This week I’m focusing on a classic medical strain here in Southern California for the Sativa lovers, the ones who like the upbeat, more energetic and cerebral strains of herb… this one is for you  – Trainwreck.

This strain has an aroma that’s as notable as it’s name. The smell is so distinct that it’s one of the few strains that even my medicore sense of smell can identify immediately… I call it a “medicinal smell” – like strong lemon-lime cleaner, but in a good way.

I have always found the effect is very upbeat and active, and at one time (Summer of 2008) it was my herb-of-choice.

Here’s some information about Trainwreck

Very much renowned for its potency. It is said to contain an incredible amount of THC. The smell is already strong, and when you squeeze it the smell makes your eyes water. The weed is easily ground up, and a little too sticky for breaking up by hand. Trainwreck has a unique smell that it hard to describe. It’s like Kush, and Skunk, but with a sweet tang to it, like freshly cut cedar.

It lights up fast, and burns slightly quicker than you would prefer, and gives you an extremely thick hit. Almost always a cougher. The name trainwreck come from the fact that when you smoke this weed your face feels like it was hit by a train. It’s a very powerful Sativa.

Source: http://www.bakedlife.com/2009/04/baked-lifes-strain-encyclopedia-sativa_20.html

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This week I get to share with you another classic strain, but one I’ve never  had a chance to try until now – Pre ‘98 Bubba Kush.

This strain is a 100% Indica that is produces dense buds that have a exquisite kush smell that is immediately recognizable as a Bubba Kush strain. I smoked some before working on photos last night and really enjoyed what I considered to be a very “clean” high.

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Pre ‘98 Bubba Kush is a 100% Indica. The plant is pretty popular amongst amateur growers, because it’s such a resilient strain. It’s hard to screw it up. It’s a very dense weed, tough to break apart. There are a bunch of crystals, and they’ll be all over your fingers after you struggle to break the nug apart.

The taste and smell provide an interesting contrast. The smell is deep and earthy hash, like most indicas but not as pungent. The taste is somewhat lighter, it’s has hints of sweetness. It’s earthy too but not dirty tasting.

The high is heavy. This is a great bud for anyone who’s trying to get some sleep. A bowl will put you out of commision for a while so this isn’t a day time smoke. It’s not the kind of high you want to discover in public situations. This is a very dense bud, it’ll numb you out.

Source: http://www.bakedlife.com/2009/04/pre-98-bubba-kush-baked-lifes-strain.html

This plant is my all-time favorite Indica, hands down. She was given to me years ago, by a good friend who has amassed an amazing collection of fine genetics.

This is one of those plants that is hard to screw up. If you give it the nutes she wants, she’ll produce ultra-sticky, dense and very dank nugs. This plant however, is on the smaller side of yields (as most Kushes are). She loves to be topped, but will typically send one branch taller than the others making a natural cola of sorts. Dried Bubba nugs will often be so dense, its hard to break them apart. Since she does yield less than some plants, this is a good trade. More dank, less leaf (although even the leaf is covered in trichomes).

This is one plant that is good for insomnia. One or two bowls of good, primo Bubba will send even the crackiest of crackheads into a deep coma for a few hours. She packs on trichomes until the is no more room it seems, then it packs on a few more. It has the ability of being better than most herb, even when pulled a bit early (if you don’t want to be lethargic 24/7). She stimulates hunger in patients very well, as well as relieves eye pressure greatly in Glaucoma patients. Pain Relief is also a trait that is found in Bubba. She makes people numb.

Some folks say that the plant loses something by letting it go past 65. That the flavor changes slightly, losing some of the sweetness, however, this comes with the benefit of amber trichomes. At this stage, Bubba will kick a hole in your face and tell you to shut up. It is that damn good. I’ve even had friends who stated they didn’t like kushes say that Bubba was the best Indica they had ever smoked, hands down.

Source: http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/strains/report-367/

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This week I get to introduce you to a strain that combines some legendary elements of the huge, world-wide marijuana story… Purple Mr. Nice.

History Time!

Back in the 1980’s there was one man who ruled the world of Hash, and that man was Howard Marks of Great Britain, also known as Mr. Nice… here’s a little write up from his website.

During the mid 1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines, and twenty five companies trading throughout the world.

Bars, recording studios, offshore banks: all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing.

Marks began to deal during a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford and was soon moving large quantities of hashish into Europe and America in the equipment of touring rock bands. The academic life began to lose its allure.

At the height of his career, he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as the CIA, MI6, the IRA, and the Mafia.

After many years and a world-wide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentenced to twenty five years in prison at the United States Federal Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, the site of America’s only Federal Death Row.

He was released on parole in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence.

Source: http://www.howardmarks.name/

You can read all about his life in his autobiograpghy called Mr. Nice – http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Nice-Autobiography-Howard-Marks/dp/1841953199

Howard Marks had a strain named in his honor a decade ago that celebrates the hashy background of Mr. Nice. The strain, appropriately called Mr. Nice, is a high-potency, double indica cross of G13 and Hash Plant…

According to weed folklore, the original G13 cutting was rescued from a government research facility by an unknown technician. In civilian circles the plant`s earth-shaking Indica potency, together with her tale of liberation, lifted G13 to almost legendary status. Creating seeds that captured G13`s astounding qualities required a very special pollen-father, which was eventually found in the Hash Plant breeding-program. The resulting G13xHP seed-strain, though a `limited edition`, was a great success in the few years it was available.

In 1999, Sensi Seeds was very proud to bring G13 x Hash Plant back into production with the title Mr Nice, in honour of Howard Marks – cannabis campaigner, author and one-time hashish entrepreneur. Indica connoisseurs will love the mouth-watering `double Afghani` bouquet of Mr Nice. Dark, earthy undertones are overlaid with the rich, spicy-sweet scent of raw resin glands. When consuming the stickiest nuggets, the taste of burning trichomes can be strong enough to convince people that they`re smoking a mix of hashish and ganja. For growers seeking a dense, heavy, ultra-powerful crop and anyone who enjoys testing their limits, Mr Nice – G13 x Hash Plant is the ultimate Indica!

Source: http://en.seedfinder.eu/Sensi_Seeds_-_Mr_Nice_G13_X_Hash_Plant.html

Now – Let’s Make It Purple!

Where does that amazing purple color come from? Granddaddy Purple!

You don’t have to be around me for too long to know how much I love Granddaddy Purple, or GDP for short. GDP is a delicious, purple-tasting Indica-dominate strain that is outstanding when it’s grown well.

The breeder of this new strain was able to capture the purple color of the GDP, but the traditional GDP smell and taste is minimal. The Mr. Nice smell and flavor (this strain is not about smell and flavor) dominates this flower and creates a more complex flavor.

But you’re not going to use this strain because of color, flavor or smell, but because it’s a very powerful double-Indica. You will feel fuzzy and stoned and couch-lock is very possible. I recommend this one for individuals with a higher-tolerance – and do not operate heavy machinery after smoking.

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Purple Mr. Nice Hash

The member who brought in the Purple Mr. Nice also brought in some very nice hash too… how appropriate.

Edibles Without The Sugar

Not all medical marijuana patients like to smoke or vape their medicine, but prefer the effects of edibles instead.

The problem is you don’t always want to have to eat something to get that effect… or, if you’re a diabetic than your choices of edibles are severely limited because most edibles are cookies, brownies, cakes and other sweets.

Tinctures might help you get around those problems…

Tinctures

About Alcohol Based Tinctures

In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract (e.g. of leaves or other plant material) or solution of a non-volatile substance; (e.g. of iodine, mercurochrome). To qualify as a tincture, the alcoholic extract is to have an ethanol percentage of at least 40-60% (sometimes a 90% pure liquid is even achieved). ^[1] In herbal medicine, alcoholic tinctures are often made with various concentrations of ethanol, 25% being the most common.

Source: from Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture

About Glycerines Based Tinctures

Glycerines have a shorter shelf life than alcohol based tinctures and while they can sit on the shelf I refrigerate mine. Vegetable glycerine has nearly no impact on blood sugar or insulin and is very low in calories (4.3 per gram). It’s sweet taste makes the tincture more palatable than the alcohol based tincture and is a suitable substitute for those concerned with alcohol consumption.

Source: AAMJ - http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/recipes/glycerine_tincture.htm

Introducing MJ’s Wild Nectar Tinctures

Fruit nectar and honey blended glycerine-based tinctures from MJ’s Wild Nectar come in a wide variety of flavors – Raspberry Raw Honey, Perfect Peach Nectar, Chocolate Raw Honey, Mango Tango Nectar and many more.

Donation amount for each bottle is only $25 and provides enough medicine for a number of dosings – depending on the strength you require.

Medicating a couple drops at a time…

These tinctures are high in Cannabichromene (abbreviated as CBC), which provides more body relief than the psychoactive effects caused primarily by THC.

Application is easy – just a couple of drops on the tongue and then wait 15 to 30 minutes…

Note: Like with all herbal medicines, it may take a couple applications to judge what strength is best for you.

Flavor List – $25 each

• Raspberry Raw Honey
• Perfect Peach Nectar
• Natural Raw Honey
• Vanilla Raw Honey
• Mint Raw Honey
• Original Orange Honey
• Pure Blue Agave
• Chocolate Raw Honey
• Mango Tango Nectar
• Strawberry Nectar

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If you’re looking for an alternative to smoking or edibles, check out the new MJ’s Wild Nectar tinctures next time you are at AAC.

We got in an excellent Indica strain today called Pure Kush (PK).

The taste is just what you’d expect from a good Kush, and the high is comfortably fuzzy, in a happy and pleasant way… this is one of my all time favorite strains (I might like this strain even more than a top-notch Granddaddy Purple) and this batch of PK brought a happy, stoned smile to my face.

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With a name like Pure Kush a lot is expected from this strain. It’s no coincidence that this bud is also pure Indica. The genetics of this strain go back to the very popular, Ganddaddy Purple Strain. The tight arid buds aren’t covered with THC, but are lightly frosted. In fact it’s low THC percentage is reason enough to question it’s claim to fame and such a proud name.

For those who like a mellow high there is true joy to be found in Pure Kush. It’s golden orange hairs stand out on a bud with a strong, geen leaves; which occasionally have a bluish hue to them. The smell and taste are both mild, but on close inspection there are fruity undertones.

The high is mellow. It gives you that traditional Indica body high. The high provides buzz and vibration that spreads accross on and under under your skin. What it doesn’t do is weigh you down too much.

Source: http://www.bakedlife.com/2009/04/pure-kush-baked-lifes-strain.html

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