Month: March 2021

When it comes to finding new music, there’s no magic weed strain to make the process easier — but there are weed strains that make the process more enjoyable. These strains can hit your mind and body with a creative euphoria, producing a happy, loose, and relaxed feeling as you dive into Spotify playlists, surf YouTube, and skim SoundCloud for hours trying to find that next great underground artist or forgotten tune.

If that sounds like your mission, and you’re looking to spend the rest of your day getting high on a quest for new music, here are eight strains that you should smoke along the way.

Apple Fritter

Most people probably think you need to grab a heavy, sedative indica in order to sit in your chair for hours when it’s time to blast some tuneskis, but when it comes to finding new music, sedative may overwhelm your body so much that you brain can’t even focus on the task at hand. Instead, we suggest strains like Apple Fritter. It provides an uplifting, feel-good high, that washes away stress, and replaces it with optimism.

Apple Fritter is a cross of Sour Apple and Animal Cookies with a sweet, apple pie taste that makes most people feel relaxed and happy. It’s a perfect social strain for talking life with the homies, as well as diving into all of the music that Curren$y has snuck out over the past year.

Kush Mints

Kush Mints — or the strains crossed with it like Animal Face x Kush Mints — is excellent for a heavy high that puts you in a state of euphoria. That’s why it’s an excellent suggestion for kicking back, smoking some good weed, and finding your next favorite album. In fact, I was literally smoking Animal Face x Kush Mints when I came across the new Savon album, and boy, lemme tell ya, AZURE is a super vibe.

Kush Mints is a cross of Bubba Kush and Animal Mints. It is known for an herbal, minty, and Cookies-like flavor profile and a delightfully potent high that leaves people feeling relaxed and happy.

Gary Payton

You might look at it as hype, but the truth is: Gary Payton smacks, boy. It’s some delicious weed, and the potent effects are perfect for people who want to smoke all day long without getting too sleepy or stupid. Because of that, it’s also a great strain to smoke when scoping new sounds. 

Gary Payton is believed to be a cross of The Y and Snowman strains. Its sweet, spicy, earthy, and funky terpene profile make for a damn delicious smoke. The balanced high that follows is great for anyone that needs a mood-booster.

Animal Cookies

Animal Cookies has been crossed with so many strains that you can probably find anything for any purpose with its genetics. Its stoney and relaxing qualities make it great for chillin’ as you skim the web for your life’s soundtrack. 

Animal Cookies comes from parents Fire OG and GSC. It is said to have a cherry cookie flavor,  indica-leaning, and makes people feel relaxed and happy.

Super Skunk

You can never go wrong with some Skunk genetics. It’s an original hybrid that is known for being the best of both sativa/indica worlds: you get a potent relaxing high that also gives way to a stoney euphoria. Snatch up some Super Skunk and see what your Spotify Discover Weekly playlist has to offer. 

Super Skunk comes from combining Skunk #1 and Afghani genetics. You can expect a sweet and funky terpene profile followed by a long-lasting euphoria. Its most reported effects are euphoric, relaxed, and aroused.

Rainbow Chip

Rainbow Chip is just a straight up good smoke. When it comes from a high quality grower, you get this wildly unique flavor that’s sweet, but also gassy and a bit fruity. And the high? Oooohweee. Rainbow Chip will have you stoned, so much so that instead of finding new music, it might be better suited for just sitting around and listening to it.

Rainbow Chip is a cross between Sunset Sherbet and Mint Chocolate Chip. It is known for producing euphoric, focused, and happy effects.

Cheetah Piss

Cheetah Piss is probably my favorite Cookies product. It’s excellent, man. One joint and you’ll feel happy and goofy and ready to stare directly at the sun as if you’re invincible. It’s the type of high that makes literally anything fun, and with that, you’d definitely enjoy smoking it and running through Rap Caviar to see what should be on your post-Covid Party Playlist.

Cheetah Piss is a rumored Cookies cocktail of Lemonade, Gelato #42, and London Poundcake 97, but only a select few really know the answer. It has a super loud aroma that basically smells like a sweet, funky armpit, and the taste profile comes through with a sour, citrus flavor.

Cannalope Haze

You might read the name and think Cannalope Haze would be a light experience that will make you feel energized, but nah. This strain is potent, and honestly smokes like a Skunk strain in terms of providing that overly-stoney euphoria that most would reserve for the night. That’s why it’s an excellent strain to smoke while running through playlist after playlist on your new music hunt.

Cannalope Haze was bred from Original Haze and a Mexican landrace strain. As the name would suggest, it has a fruity, tropical, yet earthy smell and taste. Its top reported effects are talkative, euphoric, and happy.

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The Volcano by Storz & Bickel is one of the most iconic vaporizers of all time. With its volcano-shaped base and plastic plume full of vapor, this desktop vaporizer went viral before going viral was a thing. 

Having permeated stoner culture in the late 90s and early 2000s, it remained nestled in the soft folds of our collective nostalgia, frozen in the ashes of the past like Tamagotchis, low-rise denim, and the ancient city of Pompeii. That is, until the respected vape gods at Storz & Bickel delivered us the Volcano Hybrid, a sleek, smart, and future forward upgrade that’s getting the cannabis industry erupting with excitement once more.

By toning down the hokey-ness of the original design — without making the device too serious — and adding intuitive technological controls, the Volcano Hybrid feels like a grown-up version of the classic model. 

Just as the past twenty years saw us mature and make it to the other side smarter, cooler, and (much) better looking, so it did our trusty old friend. Here’s everything you need to know about the Volcano Hybrid. 

What is the Volcano Hybrid vaporizer?

The Volcano Hybrid is a flower vaporizing system with a volcano-shaped base that uses convection heat to vaporize ground material. In the original design, a large plastic easy-valve balloon bag was filled with vapor before being inhaled and passed around. While the Volcano Hybrid obviously does this as well, it also includes a tube kit to take the silliness of the giant vapor bag out of the equation, letting you hit it like a normal vaping system. 

Aside from technological upgrades like LED controls, app capability and other trimmings that take it from the analog age to our current digital era, the addition of the tube kit is the biggest change to the overall aesthetic and functionality of the device. It elevates the Volcano experience, and this elevation particularly lends itself to a Storz & Bickel device, as they produce some of the highest quality vaporizers on the market that are specifically designed for everyday use. 

What can you vape with the Volcano Hybrid?

The Volcano Hybrid is compatible with finely ground flower, and also contains a drip pad for use with concentrates.  

How do you use the Volcano Hybrid?

Now that you’re familiar with the Volcano Hybrid, how does it work?

Parts

• Volcano base (hot air generator)
• Drip pad
• Normal screen set
• Easy valve balloon with mouthpiece 
• Tube kit
• Filling chamber with cap 

Assembly of the tube and balloon elements

1. Plug in the Volcano base making sure you put the Volcano on a sturdy, level surface near an outlet.
2. Remove the filling chamber cap. Unscrew the top from the bottom.
3. Grind flower. Make sure the flower is ground completely so the hot air has as little surface area to vaporize when the air moves through as possible. 
4. Fill the chamber with the ground flower, then screw on the filing chamber cap. Do not fill too tightly, it should be loose enough for air to pass through easily, not completely packed.
5. Attach tube kit or balloon to the top of the filling chamber. 

How to use the tube kit

1. Tap the heat button to turn on.
2. Choose temperature using the (+) and (-) buttons.
3. Preheat for 5 seconds — it will vibrate when ready.
4. Tap the air button.
5. Inhale from tube mouthpiece.

How to use the balloon

1. Tap the heat button to turn on.
2. Choose temperature using the (+) and (-) buttons.
3. Preheat for 5 seconds — will vibrate when ready.
4. Tap the air button.
5. Stay conscious of vapor density in the balloon.
6. It’s important that the balloon does not become too full of vapor, if it’s getting taught to the touch it’s time to stop filling.
7. Remove the full balloon unit. Never leave the filling chamber on the Volcano — beware, as this is a very hot surface. 
8. Attach the mouthpiece to the valve on the balloon.
9. Inhale — passing optional.

Temperature controls

The Volcano Hybrid arrives set to 356°F, which is a great place to start since the ideal temperature to vaporize ground flower is around 350°F. While it’s true that the higher the vaporization temperature, the faster the person vaporizing may experience their high, it kind of negates the entire point of vaping in the first place. Not only do you sacrifice important factors like flavor and vapor smoothness, it’s easy to scorch the flower and eviscerate all the terpenes this method of intake is designed to preserve. 

Note that when using the tube, it’s a way more intense delivery method than the balloon, so keep the temperature around 350°F to ensure the best-quality vapor and overall experience. 

Storz & Bickel App

If you have an Android, the Storz & Bickel App is pretty cool. You can control your Volcano Hybrid, get firmware updates, adjust auto shutoff, create workflows, and personalize settings. However, if you don’t have an Android 6 or above, there is a web version users can access. 

Is the Volcano Hybrid worth it?

The appeal of the Volcano Hybrid is that it’s a really fun and well-executed upgrade of one of stoner culture’s favorite vaporizers. While it has hugely improved tech-wise, it’s still a really simple and straight-forward device, making it great for any level of user from novice to expert. The improvement on the analog version made it better and more current without all the unnecessary tech-y add ons. 

With the addition of the tube, the Volcano ascends from the hazy den of your parent’s house to the coffee table of your very chic and adult apartment. Potent, discreet, and sexy, the Volcano Hybrid’s all grown up. 

Find the Volcano Hybrid on storz-bickel.com.

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Evanston, IL becomes the first US city to use legal market marijuana taxes for reparations towards the Black community.

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