I have no experience with pot — never tried it, partly because I haaaate anything smoky, partly because it was the thing my parents did on brown plaid couches in the 70s and therefore very uncool. But I have noticed the skunk everywhere in DC lately too.

Anyway, I’m reading Bill Bryson’s book on the body, which is mind-blowingly interesting, and I read this morning that humans have huge variations in our smell receptors and we often process the exact same olfactory input as having different qualities of smell. It’s possible that the people talking about how pot it is or isn’t more skunky are smelling the same smoke but experiencing that smell differently.

Tried to find an article for anyone interested. This ones not bad:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190430164208.htm

Anonymous wrote:Agreed it was more grassy and herby "back in the day" when I was around it. Now it has a heavy skunk smell that travels pretty far. You can smell it a mile a way (not quite but close). The smell didn't carry like it does now.

There was less resin in the product, which means less THC. People would often smoke a huge joint themselves for the desired effect. Now the product is high quality, so many users smoke less, which is a good thing.

Sure, many users will smoke huge amounts of strong stuff, which is unhealthy and annoying, but IMO it beats locking them up.

I'm not sure why cops can't enforce smoking in public violations though. Why can't they confiscate what's in plain view and tell offenders to leave the area?

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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.

Agreed it was more grassy and herby "back in the day" when I was around it. Now it has a heavy skunk smell that travels pretty far. You can smell it a mile a way (not quite but close). The smell didn't carry like it does now.

One word for weed is "skunk" for a reason. Always has been, in my experience.

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

Dumbest thing I've ever heard. This would be like Home Depot throwing some diamonds into 50 lb bags of sand, and still charging sand prices.

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.

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

Good thing there are so many local growers now.

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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”

Cartels don't send pot across the border. It's not profitable for a variety of reasons.

Most of the pot in DC is grown in DC because it's locally legal and there is no Federal enforcement.

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Anonymous wrote:You smelled like a skunk in the 80s too.

Yup!

Nope. Smelled like the pot that was widely available then, which did not smell like skunk.

Anonymous wrote:You smelled like a skunk in the 80s too.

Yup!

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

Agreed. It's like suddenly smoking is cool again. Yuck. I thought we'd left that crap behind.

Free the weed

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

How old are you that you consider yuppies “kids”

I went to college from 1998-2002 and I remember the smell of pot and it was a more herbal, grassy smell and not this heavy skunk smell. There may have been the heavier skunk but it would have been rarer and it was never around me. I didn't smoke pot. Cigarettes were more common and still allowed in the dorms.

This modern skunk smell has a heavier presence and seems to linger in a way cigarette or the older pot smells didn't. That's why we pick it up more easily from passing cars. It's unpleasant because it lingers and seeps into my car and I have to have all the windows down to flush it out.