Why does pot smell like skunk now?

[Anonymous]

I really wish I could get the mild weed from the 80s again. I asked at my local dispensary, but they said that everyone wants to get baked now, and there's no market for mild cannabis.

Guess if I want some, I'll have to grow my own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the entire city smells like skunk these days. its disgusting

I was in multiple cities on the east coast this summer and it is ubiquitous. Especially once I realized that the skunk smell wasn’t skunk but marijuana!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad I'm not the only one! (Also in 50s.)

Also in my 50s and just realized this when out walking on that nice day a few days back. My husband had to tell me! I literally thought the neighborhood was infested with skunks. And I live in the D.C. suburbs—not the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad I'm not the only one! (Also in 50s.)

Also in my 50s and just realized this when out walking on that nice day a few days back. My husband had to tell me! I literally thought the neighborhood was infested with skunks. And I live in the D.C. suburbs—not the city.

I’m sure I had smelled it a couple of times before I realized what the smell was, it is so different from what I was used to when I was cool and social. I noticed the smell all around the ski lifts (and snowboarders) in Colorado and that’s when I finally put 2 & 2 together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good weed smelled like skunk in NYC in the 90s. But there still a lot of Mexican brick weed then which was unmistakably pot but less skunky.

High end pot has some different aromas when it's growing and when it's cured and ready to smoke. When it's smoked, it all smells like pot. There are some different aromas then too but not as much.

Let's not normalize "aromas" when discussing pot smell. The word is "STENCH".

[Anonymous]

I'm in my 60s and I totally agree with OP. Pot (weed) never smelled like skunk and I smoked plenty of it.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the posters who said that it did not use to smell like skunk. And actually just recently when I was on a walk I smelled good old-fashioned weed. I was with my daughter and I pointed it out and said this is what pot smoke smelled like when I was young. I always assumed that skunk weed was cheap and that’s why it’s so prevalent.

[Anonymous]

Garages of Tyson’s mall all reek of it. I assumed it was employees of the mall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a semi-regular user in the 80s, I would never have called the smell skunk-like, but now it definitely smells like that to me. Did I just not realize it back then? Has a new formulation/strength changed the smell? They call it weed instead of pot now, too, I am also aware.

Iremember going to concerts in the 80s and 90s and smelling more of an herby, catnippy smell. These days, I definitely smell skunk. Why do people want to deal with that skunky smell is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe I'm the only 50-something on here that thinks it smells almost identical to what I remember in the last 80s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cartels lace it with fentanyl for your stupid yuppie kids.

How old are you that you consider yuppies “kids”

English major here- I can translate the nuance. The poster clearly - but awkwardly - meant the children of yuppies.

Lit major here. I interpreted it as "your dumb upper middle class brats."

[Anonymous]

I thought of this thread when I smelled an overpowering skunky pot odor at Giant this weekend. One of the people shopping reeked of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought of this thread when I smelled an overpowering skunky pot odor at Giant this weekend. One of the people shopping reeked of it.

When the whole push to legalize pot was happening starting 20 years ago I knew this was going to happen. The more you legalize it and the more acceptable you make it, the more people will be public about it and the more you will smell it. And for a core of users, they will become even more dependent on it when they are no longer judged. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought of this thread when I smelled an overpowering skunky pot odor at Giant this weekend. One of the people shopping reeked of it.

Shopping is very stressful.

[Anonymous]

Pretty common for construction sites in DC to reek. Workers smoke on breaks. It's not a social good.