How to Smoke Weed Like It's Your Job
Now in its third year, the Cultivation Classicthe annual competition for organic-equivalent, Oregon-grown cannabis, co-presented by Willamette Week and Farmahas 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 worksampling and scoringhappens in a vacuum, and while serving as a weed judge is most certainly a delightful, first-world privilege, these pros take the task seriously.
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