounds playing in my head. And it lasts longer than Apocalypse Now- Directors Cut!

Another great addition to your ever expanding store Eddy! 💥🥰

I may have occasionally mentioned over the years that I am rather fond of Mimosa. 🤔

Despite not being a huge flavour chaser or a great sativa lover this delicious 70:30 sativa hybrid hits every right note for me. And that pun is intentional becomes no strain makes me crank up the sounds more than Mimosa. Every Wednesday for years now have been Mimosa Wednesday and I’ve now hit every album I’ve ever owned and a whole lot more (thanks for the recs!) and feel I’ve heard them in a whole new way! 🥁💥🎸

It’s a mood lifting, feel great, life enhancing kind of strain. It was Smoggyman’s Portland Mimosa that got me started and oh how I miss that! (And Smoggy!🥲)

So, what do we have here?….I’ve got bud from RB, I’ve got some Dutch bud, I’ve got triple filtered hash from THC, I’ve got a 100% live resin vape pen, sweets and carts from SN2D. I’ve got a TinyMight2, a Mighty, a Vapman, a Puffco Proxy and a Tombstone. I’ll be doing Mimosa many ways!

Let’s start with a little hash in the Proxy. This is a pro device that burns like Hades! I want to look as cool as Bing Crosby but puff too hard on this and you are going to a land far far away but leaving your lungs on the doorstep! The hash is a terps bomb- that mega Mimosa citrus is wild. Crumbles like a Keif. Hits immediately (Mimosa is normally a creeper) and it kinda wants to get my arms up in the air like I just don’t care but is a frontal lobe stoner. It sits heavily….defo one for the hash hounds.

Let’s put RB’s bud in the TM2. You rip (not sip) with the TM2. Fanta like tingle on the tongue. That close one eye tight and squint with the other as you race up fast. And there it is….easing into the opening notes of Wish You Were Here but kind of glad you’re not. (No offence) 😁. I don’t feel good cos I feel great.

We need to mix this up a bit….so coming soon:

- Hash & Weed Sandwich in the Mighty!

- Dutch Mimosa takes a bow!

- Kurvana vape pen after 3 live resin Mimosa Jelly’s!

- The Vapman blasts the hash!

- A review of ALL my albums! (kidding! 😏

Stay tuned Biggas….the future’s orange 🍊

(Ps bet when I press save the photo is not the right way up….I promise you it is right now!…if I take it in landscape it posts it upside down. If I rotate it upside down before posting it leaves it upside down..😤…suggestions?)

Weed with extracts is always a good idea but mixing in sticky concentrates to make a ‘Roulade’ (my take!) is a bloody great one! 👨‍🍳

Ingredients:
Wedding Cake by Druids Magic🧙‍♂️
Blue Dream Caviar from Canadian Imports🇨🇦

Method:
Grind weed and use a dab tool to spoon caviar on top. Use fingers to work into the weed until covered (weed will prevent fingers getting too sticky), and compress into a cake (roulade!)

Load roulade into a dosing capsule and bake @ 195c for 2+2 minutes.

Inhale deeply and say “I DO!”

Terp Bomb! 💥🥁🥁💥

Big hitting rolling euphoria will ensue heading 🚀and the most tremendous sense of well being🤩🤩…

A match made in heaven 🤵👰

PP20 😘

Now you edibles machines will mock greatly at a 20mg dose, notwithstanding that these are Kiva Lost Farms Mimosa Live Resin jellies from SN2D 😋. But my chilled out liberal liver can’t be arsed to neutralise my THC and 20mg of these means lift off!🚀. They are also totally delicious….

I love an edibles high. Rolling euphoria, almost teeth grindingly good but goes on for bloody hours! Beer, music, more beer more music. Fabulous. I swear I hear familiar music in a totally different way with this strain.🎸🎷

BUT, this time I’m mixing it up with a Kurvana Live Resin Mimosa pen. Isn’t that a thing of beauty?!😍…it’s even colour coordinated! Seriously strong, great terps, I might be having a Mimosa overload! It’s not helping that I’m crashed on a bright orange bean bag! 🤪 I think I’m being eaten by a famished tangerine. It’s a nicer sensation than you would first imagine!

Whether or not I need both of these at the same time it’s hard to tell. Been a few hours now. Simply bloody lovely!

Next Time: Mimosa Roulade….🪇🪇🔥

As promised, Mimosa Many Ways continues! 🥳

What do we have here?….some very tasty very traditional Dutch Mimosa but sandwiched in a Mighty dosing capsule with THC’s triple filtered Mimosa Hash. The hash has more of a powerful stoner effect than the normal Mimosa uplift, but combine the two and 🪇🪇

Mimosa never gets me edgy but sativas can put ants in your pants. This is mellow and strong and a power treat….🔥

Whilst I was going to crank up Setting Sons by The Jam that cerebral push is more The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. (All my albums are very old indeed 😂). Time to tune the air guitar! 🎸

Next time: Mimosa Live Resin Vape Pen from Kurvana combined with Kiva Lost Farms Mimosa Jellies! (could get messy!)…

Have a great Wednesday Biggas! 🍊❤️🍑