Mickey Hart joins the Weed Business

I like the tin design :)

nothing says custie like a mickey hart pre-roll...

eco friendly packaging? 

He hooked up with Chemdog.

They are still looking to source extraordinary flowers, i’ve been told.

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"a legendary strain discovered at a Dead show in 1991,"

Ah, wouldn't someone had to have taken the weed to the show implying that it was actually "discovered" beforehand?  Or did it magically appear during Candyman?

>a legendary strain<

Yes, it would be interesting to know what weed Chemdog actually bought at the show, that he found the seeds in.  He started a whole seed line with somebody else’s strain.

Good thing too, it's in literally everything.

Here's a lil taste...

https://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Chem_Dawg/Unknown_or_Legendary/gene...

Ah, wouldn't someone had to have taken the weed to the show implying that it was actually "discovered" beforehand?  Or did it magically appear during Candyman?

an ounce of weed was sold at that show, and in that ounce the seeds were found that sprouted chemdog. this weed, called "dog bud", was not known to have seeds until a small amount was found in this ounce. AFAIK chemdog is still holding on to a couple of the seeds...the last time he popped any was in '04, which gave rise to chemdog 4. 

this is a legend that i had heard about before ever getting into the dead or working with cannabis. the players in the story have all come forward and been identified via instagram - in todays cannabis industry you'd be stupid not to use that kind of claim to fame to build a well known brand, as chemdog is doing now.

"the real og kush story" is another fun one.

Chemdog is everything and everything is Chemdog.

not quite....but almost.

^ Awesome 

woah slack did you custie up for some mickey joints? i would not have expected them to be on shelves so quickly. any good? strong flavor? legit chem?

I wouldn't know if it's legit chem. I haven't burned one strain frequently enough to recognize the look, flavor and high since the orange bud we got 25 years ago. 

BPG and Hi Fi had them but sold out the Friday before the shoreline DeadCos. I saw them on the menu again yesterday and got a tin. 

I liked the herb. It worked. First hits tasted good. 

We'll probably buy a few more as gifts for friends. Perfect size for me to burn one solo or share with one more person. Good Hardly Strictly Festival ratio.

I'll reuse the tin a bunch. 

where do they grow it?

is it organic?

It doesn't say organic but it says it's grown with reverence and care for the Earth.

Source says Alameda County. 

Lovingly cultivated with only the finest Union City tap water.

Fun stuff

 Long balls when is the next history lesson ?

Not wanting to be negative, but this is the zone,

Mickey the human is not really my favorite member of the Grateful Dead.  I do appreciate his contributions to world music awareness just not his personality

I wonder when these guys feel they have enough money

and who donates 50% of their earnings to charity

I clean pools. Do I have enough money for charity? 

Yes

you cannot call cannabis organic on the packaging, organic designation is a federal program that does not recognize cannabis.

having grown both ways, i think that in general, more people who really care about growing dank weed choose to grow organic because they perceive it as a way to increase quality, and those more focused on production and yields go conventional, but at the end of the quality comes more from overall plant health, genetics, flushing, and a proper dry/cure than feeding salts vs. organic. the cannabis i grew with salts is just as good as the organic cannabis i am growing now, because i grew the plants proper, flushed them, and dried/cured them proper. there are some kinds of non organic nutes/salts that can cause some buildup in the buds or negative effects on soil biology, but if you know what you are doing i dont think the quality is that much different. i vastly prefer growing with organic, unbrewed teas bolstered by salts

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-craft-cannabis-compete-with-big-ma...

Nice report that I saw on the newshour last night.

last year swami posted a pic on his IG of him dripping water from the ganges on his seedlings and everyone made fun of him for dripping poop/corpse water on his plants it was pretty funny

on one hand im all for the appellations, any farm with mendo or humbolt appellation will automatically sell better than the new central valley mega greenhouse operations, but on the other hand its a giant load of shit.

almost no rural cannabis growers grow in native soil...terroir does not refer to bags of foxfarm. its not at all the same thing as wine. there is something to be said for climate in that if your sun is too intense, quality will drop, but not enough intensity and yield will drop...but cannabis from humbolt or mendo really isnt that different than cannabis grown in many other CA counties with similar climates.

what about trinity co.?

native soil is one thing, local climate is another.

>>>All in all, you get what you pay for.

We mostly buy high thc/lower price bud. When we get a free harvest we might pick up a top shelf eighth to compare to the homegrown. 

Hi jamjuice! That appellation idea is very interesting,  I think it’s sustainable as a business model.