Welcome to cannabis school. I'm your host Jessie Angeles and
I'm Brandon Elder and we're here to talk to you about everything
pertaining to cannabis from debate flower Edibles strains
and everything in between. So, Brandon the flower does the
Indica flower purple swish it, what's it going to look like?
Is it going to be really dense looking like really small, cause
you're talking about it like a little miniature Christmas tree,
which is great waited for me to visualize it.
If we look at it as a going to be really big puffy, is it going
to be really small and density? Or what is it going to look
like? Yeah, so flower can range from
like, said tight little Dent snugs to Big flowery Bush nut
and this is a lot. More bushy area nuggets, not
super dense, but it does have a lot going on between the colors
sparkly. Crystals of the trichomes
trichomes. Well, let's we can get into that
one later on, but you know, when you were talking about nugs,
what does it mean? Ugh.
Another is basically just a little piece of flour but where
does that term nug? Is it like a nugget?
Yeah. Start for a nugget nugget like a
gold nugget. Definitely some people would say
this is just like gold okay? Yeah absolutely.
I mean you look at the market definitely.
So that so we've got a nugget over here or an Ugg and that
when we see that one that you said it was, it's not super
tight. It's not really puffy so it's a
little in between. Yeah, I would say it's a good
middle ground looking flower you're not super small but
you're not the biggest largest nugs either, it's just a good
middle range flower so I know there's a lot of different ways
to being able to consume cannabis, right?
But today we're going to be focusing.
I'm more on the inhalation of cannabis over there that can be
through smoking it when I talk about inhalation and especially
this particular flower, what are we talking about?
Yeah some of the most popular ways to inhale you know people
use bongs and water pipes regular pipes joints are also
common for those people who like to smoke.
There's also vaporizers which basically just bakes the flour
instead of lightning on Fire. So you get less of the chemicals
that come through there. A lot more of the flavor and
also use an inhaler, which is less common, but still many ways
to inhale. It kind of sounds like that the
evolution of cannabis and make definitely go back to the 1960s,
70s. And even prior to that when
cannabis was used, it was primarily smoked, it wasn't the
different ways that we have it today, but it's very unique to
be able to see in our time that Thomas can be ingested and
smoked and so many different ways to take in and we'll
definitely go throughout the through his entirety of his
podcast. When we talk about this
particular strain over here, got this feeling in there, I want to
know, what am I going to feel in there?
And they're kind of like an overall sense of how I could
feel. This is something that I need to
be worried about my going to be anxious on this move.
There's a lot of things that people have misconceptions with
cannabis. Yeah, definitely.
So this And common feelings, or side effects of purple swish is
Happy sleepy relaxed. One of the most common things
that people use it for is actually depression, really,
that's crazy. Looking through all the research
at your been able to find you, you're finding that that helps
with depression. Why would that be?
Just from the simple fact alone that it releases serotonin and
endorphins through the brain can help with someone who is in a
depressive State. Okay, so there's studies done on
this one. I guarantee that That especially
as wide use of it now. So with depression over there.
So people who are got a little bit more than the common Blues
are looking for something to be able to level out.
Have you ever experienced that yourself depression?
Yes. Oh definitely.
Yeah, has cannabis been a part of that to be able to help in
certain times, I have no longer used an antidepressant and five
six years now, huh? So it's been fantastic.
Yeah, just like everyone. There's depressive moments or
depressive feelings, correct? But cannabis has definitely been
able to help mitigate that. Yeah.
Oh, I would, I would only, I mean, for myself as well.
I I took antidepressants anti-anxiety medication.
If you can call it that, whatever it was, there was a lot
of horrible side effects. I have with that one and if it
wasn't for cannabis and you introducing me to cannabis
because for me, cannabis in my youth was, hey, let's go get
high and the feeling you got was definitely euphoric but the
intent was to like drinking alcohol.
When you drink alcohol, you either there is specific feeling
that you're going to get an across-the-board.
Pretty much everybody feels that, but with indica and you
introduced me to this world with all, I mean not just Indica.
But all cannabis, there is definitely a different feeling
that you get from it. So, I mean, it with, you
introduced me to that and giving me a little bit more of the
essence of what it's about. And try this strain.
Try that. Sprain tried this deliverable
method and whatever else you ever given me.
I was definitely able to help out a lot where now I've been
what has it been like, two years?
Two years? Three years almost.
I have not taken an anti-anxiety antidepressant medication.
So you're exactly right when we talk about depression and there
and we're not doctors, were not there.
Because what, we've been able to feel on our own is, this has
definitely been able to help and purpose, which sounds like a
great alternative to being able to take a type of medication
such as that. Oh, definitely.
Purple swishes So one of my favorite indicas that I have
ever, so you talked about taste earlier over there, you know for
some people that are listen to this one.
I don't want the misconception that I'm going to taste
something grapey because it sounds like it's going to be a
great flame. It does take a while.
I feel if you're smoking it to get used to tasting the tones.
Okay, kind of like drinking a wine or whiskey when you first
taste it, when you're first drinking.
It doesn't taste. You're not tasting hints of
anything. Yeah.
Take your tasting alcohol and it tastes terrible, right?
When you're using cannabis. A lot of the times when you're
first getting into it, you taste burning bright.
You don't have the palette to see.
No, I've got these flavors. Most people don't understand
too. That, the very first part of
that bowl, that joint is going to have a lot cleaner flavor.
Okay? Yeah, I can see that.
I mean, I used to be a smoker for many years when taking
cannabis in that in that smoke form.
My first interactions with that was definitely that it was very
just awful. And I had no idea that there was
such a wide varying ranges of them.
I thought they were all dried and taste like crap like okay
cool literally like is the sensation of smoking my front
lawn? Yeah it was terrible.
My first time. Remember puking hacking up.
A lung. Yeah yeah just awful but when
you talk about it now I can see where you're coming from.
I mean even though I've been using cannabis for about three
years now and frequently it now gives me this sense of like okay
I can start to taste a difference but I my palettes not
there yet so with somebody new getting into cannabis should
they be more thinking along the lines of looking at it more of a
connoisseur like you know, like a small?
Yeah, you know, tasting wines and stuff.
That can would they be able to take tell a difference or should
that not be a big concern for him when getting it to cannabis?
I think that depends on your reason, okay?
And, and your delivery method, if you are using a dabbing, even
you can do what's activating your product before you use it.
Because cannabis, when you take it home, whether it's flour or
concentrates, usually, you have to activate that with heat
whether it's baking it in the oven direct Flame or just over a
Certain temperature, you have to activate it to get the effects,
okay? That makes sense.
And and so I mean, you're bringing up a lot of different
things over there and I'll really want to go deep into that
one with you and throughout this podcast because that would be
really amazing. There's so many different ways
as people may have this misconception that cannabis is
only one way you can smoke it, right or brownies, that's
comment. Cuckoos some brownies you hear
that quite often but there's so many different types of products
and we'll be able The go through them deep in this podcast and
being able to help individuals, such as where I was at, you
know, I didn't know a whole lot, you had a lot of things leading
up to when you first started being able to use it and I do
notice that there is a difference in everything that I
do by being able to consume cannabis and my life is
different from it. So you were talking about purple
Swish and within purple squares, right there can.
Can I just grow this anywhere? Is this common throughout the
United States? Or is that the real Ali.
Is that a real big concern about somebody who consumes cannabis
where was it grown? Does that affect the potency of
it? We were talking about purpose,
which surely before we got on here, and where was it from?
Purple. Swish is most commonly found in
Colorado. Mostly in Denver Aurora, that
area. Okay, cool.
And would it be that the climate over there?
I mean, it's in the west, there's a lot of cannabis grown
throughout the west, but it depends on where it's grown ass.
Like if you've got it Southern maybe like in the Texas region,
very dry and very humid even if it's near the coast it would be
different because it's a different type of moisture as
opposed to the Northwest and Colorado's like a little in
between, right. Yeah.
Every environment that it's grown in takes in pollen other
things from everything in the area.
So, any strain, grown in a different state will have
slightly different effects. Feeling smells just because of
the Atmosphere that it's groaning.
Okay, cool. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense
it and so depending on where it's grown, so I know that now,
this is kind of a Hail Mary, I'm just throwing this Hatchet but
if you say you've got a place where they have greenhouses is
that going to make it a difference or is it the
elevation? What what are we talking about
here? Introducing a greenhouse or an
indoor grow definitely can be different.
You also run into different Issues, when trying to grow
indoor versus outdoor know, just like having an house plant
inside versus a plant outside. Okay, that makes sense.
I mean, I'm going to get the same plant but it's just going
to be different. Yeah, you can indoors you can
control 100% of the environment, so you can create a much
cleaner, specialized product outdoor.
You have the elements that you can only control so much.
Even with a greenhouse still have lighting schedules, other
things that unless you introduce other lighting or other factors
your left to Mother Nature. Okay, alright, so I'm going to
go into the fun part over here. The smell.
Now cannabis has a very particular smell and as before
we got on we were, we were smelling different, bouquets of
different flowers right over there, which is hilarious.
To sounded like other bouquet of the flower.
Like, what's this? Smell like you can smell a rose
and typically cannabis to me, I will smell certain things but
you smell something different. There I smelt a very strong a
little bit of the skunky but a very strong mint but maybe I'm
wrong here. What am I going to smell with
purple? Swish with purple, swish purple
swish is different than what we were smelling before.
Purple swish has grapes Barry and then Woody flavors when you
smoke it, okay? Very earthy.
Most of the people listening, they actually know in.
You talked about it quite a bit that cannabis has to be brought
to a certain temperature in order for the effects of
cannabis to be able to go into your bloodstream.
And so if I take this nug and I eat it, am I going to feel the
experience of what I would do if I was to inhale it?
Oh No. In fact you won't feel really
Anything. In comparison, your body still
will take in the Cannabis because there's cannabinoids in
there. But for the most part, you won't
feel any of that, euphoria, that high, that comes with ingesting
or smoking something. That's activated.
Okay. I'm just thinking, like, you
know, people have this, this weird idea that they can eat it
and they're going to get the effects that they're looking
for. Oh yeah.
You'd have to be consumed an obscene amount.
Even then though, I know that typically its thca that's found
in flower that before you activate it.
Once you activate it, it drops off that a and is just the THC
that gets you high or causes that Euphoria.
I don't know if there is really an amount that you could eat or
just be like, really expensive salad, They want blue cheese or
Ranch because that maybe that'll change it up.
I don't know maybe the blue cheese goes better with the
skankiest. Okay, so we talked about what
the strain is, you know, where it's grown, the effects, you're
going to feel and that misnomer right there, right for anybody
who's being introduced to cannabis.
Of course those of us who have been consuming cannabis for a
while we're probably thinking that that was a dumb question
but you know that's what my goal is.
Is here is in and I know that with Brandon you're an expert in
this field, you've put so much time and Research into that one
and I leaned on to you quite a bit when I have questions about
cannabis and so as we are going into this, I want to be able to
be that that Gateway for people so that they can be really
educated in that sense of knowing exactly what they can
and cannot do with this. It's going to give them the
desired effect. So we talking about smoking it,
right? So honestly going back in the
day. Talking about joint doobies, a
blunt, whatever, right? As a cannabis cigarette.
If for the the layperson, what are the different ways and
explain the devices over there? So you'd said bong or water pipe
pipe so avoiding the. But a blunt joint, a cigarette.
Take me into that one. Let's go into bong.
What, what is the bong going to be different?
Why is it different to smoke out of a bong?
And what is it? Bong look like yeah.
So a bong is it looks like a big decorative vase.
Okay, almost you put flowers in it it's exactly like okay he's
with flowers and with that it's basically just a pipe that
introduces water. So it runs once you ignite that
it runs the smoke through water to filter out some of the Heat
and some of the carcinogens that are found when you smoke, okay,
that causes it to cool it down. To make it easier.
You can take really big hits that way or you can also just
take really little ones. Okay so you can smoke in a
little bit smoking a lot and in that affects the the temperature
of it so it doesn't hurt your lungs as much.
Yeah the water helps bring it down bonds.
Also have what's called ice catchers on?
Some of them which is just a place to put ice up top, which
cools it down, even more as it goes through.
Now, I can imagine that sensation.
I've never experienced a nice one, but At sensation, you know,
based upon your experience. Are you actually feeling that
little bit of cool air and they're kind of like a like if
you had minty gum. Yeah you can it can be a little
bit cooler as it runs through there.
And interesting thing to try is to also put really hot water in
there because then it's like using a steam vaporizer when you
inhale. Oh, so it opened up the
capillaries inside your lungs. That's totally different.
I don't even know if capillaries in your lungs is a real thing
but let's just say Long's. Yeah, let's go with that camera.
These are throughout yeah. Anyways, collects /.
Yeah, marketing, get into that. So, you're being able to smoke a
bong that you talked about a water pipe is that the same as a
bong. It is.
But you sometimes they're also a bubbler, which is a little
handheld version of a bong, or a pipe.
Okay. Just introduces a little bit of
water so you can do smaller hits because it is smaller piece, but
for the most part, it's just the same.
That's pretty cool. Well, this is awesome.
Brandon gray. Yeah I can't wait to be able to
go a deeper into that for those listening, you know, give us a
little bit of feedback on what they're, you know, what else,
what did you learn? What was the great takeaway over
here? Did you learn something new
today? For those of us who you know who
have old hat for them you know it was there something that you
learned was something else that you'd like to learn.
Thank you so much for being on the show and Kathy, It's for
joining. Yeah, man.
I this is really cool. I can't wait to be able to get
this out there to more people and all right, everybody take
care.