In the last few years here in New Zealand the weed scene has gone sharply downhill, with a failed 2020 referendum on legalization and a plague of 'PGR' (Plant Growth Regulators) in our weed.
We used to have a lot of nice outdoor weed to supply the country, being grown in the north of the country where we have a great climate for growing weed. Due to things like police helicopters flying around and ripping up plantations (which they have stopped doing this year thankfully), and more access to equipment and information for growing indoors much of the supply shifted to indoor weed grown by local gangs/and later with the involvement of international gangs from Australia and Asia.
These days they are using heavy doses of 'PGR' (Plant Growth Regulators) chemicals which make the plants mature faster, and produce hard, dense buds covered in an unnatural amount of orange pistils with very little trichromes, no smell and no good buzz. A lot of the weed available to us now looks like this:
and here is a short video from an Australian (not my video) which shows exactly what I am talking about:
Apparently this stuff is also very unhealthy, yet many people do not know any better and are smoking this stuff anyway. Don't get me wrong, there is still some great indoor and outdoor weed around grown by people who actually care but it's not enough to supply the demand which is why the gangs are able to sell a lot of this trash.
Is this stuff a problem in other parts of the world? I know it has been a problem in Australia, and I think it probably came here from the Aussie gangs coming over and sharing their tricks.
Tonight I'm smoking some badly trimmed outdoor but it's much better than that PGR trash
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STOPHell yes! Not for the PGR, but for spreading awareness! Here in California we still have this problem in the legal market. I used to always wonder how the hell do people get there buds rock hard, and come to find out there cheating! Not only cheating to look good, but cheating our health.
Man, I'm surprised that they would be able to sell that stuff in California. Although I've heard that the PGR use in the states is much lighter, so it's not as easy for people to spot. The stuff we often get here doesn't smell of weed at all, has no trichs and barely gets you high ;( but it does look kind of like 'dank nugs' to people who don't know any better which is why they are able to move it I guess
There are a some things I am confused about. Seaweed has PGR in it, but is it different then the chemicals? Does the PGR in seaweed do the same exact thing as the other ones? I do wish this was explored more, and also more awareness on the subject.
Like look at this bud.
Yeah it's hard to know - I think the problem is heavy use of synthetic PGR. I found some great info on this aussie webpage: https://friendlyaussiebuds.com/australian-cannabis-education/pgr-toxic-weed/
that's the situation we have here as well. The bud you posted here looks great to me - and I reckon you can get some pretty dense buds that are still good, for me it's the combo of dense, little to no smell, and a lot of orange hairs that gives it away for sure.
Yay! 🤗
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