i warned about this a few times when it started up: these strains are mostly medicinal, in origin. so, they're designed to either treat physical pain (like arthritis) or to treat "anxiety" (as a bullshit diagnosis. anybody suffering from real anxiety would react very negatively to habitual marijuana use.) and depression, by essentially putting you to sleep. i mean, that's one way to do it. but, you'd might as well just prescribe them methadone if you're trying to treat depression by knocking them out; i'd argue this is a type of malpractice, actually. it was maybe the most scientifically illiterate court ruling in a long history of scientifically illiterate court rulings....

but, the result is that the product you're buying here in canada was not biologically engineered for recreational use, or the specific purposes of the drug that recreational users have for it, which are dramatically different than the uses that medicinal users have for it. recreational users want to use it to get high and laugh, to dance, to stimulate conversations - so they want an uplifting high, and a chatty buzz. medicinal users bizarrely actually want a numbing stone that just turns you into a vegetable.

so, i was worried that this would essentially end up as a different drug, and it's starting to feel like it has.

i would consequently be pretty apprehensive about using these strains recreationally. they seem to be producing a dulling effect akin to essentially turning your brain off, which appears to be the point of them. again, that's just not how marijuana is used recreationally. and, i might wonder what the long term effects of taking a drug like this, that is designed to slow you down, actually are.

i've often pointed to labeling as a reason to support legalization, for health reasons. you don't know what you're buying on the street. you don't! but, if they don't eventually get some more energetic, recreational type strains in then the inevitable conclusion is going to be that you do know what you're buying at the store, and it's the kind of pot you probably want to largely avoid.