The Weed

'the odor in the air was what I would call pleasant'

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I smoked weed a couple of times in high school, frequently in college, and very often with the friend group of my younger 20s. I never had a problem with it, and I smoked cigarettes at the time. By my 30s, I had quit smoking cigarettes and was being drug tested for clearance to secure areas (refineries, ports, chemical plants). I've recently traveled through recreational marijuana states found the constant smell intolerable. It stinks. I'm sure my nose is sensitive without cigarettes and having been years since I last smoked weed.

I've heard people make the claim that it is low quality weed, but I thought legalizing it was supposed to fix that? No, I'm against legalizing it. Legal weed cities stink to high heaven, I don't want that on my Florida beaches.

It's because the weed from the past was lower quality and had much less THC. As legalization and more people having access to better grow resources increases, so does the quality. What you're smelling now is the good stuff. It's much stronger, more potent, and so the smell is much more pungent than that crap you were smoking decades ago.

I actually like the smell of what I assume is state-legal weed, as long as I don’t get it on me

Skunk weed has always existed. It's characterized by a) being saliva dominant; b) higher thc levels; and c) smelling like Skunk. Indica strains are for pain, sleep and sitting on the couch. Saliva is for skiing, driving and rubbing your deck on a strippers leg, like last night. The first time I got high was 1969. The last time is right now. Smoking some mimosa.

PSA: Skibum means Sativa, not Saliva.

Also, both Sativa and Indica strains can emit a "skunky" smell as it is just a characteristic of a lot quality weed strains, but Skimbum is a bit high right now because if anything, Indica is generally the "skunkier" of the two and sativa is more fruity smelling. In general. Plenty of hybrid strains, too.

Indica = body high (relaxed, calmer high, great for people struggling with nausea as it will increase appetite and great for insomnia and pain, too.)

Sativa = head high, when you don't care about anxiety and need to do something productive, can also help with creativity and coming up with new ideas.

Skunk is a 75% Sativa, 25% Indica hybrid. Happy to have anyone confirm this with research.

We are talking about the skunky odor, not a specific strain. Indicas, sativas, and hybrids can all have a skunk smell. However, Indicas tend to be a bit skunkier smelling, generally, as I said. A simple Google search will show you this. Either way, it's nothing to argue about. Almost all strong weed is going to have strong smell. That's the answer to the original question. Weed smells stronger now because it is.

I think most of the more powerful strains of weed smell like fresh dog shit. (And not in a good way. If there can even be a good way.) I didn't like it whenever I tried it. I studied in Amsterdam and had some seriously professional stoner classmates so they took me under their wing and introduced me to the right dosage and degree of power for me, and I still didn't like it. I felt the weird tinglies, understood what they were, and then wanted them to end. Which they didn't. For much too long a time relative to what I would have preferred. So, most of my experience involved waiting for the experience to get over with. Subsequent, finally coming down, I remained paranoid for about two or three days even though I wasn't tingly. Ultimately I went for a very very very long run, longer than I'd ever run before, around and around Vondel Park, walking and running, for an entire afternoon and evening, until I was so exhausted that I could barely get to a taxi to be driven home (I left my bike locked up at the park overnight). That still didn't clear all the paranoia. Although it was high quality and was administered carefully and knowledgeably, nevertheless it was all around a very negative experience, so I wouldn't go for it again.

Me thinks that when you were smoking it, and (presuming) you enjoyed the high, that association with the odor was pleasant. Or maybe your smell sense was off a bit due to the cigs.

Now that you don't imbibe there's no pleasant association and now it's just a smell, but you don't like it.

Me, I find it pleasant due to many wonderful memories. Very rarely smoke anymore myself, I'm a gummy guy now.

^^ same here. Rarely smoke the stuff, but the cbd/thc combos work well. Especially whenever o get the popcorn out and browse this site.

This rick doesn’t smoke weed. I mean really…who would want their stylin’ suit to smell the way Skifredo thinks he smells when he sparks up some “saliva.”

This rick does like mimosas though. You know what my secret mimosa ingredient is? Jack. You greatly improve mimosas if you substitute Jack for the bubbly and then leave out the frickin’ orange juice in favor of more Jack. ROAR!!!

Weed is definitely much stronger nowadays. All drugs are, which is why heroin is snortable and more popular than back in the day.

Now adays you can't do any of that shit off the street. You just don't know about fentanyl and it only takes once. nida.nih.gov That is a fuck ton of people every year. Only legalized weed from a certified shop. Either way not my thing.