The Greenery 420

Warning: Inhaling vaporized Aluminum is toxic so only use aluminum foil if you don't have a bowl and don't apply heat for too long to the bowl at one time. Aluminum turns to vapor at 1,850 degrees Fahrenheit bud burns at 390 degrees Fahrenheit for really dry bud, with the maximum heat before combustion around 445 degrees Fahrenheit. It's generally safe for short term use but long term use should ALWAYS be avoided.

If you're in a pinch and want to get very stoned, take the bottom inch or 2 off of a two liter (this works with any bottle but take off less with smaller bottles).

Get the cap from the bottle and bore a hole in the top (small but enough you can stick either a joint, a bowl, or make your own bowl with aluminum around the cap. I like to light a joint and stick it in the top of the cap surrounded by aluminum to hold in the smoke better. Screw the lid on the bottle, fill a bucket or deep tub or bowl with water and then push the bottle down until it is submerged as far as you can get it (not totally but just until most of it is submerged).

Light your joint or bowl of bud that is poking through the top of the cap that is screwed on then slowly pull up on the bottle until the bottle starts to fill up with smoke.

When the bottle is filled with smoke, take the cap off put your mouth over the makeshift mouthpiece and push down as you inhale (not too hard because you're liable to suck in water if you inhale too hard and don't know how far in you've pushed the bottle back down).

If done right the gravity bong should force the smoke into your lungs as you inhale.

I'm in love. No not just with my wife, but I'm in love with this bud. This is some of the best Sour Diesel I've ever had and that's saying something because Sour Diesel is my all-time favorite strain. I got a gram sample each with my Lemon Cherry Gelato and Mimosa ounces, so I decided I'd give this a chance and pack a cone of this bud.

As you can see from the picture, the Sour D is super trichome-y and sticky. The smell is a pungent, lemon / gas smell and the taste is the same. It's not really skunky per-say but the strain tastes great and you can taste the limonene in it on both the inhale and exhale.

Definitely has a strong smell, but not like GG or Skywalker OG. I was able to get rid of it with some Ozium with no problems and my wife and I smoke in our apartment. Our neighbors are pretty chill but I'm still hesitant to hotbox the place because at least right now they are tolerating the weed smell.

I enjoyed about half a joint of this and then put it out temporarily, primarily because I don't like to get completely blazed during the day but just enough to be able to tolerate the world lol. I feel awake, and just had a cup of coffee after smoking. I'd say it's a great wake 'n bake strain, as Sour D is a Sativa strain (90ish% Sativa). No paranoia, no anxiety. I'm just chilling, which is nice. I highly recommend this for people with ADHD as I feel much more focused and also creative. Great strain for game development that's for sure, it doesn't cloud up my mind or make me couch-locked either. I'm not too big of a "couch-lock" fan except at night when I'm trying to sleep.

So I've been a stoner for a long time, but primarily was smoking marijuana which is illegal here, luckily with more recent advancements with cannabis and legislature we have options here that are now just as effective. I was curious what would happen if I switched to pure THCA bud because the reason I smoke and have been smoking marijuana on and off since I was 8 was because at the time my dad said it would help with my ADHD (it did as well as my depression although I REALLY don't recommend giving it to an 8 year old lol, my dad was not exactly a "think things through" type of person though).

Over the years the constant fear that I'd get busted and sent to the pen for a completely non-violent "crime" really was hard on my mental health, and even though cannabis provided me with tremendous benefits, it was hard for me to enjoy the benefits with all the fear and anxiety from the possibility of getting locked up like a lot of my friends.

When CBD and Delta 8 got so big, I did experiment with Delta 8 but I felt like even though there was a benefit it wasn't quite "hitting the spot" where I needed to be to stop my tremors which have been getting worse from my neurodegenerative disease, I used it quite a bit at night to put me to sleep (especially edibles), and it did help more than not taking any form of THC but, I definitely needed something else.

I didn't want to take the reeeeeally synthetic forms of THC that they came out with just because I had experiences with K2 with my dad and was weary about anything blatantly synthetic (mainly because I can't know if there's going to be side-effects eventually), so I just stuck with Delta 8 even though it's a concentrate / isolate and you really have to check that the companies test them to make sure the solvents are gone.

I stumbled across THCA bud in the local headshop before it closed down recently, but it was 35$ for 7 grams so I figured I could find a better selection for cheaper online like I do with my kratom. I came across a distributor called JKDistro, and they have 1oz smalls for 50$ sometimes, best investment I ever made. Now I'm smoking in the morning and then some at night to wind down and within 1 week I've seen drastic improvements in basically every aspect of my life.

I'm not joking, it's as good as OG cannabis but now the fact I'm not always fearing the cops makes it so much easier to enjoy it. I like that I can go out on my porch and spark up a joint too since JK sends me a card to carry each time I get some bud from them so if I got stopped cops would know it's legal. Cops don't really care here anymore so much because of progress in legislation but it really helps me feel better.

Some of the biggest benefits I noticed from dosing in the morning and at night:

Sleep Quality

For people with Early Onset Dementia from diseases like mine, our brains can't shut down and typically we have a hard time going to sleep and staying asleep. I got to where I was only getting about 1-3 hours of sleep a night if at all before I started dosing like I am now. The first few days I literally slept (3 days nearly straight) and it was really nice because I know my body desperately needed the rest to heal. Now I'm sleeping 6-8 hours a night and that's literally amazing because I'm waking up feeling way better. A bit groggy sometimes if I smoke a bit too much or take too much cannabutter but, overall much better than I was feeling before.

Anxiety

Crazy enough I have an interview on Wednesday for a job in sales, funny thing is I HATE talking to people, especially on the phone. Once I started the THCA regimen I've gotten so much more talkative, relaxed, and social than I was. I am diagnosed with ASD, and the main way mine significantly limits me is communication and being anxious around strangers. It's amazing that I was able to get an interview and now I'm about to go back into the workforce for the first time in 12 years.

Depression

I have a big issue with getting really depressed (which apparently is very common among Alzheimer's and HD patients). Since I've been on the regimen, I've been a lot happier, more relaxed, less irritable. It's been really nice and I've felt myself smile a lot more. I know I'm a lot more pleasant to be around and I've not been near as emotional as usual.

Anger / Emotional Regulation

Once again, I have a real issue with emotional regulation. I think a lot of that goes back to ASD but then the HD doesn't help at all. I've been a lot more chill and more pleasant to be around. Not as irritable / fussy, and able to interact with people more patiently. I get frustrated usually pretty easily but I've been able to be more chill than usual which is nice. I'm also not "all over the place" as much, my mood swings are a lot better.

Pain / Inflammation / Soreness

I have a lot of issues with inflammation. On every test I get (blood test) it always shows my inflammation levels to be very high due to my body being full of a toxic protein called Huntingtin. This also causes pain in my joints sometimes and because my muscles are slowly deteriorating some they are sore a lot and I have to constantly work them out a lot to not lose muscle. I'm not in near as much pain as I was before I started up the THCA, which is huge because it's been freezing here and usually I can't get out of bed when it's this cold. My muscles aren't near as sore and I'm not near as stiff either.

For all my metalhead stoners out there. This is the game I'm developing at the moment. Super excited. About to finish the level design for level 1 today. Let me know what I should add!

After the Cannabutter misfortune I was completely blazed for over 24 hours. My soul is finally coming back into my body but haha reminds me of the time I ate an entire 300mg cookie because I didn't know you were only supposed to eat part of it each time.