Cured Cannabis is more potent, smells better, and burns evenly. During the curing process, THCA, the acidic, non-psychoactive form of THC is decarboxylated into the psychoactive delta-9-trans-THC that we all know and love. I am often unimpressed by a newly harvested batch of buds, but after leaving them to cure for a month or two, the smoke is unrecognizably better...it's like someone switched your weed with better weed when you weren't looking