It's been a long while after enthousiast voters tried to convince me that with Trudeau as PM we'd soon celebrate 4-20 openly (theoretically), not to mention toking on Canada day (July 1st), in 2016 presumably...
Which ain't just never happened in my reality and CoVid now only compounds to the problem, yet it doesn't explain/excuse how addictionnists managed to obtain so much "accomodation" and consumers so little (true fact). In any case quality started to vary even before the Cannabis Act and industrialization later seemed to condemn us to mediocrity, but after 4 frustrating samples of SQdC's offer i finally got something less insulting to place under my microscope.
So my present post's modest purpose is to offer a non-scientific perspective by comparing the last 2 sets of capture, starting right away with a not-so-noble product which belongs more to the infamous "Tumble Weed" group (+ all 3 Hexo/Apothecary items before it...), versus a 5th try finally ranking as "fair", although it's still overpriced since multiple government levels want their cut. It may not look this obvious but the 1st set was very frustrating to disect as a result of being somewhat compressed, in contrast to the other set featured with nice mature calixes one could snap off individually if desired.
Here's one ugly version of "legal" recreative mari-caca sold by Québec's SQdC:
It was necessary to dig deep and perform multiple snapshots simply to get a sufficient number of suitable candidates.
Now appreciate my 1st decent version of it, a couple years after both the federal and provincial levels were done enacting their respective laws. Take note there's the word "organic" attached to it (...):
Less than half the snapshots were required for this photo session.
My apologies for the incomplete captures but my sense of discipline sort of vanished the moment i realized how this was an improvement...
Too bad, i wish i could have better estimated how much moisture was actually removed by drying it at low temperature in my oven. Roughly put i may have "sampled" ~4 g before thinking of a photo session, so it's nearly 23.9 g + 4 g = 27.9 g while 28 g is expected... That means going from 62 % RH to crispy-dry didn't represent as much water than i previously imagined, while learning to use this new function of my oven was a fun experiment which reminded me of the powerful smell generated by heating, which can be a real cause of concern with hostile neighbours around!
Quite surprizingly i could observe that such gentle heating at 99 °C (210 °F) didn't appear to modify my captures in a visually-perceptible manner, perhaps because i only left it to dry for about ~25 minutes at most and it was partially shielded with aluminium foil (to stop direct radiative heat). Next time i'll want to be more careful for sure! This may have seriously challenged aroma/taste appreciation but the bag's content felt too moist and that actually defeats my consumption method anyway, so i made sure it was dry enough before putting in a sealed jar. Yet i find 62 % RH quite appropriate for transportation & handling purposes, considering that soft mechanically-resilient trichome stems presumably tend to keep their glands attached if compared to the 4 previous bags...
It may also be fun to evaluate "decarboxylated" material in my customized vaporizer, using that same convenient ovenizer function, eventually.
Overall it's been over 5 years between electoral promisses and some realization to match, but it's still an extremist system with an abysmal void between THC-centric vs "Balanced" 1:1 and Full-CBD "medical" boundaries, hence meanwhile tained (contaminated/biased) statistics can continue to feed "science", In The Name Of Children...
Problem is, it's a long road trip and the maximum quantity is limited to 28 g each time, implying a need to divide as 2 x 15 g formats if therapeutic 1:1 is desired in absence of any ready-made alternative, especially "organic", etc. So imagine if one must also have products different than dry flowers in 1 single run! Etc., etc.
Good day, have fun!!
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