Fix the Fishy Preroll Finish

You’ve just left “the last” cannabis dispensary in your legal state. The billboard by the highway warned you that a dreaded circumstance was coming up. That choice between risking your good name and dumping all of your medicine. Anyone who has left their weed legal state to cross an imaginary line to potentially and suddenly become a felon knows that decision.

Enter the pre-roll! The convenience solution for those flower puritans who give dabs and vapes suspicious side eye.

There you are at the last pull off before the border, your preroll in hand -- that last joint before you have to deal with your whole drunken family without any ganja. You take that first lung full and soak it up as you exha…. **crinkled nose**... what the fuck?

There’s something fishy with this preroll.

This isn’t the first time you’ve been disappointed in your road joint** or a preroll you picked up to try a promising sounding new strain.

Road joints are traditionally prepared in advance of a journey, adventure or errand. They may also be purchased from a dispensary because some drivers, or joint-rollers, aren’t very good at one or the other, or both.

Here, where dispensaries sponsor community events and growers host charitable fundraisers, we talk about new dispensaries and strains we found with the same open enthusiasm a Texan talks about the new Whataburger coming in.

Prerolls have a bad wrap for being for teens or novices. Someone missed the fact that, unlike craft brews, people cannot sample weed at the dispensary before they make a purchase. Prerolls have been totally overlooked as the perfect vessel for cannabis connoisseurs of all experience levels to have an opportunity to sample different strains without the risk of being stuck with too much of a product they dislike, or even needing to know how to roll a joint.

Why does my convenience cannabis product often have this distinct fishy finish?

Any pot smoker who has grown their own, or know people who try to grow their own, can expect improper flushing, and/or overfertilizing, from our backyard grower friends.

When your first big hit off that commercial doobie you were excited to try finishes on the exhale like a fish oil supplement, we have a problem. If your strain has citrus in the name, people may expect a citrusy finish, not trout.

Would it be too much of an inconvenience for somebody to slap a label on these “flawed” harvests so customers are more informed about what they’re buying?

This has to be one of the few businesses where there exists real profit and repeat customers despite selling substandard, unpleasant products. Shoddy products are for the black market and trading among friends. Sorry, not sorry, pot industry friends. Your days of making a good living from those products are numbered.

On a serious note to entrepreneurs in the industry, as recreational cannabis expands and corporate interests grow, our local growers must be consistent with their products to compete. People who buy Budweiser expect Budweiser, not a stout. Marlboro smokers wouldn’t be too thrilled with a surprise old cigar flavor in their pack. Whether your business is cheap corporate beer or smaller like The Rogue Brewery, succeeding on superior quality, you must produce a consistent product. The influx of mass corporate production is coming.

Heed this good natured feedback while you have the time to make the adjustments.

Just, stop surprising us with bluegill when we were promised cheese, alright?

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** A road joint in this story is defined as a preroll for the passenger(s) aged 21 and over, never the driver. A person should never operate a motor vehicle while impaired.