What is the difference between pot, weed, marijuana, and kush??

[kentuck]

Does pot grow in a patch?

Does weed grow in a ditch?

Is marijuana cultivated across the border?

Is kush grown in a greenhouse?

Or are they all the same??

[Warren Stupidity]

1. kush technically refers to the afghanistan variety of marijuana.

Otherwise they are all just different words for cannabis.

[bluestate10]

40. You're right. I never smoked pot, but know that. nt

[Scuba]

2. And how about boo, rope, ganja and nub?

[Blue_Tires]

12. Thai Sticks?

I work on a college campus and overheard in an argument as a couple of students passed by me last week: "I don't smoke weed, I smoke hemp!" with an oh-so-haughty attitude...

[liberal_at_heart]

26. that is an uninformed haughty taughty pot smoker

hemp is the fibrous material such as the stem that you make paper, clothing, and rope out of. The bud of the plant is what you smoke. Well you can use stems in your edibles but they are much more effective if you use the bud in those as well.

[jmowreader]

42. Christ, if they're smoking hemp they're dumber than rocks

Hemp (the stem once broken down into individual fibers, a process which is a true pain in the ass and involves soaking the stems in a pond for days on end to dissolve the adhesive binding them together) has no psychoactive ingredients in it. You get all the wonderful flavor of the world's crappiest weed but no high to show for it.

[MrSlayer]

3. Kush is a particular strain of marijuana.

Pot and weed are euphemisms.

[RebelOne]

41. This is the first time I ever heard of Kush.

But it has been a long time since I smoked marijuana. I only knew it as pot or weed.

[Eleanors38]

61. It showed up in Florida as "Afghan." Became popular because of it seems...

to do well in bright, but indirect ambient light befitting the wide-open hazy conditions of the country, and the bright ambient light in Florida's understory of tall, often spindly trees (good for hiding the crop from aerial observation, as well). Temp and rainfall didn't seem to matter. I think this variety may have given birth to the regional reputation of "Gainesville Green." Other locales had similar usually obsolete names ("Maui Wowie" in Hawa'i).

[JaneyVee]

4. Pot weed marijuana is pot weed marijuana. Kush is a strain/breed of marijuana.

There are hundreds of different strains/breeds of marijuana. There are also numerous strains of Kush marijuana.

[kentuck]

5. Since it has now been legalized in Colorado...?

What strain of sativa should I be looking for?

[JaneyVee]

6. Are you a beginner or are you experienced?

You can't OD on pot, so try different varieties until you find one that suits you.

[kentuck]

11. Does it make a difference if you haven't smoked in a long time?

Interesting.

[JaneyVee]

14. No. You can dive right into the award winning stuff like

Tangerine Dream, Lemon haze, Liberty Haze, G-13, etc. Those are actually cross breeds of previous award winners i.e. Tangerine Dream is a cross breed between G-13 and Neville's A5 Haze, pic:



I'm an occasional smoker (MJ not tobacco) but I've studied some horticulture.

[hifiguy]

15. Oh. that looks absolutely delicious.

Great name, too. I smoked a lot of weed listening to Tangerine Dream (the band) in the 1970s and 1980s.

[kentuck]

16. Well, you do sound like an authority...

[JaneyVee]

46. It really is my only vice. I live such a health-nut type of life, yet

I really enjoy MJ. I'm not a drinker, only occasionally, and I'm deathly afraid of prescription pills like xanax and valium etc. So it is my only muscle relaxer I use after hard/stressful work days. I'm slightly jealous of your States new-found freedom.

[Eleanors38]

60. Green Cross/Green Shield. nt

[Pathwalker]

55. Tangerine Dream is my very favorite strain. Awesome mental high,

that leaves me energized, and feeling creative. Of course, everyone reacts differently, so to each their own. It took me 6mo. to get my caretaker to grow it, but now that he's read about this strain, he's working diligently on it.
For pain, I find blueberry and Romulan are great, but do tend to couch lock.
ave you ever heard of or tried "George Bush"? Supposedly, it gets you so stoned you can't speak a single coherent sentence.

[KurtNYC]

7. Silver Haze

aka Super Silver Haze

happy happy stuff, not too stoney, just up.

[Go Vols]

64. +1

[byronius]

8. Oh, the occasional Charlie Sheen. Or perhaps a little Girl Scout Cookies.

AK-47?

The Prophet?

Eh. Here's a menu for you:

http://www.rivercityphoenix.info/menu

[kentuck]

13. That "Pure Gold" concentrate looks good?

Have you tried it??

[byronius]

48. I haven't. But be careful with edibles.

In case no one's warned you; it can be quite psychedelic, and unpleasant in too large a dose.

Right under the proper level, very fun. An inch over, and you're wishing you had stuck to smoking. We're talking wall-flexing, connected-to-the-whole-universe-at-once, dangerous personality extension.

However -- strangely -- no matter how powerful the experience, once you get to sleep, you'll wake up in six hours feeling quite good. But you won't want to smoke again, not for awhile. Took me three days. I'm much more careful about dosage now, lemmetellya.

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

10. Durban Poison is a pure sativa strain.

One of my faves.

[kestrel91316]

22. Pure sativa strains give you a mostly THC "high". Pure indica strains have much less THC and more

cannabinoids (medical benefits, not a high from them). Hybrids have some of both characteristics.

Good website for some homegrown education: http://www.420magazine.com/forums/forum.php

Weed porn: http://www.420magazine.com/gallery/

[kentuck]

27. Thanks kestrel

Very informative.

[WinkyDink]

9. Between 5 and 10? Hee!

[kentuck]

17. Can you get a contact high over the Internet?

[jtuck004]

30. If you could we would have optical fiber to a lot more homes than we do now, I think. <G> n/t

[kentuck]

32. Can they make optical fiber out of hemp?

It would probably come into your home in different colors...

[jtuck004]

47. lol. I was thinking speed might be a problem, but probably not more than the persistent

"Sir, did you overheat your cable wiring again"? phone calls...

[dlwickham]

44. I have the munchies

from reading this thread

[sarcasmo]

18. You don't want dirt weed.

[kentuck]

19. No, I would not want to pollute my lungs...

with more than one puff...

[kestrel91316]

20. Go buy some and smoke it and then YOU tell US, lol. It's legal in CO now. Enjoy.

Use a bong or vaporizer if you don't like smoke, or better yet, make cannabis oil or butter and make BROWNIES!!

[kentuck]

21. I have to wait until Governor Hickenlooper says it's OK...

And the Atty General Suthers says there is a loophole in the law and they don't know how much to tax it??

[liberal_at_heart]

23. yeah it's funny here too in WA

Dec 6 is the day we're suppose to be able to possess 1 oz, but it won't be legal to buy it until a year from now when they figure out how to license, regulate, and tax it.

[jmowreader]

43. I can't figure out why it should take that long

They have been licensing, regulating and taxing alcoholic beverages ever since the end of Prohibition. Just do that.

[Eleanors38]

62. It takes time to get the big-boys (alcohol distributors?) in line at the trough.

[kestrel91316]

28. Just start growing some and keep quiet about it. Nobody is gonna invade your home with a search

warrant. You can get seeds online - stick with autoflowering dwarf varieties - you can harvest in 3 or 4 months and don't have to worry about length of daylight issues. Also you won't have a huge amount from any one plant to where you exceed the limit. Seed shipment is secure and disguised.

http://www.worldwide-marijuana-seeds.com/

Ask me how I know about all this, lol.

[Bandit]

24. I think they are all similar to Reefer

[kentuck]

31. That helps a lot.

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[jschurchin]

25. I Was gonna say

About $50/oz. That's the wrong answer though. Sorry, carry on.

[madrchsod]

39. 50 an oz....? dude lay off the pipe!

i have`t seen pot that cheap since the early 70`s....

[Earth_First]

45. No kidding...

A zip will cost in the $275-400 range for anything worth smoking based on geographic location...

[HopeHoops]

29. Simple. I don't know what "kush" is.

[liberal_at_heart]

33. Master Kush is a good strain for pain relief

I know patients who use Master Kush and they all say it is good at relieveing pain.

[kentuck]

34. Do you mean like "paralyzing"...?

Or just "numbing"??

[liberal_at_heart]

35. it just takes the pain away

You still get some of the THC high but mainly you just get relief from the pain. How much high versus pain relief usually depends on how it was grown and what the levels of THC and CBD are. Any marijuana can be "paralyzing" if you take too much. I know a patient who has some pretty potent brownies and some of the patients eat too many brownies and end up sitting in the same spot for hours. But if you take the right amount you can still be mobile and lucid.

[kentuck]

36. That is good to know.

Thanks.

[Eleanors38]

63. Been told that a tincture of marijuana leaves is good for arthritis...

and other topical ailments. The leaf contains a significant pain-killer, and is cheaper than the bud. I understand that you cook it down like you would for brownies, then mix/blend the result with a good oil-type medium (for rubbing in). This can be self-applied on knees, joints, etc.

Good medicinal use for cheap weed.

[librechik]

37. As an average citizen of Colorado, be sure to address your cannabis questions to me

I will soon be an expert in more than just pot. Who knew there were so many varieties! Thanks, kentuck!

[AlexSatan]

51. As a fellow citizen of CO

Can you explain the difference between medical vs recreational pot?

I read an article where many of the shops say they are only going to continue to serve the medical community.

Isn't it the same stuff? Why would RXs even be used/needed once the retail shops are open???

[librechik]

53. because cannabis is extremely useful medicinally, and we don't want to lose access to that use

as well as possible future insurance coverage for mj patients who need it medicinally. Recreational use is a side issue which brought many voters to the booths, as we saw. Of course it's the same drug, sort of like we used to use alcohol medicinally (A LOT) but it has lost favor with doctors since better therapies have emerged for the things they treated with alcohol. Alcohol is used both "medicinally" and recreationally by users. Presumably it will be the same for marijuana, although there will be doctor-prescribed marijuana too--it's just a lot more effective than alcohol for certain medical purposes, so of course we want both. And the VERY promising science of evolving more concentrated and refined types of canabinoid based medicines, such as in cancer treatment, is an exciting and hopeful possibility.

We basically want to end prohibition of the herb for any use. It's undoubtedly very helpful and historically relatively harmless.

And there is a bonus: We also legalize industrial hemp, which will be a bonanza for CO/WA farmers over the next 50 years, as sustainable fuels get more important and petrochemicals become more rare and expensive. You can make just about anything with hemp, better for ecology and cheaper than cotton or silk. Hemp is a godsend, the first cultivated plant--ever.

[AlexSatan]

54. I guess I'm being dense

I obviously voted for it, even though I've never used and don't plan to, but by opening it up for recreational use, didn't we open it up for any use? (assuming the feds do not intervene)?

How would having shops just for medicinal use promote the possibility of insurance coverage for it? Either physicians will advocate for it or they won't.

And if any adult can use it, how would anyone lose access to it for medicinal purposes?

On edit: Thanks (in advance) and sorry if I am being thick-headed here.

[librechik]

56. well some people would be buying a specific kind of cannabis by prescription (fo example

edibles, tincture, thc crystal whatever, but mixed for cancer patients. The other kind of shop would differentiate with other qualities, such as intensity of the high, flavor etc. A recreational user wouldn't have a prescription, and so would get access to the non-medicinal types.

I suppose--I could be dense here too--kind of a mystery how this will all turn out ultimately. And I know where your question is coming from--if you aren't familiar with medicinal, it can seem a bit of a big deal over , well ordinary weed.

But they really are different. And we probably really need both kinds to be fully conscientious.

[AlexSatan]

57. I'm still missing why they would be different

and what the medicinal folks could get that the recreational folks couldn't.

Thanks for trying though!

[librechik]

58. google is your friend! n/t

[AlexSatan]

59. Not really

"The difference is in how its used"
"where it is purchased from"

and

"Medical is more potent and more pure" because the growers are more careful than those doing it illegally

doesn't help much. Now that recreational MJ is legal the differentiation goes away. Also, the potency issues go away since buyers can choose what they want rather than just what their "guy" has on hand.

[madrchsod]

38. ditch weed...hemp plant that was grown during WW2

thousands of acres were grown in this area of northern illinois. .it dam near killed you if you were dumb enough to try it but that did`t keep people from selling and smoking the rope

after dumping tankers full of chemicals on the weed it was finally killed along with just about anything else that was alive

[leftyladyfrommo]

52. We still have ditch weed here in Missouri

There is lots of the stuff growing wild here in Platte and Clay counties.

You can't smoke it. You would have lung cancer way before you got high.

But you can still be arrested for holding it or carrying it or whatever.

[SomethingFishy]

49. Looks like you got the answers you needed but one more thing...

about strains in plain english...

If you want to sit on the couch getting baked, playing video games and eating Cheetos then you are looking for a Sativa strain. If you are looking to get "high" and still be able to function you want an Indica strain..

Indica is what I smoke when I am playing or writing music, Sativa is what I smoke when I want the world to leave me alone.

[hobbit709]

50. The Fugs explain it here

[Eleanors38]

65. Hmmm, Uranium Savages comes to mind...

though "Unit 709" is a Wildlife Management Area in Williamson County where I do a lot of hunting.

[Go Vols]

66. cool weed tune

[madrchsod]

67. i`ll never smoke weed with willie again"

[rawsome]

68. Who the fuck cares?