BLACKENEDFEST Guest Blog: An Exposé on Chronic Around the US

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Blackenedfest guest blogger Chuck spent 20 days on the Cephalic Carnage bus. Buddy here knows his bud and took the time out to share with the universe his daily smoking experiences and clues you in on what the ganj life is like on the road. I present to you the blog we have all been waiting for.

Over the course of several weeks, we made stops in several major cities. Be it that we are connoisseurs of fine herb, we decided to rate some of the nugs sampled over our journey in chronic-logical order (pun intended).

New York City: (8 out of 10)
After finally meeting us with the tour bus, we headed on out to NYC for the opening show on the Blackenedfest Tour. Len and I went back to the smoke room on the bus and vaporized some tasty Indica with Joe from F.O.B . He was a super cool dude, and I would have to rate the nugs 8 out of 10 based on the quality of taste. Later that night Sam from Brooklyn hooked us up with a “20” bag of herbage. Sweet and tasty … not too shabby! Weirdly NYC doesn’t sell by the gram unlike West Coast dispensaries, which we will get to later. But I was pleasantly surprised nonetheless.

Maryland Deathfest: (Incomplete)
Unfortunately I did not get a sample of Baltimore’s sherm dipped swag, but I wasn’t asking anyone if they knew where I could get “wet”. My bad! We did smoke the rest of the NYC nugs, and were down to Len’s several grams of Mid’s. And I almost died falling down the staircase above the venue. Thank god I lived to be 28!

South Carolina: (4 out of 10)
Wasn’t expecting a whole lot … didn’t get a whole lot! While I’m sure off in some backroads shanty someone is making some Peach Moonshine Kush, whatever it was we smoked didn’t really get me baked until possibly the 3rd or 4th joint. Things were looking down. Or up, I don’t know I had 20 beers I think that night.

Orlando,Flo-Rida (7.5 out of 10)
Cool venue, pretty sweet city, and some decent chronic. Also helps that our tour manager Cartel is from there, so he scored us some shit that would actually get us high, finally. While not entirely the most pungent flavor, it was worthy of Vaporizer status, and we left for Texas at least confident this stuff could tide us over.

Houston Texas (2 out of 10)
No offense to anyone from Houston, as the BBQ quite possibly made up for this rating. But, that stuff must have made a run up from the border after being stuffed into Nancy Botwin’s Toyota Prius (Justina note: Weeds reference) and soaked in diesel fuel. Seeds and stems = joint status only. I swear I don’t think I got high at all. No bueno!

San Antonio (4 out of 10)
While the people were really nice, and the crowd was awesome, I wish I could send the fine people of San Antonio a bag of White Widow or OG Kush, and have them plant clones. While not swag, the stuff we had just wasn’t high grade. To make matters worse we weren’t hitting the West Coast for a few days, and we smoked all the good Orlando stuff.

El Paso (6 out of 10)
El Paso gets a big thumbs up from me since Mike Longoria from Withered had his dad hook us up with the bombest Chicken Mole Burrito’s I’ve tasted in quite some time. Also there was some decent herb around. Oddly it was better than other parts of Texas. Go figure!

Albuquerque, NM (8 out of 10)
Len having re-upped here with some Denver nugs I guess allows for this rating, as I imagine the fine hydro-growing population of Albuquerque has followed in our footsteps. I.E. feel free to let me sample some anytime you’re in Denver, I’ll match! Also Len yelling “Nacho-Baker” while Mayhem entered the venue was classic.

Phoenix, AZ (8.5 out of 10)
Ahh yes. The first hit out of the Vaporizer confirmed the sweat, sticky-icky-icky was back in full effect. Thanks to Mitch for the sweet indica. I instantly could feel the difference in potency. Several bowls of this potent chronic, along with many a beer, and I think I passed out after doing shitloads of pushups for no reason. Hooray!

San Diego, CA (9 out of 10)
Didn’t even flinch about this one. Obviously we were going to come up on some seriously sweet stash in San Diego. Travis from Cattle Decap. Obliged with a sack of some stinky, cat pee, yummy dank. We made the “Green Room” at House of Blues, well, really fucking green! Now we were on the home stretch, and getting higher by the venue!

Horry-wood, Carifornia (9 out of 10)
Len set up the Silver Surfer Vaporizer in the back of the room at House of Blues.
We smoked all day long. Nothing like getting baked, walking up Sunset and grubbing on some Sushi stoned out of your brains. Highlights of the evening were when Cephalic played Black Metal Sabbath, and subsequently had many people throw beer/ice at them (especially Nick [bassist] with the Horse Head). Lowlights included not being able to party and leaving at 1am. Oh well, San Fran next … super chronic here we come!

San Francisco,CA( 9.9 out of 10)
Hmmm, not a full scale 10? Well, I had to let this one go just a notch below Seattle. You’ll see why. However, anytime San Fran and Seattle want to have a Cannabis Cup shoot off, PLEASE feel free to send me an invite. To say I was impressed is an understatement. However, this picture tells you enough. Purple “Bubba” Kush. Sounds awesome, is awesome, smokes awesome. Fisherman’s Warf equals badass Seafood. Gabe from Black Metal radio smoked us some more bomb ass chron out of rice-paper joints. Simply put: San Francisco is the shit! And your dispensaries rule, very impressed.

Portland,OR (9 out of 10)
Strip club capital of the US? Awesome ass Vietnamese Pho only 1 block from the venue? Yea, I liked Portland a lot. The Pac. Northwest was definitely living up to its hype. Tasty Microbrews, good people, and the chronic was as good as pretty much anywhere, although I didn’t get to sample any dispensary stuff.

Seattle,WA (10 out of 10)
Well, let’s put it this way: Super chronic—Kief, Hash oil, milked into a contraption that allows you to shoot nitrous to take the hit, along with Marinol THC pills and Weed Vodka. Yea dude, Seattle is a super stoner city above all. I’ve made it a personal goal to get Denver to this status, as we are close, but not quite there with our dispensaries.

Big shout out to Joe. I was so fucking baked I couldn’t string sentences together an hour later. Quite possibly the HIGHEST I’ve EVER been in my life. (Note from Justina: That says A LOT about Seattle).

And Cream Cheese Hotdogs are the shit!

I’ll let the video do most of the talking of how amazingly badass the weed experience is in Seattle. I “highly” recommend you check it out, haha.