Great Review! Being a MMJ card holder, I looked up Puget Sound Health Alternatives and double checked they had the Malawi in stock before making the 20 mile drive up there from Federal Way. I went in with only the intentions of getting the Malawi but of course was pushed towards some of their other strains. The budtender "max" I believe his name was, sold me some Malawi, Dog Shit, and Thorn oil. All of which he said were pure 100% sativa's.
You see my dad who is 65 years old and I who am 28 yeas old, have been on a quest to find strains that produce a "fun" high. ALL the strains I have smoked locally here before and after I obtained my MMJ card don't produce any "fun" effects. I get tired, lethargic, anti-social, self-conscious, and dumb. They turn make me feel weird and make me sleepy. Extreme couch-lock, paranoia, and anxiety! No fun what so ever!
Below is a quote from my father from a forum...
"I started smoking in the 70's and remember the quality of the highs were amazing. They induced fits of laughter, incredible munchies, made you feel uplifted, inspired and happy. I noticed a drop in effects around the early 90's. Didn't really know what had happened, but the fun high sorta went away. I shrugged it off thinking maybe it was my tolerance had gotten to high or just getting older in age that lowered the quality of the buzz.
It wasn't until I started talking to other smokers around my age and slightly younger that I realized it wasn't just me. Many people agreed the "fun stuff" disappeared in the early 90's.
I researched online for a couple months but didn't find many leads to help me understand what might have happened. However, I believe I've come to the conclusion that the majority of strains available today are more indica dominant which is not what I was use to having. Since I read, almost all the strains in the 70's-80's were pure Sativa's. I didn't really know the difference between the two back then. Nobody really did or cared. We all just knew what the effects were and we enjoyed it.
ALL the strains I've been experimenting with since the 90's have been hybrids and I haven't had any luck. They make me tired, lethargic, anti-social and sorta dumb. If we would of been sold today's weed back in the 70's-80's, we would of cursed the dealer out and asked for a refund! Not kidding!
A part of me also believes the plants of today are being bred wrong. I've always been a firm believer a "happy plant produces a happy high." The breeders of today are pretty much torturing these poor little plants. They force the budding cycle by leaving the lights on longer than what nature intended. Then they throw away all the males leaving just the females. Of course, some of the females may turn both sexes in a last desperate attempt to make seeds. But oh well, they mess with them also. Now they even have feminized seeds! Which produce only 100% female plants. Don't asked me how they genetically altered that but it's just wrong. These breeders might be correct that doing all this stuff produces more THC or whatever, but it doesn't matter. The highs are not good. They get you way stoned...but not high. There is a difference.
Some of the best highs I ever had were males plants and it was not this dense bud stuff you see today. It was just dried, BROWN leaves. We would smoke this stuff and laugh straight for 2 1/2 hours! It would cause visual and audio hallucinations, colors were VIBRANT, everything sparkled to the extreme where you could barely see even squinting your eyes almost entirely shut. It was an instant good time. One joint for 5 people and we all got RIPPED, for hours!
It seems all of the smokers today are all caught up on the appearance, taste, smell, texture, stickyness of the buds and all this bogus horseshit. But who really cares. They quality of the high with all this shit is lame. They've almost turned smoking weed into a wine connoisseur type of hobby. It's stupid.
Many people (mostly today's young smokers) believe I am wrong saying all this stuff. That the weed today is way more potent than the "old school shit weed" they call it, we had "back in the day." They may be correct but it's not the same high in ANY way let me assure you. Being around since the rise of the popular marijuana in the 70's all the way to the present, I can honestly say that something has happened. The weed has taken a wrong turn somewhere. Either it's because of all this crossbreeding, or Indica strains or something.
I'm sure somebody out there that is a true connoisseur of what good marijuana is suppose to be, has a stash and is having the good oh laugh your ass off kind of high. I guess we just need to find that person. There out there somewhere.
I also wanted to note. I posted my beliefs on another forum a while back and got many responses from some young smokers. They said "okay gramps. For one thing, everything is more fun when your young. Your just remember your fun adolescence. Sorry your old now, but the highs are the same."
For one, how could they possibly know what the highs were back in the 70's. They weren't even born! Second, if "everything is more fun when your young," and the highs are truly the same as they were in the 70's, they why don't I see ANY of today's kids rolling on the ground laughing, eating like crazy, smiling ear to ear, hallucinating, socializing or anything along those lines. It appears to me it's not doing anything like the old weed did. My son who is 28 and I go to Hempfest every year where there are thousands of people. Everyone is stoned. You can see it in everyone's eyes and smell it everywhere. But we never see anybody that truly look like there high on the old style weed. Everyone is just walking around like zombies. Quite, sluggish, awkward and too themselves. I wish we could of had video camera's back in the 70's during Woodstock to show everyone the difference. Back then everyone was extremely friendly, outgoing, willing to share the joint with you. We would smoke a joint together with strangers and would become instant good friends on this stuff, it made you break down your defense walls and ego and let you truly become yourself. It was very pleasurable. I haven't done the popular drug "Ecstasy" but my son describes it as this kind of high.
All these young kids think us old folks are nuts and don't know what were talking about here. But let me assure you. The Cocaine we had in the 70's was more pure and the high was better, the LSD we had in the 70's was more pure and the high was better. The Opium we had in the 70's was more pure and the high was better. The Mescaline we had in the 70's was more pure and the high was better.
....let me assure you. The Cannabis we had in the 70's was better as well."
THAT'S THE END OF MY DAD's post.
So anyway, after reading your post here about the Malawi I decided to go up, buy some and give it a shot. Haven't done so yet. Mostly because I'm afraid it will induce the same old couch-lock type of high and I really need to be productive this week.
Both my father and I are intrigued after reading the effects you felt. Especially that you mention it's the best high you've seen since the 80's. It sounds promising. Maybe it's the strain or maybe it's the way the grower has grown it. We shall see!
Thank you!