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TexasTowelie

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Fri May 11, 2018, 09:14 PM May 2018

How to Smoke Weed Like It's Your Job

Now in its third year, the Cultivation Classic—the annual competition for organic-equivalent, Oregon-grown cannabis, co-presented by Willamette Week and Farma—has evolved into what organizers describe as "the most scientifically rigorous cannabis contest on the planet."

Using a new robust scoring system developed by the event's organizers and cannabis research group Habu Health, the latter will employ data collected during the competition to power a new cannabis taxonomy that focuses not on unreliable terms like "indica" and "sativa" or colloquial strain names, but on the chemical composition of a given cultivar and how its unique fingerprint makes a user feel.

Using this data, Classic organizers hope to equip Habu Health with the information required to lay the foundation for a more reliable cannabis classification system.

But a lot of this smoke work—sampling and scoring—happens in a vacuum, and while serving as a weed judge is most certainly a delightful, first-world privilege, these pros take the task seriously.

Read more: http://www.wweek.com/potlander/2018/05/08/how-to-smoke-weed-like-its-your-job/

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How to Smoke Weed Like It's Your Job (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2018 OP
Oh my, it wouldn't be me. Iliyah May 2018 #1
Fuck. I wish! Glamrock May 2018 #2
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