Thai
4/27/2021
My relationship with Thai weed began in 1975. A friend (vet of Vietnam war) had a connection which provided a steady, seasonal stream of 55 gallon garbage bags full of the golden to dark brown, tightly packed, roughly 3 x 5 inch bricks of around 12 to 20 (depending on individual size) bamboo sticks with little buds entwined about each stick with thin twine that looked like a narrow strip pulled from a bamboo or marijuana stalk. With seed banks, changing laws, the internet and the profuse expansion in popularity of breeding and growing, I have long hoped and searched to find hints of this strain somewhere. It seems this long lost friend has completely vanished: In the countless descriptions, reviews, anecdotes I've read, the key to Thai sticks is missing. The stories lack the single defining aspect of Thai that anybody who took their first pull off a joint of this stuff in the 70's will immediately attempt to clarify in their reminiscing of that magical moment. It is the taste, period. Instantly, a person who knew this pot and smelled or smoked some unknown variety of weed someone passed to them at a party or concert would say "OMG it's THAI!!" The point being that Thai stick had a sweet and spicy flavor that was absolutely unmistakable, unique and easily recognizable. Yes, I agree, a fantastic high. Energetic, brainy, psychedelic, etc. but the high and other aspects of this pot, while unique, are not nearly as (or in truth at all) unique as the taste. There was no way a person could possibly confuse the taste and think it was anything but Thai, and no other pot, ever, anywhere, has a taste anything like the taste of those wonderful little sticks. You can wrap anything on a stick. If it looks like Thai, smells like Thai and gives you a high like Thai, it isn't Thai. Unless it tastes like Thai: In that case, it can't be anything other than Thai. I never met anyone who smoked the real thing and disagrees with this. I got some Thai seeds from a bank in Nederlande. I live in a hot, hot climate. I have my little but tall greenhouse and 4 plants of Thai about 20 inches in height. I don't have much hope it will actually taste like Thai sticks. The vanishing of Thai sticks: This, truly, is the worst part of growing old.