By James Bridges – Herbage Magazine
The hunt has been long, desperate, and littered with the corpses of bone-dry mylar bags. Oklahoma shelves are starting to look like a weed apocalypse with dusty flower rattling in plastic, stripped of terps, stripped of life. The market has turned into a wasteland of brittle disappointment, a punishment for anyone still dumb enough to care about quality.
But every once in a while, when the smoke gods are in a generous mood, you stumble onto a miracle. Yesterday, I walked into Beyond the Pines in Shawnee. I was, of course, expecting another graveyard bag, and instead I got ambushed by something alive. Sticky. Sticky. Sticky. The flower that clings to your fingers like it’s daring you to roll it.
I felt as if I was meant to find this hidden gem to remind me that this plant is more than simply biomass pre rolled in a cone…
Ice Cream Man. Delivered by the mad scientists at Well Rooted Genetics. These people are doing the Lord’s dirty work. In a market flooded with quick-cured garbage, Well Rooted still has the audacity to give us weed that actually feels like weed. Buds crystal-crusted and glistening with trichomes. Terps that slap you like a gas-drenched berry patch lit on fire. Smoke that seduces, smooth and heavy, pulling you under with a body high that makes you forget why I was ever in a bad mood.
It’s a terrifying thing, really. Because when you find weed this good, you realize how far the rest of the state has fallen. Then you can’t go back. You’re cursed with knowledge. Spoiled, as they say. You’ll walk into another shop next week, hand over a tank of gas worth of cash, and most likely walk out with stale disappointment again. But not today. Today I found a true outlaw harvest. Well Rooted pushes out weed worth smoking, weed worth hunting, and weed worth writing your friends about.
So hats off to Well Rooted. You bastards are keeping the torch lit while everyone else is drowning in reggies and mediocrity. Big props to Beyond the Pines for putting this fire on the shelf.
Another gem uncovered.
The hunt continues…