WEED, The Official Thread

[mud]

Hey Bobby, a good business idea for the lake house.
Bud and Breakfast!

https://thecleverroot.com/bud-and-br.../#.Vzd6Z2QrK2w

At the sight of homemade Parmesan bowls steaming with risotto, Jeremy Cooper’s guests abandon their bong. It’s Sunday night dinner at 7 Leaf B&B, headed by Cooper, a chef-turned-cannabis connoisseur and Airbnb host; much of the menu integrates hemp, in one way or another.

Across Washington and Colorado, bed-and-breakfasts that cater to cannabis clientele are becoming the rage; think of them as “bud and breakfasts,” instead.

On Seattle’s Capitol Hill, hosts Abil Bradshaw and Melissa Flynn of Bed, Baked and Beyond, open their home to guests who like to partake. The large old Victorian building sits on a tree-lined street and also serves clientele through Airbnb.

Each morning, they serve homemade muffins and a traditional continental breakfast—without marijuana—and while the two do not allow smoking in the rooms, they’ve created a small sanctuary for imbibers by turning a potting shed in the backyard into a smoking room, replete with cushioned seats and ashtrays. Guests can also be found lingering together on the lawn, sharing a beer or a toke. Or, a fantasy. Melissa also owns a vintage clothing business that caters to many of Seattle’s burlesque performers, and the couple has been known to host small weddings under a fig tree in the yard.

Nearby, Bacon Mansion—its walls are also covered in porcine-related art—also caters to the 420 crowd. The house—a stucco covered 1900s Tudor—is situated near Capitol Hill’s Broadway District and Volunteer Park. Inside, the English manor theme carries through in roses and irises, fireplaces, and sitting rooms.

Outside, past a fountain and courtyard, rises the Carriage House. Once the garage for the mansion, the building has been renovated to serve as an updated and modern two-story guesthouse. Old-growth timbers—part of the original construction—have been revealed and loom overhead, while the original garage doors stand on their tracks.

Every morning, owner Daryl King lays a spread of oatmeal and juices, coffee and fruit in the home’s formal dining room. But it’s in a large, glassed-off patio that smokers linger. Here, protected from Seattle’s winter weather, guests may freely imbibe.

And then, there is Cooper at 7 Leaf, who wanted to marry his cooking with a bed-and-breakfast business, although he’s careful about infusions. He doesn’t deal or deliver, but he does invite guests to provide their own supply of marijuana, which he will happily incorporate into a dish, or which he will use to teach that guest to make their own haute cuisine infusion.

Which is how dinner goes down for us on a hot evening. My tablemate Jocelyn brings an ounce or two of something she’d like to share, and it makes its way into dessert.

But before that there is so much other infused dining to be had. For starters, Cooper serves us a homemade hibiscus tea, which is the very essence of summer. Then, there’s a champagne white balsamic–infused mozzarella and Cannabinol hemp heart salad.

For most of his cooking, Cooper uses CBDs and hemp in a non-psychotropic format. His goal is not to get guests stoned, but rather to infuse the foods he serves with health-giving components. Some 85 Cannabinoids—chemical compounds secreted by cannabis flowers—can be found in marijuana, though unlike the cannabinoid THC, most are not psychoactive.


Next, Cooper serves his own cannabis-infused vodka drink. A brilliant orange CBD-infused chunk of mango lolls at the bottom of a sterling glass of vodka, while above it floats a cannabis leaf–shaped ice cube.

Between the pours of vodka and wine, Brussels sprouts roasted to perfection on the grill and drizzled with olive oil and homemade garlic salt and pecorino, and a beautiful ear of roasted garlic corn, Cooper’s six guests share a bong. The smoke ebbs above the patio and the conversations flow across everything, from how the use of marijuana as a medicine saved one woman’s life to the ComiCon convention currently in town. All conversation stops though, when Cooper’s six-hour bone-in pork shoulder arrives. Rubbed in sage, cumin, onion, and green pepper chili powder, and smoked over mesquite, it appears alongside a red jalapeño coleslaw, and a corn cake pan-seared in a bacon skillet.


The pork continues. Cooper likes to feed his guests well, and they oblige with raves about the food and shared bong hits. We devour pork infused with Southern Comfort and black pepper, then pork on alternating soft and hard corn tortillas. It’s not the munchies the guests have—the food is delicious here in the backyard of the Cooper’s bed-and-breakfast.

And, it’s infused. As the coup de gras, and at the request of his guests—and with the marijuana they have provided—Cooper ditches the non-psychotropic CBD infusions and goes straight for the real thing. Eyes shining, he brings us homemade banana bread glazed with marijuana-infused bourbon banana sauce. And soon, we float into sated bliss.

[Bobby Stainless]

That seems like a whole lot of work for a small return.

I'm not going to continue in the Cannabis industry in CO. I'm going to hold on to the license, until I get a call from one of the big boys.

CO set the whole thing up wrong. The monopoly has already started. Large conglomerates and shitty pot.

I'm interested in a Craft Brewery/Boutique Winery business model, and that will not exist in CO.

Hopefully other states will learn from the mistakes CO has made. One being license limits.

[Bobby Stainless]

Kentucky could be my new home.

I've always enjoyed Bluegrass.

[buttahflake]

You should think about Massachusetts or Maine
It's gonna happen soon
Shit there's even dispensaries open in my conservative state, NH.

[Bobby Stainless]

I went to school in MA. Cold as shit.

KY is going about it the right way is all.

Regulate like alcohol... But actually regulate like alcohol.

No vertical integration. Grower, Processor, and Retailer licenses would be limited, and separated. That's huge.

That keeps the quality high. Once Native Roots and Livwell buy up everything in Denver, then all you will get is mass produced Cannabis. This is currently happening. Even now, I can only name 3-4 shops in Denver that sell high quality flower.

There is no place for competition or diversity with the way CO has set up licensing. Smaller outfits will be pushed out. A very Wal-Mart like situation.

Couple of 30 somethings, got backed by a millionaire out of Vail, and now they own the Denver pot industry. Fucking kudos, but the weed sucks.

Once CA goes legal the CO industry will take a big hit, and that will seal the fate of all the medical and small operations.

[TBS]

I went to school in MA. Cold as shit.

KY is going about it the right way is all.

Regulate like alcohol... But actually regulate like alcohol.

No vertical integration. Grower, Processor, and Retailer licenses would be limited, and separated. That's huge.

That keeps the quality high. Once Native Roots and Livwell buy up everything in Denver, then all you will get is mass produced Cannabis. This is currently happening. Even now, I can only name 3-4 shops in Denver that sell high quality flower.

I think it's reasonable for retailers to control their supply chain - otherwise you are constantly fucking around with shortages and ensuring quality. You can limit oligopolies by limiting the number of retail outlets.

Curious about your comments re: shitty quality. Are you talking about crappy flower presentation, low potency, all ofthe above?

Talking to a commercial grower last night - he's now focused on the concentrates processors. He can harvest a little sooner and doesn't need to do as much trimming&sorting. Better ROI for him but his bud isn't exactly presentation quality.

Blame it on the popularity or erl...and Obama.

[Bobby Stainless]

Yep. Recreational/Medical flower quality is pretty weak in Denver. Natural Remedies has the best quality IMO.

I guess I think retail locations, should be like liquor stores. They don't supply their own products. Tax and Regulate like alcohol.

Now if the growers wanted to sell product from the grow site, that would be just like breweries and vineyards. If I owned a store, I would want to carry multiple growers, as opposed to just in house flower. Right now, there are no name brands. You have strains, but that is a fucking joke in itself.

What will emerge is name brands, that do strains better than others. Just like a Caymus Cabernet is better than a Woodbridge.

Colorado doesn't have a limit on any type of license, so it is perfectly ok for Native Roots to hold 69 various licenses, and gobble up even more. Colorado is doing a great job of ruining their position in the Cannabis industry.

Your commercial grower friend is smart. It is far easier to grow and process into extracts. Buddy of mine in Seattle does C02 extractions.

Takes a whole lot more work to come out with a quality nugget.

[Bobby Stainless]

Do you still smoke flower Bobby?

[Bobby Stainless]

Grand Daddy Kush


Peyote Purple


ECSD x Casey Jones


SFV x OG


Grapefruit x Blueberry


Red Headed Stranger

[Bromontana]

Some water infiltrated a flower storage capsule and spoiled some of dog's plant. Drained, placed on absorbent material in dry room for 24hrs. Checked weight as a means of ensuring water content was low enough to store, then moved to a jar after about 30hrs of drying. So far I'm surprised how well it's holding up. Some terpenes seem to have been warshed away but not the fun ingredients. Fwiw the saturation period was <6hrs and took place in a cold environment. Rescue operation commenced immediately after identification.

Anyone else have reclamation projects or advice? Also, does this approach carry potentially deadly consequences. Tanks.

[Bobby Stainless]

Nope. You're all good.

People have been known to water cure weed, in order to create kind of a stealth stash, for travel and such.

[Bobby Stainless]

I've cut back on teh dabs.

More flower.

[skifishbum]

aint nutin but a gangsta lean

[Bobby Stainless]

LOL. Nice.

[skifishbum]

nice is yur nugs
still functional is the bongs
"which is nice"
hopes to someday shares a buzz w/ u
may sneek a plant into the company communial garden

stoked they pay me to weeds

[Bobby Stainless]

Would love to.

Ill bring this Red Headed Stranger

[Bromontana]

Concentrates are great for stealth but the apparatus is still too fuckup prone.

My SourceVapes pen from the discount on this thread has been solid. Just had a 5 day road trip and it came in handy. Kind of agree on preference on the go though, definitely went through more flower in that 5 days than hash. Also a fan of the experience of flower. Less coughing, less abrupt effect, just more casual.

[TBS]

concentrates and edibles will be available to recreational users in Oregon beginning June 2

[Bobby Stainless]

If you have a valid military ID, you can go to Livwell and get an ounce of high CBD flower for 1 penny.

[Harry]

If you have a valid military ID, you can go to Livwell and get an ounce of high CBD flower for 1 penny.

Been a long time since I was on active duty, but I am surprised they don't still drug test (????) or are you talking retired ?

[Bobby Stainless]

Peyote Purple

Been a long time since I was on active duty, but I am surprised they don't still drug test (????) or are you talking retired ?

I don't know.

Maybe just a valid military ID, from when said person was active duty.

It was for recreational only.

Personally, I think this whole CBD movement has fallen flat with some companies, and they need to move product.

I had some little fucktard budtender try to sell me some CBD extracts, saying they would get me higher when used in conjunction with regular shat.

I just stared at him for a second, and acted like he didn't say anything.

[wyeaster]

https://www.sourcevapes.com/collections/wax-vapes

at this very moment all source orb vape products 50% off with code MDWORB3. supposedly ended last night at midnight but still works.

[Bobby Stainless]

Tried it for the Flosstradamus, and it didn't work. Oh well.

Really like that little portable dabber they have.

[wyeaster]

i think the flosstradamus is their new flagship thing and not included but the regular orb stuff is.

[Bobby Stainless]

Thanks bud!

Inked up on this for 65.