Two activities that are very popular right now are smoking weed and watching movies – and they go great together too! You’re happy and safe indoors, sheltered from the bad pandemic news outside for a few hours. Streaming from the dozens of movie-packed channels comes to you right at home, and indeed you can take your weed delivery too these days.
The true cannabis connoisseur, whom might also be a confirmed movie geek, knows that the right weed strain can make or break movie night. That’s why we’re going to recommend some individual cannabis strains and pair them with movie genres with one example movie each. May you have a most enjoyable and cultured evening!
strain: Pineapple Haze movie: Hard Ticket to Hawaii why: Go Hawaiian!
You see how easy this is? Hard Ticket to Hawaii is practically a stoner comedy already. It’s like an episode of Baywatch with a PG-13 rating. It’s about some US drug enforcement agents in Hawaii (shot 100% on location) tracking down smugglers who pay for their shipment with diamonds flown in remote-control helicopters. Also, there’s a toxic snake wandering around. But it’s actually an excuse to cram as many bikini babes onto the camera at once, courtesy of notorious pervert director Andy Sidaris.
Of course, anything that’s lite, silly, and fun fits in with Pineapple Haze. It’s a Sativa-dominant strain with a fascinating terpene profile that makes it smell and taste like a deep tropical blend. Its primary terpenes – myrcene, pinene, and terpinene – are already either common to tropical fruits (like mango), or combine to make that familiar pineapple aroma and flavor. Best of all, its effect is light and giddy. Perfect for turning your brain off to watch something that will not challenge a single synapse in your noggin.
strain: White CBG movie: Twelve Monkeys why: to help you figure it out
Twelve Monkeys is a sci-fi movie starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, in a plot about future people traveling back to the past to handle a deadly virus outbreak. Not COVID; this came out in 1995, although it feels like it could be current. It is directed by Terry Gilliam, and even though he was a member of the Monty Python troupe, he tends to be a high-brow. Twelve Monkeys is like a maze of nested Rubik’s Cubes, puzzles within puzzles, difficult to figure out and rewarding repeat views when you keep piecing together more clues.
Obviously, when you’re watching any movie that’s challenging to follow, you want weed that’s a head lift, cerebral and creative without weighing you down. You want a delta 8, which is the lightweight cannabinoid, and CBG, the cannabinoid that cranks up your concentration and attention span. White CBG is just the ticket! Amaze your friends when you point out how Bruce Willis knew to find the Army of the 12 Monkeys’ headquarters from the concrete pig head over the door.
strain: Northern Lights movie: Playtime why: you want patience
Don’t get us wrong, Playtime is a good movie, with a 7.9 IMDB rating, but it’s a very different approach to movie story-telling. Written and directed by distinctive French talent Jacques Tati, it has almost no dialog and relies on elaborate sight gags on a huge canvas. For the 2.5 hour run-time, it just follows the main character tottering around Paris, France, while making wry observation on mid-20th-century infrastructure. It’s packed with many subtle gags, often several playing out in different corners of the screen at once. If you like to people-watch, you will like Playtime.
When you watch any movie that’s an endurance test, you want to stop being distracted and sit still. Northern Lights will keep you really still! It is a sedating, relaxing blend that will help you get into the mind-space of Tati’s quirky talent. In the end, you’ll feel like you did something completely different than smoke weed and watch a movie. With its one-two punch of caryophyllene and myrcene, count on Northern Lights to provide the deep relaxation you need to focus on a screen not saying anything for two and a half hours.
Spook season is upon us, so we’re of course going to take into account good horror movies. What sets Roar apart, however, is that all of the gore effects are real. It’s about a family living with dozens of wild big African cats, including lions, tigers, cougars, cheetahs, and a stray elephant. None of these animals were fully tamed nor had adequate handlers, resulting in seventy cast members being injured including several requiring hospital stitches. The story behind this insanity, often called the most dangerous movie ever made, is often more interesting than the movie’s plot. But watching it is really rough on your anxiety!
For scary movies with lots of jump scares, you want a proven anxiety-fighter that’s calming and relaxing, to help you withstand the shocks and terrors you’re about to face. Armed with the sedating effects of Sour Space Candy, a CBD-dominant strain that’s heavy on the couch lock, you will be prepared to watch excruciating mayhem and people running for their lives in all directions without having a panic attack.
strain: Chemdawg movie: Frankenstein Island why: so you can laugh even harder
The flip side of Halloween season is watching the not-so-scary movies. Horror, as a genre, has a problem with low-budget, amateur productions which turn out unintentionally hilarious. Frankenstein Island is a shoestring budget production of notorious schlock director Jerry Warren, a name second only to Ed Wood for Hollywood box-office bombs. It is disjointed, illogical, laughably unscary, and chock full of “WTF?” moments. Watch it with friends, crack each other up with your wisecracks.
For so-bad-its-good movies, we could have recommended any number of notorious stinkers in the same vein as Plan Nine From Outer Space, The Room, etc. But you need something not just for comedy, but to keep you in the really silly kind of mood you have to be to appreciate true cult Z-movie art. Chemdawg, a notoriously giggly strain high in THC and limonene, will keep you howling at your buddy’s wisecracks while gearing you up for a retort at the same time.
strain: Gorilla Glue movie: Eraserhead why: deep psychedelics pair with Lynch
We’re using weird movies from the long-famous 366WeirdMovies website because, duh, why recommend ordinary movies? And among weirdness connoisseurs, none is consistently weirder than the King of the Surreal, David Lynch, and his magnum opus Eraserhead. It is freaky, psychedelic, and riddled with fever-dream logic. Words do not do it justice and never will. Lynch himself described it only as a “dream of dark and disturbing things.” It’s about… a family. Yeah, we’ll leave it at that. Sheesh!
Well, when the going gets weird, the potheads shrug and say “I’m not going to understand one damn things for the next hour and a half, I might as well get stupid.” Gorilla Glue is industrial strength weed that does not mess around. It is here to get you more stoned than the Big Lebowski. It does that with a high THC percentage that will leave you seeing vapor trails as you melt into your chair, a mere goldfish visiting Ringo’s Octopus’ Garden. Who knows, it might even knock you into an alternate dimension where this movie makes lateral sense.
Readers, what do you think of our little entertainment guides?
We’re usually all serious business at DabConnection, what with the consumer advocacy and safety beat we cover. But we can unwind and have fun like all those silly High Times sites out there. What stoner entertainment would you like us to cover next? Charm us here in the comments or in our chill forum.
Dear #CannabisCommunity and #CannabisIndustry : Don’t look now, but the way we talk about cannabis is changing, and how we write about it needs to change too! We, in the cannabis media industry, can help guide the public towards a better understanding of cannabis as a composite drug.
The face of the cannabis industry is changing at such a fast pace, that it just barely even makes sense at this point to compare 2020 weed to 1990 weed. One of the ways that popular media is trying to get a handle on expressing the changes in modern cannabis is by noting a change in strength. Here’s a pretty comprehensive piece by the Atlantic for a quick run-down of that position:
Now, that assertion that “cannabis is more potent now than it was 30 years ago” is only a small part of the story. In strict argument we could more rightly say that “there are more potent doses of cannabis available than there were 30 years ago.” Doubtless, when we’re reviewing a dab of some extract rated at 78% THC, we can not deny that previous generations’ wild black market weed rolled into a joint would pale in comparison.
But there’s also far less potent forms of cannabis products to consume. CBD, for instance, appears to have no psychotropic effects whatsoever, and is so mild that it’s being sold in a plethora of cosmetics. We’re all encountering CBD bath bombs and body cremes at the mall, with no dispensary in sight, and we’re not at all getting high off these products. So that’s a less potent form of cannabis.
And in fact, there’s every other claim you can make for all the various forms of products that start with a plant in the hemp family. Some are more potent, some are less potent, and some have effects depending on a cannabinoid in isolation and concentration, which are completely on a different scale.
The time is coming very soon when it no longer makes sense to discuss cannabis as “just one drug.”
Sure, we get all these different cannabinoids and terpenes and isomers from cannabis. We get cream and butter and cheese from milk, but we don’t refer to the whole category of dairy products as “milk.” Likewise, the derivatives of cannabis as we explore them are demanding their own individual considerations.
Cannabinoids are a complete stand-alone drug spectrum
There’s a few facts we should always keep in mind when we write about the modern cannabis market:
We’re still in the pioneer days of research
We may have decades ahead of us before we have explored and documented the effects of every isolated chemical entity in cannabis
There are cannabinoids which have different effects besides “getting high,” including some compounds which work against each other
We are able to isolate and fine-tune these chemical compounds into a menagerie of products
We need to keep in mind that cannabis research was slowed down by its status as a prohibited drug, for some 70+ years of prohibition. That’s a gap of 70 years worth of industrial strength research that we’ve put into every other agricultural product. Look what that same period of industrial research did for our common supermarket produce:
Likewise, the hemp plant is the plant of 1000 uses, and we are discovering that when you isolate the THC from the equation, you have not begun to address the other components. That’s over 100 cannabinoids, and let’s not forget the isomers of those cannabinoids – 30 alone just for THC, hence deltas 7, 8, and 10 so far. If every cannabinoid has 30 isomers, that’s three thousand of these compounds which we have to isolate and test one at a time to see their effects.
We need to accept that the terms “Sativa” and “Indica” are outdated
Recently a few colleagues of your humble author have begun to speak up from the cannabis trenches, offering to throw out the terms “Sativa” and “Indica.” This is another outdated idea, because in reality 99% of all cannabis strains count as “hybrid,” which really doesn’t tell you much. That blog post, as I do here, answers that we need more focus on cannabinoid and terpene content.
Hear hear! There is so much more going on now besides the difference between sativa and indica. You can smoke twenty different strains and feel twenty different effects.
Cannabis is not a mere “drug.” Cannabis is a drug smorgasbord!
Case in point: CBG.
When I recently reviewed some delta 8 hemp flower, one of the strains was engineered to contain a high concentration of CBG. The effects I felt were profound, nothing at all like regular skunky-nug weed. Yet when I go looking at CBG research, the general consensus is that it has no psychoactive effects.
But too often when we say a cannabinoid is “not psychoactive,” what we mean is that it doesn’t get you high like THC. The definition of “psychoactive” is literally any “chemical substance that changes nervous system function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.” Caffeine, nicotine, nutmeg, and even chocolate are considered psychoactive.
Deeper digging on CBG does reveal some alternative claims.
CBG is thought to “strengthen the function of anandamide, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in enhancing pleasure and motivation, regulating appetite and sleep, and alleviating pain.” Yet in the very same paragraph that article brings the disclaimer that CBG is not psychoactive, thus won’t get you high.
But it IS “enhancing pleasure,” right? So why can’t we call that a “high”? That’s kinda the purpose of a high, is it not?
The Marijuana Investor Summit WCP2018 finally comes clean on the issue: “Cannabigerol (CBG) is not a psychotropic drug but is mildly psychoactive. It doesn’t impair reasoning like THC.”
That is exactly my experience. CBG didn’t hit me as a cannabinoid to get you stoned, but rather felt energizing and motivating, like the spiky end of Sativa strains, a mild amphetamine, or a good strong cuppa joe.
As is the case with most cannabinoids, more research is needed to understand the effects of CBG.
That’s just one out of 100 cannabinoids to explore! THC and its isomers, plus CBD and a few other compounds, have all been given a large share of the research spotlight. But this leaves dozens of cannabinoids to explore.
Is there a different “weed” for everyone?
We also have to remember that cannabis effects are partly subjective. Different users report different sensations and effects from the same mixture and dose. So while a cannabinoid may leave no impression on one person, it may knock another user for a loop. And yes, I know that the scientific terms are hard to explain and all the technical details suck some of the fun out of cannabis reporting. But we have to enable a more literate public discourse on cannabis components or we’re just going to run into more confusion later.
I’m addressing this post mainly to the cannabis media industry at large. But all of us in the cannabis community can benefit from a few take-aways:
We need to stop talking about cannabis like it’s just the THC molecule. That’s not even a chip off the tip of the iceberg anymore!
We need to stop talking about “cannabis strength.” That’s like saying methamphetamine is stronger than coffee. They are different things!
When we hear somebody say they tried cannabis once and it didn’t please them, we need to point out that isolating and concentrating one cannabinoid makes a completely different experience. There might be people seeking therapeutic treatment who would benefit from CBD, CBG, CBN, CBC, etc., but they didn’t bother because one puff off their cousin’s bong didn’t hit them right.
We need to hammer on the need for research, and the need to drop more legal barriers to established clinical research.
Beyond all of the 100 cannabinoids, times the three thousand isomers of all the cannabinoids, and the 120 different terpenes in cannabis, we still have to absorb all of the entourage effects from each of those in combination. That leads us to an astronomical number. We may well end up having a different variety available for every adult user in the world.
Readers, thank you for taking the time to read through our hot take. We do this in the spirit of helping the cannabis community keep up with its own growth. We should really be proud of ourselves, we’ve come a long way. Readers: At what point can we think of cannabinoids individually and separately from just “getting high”? Sound off in the comments or join the navel-gazers in our forum.
I received the Extract Labs Blue Dream CBD Extract Tank and battery yesterday. I love it so much I didn’t feel a need to use the product consistently before writing the review.
Editor Note: Extract Labs makes CBD tanks in the varieties: God’s Gift, Guava Jam, Blue Dream, El Jefe, and Martian Candy. They also make Delta 8 tanks in the varieties: Martian Candy, El Jefe, Ogre Berry, and Sour Ghost.
Extract Tanks are very natural
Extract Tanks are some of the most natural CBD vape products on the market. Their tanks only include full-spectrum CBD distillate and cannabis terpenes, no fillers, or other thinning agents such as vitamin E acetate. Each tank includes a hefty 500 milligrams of CBD, CBT, and CBG. The single-use, non-refillable tanks fit with standard 510-thread batteries.
Love the taste!
I love the taste. Blue Dream is one of my favorite strains and I was so looking forward to this product. It didn’t disappoint. It tastes like smoking weed instead of fruit punch. Blue Dream is a Sativa-dominant hybrid with a sweet berry aroma redolent of its Blueberry parent.
Very smooth
Extract Labs tank smokes very smoothly. Not once has this blend made me cough.
Great calming effects
It has an immediate calming effect that is similar to a THC buzz, but more subtle. I like the way the mouthpiece feels in my mouth.
The battery is awesome
I really like the battery. The battery was in a beautiful teal color I liked but because of my poor vision, I could rarely find the little button to push to activate the pen. I couldn’t tell if it was charging. The extract labs battery lights up when I pull on it so I know the tank is distributing before I suck too hard.
I love love love the price. What a fantastic value!
I love that there are no fillers and I appreciate the simple packaging that delivered the product with a minimal footprint on the planet.
Out of all the vape products I have tried whether THC or CBD – I love this Extract Labs product the most. I’ll be back for more!
Here at DabConnection, we’ve made a name for ourselves advocating for consumer safety. This means that we tackle the issue of fake carts so much that we’ve become the Internet’s leading authority on them.
Now, it’s all well and good to warn you away from fake cartridges, which are obtained on the black market from corner street plugs, and may contain any kind of mystery oil including many harmful contaminants. Boof carts led to an epidemic of people hospitalized and even dying from VAPI, right before COVID-19 hit and obliterated all other health news from the headlines. Even if the news doesn’t cover it much, people still get sick from illicit vape carts.
But consumers, after we wise them up, often ask us the obvious follow-up question:
So I know fake carts are bad – what do I use instead?
Unfortunately, state-by-state legalization is leading to a checker-board of states across the US, with almost no two of them having the same cannabis legalization policy. With no federal legalization realized yet, we are all at the mercy of our local political climate. Each year, more states legalize, but even in states with a relatively permissive atmosphere, you can still have trouble getting hold of a decent, safe cannabis product due to poor legalization support.
We’re going to try to answer the question here. While we, of course, do NOT advocate committing an illegal activity, we also understand that many people depend on cannabis for medical or therapeutic reasons, or simply want to enjoy a toke without feeling hunted by the law. It is really unfair right now, because you can legally buy and enjoy cannabis in one state, but cross a border and be thrown in the slammer for doing the same thing.
So: What to do if you live in a state where cannabis is still prohibited? At least, what is your alternative to risking your lungs on fake carts?
Option #1: Vote!
This is the most important step for cannabis liberation, even regardless if you live in a legalized state or not. I know that many of you are cynical and discouraged about politics in the US; don’t feel like the Lone Ranger! But we have made tremendous strides in ending cannabis prohibition, and we’ve marched forward through the Obama administration and right through the Trump administration into the Biden administration without losing steam.
Pay attention to every level of elections that affect you, from the municipal to the federal. Follow NORML and other cannabis legalization resources. Vote, and where you don’t have the option to vote, take petitions, hold demonstrations, write your representatives, and keep pushing. This really is the best step you can take to change your situation, albeit not always the fastest.
Option #2: Travel
As of this writing, 19 out of 50 US states have legalized for recreational cannabis. No medical card required, just waltz on in and buy some pot. You’re not likely to be that far from a legalized state, and if the few-hour drive isn’t too daunting, you should visit. The exception is the southeast US, naturally, but we’re guessing anybody in the Bible Belt didn’t expect an easy go of ending prohibition by now.
State-to-state tourism is a factor in some states legalizing. They’re looking at that revenue they get from a cannabis industry, and they’re all rolling in the dough! You can send a message both to your state and to the state you’re traveling to: you’ll take your business where it is appreciated.
Many more states are legal for medical use, so you can get an out-of-state medical card for that situation. Or there are states where cannabis is decriminalized for mere possession for personal use, so – it’s not something we advocate – but depending on your situation, you might be OK to transport your supply back home.
In some cases, if you don’t have firm anchors to living where you live now, you might even consider moving. There is an ongoing wave of migration to cannabis-legal states, which again sends a message to reinforce “good” behavior by taking your economic stimulation to a state where it’s welcome, while punishing “bad” behavior because states hate to lose residents.
Option #3: Try Delta 8 or Other Variants
By now, you should have heard the news that there’s more to marijuana than THC! As of now (check back in ten minutes though), the variants to traditional THC include delta(s) 7, 8, and 10, plus there are some new methods such as creating a THC acetate called “THC-O.” These variants exist in a legal gray area, but anything derived from hemp is federally legalized by the hemp farm bills.
Delta 8, which we have covered extensively, has effects very similar to regular THC, only milder. In some cases (as with your humble author), you might even prefer delta 8 because it gives a more clear-headed high that allows you to stay active and not just melt into the couch. If you’re using a delta 8 product that includes CBD and naturally-derived terpenes, you almost can not tell the difference after a few puffs. We’re starting to see hemp come out in the same strains as cannabis, just because it’s pretty easy to graft and clone your way from one to the other.
In addition, being federally legalized, hemp products are legal to ship! This means that you can find a safe distributor online. I myself have done this. Check with any of the products we have reviewed in the delta 8 / 10 / etc category. It is gloriously convenient to order online where you can pay for hemp with your debit card and get it mailed to your door – like a human being!
True, there are some states that are also taking the extra killjoy step of trying to prohibit delta 8 and other derivatives or variants, but when something is federally legalized, it’s pretty tough for state regulation to stick. With CBD products being sold at every mall now, it’s really going to be hard to justify popping somebody for a little vial of hemp juice.
Option #4: Try Flower
Hey, this is going to sound really wild and crazy, but just hear me out…
Did you know that cannabis comes in PLANT form? Did you, in fact, know that marijuana is an organic vegetable that grows right out of the ground, just like soybeans and corn and stuff? It’s an actual crop!
I’m never sure where to bring this up with modern generations, but cannabis has been cultivated and used throughout 10,000 years of history. People were happy to just grow it, harvest it, grind it, and smoke it. There were no vapes. There were no cartridges. There was no VG and PG. All you need is weed and fire! You know how many deaths and hospitalizations we had from smoking weed for 10,000 years? ZERO!
We’re not advocating that people who live where the plant is illegal break the law, but… given the alternatives, why would you spring for a cartridge of mystery oil that was also illegal, when you can smoke the plant mostly risk-free? At least with flower, you have eliminated the possibility of vitamin E acetate, PG and VG, heavy metals, synthetic K2/Spice, and all the other evil stuff they’ve found in black market cartridges. When you smoke flower, all you have to worry about is maybe some pesticides (spoiler alert: they use pesticides on the produce you eat too).
I know, this is an outrageous proposition for some of you. But really, give it a try once, you might like it. Every generation older than Millennial remembers when we made do with sneaking off for a joint on a daily basis – you can too!
Option #5… Is there a more “trustworthy” black market?
Well, again we don’t advocate breaking the law. Buuut, we have covered the underground sesh scene before. These are a subculture of pop-up weed events, similar to the concept of a swap meet, flea market, or rave. Were an individual to obtain their cannabis products through this scene, as opposed to a random plug off the street, they might be a small bit safer.
A vendor at an underground sesh is a regular. Other people there know them and can vouch for them. If a vendor deals boof, word gets out fast. Peer pressure in a tight community does have the power to keep people honest. You want to be able to trust somebody you see week after week (or month after month, or whatever the schedule) in company with other people who trust them too.
We’re not going to present that as a viable option. But we have seen how recklessly some of you live, and my God, y’all scare us! Since the underground sesh scene is most active in southern California, a 100% legalized state, we know that some of you are determined to take that route anyway.
Conclusions
We appreciate that a lot of you out there are suffering under draconian laws based on ancient bigotry and hoodoo bad science. Our heart goes out to you, and we’re trying to do all we can to help everyone safely and legally enjoy their leisure activity or medical relief. We are pushing for a brighter future, where every American can blaze a joint on their front porch, greeting the dawn like God intended (and was 100% legal until the 1930s anyway).
Here at dabconnection.com we always try to bring you the best cannabis industry-related reviews and news. A very important part of that is helping you, the users, spot fake products and avoid them. So we came up with the idea to make a mega list and cover all known fake carts out there. This list will be continuously updated.
The easiest way to search this list is to press CTRL+F and search the text of the cart you are looking for.
This list is made using data gathered by our main editor Pete who is an expert when it comes to fake carts.
Definitions of cartridges:
Legit – An actual company with a license and location Street / Black Market – A single-source unlicensed brand that does not appear on fake cartridge retailer listing yet Counterfeit / Faked – Knock-offs of legit brands Fake – A brand that appears to be completely baseless, sold only through fake cartridge retailer listings
Don’t buy THC carts online. Because of federal law, they can’t be shipped across states. If a site or an Instagram page offers shipment across states they are scammers and are selling fake products that you won’t probably even get if you pay for them. (side note: CBD and delta 8 are exceptions to the shipping rule, but even there you’re gambling.)
To find out where you can find US state cannabis license information click here.
The difference between a QA / R&D lab test result and a California compliance COA is explained in detail here.
Our thanks go out to the Reddit and Blacklist.xyz cannabis-interest communities, whose vigilant street reporting has been an important tip line in this project.
And now let’s start listing some carts.
@bsc.extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
@BTY.EXTRACTS
No detailed information is available at the moment.
@gold_baby_carti
They only have an Instagram page and seem to sell plain terp oil without any THC. You can read more about it here.
101 Octane
No detailed information is available at the moment.
1Match / Match1
1Match Concentrates appears to have no known seller or source. They have inconsistent packaging and seem to appear to be regularly sold at underground festivals. The site listed on the boxes “www.1match.us” doesn’t work. You can read more about 1Match carts here.
2020 Hiieffect
These carts don’t have a license or valid lab tests. They have a sketchy website that does not clearly state any relevant info. Not even where you can buy the carts. They also have an Instagram page that has not been active in a long time. You can read more about these carts here.
2020 Vape
No detailed information is available at the moment.
22k
Not to be confused with the legit brand “TwentyTwo-K”. These carts don’t have any licenses and no licensed lab tests. You can read more about them here.
24K Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
24K Solutions
No detailed information is available at the moment.
2K.I.N.D.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
2WNTY3
No detailed information is available at the moment.
31 Carts / 31 Flavors
31 Flavors cartridges are just packaging. No company, no website, no license, no registration, no lab tests, nothing. 31 flavors’ kid-friendly packaging is a clear sign they’re fake, due to standards set by the California Department of Public Health, which prohibits the use of cartoons and images popularly used to advertise to children. You can read more about 31 Carts here.
4N
Not much info is available. You can read more details on this Reddit thread.
5tar Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
710 Monster
No detailed information is available at the moment.
805 Oilers
Fake black market carts. Some users report that the oil they tried was decent. As with any fake cart, you never know what kind of oil will you end up with. You can read more about these carts on Reddit.
91 Supreme
No detailed information is available at the moment.
A La Carte
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ace of Spades
Not much info is available. You can read more details on this Reddit thread.
Aces Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Activated / Activated Extracts
Only available on a private Instagram page. No license info, no valid lab results, not one thing that would make you think this is a legit brand. Carts could be filled with really anything. You can read more about them here.
Adma Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Aftershock
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Alchemist’s Gold
A fake brand that has fake lab results show up when you try to scan their QR code. You can read more about it here.
Alchemy Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Alec
When you see carts with cartoon characters on them you don’t have to think twice if the carts are fake. They always are. The same goes for Alec, no site, no license no lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Alien Blaze
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Alien Slime
There were present in the black cart market some time ago. Some users claimed that they had decent strength and taste but as with any fake cart, you never know if you will end up in a hospital after smoking one. You can read more about Alien Slime here.
Aliens RX
No background information. No valid lab tests. Pre-printed THC claims are probably false. You can read more about these carts here.
ALIENSX
No detailed information is available at the moment.
All American Bakery
No detailed information is available at the moment.
All In Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Alphacarts
A fake brand that claims their carts have a 93% THC. That is a clear fake cart sign. You can read more about it here.
Alternative Pharms
Fake carts that don’t have a license or lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Altitude
No detailed information is available at the moment.
AmaznBlzn
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Amber Gold Xtracts
Amber Gold Xtracts are present on the black market but there are not that common. There are several Amber Gold Xtracts Instagram pages that all claim they are the real deal. If you check the AGX boxes, they all seem to have the same QR code which is also a sign of a fake product. You can read more about Amber Gold Xtracts here.
Ambient Carts
Homemade carts that could really contain any mystery oil. You can find out more about them here.
Amerijuana
Amerijuana cartridges turned out to be decent. They got a score of 7.5/10 on our site and that’s more than some legit brands did. Like with any other non-legit brand you never know what kind of batch you will get. It may be decent like it was in our case or it might put you in the hospital. There is no company info and no legit lab results available for Amerijuana. You can read more about these carts here.
Amnesia Concentrates
Not much is known about these carts. Even on Reddit, there is only one thread about them.
Amplified xtracts
These carts can be bought from local plugs. Not much info is available about them. No license, no lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Anesthesia Farms / Aenesthesia Farms
Available from local street plugs. THC % is printed directly on the box which is one more clear sign of fake carts. No license or valid lab tests. Some mentions of this brand on Reddit.
ANF
No detailed information is available at the moment.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
AP / Alternative Pharms
Some occasional mentions of these carts on Reddit. . No license, no licensed lab tests. Some users that tried them think these carts were decent but the oil could really contain anything, from pesticides to lead.
Apollo Extracts
These mystery carts are available on the East Coast. There is no licensed, registered company behind this brand. Their site (www.apolloextracts.co) is offline for some time now. You can read more about Apollo in this great detective article Pete did.
Apotheca
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Apple Dabs
These fake carts are mostly available in the Washington, D.C area. No legit background or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Area 71
Area 71 seems to be a gray market delivery service in Washington D.C.
Astro Bar
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Astro Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Atomic carts
Atomic / Atomic Carts
These fake street carts pop up occasionally. Not much info about them is available. You can read more about them here.
Aunt Jemima
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Aurora Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Avalanch
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Avion
Not much info is available about these carts. Some mentions of them on Reddit.
Axe
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Baked Bar
Available from local street plugs. Not much info about them is available. Some mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Bananas and Blow
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bang
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bank$ Extracts / $auce Extracts / Ca$h Carts
AKA Banks, Sauce, Cash. We’re not sure if they’re all by the same printer or what, but they all seem to borrow package design from each other, and all three were popping up on the same Instagram account. They also love to use the dollar sign as you can see from the “brand” names. They offer meaningless lab tests that can’t be verified. You can read more about $ brands here.
Bankroll
Spice-style packaging, no lab test, or any of the identifying numbers they legally have to display. In short – Super fake carts. You can read more about them here.
BankVapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Banzai
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Balla Berries
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bare Cali
Not 100 % sure if the brand is legit. No lab results are available. One of our reviews tried them out and found them pretty decent. You can read more about Bare Cali here.
Bare Woods
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bart Carts
Barts Carts Cartridges aren’t legit, as they would be stopped since Fox would never allow the Simpsons brand to be used in this way. You can read more about Bart carts in detail in this nice article our editor Pete wrote.
Basix
Fake carts with nonworking QR codes. No valid license info or lab tests. Some mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Baskin Robins
Since Baskin Robbins is a chain of ice cream and cake specialty shop restaurants it should be very clear to everyone that these carts are fake as they can possibly be. Some users on Reddit comment that anyone stupid enough to smoke these deserves all the health risks that come with unregulated carts. We tend to agree with them.
Batch
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bathing Vape
No detailed information is available at the moment.
BBQ Sauce Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
BB Simon
No detailed information is available at the moment.
BC Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
BCC Collective
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Beantown Buds
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bear Necessity Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Beast Coast Cure
Lots of signs of a fake cart when it comes to BCC. Be careful with these carts. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Bell Ringer
A fake brand with no license or valid lab results. The oil in these carts could really contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Bert’s Trees
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Better Than Yours / BTY
Nothing can be found on the web that would prove that this brand a legit one. No license info, no lab results, absolutely nothing legal about BTY. You can read more about these carts on Reddit.
Bhomb Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bhossy
These carts can be bought from local street plugs. Of course, you can’t find anything online about them that would prove they have a license or lab results that would show what kind of oil can be found in these carts. You can read more about them here.
big bang cart
Big Bang
Seem to be very weak. You can read more about it on Reddit.
Big Daddy
Not much is know about this brand only a few mentions on Reddit.
Big Gas
These carts have failed some lab tests in the past. You can read more about them here.
Big Smokey Farms
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Big Slick
Cleary fake carts made in China probably filled with God knows what. They even messed up the metric-imperial units. You can read more about them here.
Billionaire cart
Billionaire Cart
We could not find much information about these carts. Just some mentions of it on Reddit.
Black Cat
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Black Diamond
These carts can be mostly found in Oregon. As usual, you can find any info about them that would prove they are a legit brand. No license, no valid lab tests not even a website. You can read more about these carts here.
Black Falls
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Black Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Black Label
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Black Sheep Canna Craft
No detailed information is available at the moment.
BlazntheAmazn
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Blew
No detailed information is available at the moment.
BloodMoon
These carts are mostly found in the Massachusetts area. If you try to google this “brand” you will not find anything that would prove they are a legal cart business. No license or lab tests. They could be filled with anything really. You can read more about them here.
BLVCK / Blvck 710 / BLVCK MARKET 710
“Blvck” is a fashion line, which either dabbled in carts or a cart maker ripped the name, no longer seen. The name comes up in connection with the Green Box “brand,” maybe related.
BlueSky
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Blue Diamond
You can’t find much info about these carts just a few mentions of them on Reddit.
Blunted
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bloc Star
These carts can be bought only on black market sites or from local street plugs. Of course, they don’t have any kind of license or lab tests. Be very careful if you decide to try them out since the oil could really contain anything. Read more about these carts here.
BMWO
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bobby Blue
The oil seems very suspicious. There are a couple of threads on Reddit about this “brand“.
Bonfire
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bombshell
There seem to be all over the place. All fake of course. Some users say they are tasty and strong. As usual with any fake cart, you never know what you gonna get when you buy it. You can read more about them here.
Bomb Squad Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Boom Carts
Boom Carts have been kicking around for a while. They may have started out as a single-source street brand, but they’re becoming just another empty cart on the black market to fill with mystery oil. You never know what you are gonna get. Boom Carts uses cartoon packaging in violation of the California code. The use of copyrighted characters from both the Marvel and D.C. comics universe is a blatant black market packaging ploy. You can read more about Boom carts here.
Boomba Labs
Available in some backalley shops. Read more about Boomba Labs here.
Boom Extracts / Boom Xtracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Boring
Not much is known about these carts. Some mentions of them on Reddit.
Botanicals Inc
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Botanist Extracts
No license no lab tests. Pretty much a big nothing. You can read more about them here.
Breaking Dab
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Breaking Green
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Brick House Distillery
The QR code show results that are not valid. No valid license anywhere to be found. You can read more about them here.
BSC Extracts
These carts can be bought from local street plugs. No license or lab results anywhere to be found. You can read more about them here.
BT Weekly
These carts are made by “Bud Technology,” a company that is only allowed to make infusions (CDPH-10003528, a Type N license) and is not allowed to make extracts, flowers, or anything else. As a result, they are not subject to the necessary regulations and oversight, and any non-infusion product they produce should be regarded as suspect.
Bud Bros
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bud Naked
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Buddha Vape
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Buddah Bear
Buddah Bear carts are nothing more than packaging. They may contain THC oil, but they are not all sourced from the same place. Buddah Bear also misrepresents lab results. If you scan a QR code located on the cart it goes to non-compliant testing at a lab. There is a buddahbearbrand.com site that has a “Coming soon!” sign for two years now. You can read more about these sketchy carts here.
Buddhas Hand
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bulletproof
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Bunji
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Burst
These carts are present on the streets for the last year or so. No legit origin. No lab tests, no license, nothing that could tell you what would you exactly smoke if you tried these carts. You can read more about them on Reddit.
C21
This is a fake brand. No license, no licensed labs, no legit. It’s also pretty popular and some users state that the quality of the carts is decent. You may not be so lucky with your batch. Lots of mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Cali Blaise
These carts mostly pop up in California. Not much is known about them. You can read more about them here.
Cali Carts
These carts use the same methods as other phony carts. The packaging is shipped from China to states in the United States where marijuana is still illegal. Cali Carts are popping up all over California, particularly in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. You can buy Cali packaging on Alibaba. These carts should definitely be avoided. You can read more about them here.
Cali Clear / Cali Clear Kings
No license, no valid lab tests. QR code leads to a nonworking webpage. You can read more about these carts here.
California Confidential / Cali Confidential / Connoisseur Concentrates / CC Chanel
AKA CC / Coco Chanel. Imitates the Coco Chanel fashion, jewelry, and perfume line. California Confidential shows up in the list of brands reported by patients that ended up in the hospital after using them. Be careful with CC. You can read more about them here.
Cali Connects
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cali’s Finest
Some users report that they taste very bad. CF is just packaging that can be filled with any kind of homemade oil. You can read more about it here.
Cali Gold
These carts are mostly available in California. As usual, they don’t have a license or valid lab tests so the oil may contain anything. You can read more about them here.
Cali Grown / Cali Grown Exotics
No license, no licensed labs, no legit background. You can read more about them in this Reddit thread.
Cali Naturals
Not available in legal dispensaries only street dealers sell them. That should be a clear fake brand/cart sign. They mostly show up in the Twin Cities and Atlanta areas. You can read more about them here.
Cali Pack / Cali Pack Boys
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cali Piff
Cali Piff Extracts is a well-known unlicensed vape cart brand. These carts are only present on Instagram and nowhere else. They are also present on black market sites that only sell fake products. You can find some sketchy lab results online that can’t be confirmed and lack some very important information. You can read more about them here.
Cali Plug
Not a real brand. Some users that tried it claim that the carts tasted pretty solid but you may not be so lucky. You can read more about these carts here.
Cali Pure
No detailed information is available at the moment. Some mentions of them on Reddit.
Cali RX
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cali Vybes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
California Honey
Found only sketchy delivery service website with 2 reviews. No activity since.
Calyx / Calyx Botanicals
No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Candy Cane
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Candy Carts
Fake carts are present on a couple of black market sites. All have different strains and prices. You can read more about them here.
Cannables
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cannabis Oil Supply
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cannabis Reports
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cannapy
These carts can be bought from local plugs. No license, lab results, or anything legitimate about them to be found anywhere. You can read more about these carts here.
Canna Bliss
They are supposedly 94% THC which is a clear fake cart sign. You can read more about them on Reddit.
CannaClear
Started out black market brand endorsed by All Bay Music, now just a widespread fake. Should not be confused with The Delta 8 brand. The Delta 8 CannaClear is a registered LLC, licensed, and reviewed by our Delta 8 expert Francisco here. You can read more about fake THC CannaClear carts in this article.
CannaHome
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cannawoods
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Canna Crude
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Canna Fame
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cartnite
A new fake “brand” on the black market, meant to be a riff on the popular video game Fortnite. They are widely spread. “Cartnite” obviously violates the trademark of Epic Games and it could never legally exist. As with any black market cart when you buy them you gamble with your life since you never know what are you gonna get. You can read more about Cartnite here.
Carte Blanche
The cart is listed as 1000ml which 1 liter. Normal carts list mg, not ml. You can tell what kind of people make these carts if they can’t get basic measurements straight. You can read more about these carts here.
Cartel Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cartel Oil Carts / Cartel Carts
Apparently, this is a real brand that is faked a lot. Be careful where you buy these carts. You can read more about it here.
Cartel Quality
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cart Pharmz
These carts are available in some back ally dispenseries. No license or lab tests as usual with fake carts. You can read more about them here.
Cart Toon Cartridges
These carts do not seem to have a central oil producer and appear to be just a packaging company. The packaging for Toon Carts features a variety of cartoon characters. Toon Carts features characters such as Spongebob, Disney characters, Dragonball Z, Rugrats, South Park, and Thunder Cats. If the company was genuinely registered, they would not be able to get away with these trademark violations. You can read more about them here.
Carti Cartel
No detailed information is available at the moment.
CBudget
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Celio
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cereal Carts
Fake Cereal Carts have become a very popular phenomenon, causing a lot of confusion and disruption to consumers. Because there is no information about this company, many people are wondering if these carts are safe to smoke or even legit. You can read more about them here.
Certified Loud
A fake brand that sells 1.1-gram carts. You can read more about it on Reddit.
CG Extracts / CG Premium Extracts
These carts are so underground you can’t even find the THC% of them. As usual, that would not help much since most carts don’t have legit THC data of the carts. You can read more about these carts on Reddit.
Chalie World
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Champion / Champion Liquid
Not much is known about these carts. One mention of them on Reddit.
Chapo Kingdom
These carts don’t contain any of the required labelings. You can read more about them here.
Choice
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Choices
Choices is a fake cart brand rolling around Michigan. The Choices gimmick is they come bundled in two cartridges per package, each a .5 gram, each supposed to be a different flavor. You can read more about Choices and the whole Michigan sketchy dispensary scene here.
Choices Lab
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Chronic Carts
We reviewed way back before we knew fake carts were a thing, obtained from a dispensary nonetheless. The carts are pretty weak and there are no lab results to confirm the oil quality. You can read more about them here.
Chronopoly
Chronopoly carts are just hardware, they don’t make THC oil. This is a “brand” you probably want to avoid since the plug can really put any kind of oil in it. There is no central processing for oil, no testing, and therefore no one has any idea if they are any good. You can read more about these carts here.
Chuckle
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cielo
These carts can be bought from street plugs and in back alley dispensaries in the New York area. Some users on Reddit have tried them out. You can read more about these carts here.
Clean Carts
What’s next for the fake cart market? A brand called “We are defiantly a legit cart business and we have all the licenses and tests, please believe us”? Of course these “clean carts” don’t have any of that and can be bought at some black market dispensaries. You can read more about these carts here.
Clear Chronic
Clear Chronic cartridges flood the market and questions about them pop up on Reddit very often. There is not one licensed, registered, above-the-counter dispensary selling Clear Chronic carts. You can read more about them here.
Clear Meds
These carts can’t be bought in any legal dispensary. No license or valid lab test info anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Clear Skys
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cloudπ / Cloudπ Concentrates
These carts don’t have any legit background. No website just an Instagram page that has not been active for over a year now. No license or lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Cloud 9 / Clout 9
Fake carts that contain very sketchy oil. You can read more about these carts here.
Clout Amsterdam
No detailed information is available at the moment.
CLSC / Classic Carts
These carts can be found only on Instagram. Some Reddit users report that they bought these carts from local street plugs.
CLR Magnum
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cluub Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Coastal / Coastal Cartridges
Coastal Cartridges are a mysterious brand, for there isn’t any information to be found about their company. The oil is very low quality, thin and weak. You can read more about Coastal Carts here.
Coastal Hitz
Fake carts only available on Instagram. They have a website listed that is not working. No legit legal or lab info available anywhere. You can read more about them in this Reddit thread.
CO Dude Labs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cobra Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Complex / Complex Cartridges
Fake carts mostly available in Texas. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Colors
Fake carts that some users claim to be decently strong. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Conect Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Conscious Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cookies High Flyers
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Copper State
A fake brand present on the streets. Not to be confused with a legit brand Copper State Farms.
Cool Pen
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cosmic Concentrates
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cosmo Steamers
These carts don’t come with all the legally required tracking, licensing, and testing info. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Cove Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Crack Carts
The Crack Carts brand was created by a man in Michigan. They are found around that Michigan-Ohio area. They can only be found on Instagram. You can read more about them here.
Craft BC
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Crafted Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Crave / CraveMeds
Some versions of these carts contain green oil. Is there anything else to say? You can read more about these carts here.
Cr8zy Glue / Kr8zy Glue
Kr8zy Glue is packaged to look like the popular glue product of a similar name. Kr8zy Glue is so sketchy that our editor Pete could not even find its street source. You can read more about it in this article.
Crazy J
No website, no license, and no lab tests. They have an Instagram page that has not been active for some time now. You can read more about this “brand” here.
Crescent City Carts
These carts have very low-quality hardware and are filled with especially harsh oil. As usual, they don’t have any legitimate background – no license or lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Crybaby
As the name suggests you might cry in the hospital after using these carts since the oil in them could contain anything. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Culture Carts
Fake cart with very thin oil. You can read more about them here.
Cure
No detailed information is available at the moment.
CUREpen
Fake carts that have everything on the label but not what matters – a license or lab tests info. You can read more about these carts here.
Custom Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Cyclone
No detailed information is available at the moment.
D Boys / DBoys
Fake carts with very sketchy oil. As usual, they don’t have a legitimate background, tests, or a license. You can read more about these carts here.
Da Bomb
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dabout
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dabulous
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dabwoods
There is no authentic information or lab results on Dabwoods. You can read more about it here. You can also check out our test of Dabwoods carts.
Dab Lab / Dabs Lab
Not much is known about these carts. There are some mentions of them on Reddit.
Dab Nap
AKA Dab Nap Concentrates. Fake carts that are present on the streets and black market sites. You can read more about them here.
Dabbin
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dabbing Aways
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dank / Danks / Dank Vapes
There are many fake Dank vape carts out there and you can buy empty packaging online. Recently new Dank boxes are coming out in funky colors. Probably a further sign of dueling counterfeiters.
Check out this great piece Pete did about these shady carts.
Dank Dabs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dank Elites
Not much info is available. Some mentions of it on Reddit.
Dank Juice
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dank Sauce
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dank Vapers
No detailed information is available at the moment.
DankWoods
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dapper Dabs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dark Cart
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dark Hawk Genetics
These carts don’t have a legit background. No company, no license, no source. Dark Hawk Genetics carts are not single-sourced and no legit dispensary sells them. The oil in the carts could really contain anything. You can read more about them here.
Dazed Extracts
These carts can only be found on an Instagram page that has not been active for over a year now. No license or valid lab tests to be found anywhere. You can read more about these carts here.
DC Dabbers
These carts don’t seem to be regulated. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Deathhead Moths
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Delta
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Demeter’s Gardens
No license or lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Denk Farms
No license, no licensed labs, just an Instagram page. You can read more about this “brand” here.
Detroit Organics
These carts are filled with very sketchy oil. This brand doesn’t have a license or valid lab tests that would show what exactly the oil in them contains. You can read more about these carts here.
Devour
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Diamond and Co
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Diamond Boys Extracts
This is one of those fake carts that you can spot from a mile away. THC % printed directly on the box, no license or lab tests. Not even a website just a dodgy Instagram page. You can read more about this “brand” here.
Diamond Concentrates
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Diamond Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Diamond OG
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Diamond Remedy
These fake carts can be bought from local plugs and back-alley dispensaries. You can’t find any legit information about them online just some mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Diamond Stix
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Diamond Supply
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dickpunch
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dirty South
No detailed information is available at the moment.
District Oil Co
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dolce & Gabana
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dope
Fake carts with odd-looking oil that could contain anything as far as we know since you can’t find any license or lab test info. You can read more about these carts here.
Dope Doctor
Only available through a Snapchat account which is a clear sign of a fake cart. No license info anywhere to be found and the lab tests presented are fake. You can read more about these carts here.
Dope Sticks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dope Xtract
Black market brand. No info about the company, no test results, no nothing. You can read more about them here.
DŌSD
DŌSD is an edibles brand from Denver, Colorado. This company does not make carts so all DŌSD carts are fake. Be careful if you come across these. You can read more about them here.
Dr. Duckie’s Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dr. Zodiak
This brand used to be licensed in Arizona but lost that license since they failed lab tests and their oil was found to be full of pesticides.
Dripstone
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Drippy Carts
Drippy Carts are a black market brand fronted in Orange County, California. Unlicensed, unregulated brands like Drippy Carts may contain anything. California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s policy forbids packaging attractive to children, using cartoons, images popularly used to market to children, and imitating candy labeling. Drippy Carts clearly violates this policy. You can read more about Drippy Carts here.
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Drip THC
DripTHC is a black market brand that has no legit website, legal info, or lab results. It should not be confused with the other Drip (they work out of DripOils.com in Arizona, and produce a full line of cannabis products in addition to a vape cart.) You can read more about DripTHC here.
D.S.E.
They could not even spell cartridge right. Do you really need more info than that?
Dyna Puff (DynaPuff) is an unregulated cartridge brand. These carts failed in lab tests as they tested dirty on pesticides, and were also shockingly weak, 16% cannabinoid profile. You can read more about Dyna Puff carts here.
Dynamic carts
These carts can be bought from local plugs and dodgy Snapchat accounts. Some Reddit users have tried them.
Dynasty
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Dyme
Dyme’s licensed distillate carts sold in Oregon and California contain the dangerous vitamin e precursor phytol. You can read more about it here.
E.D.S / Exclusive Delivery Services
No detailed information is available at the moment.
E Glü
Black market brand. Some users claim they have been consistent and decent but if you decide to buy them you may not be so lucky. You can read more about them here.
EA Carts
These carts can be mostly be found in Michigan. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
East Coast Clear
Some users on Reddit say that these carts are solid but that does not change the fact they are illegal and have no license or valid lab tests. The oil in the carts could contain a number of poisonous things.
East Side Extracts / Eastside Extracts
These carts can be found on various Instagram and Snapchat accounts that sell a number of fake carts. They don’t have a license or legit lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
El Chapo THC
No detailed information is available at the moment.
El Gallo
These carts can be bought from local plugs. They don’t have a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
El Jefe
No detailed information is available at the moment.
El Rey
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Elements
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Elevated
These carts are only sold via sketchy Instagram pages. You cant find anything legit about these carts. You can read more about them here.
Elev8
Not much can be found about these carts. Even the folks on Reddit don’t know much about them.
Elite Extracts
No legit info about these carts can be found anywhere. Some users mention them periodically on Reddit.
Elite Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
EM
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Emerald Extracts
This is a legit brand that operates in Oregon, Wisconsin, and California. There are a bunch of fake carts using their name on the streets so be careful when you come across them. You can read more about these fake carts here.
Empire State Vape
This is a black market street brand that is very popular with users. They can be bought in the Long Island / NY area. Even though some users claim that these carts are great that does not change the fact they don’t have a license or that they have not been lab-tested. The oil in them could contain anything and your batch might not be so good. It could actually send you to a hospital. You can read more about these carts here.
Empress / Empress Vapes
No details about a license or valid lab tests are available. You can read more about these carts here.
Energy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Enjoy Oil
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ether
Just one look at this packaging should be enough to convince you that these carts are fake as they can be. No license or lab tests. There are some mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Eureka Clear
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Everest Authentic
You can’t find any kind of info regarding these carts online. Even people on Reddit don’t have much to say about them which is rare.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
exo
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Exotic/Exotiq
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Exotic Carts
Fake Exotic carts are everywhere. Shady vendors across the country sell all types of fake cartridges and they buy them directly from China. You can read more about them here.
Exotics710
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Exotixx
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Exotx
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Exquisite
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Faded / Faded Carts / Faded Extracts
These fake carts don’t have a license or valid lab tests. THC % is printed directly on the box which is usual with fake carts. You can read more about them here.
Fat Cat Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fat Dabs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fat Donald’s
Briefly circulated black market novelty brand, likely only a single batch produced. They were obviously misusing a certain American politician. You can read more about these carts here.
Filthy
Not much information is available about these carts. There are some mentions of them on Reddit.
Filthy Lab / Filthy Laboratory
A fake brand that does not have a license or valid lab tests. The oil in these carts could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Fiori
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fire Extracts
A black market brand that does not have a valid license or lab tests. The carts are filled in some basement production and the oil in them could contain a number of harmful ingredients. You can read more about this “brand” here.
Fire Gas
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fire Tanks
You can’t find any license information or lab tests related to these carts. The site listed on the packaging is not working. You can read more about them here.
No license, no licensed labs, nothing to confirm the background of these carts. You can read more about them on Reddit.
First Class Canna cart
First Class Canna
These fake carts have a very sketchy oil in them. Of course, as usual, you can’t find any license info or lab test for these carts. Guys on Reddit mention them occasionally.
Fiyaman Extracts
Fiyaman Extracts carts are very popular. They even hired comedian Tommy Chong to advertise them. That does not change the fact you can’t find a single piece of legit information about this brand. You can read more about them here.
Flavorz
The “official” Flavorz website has no information and has an “under construction” sign for a long time now. This test shows a “Nerdz” Flavorz cart purchased from a storefront in California that was not Bureau of Cannabis Control licensed. The cartridge had abnormal amounts of lead and pesticides. You can read more about these carts here.
FlavRx
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Flight Stix
These carts are only present on Instagram. No license or lab tests info anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Flor Pure Flower
“Bud Technology” makes these. They only have a type N license for infusions (CDPH-10003528). They can’t make extracts, flowers, or anything else legally. As a result, they are not subject to the necessary regulations and oversight, and any non-infusion product they produce should be regarded as suspect. They have an Instagram account that has been inactive for about a year.
Florida Boy Magic
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Flume / Flume Extractions
Not much is known about these carts. Just one small thread on Reddit about them.
Flying Sauces
Flying Sauces is the name of a children’s cereal. Stolen trademarked names are a clear sign of fake carts. These carts don’t have a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Fountain
No detailed information is available at the moment.
FRDM
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Free Cannabis Co
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Free The Leaf
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fresh Organix
This is a black market brand that is sold by local plugs via social media accounts. These carts don’t have a license or valid lab tests and the oil in them could contain anything. You can read more about Fresh Organix here.
Friendly Pharma
No detailed information is available at the moment.
From Mad to the Moon
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Frosted Science
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Frosty’s snowcone clear
Frosty’s Snowcone Clear
Their manufacturer, Dr. Zodiak used to be licensed in Arizona, but they got shut down because tests showed dangerous levels of pesticides in the oil. They lost their license because of that. Check out this Reddit thread for more info.
FRSH cart
FRSH
The carts are listed as 91% THC which is a dead giveaway. They are clearly fake and may contain anything. Check this interesting thread for more information.
FU Carts
A fake street brand that does not have a license or lab tests. The oil in these carts could contain anything. From pesticides to kryptonite. Be careful when you come across these. You can read more about them here.
Fuego
Fake carts with no legitimate background. You can read more about them here.
Fuel
These carts are licensed in Michigan but they were filled with sketchy oil that contained illegal substances so the company that makes them had to organize a mass recall. So be careful if you come across any of their products.
Fuma
These carts scream FAKE as soon as you look at them. Cheap packaging, no license, no valid lab tests not even a website, just an Instagram page. You can read more about these carts here.
Future
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fyr
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Fyr Bar / Fyre Bar
Black market carts filled with god knows what. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Fyre Pen
Fake carts. Not much is known about them. Some users on Reddit report using them.
Users on Reddit state that this “company” sells unlicensed CBD products including carts on the clearnet. They have a website but important information like license info or valid lab tests can’t be found.
Galaxy Water Clear
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Garbage Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gary Payton
Gary Payton is a strain used in some carts. But there is also a black market brand called the same way.
Gas Gang
Black market carts with no legit info. Sometimes you can read something about them on Reddit.
gas hits cart
Gas Hits / Gas Hitz
Not much is known about this street brand. No license or valid lab tests. Some mention of these carts on Reddit.
Gas Tanks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
GB Extracts
Not a legit brand but some users report that these carts are decent. As always we must say you should be careful with these kinds of carts since you never know when they will have a bad batch. The oil in these carts could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Gello Gelato
No detailed information is available at the moment.
gen x cart
Gen X
These carts don’t have a license or lab tests. There is not much info about them even on the dark web. You can read more about these carts here.
Get Em High
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Get Smoked
THC % printed directly on the carts. Since % can change from batch to batch no legit and serious company prints them directly on the packaging. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
GG Distillates
Not much info is available about these street carts. Some mentions of them on Reddit.
Ghost
Not much info can be found about them online. You can check out this thread about Ghost carts.
Ginger Dank
This “brand” is widespread. They offer carts and edibles. Ginger Dank’s site is dead and their Instagram page has not been active for some time now. No license information or trustworthy lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about Ginger Dank here.
Gld Pusher
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Glee / Glee Vape
Not much is known about these carts. Some mentions of them on Reddit.
Glo / Glo Extracts
Glo Extracts carts are unlicensed, unregulated, and all over the streets. They are sold widely on black market websites. They also have a bunch of bought reviews. You can read more about Glo Extracts here.
Global Refinery
No detailed information is available at the moment.
GK Blaze
No detailed information is available at the moment.
GOAT extracts cart
Goat Extracts
These street carts don’t have a legit source. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
God’s Shatter
No detailed information is available at the moment.
GoHard / Go Hard
Some users of these carts had to visit their doctor after using them. Be careful if you come across them, you never know what’s inside. Check out more details from Reddit posters here.
Golani Carts
They have a website but the site does not contain any important information like license info or third-party lab tests. Some mentions of these cars on Reddit.
Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold Coast Clear
A bunch of people often ask about these carts on forums and Reddit. They never get any answers. Pete tried to get some answers here.
Gold Crown
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold Gasheous
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold Label
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold Leaf
This is a black market brand that should not be confused with dispenser called “Gold Leaf” and their carts “gLeaf”.
Gold Mine / Goldmine
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold Mitten Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold Pens
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gold pusher cart
Gold Pusher
You can not find much info about these carts. Just some mention of this “brand” on Reddit.
Gold Rush
These carts are mostly present in California and are sold by local street plugs. No valid lab tests or license info anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Golden fox cart
Golden Fox
These carts have been spotted in South Texas. No license info or valid lab test anywhere to be found. Some mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Golden Glove
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Golden Gorilla
These carts can be found in some illegal states and are sold by back-alley dispensaries and street plugs. Some mention of these carts on Reddit.
Golden Grams
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Golden Skunk Extraction Co
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Golden State Farms
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Golden Ticket
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Good Bags
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Good Extractions
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Good Supply
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Good Vibes Only
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gooeyville
These black market carts can be bought from local street plugs and dodgy Instagram pages. As usual, no license info or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Go To Bed
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gorilla
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gorilla G
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Got Sours
They only have an Instagram account that is no longer active. Of course, no license or lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Goyard
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gram
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Green Box
The source of Green Box carts seems to be a single private Instagram account. Not one legit website or dispensary sells Green Box carts which should clearly prove that these carts are fake as they can be and that oil in the carts could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Green Extract
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Green Piece
A single mention of this fake cart “brand” can be found here.
Green widow cart
Green Widow
No license or valid lab tests. The oil in these carts could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Greenway
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Grey Area Cart
Grey Area / Grey Area Extracts
This is a black market brand that can be bought from local plugs and back alley dispensaries. Of course, no license or lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Groovy Hybrid
This is a black market brand. Which automatically means it does not have a license and the oil in the carts is not regulated. You can read more about these carts here.
Growfare / Growfare Extracts
These carts can be bought from local street plugs. No license or valid lab tests. Some mentions of these carts on Reddit.
Grown Good
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gruntz
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Gucci / Gucci Gold
These carts claim to have 97% THC. When you came across that kind of info it is a clear sign that the carts are fake. Some people on Reddit report trying them out.
GVO
Only sold via an Instagram account. Even that account is no longer active. You can read more about these carts here.
H⚡per
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Halo cart
Halo
This is a black market brand. Some users report that they tried them and that they were pleased with their quality. That does not change the fact that this “brand” does not have a license or that the oil in them is not tested and could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Happy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Happy Hippy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Happy Sticks
Fake cart brand. No license or valid lab tests. Even their website is no longer active. You can read more about these carts here.
Harmonized Hemp
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Havana Honeys
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Havana Honey Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Hawn Craft
No detailed information is available at the moment.
HCP / Honey Comb Pens
No detailed information is available at the moment.
HD Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Heart High
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Heef
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Herb Pharmacy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
HiFly / HiFly Extracts
A fake brand. No licensing info or third-party test. You can read more about them here.
High Flyers
No detailed information is available at the moment.
High Grade Aid
No detailed information is available at the moment.
High Grade Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
High Logic
A black market brand that is mostly present in the Michigan area. No license or lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about them here.
High Life
No detailed information is available at the moment.
High Note Extracts
THC % printed directly on the box which is often a clear sign of a fake cart. No license or lab test info. You can read more about these carts here.
High Point Co.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
High Rez
High Rez bills itself as “live plant extract.” That and the name seem to imply that they mean live resin. They also claim to have “24K gold hardware.” They don’t have any legit site or lab tests and are only present on Instagram via several accounts. You can read more about them here.
High Society / High Society Extracts
These totally are fake for a multitude of obvious reasons, no legit website, no lab results. They can only be found on some sketchy black market site that will probably be down by the time you read this. You can read more about this “High Society” brand here.
Highly Crafted
These carts can be bought from local plugs and back alley dispensaries. No license or valid lab tests are available. You can read more about these carts here.
High Tech Carts / HITECH
These carts are sold by local street plugs. They are mostly available in California. No lab tests or a valid license. You can read more about these carts here.
High Tolerance
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Higher Power / Higher Power Extracts
No license or lab tests. The oil in these carts could contain anything. You can read more bout these carts here.
Higher Vibrations
This is a black market brand. At first, they tried to sell their products as a Friendly Farms side brand and after that, they just used the Higher Vibrations name. Of course, no license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Highway
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Himalayan Highs
Fake carts that even taste bad. Not even worth talking about a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Hippy Treats
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Hitone
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Hive Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
HOG
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Honey
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Honeycomb Clear
When you try to find some info about these carts an immediate red flag shows up: No website, no license, no corporate presence. Honeycomb Clear comes in a tube and is found in New York City area. You can read more about them here.
Honey Gold 999 / Honey Gold Extracts 999
Fake carts. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Honey Drips
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Honey Leaf Extracts
Not much is known about these varts. Some users report that they are decent but that does not change the fact the oil in them could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Honey House / Honey House Extracts
A clothing brand that sells street carts without a license or valid lab tests. They have an Instagram page that lists a lot of THC products but claims they are not for sale. If you visit their website they only list clothes. You can more about these carts here.
Honey Nut Pumps
No detailed information is available at the moment.
HoneySticks / Honey Sticks
Carts can be seen on social media networks. No legal info is available anywhere. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Honey Wax
No info can be found about these carts. They seem to be one of the many “Honey” fake brands out there. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Honeypot Concentrates
No license or valid lab tests. If you scan the QR code on the label you get a “12345” result. You can read more about these carts here.
Hollow Tips
These carts are available only in illegal dispensaries. Mostly in Los Angeles. No license or lab tests are to be found. You can read more about them here.
Holy Buds
Fake brand. No license or valid lab tests. Some users report ending up in the hospital after using these carts. You can read more about them here.
Hookahzz
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Hootie
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Hop Hop Carts
These carts are only available via one private Instagram page. No other info is available. Most importantly license info or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Houston Oils
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Hubba Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Humboldt OG carts
Humboldt OG
Fake carts that have been on the streets for some time. You can read more about some experiences Reddit users had with those here.
Hyper
No detailed information is available at the moment.
iB High
No detailed information is available at the moment.
iCart
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ice Green Boyz / Ice Green Boys
No detailed information is available at the moment.
IceKream
Black market brand. Untested and unregulated. They had an Instagram page that is no longer active. You can read more about these carts here.
Icon Extracts
Black/Grey market brand selling untested carts to unlicensed and technically illegal delivery services. You can read more about these carts here.
Illuminati
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Immaculate Extracts
Fake as it can be. These carts don’t even try that hard. THC % is listed with a +/-. Carts are not bags of flour. You will never see this on legit carts.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Infinite Extracts
Ulta fake carts are rumored to be laced with meth and morphine which is ridiculous since meth is expensive and morphine is hard to find. You can read more about them here.
Inked Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Innocent
Fake carts that can be bought from dodgy Instagram pages and shady street plugs. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Interrex
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ion
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Irresistible Medicinals
An unregulated brand that is present on the streets. This means that this oil has an unknown source, is not tested, and any claims on the packaging of THC percentage, oil thinners, or pesticides are unverified. You can read more about it here.
Ish
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Island Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
It’ Z-It / It Zit
No detailed information is available at the moment.
J-Packs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Jee Kream
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Jeff’s Sessions
Another novelty black market brand that came out around the same time as Fat Donald’s did. You can find out more information about it here.
Jerry’s Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Jewel 719
No detailed information is available at the moment.
JK Dabs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Jimmy Green Extracts
THCa is a solid crystal, the oil in carts is THC. A clear sign these cars are fake and that they don’t have a legit license or valid lab tests. You can read more bout these carts here.
Jimmy Karts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Joe Exotic
No detailed information is available at the moment.
John D Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Joi
No detailed information is available at the moment.
JoiPods
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Joke’s Up
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Joystick Vape Co
Dodgy street brand. No license info or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Juicebox Cartel
Not much is known about this fake street brand. There is only one mention of it on Reddit.
Juice House
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Juice Pack
Fake street brand. The carts are filled in some guy’s basement which means every cart is a lottery ticket and you may not be lucky with your batch. The oil could contain anything since the brand does not have a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about the carts here.
Juicyfruit
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ju-Ju
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Jungle Boys Extracts
Jungle Boys is a real brand in California, but they do not make carts as of now. So, be careful when you buy them, especially when you encounter them outside California. You can read more about them here.
Jupiter
A fake brand filled with god knows what. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Just Grindin
Shut down in April 2019 in Arizona. More details here. No activity seen with this brand since.
Kali Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kali Fyre
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kancha Life
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kaws
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kaws OG Drank
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kayavax
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Keep It Cannabis / K.I.C.
Fake street brand. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
KGB
Fake carts with pictures of SpongeBob on them. You can read more about them here.
Klar
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Khid Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kings Klear
Sketchy carts that can be bought on black market sites. You can find out more about them here.
K I N D
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Killa Gramz
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kilo Extracts
Acirdubg to some Reddit users this was once a legit brand. The carts that can be found now don’t have a license or valid lab tests.
Kim Jong Juul
No detailed information is available at the moment.
K.I.N.D.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kind Pens
No detailed information is available at the moment.
King Cobra
No detailed information is available at the moment.
King Harvest
No detailed information is available at the moment.
King High
No detailed information is available at the moment.
King Louis Xlll cart
King Louis XIII
A fake brand without a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
King Kip
No detailed information is available at the moment.
King Midas
Whenever the THC percentage is printed directly on the packaging and not a sticker is one of the signs that the cart is fake. Also; 93% THC rating, no test sticker, and an Instagram label as their website are all red flags. You can read more about this dodgy brand here.
King Tuts Shatter
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kings Kush
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kite
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Kivva
No detailed information is available at the moment.
KRT / KRT Yang
KRT carts are totally fake and are only packaging that is filled with homemade oil that can easily put you in the hospital. You can read this great research piece Pete did on KRT carts.
Krush Carts
Not much is know about the brand. They have a Twitter account that is no longer active.
Kusher Treats
Some users report that they are decent but as said many times you never know what will you get when you buy street carts like these. You can read more about them here.
LA Kingpins
The site they used is no longer active. They were produced/promoted by Freeway Ricky Ross and apparently launched at The Plug dispensary once.
LA Kush Carts
Los Angeles Kush is a real cannabis brand based in Los Angeles, California. They have been up and running for 6 years now and have won High Times awards for their cannabis products. Lately fake LA Kush carts are all over the place and you can buy empty LA Kush cart packaging is on DHGate. To learn more about these fake carts and how to about them check out this piece, which Pete did about them.
Laughing Buddha
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Levitate
Fake carts usually have a THC % printed on the packaging itself. Also, 94% is very suspicious. You can read more about these carts here.
Lightning
They appeared in the New England area. A couple of mentions of them on Reddit.
Lifelines
Some Reddit users report using them. Not many details about them are available.
Lions Breath
Lion’s Breath is a street brand that doesn’t have any legit background and info. This is one of the companies we’ve caught falsifying lab results. You can read about it in this article our editor Pete did. Also, check our update about their lab results.
Liquid Gold
No licensing, no third-party lab, just pure boof. Anyone can buy liquid gold carts online and fill them with whatever. Some users report health issues after using them. You can read more about it here.
Lit
A black market brand that doesn’t offer much legit info about its products. Their website redirects to their Instagram page which is full of pictures of their colorful non-compliant vape cartridge boxes. You can read more about it here.
Litxtracts
Not much info about them is available. Cart questions pop up sporadically on Reddit.
Litto
Sketchy disposable carts that have a site that offer a link to their Telegram chat group? Red flags anyone? Some users on Reddit claim that Litto is an unregulated brand without a license or valid lab tests.
Litty
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Live Carts
Carts are sold by local street dealers. Anything could be in them. You can read more about them here.
Live East Coast Cartridges
Some Reddit users report that they are strong and decently tasting carts but as with any fake cart, you never know what are you gonna get. Be careful.
Live Resin Pro
No detailed information is available at the moment.
L’Orange
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Lonely Island
Fake carts without a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Looney Goonz Drips
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Los Angeles Bakers
Fake carts that misuse the name of the famous NBA player Shaquille O’Neal. They don’t have any license or legit lab results. You can read more about them here.
Los Angeles Exotics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Los Angeles Harvest Club
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Los Angeles Kush Vape
Fake carts that don’t have a license or valid lab test. They are sold by California back-alley plugs. You can read more about them here.
Los Angeles Refinery
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Loud
Fake carts that should not be confused with the real company Loud Pack that make Heavy Hitters. You can read more about fake Loud carts here.
Loud LA
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Lovely Hash Co.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Lucid Xtracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Lucky 777
Available from local plugs. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Lucky Carts
NOT to be confused with Lucky Vapes, an actual legit brand which we have reviewed here before. Lucky Carts have no website, no registry on any reputable site, no contact, no official distributor, nothing. Unlicensed, unregulated brands like Lucky Carts may contain anything. You can read more about them here.
Lucky Pumps
One of those carts that look fake from the start. Cheap “lucky charms” design, no valid license or lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Lunar
Mistery oil carts. No license or lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Lux fake cart
Lux
Fake carts that can be bought from local plugs and backstreet dispensaries. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to bre found. You can read more about these carts here.
Lux Lux
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Lynwood lemonade clear cart
Lynnwood Lemonade Clear
Their manufacturer Dr. Zodiak used to be licensed (in Arizona only). They were shut down because the oil in the carts had dangerous levels of pesticides. You can read more about these carts here.
Mada cart
MADA / Make Americ Dank Again
Just the name of these carts should be enough to know they are fake. You can read more about these cats here.
Mad Dog
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Mad to the Moon
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Madre
Carts come from an unregulated company. They had a website and some social media accounts but they went offline in the meantime. You can read more about them here.
Major League Extractions
Fake carts without a license or valid lab tests that street dealers sell in some back alleys. You can read more about them here.
Marijuana Movement
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Marlboro Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Mario Karts
These carts are evidently fake. Nintendo would never allow Mario (an icon and mascot of Nintendo) to be used in the cannabis industry. Recent lab tests for these carts show a fail for pesticides and weaker than advertised THC strength. Be careful with these carts. You can read more about them here.
Mars Barts
A black market brand without a license. Of course, they don’t have any valid lab tests either. Every cart is filled with mystery oil. You can read more about Barts here.
Mars Xtracts
A “brand” that does not have a license or lab tests. Even a website is missing. They have an inactive Instagram account. You can read more about this brand here.
Martian Meds
Martian Meds
Fake carts that “have” 95% THC. No license or lab tests. You can read morea bout these carts here.
Mary Jane
Some users on Reddit confirm that this is an unregulated brand but they use it on a regular basis since it has decent quality. If you decide to buy them you may not be so lucky. As always be careful when it comes to fake carts, they could contain anything. You can read more about them here.
Marvel Carts
Only one specimen was ever found. There is also a “MarvelDC” brand going around. Very rare, probably discontinued.
MasterCarts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Master Chief cart
Master Chief
These fake street carts are named after the famous video game character. No license or valid lab tests You can read more bout these carts here.
Match / Match1
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Maui Carts
These fake carts are available at back street corner shops and street plugs. You can read more about these carts here.
MedEx
Carts without a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Medi-Cal Organics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Megatron
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Melt Man Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Melt Your Face Extracts
Fake carts that can be bought on black market sites. You can check what some Reddit users have to say about them here.
Mendocino Farms cart
Mendocino Farms
Fake carts without a license or valid tests. Available from local plugs. You can read more about these carts here.
Miami Vice Carts
Cool name that was stolen from the famous tv show. But the carts are fake since they don’t have any licenses or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here. You can find out more about these carts here.
Michigan Wax Wizard
As the name suggests these fake carts are mainly found in Michigan. Ni license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can gun out more about these carts here. You can read more about them here.
Midas Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Midas Puff
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Midas Well
Not much is known about them except that they are very cheap (like most of the other fake carts; let’s be honest, that’s why people buy them.). You can check some Reddit comments about these carts here.
Midwest extracts cart
Midwest Extracts
An unlicensed brand that mostly comes from Detroit. No valid lab tests for these carts. You can read more about them here.
Milky Way LA
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Mimosa
No detailed information is available at the moment.
MKX
Some dispensaries sold them for a while but it turned out that they didn’t pass all the lab tests and that they are “dirty”. You can read more about them here.
Moo Sticks
Sketchy street carts that don’t have any legal background. Once in a while some posts discussing them show up on Reddit.
Monopoly Carts
Monopoly should be so obvious as to barely be worth mentioning. The packaging is beyond ridiculous, it wantonly rips off copyrighted material from any and all sources, and it’s not offered through any legit source. Empty Monopoly Carts can be found online. As always, vaping unregulated carts is gambling with your life. You can read more about these “carts” here.
Moon Walker
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Moo Sticks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Motor City High
These carts were licend in Michigen. They sold carts cut with vitamin E to licensed dispensaries, forcing a mass recall. Consider all their products potentially contaminated, even if it comes with a license and seemingly real lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Mr. Clean Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Mr. Dank
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Mr. G.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Mr. h
These carts don’t have a valid licence or lab tests. You can buy them from local street plugs. The oil in them could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Mr. Poopy Butthole
These carts are fake as they can be. Mr. Poopy Butthole is a reference from the popular tv show Rick and Morty. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
Mr Whiskers
No detailed information is available at the moment.
MTV
Do we have to even explain that something like MTV would never go anywhere near carts? Legel or otherwise. These are of course fake. No license or valid la tests. Just a street gimmick.
Muha Meds
The most dramatic and sketchy brand out there. You can read more about them here and here.
Muha Mini
Phishy as the full-size Muha Meds above. You can read more about these carts here.
MySpace Vape
MySpace of course does not make any carts. These are fake and don’t have a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Namu cart
Namu
A fake brand with not much background info on it. No license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Natty Labs
Fake carts with no license or valid lab tests. Some users even report feeling ill after using them. You can read more about these carts here and here.
NBA Carts
Another case of clearly fake carts. NBA would never allow the use of their brand and players like this. You can read more about them here.
NCTR
No detailed information is available at the moment.
NEactivists cart
NEactivists
A fake brand without a license or valid lab tests. The oil in these carts could contain anything. You can read more about them here.
NE Clear
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Neptune Extracts
Available from local back street plugs. No license or lab test info. You can read more about these carts here.
NextGen Extracts
Popular with women Reddit users. They don’t have any legal background. You can read more about them here. They are also popular on LeafedOut ( 1, 2)
Nice Guys
Fake carts like these can be and often are filled with many random and harmful things that look just like oil in a cart, including a number of super dangerous poisons that have been sending folks to the hospital in severe condition. Because of how easy (and cheap) it is to cut or fake the oil in carts, it is almost never just pure (and expensive) oil in black market carts. You can read more about them here.
Night Market
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Nocturnal Laboratories
Fake carts without a license or valid lab tests. Even the packaging looks dodgy. You can read more about these carts here.
Noise
No detailed information is available at the moment.
NorCal
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Not Your Average Plug
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Nova
No information about the carts or lab results in the slightest. It’s not even trying to look real. You can read more about these carts here.
Numinous
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Oblivion Vapor
A black market brand made in some guy’s basement. No license or valid lab test anywhere to be found as expected. You can find out more about these carts here.
Ocean Grown
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Off White Carts
Off White Carts is a fake brand. You can read more about it in our article that dates from 2019.
OG Bliss
Fake carts with no license or valid lab tests. You can find out more about them here.
OG Kush
No detailed information is available at the moment.
OGK
Fake carts that could contain anything. no license or valid lab tests. You can read more bout these carts here.
OGKrx
BM carts that can be bought from local plugs. As usual, no site, license, or lab test anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
OG Raskal Genetics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Oil
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Old Crow Extracts
Some mentions of these carts on Reddit. Not much info is available.
On Deck Extracts
These carts can be bought from local plugs. No legit info about the firm that makes them can be found anywhere. You can read more about these carts here.
Onyx
These black market carts are widespread. Some users report that they taste just fine but as usual with all the unregulated carts the oil in them could contain anything. You can read more about them here.
O.C.D. Orange County
Black market carts with no license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Orbit Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Orbit Labs
BM cats with no legit license and valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Organa / Organa Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Organic Alchemy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Organx
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Orgrow
Fake BM brand with no license or valid lab tests. The oil in the carts could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
Original Buddha Bros
Street carts that are trying to go legit. Should be avoided until they have a legit and legal background and trustworthy lab tests. You can read more about them here.
OriginaFake
No detailed information is available at the moment. Some mentions of the brand on Reddit.
Oreo Cake
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Outlaw Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ozark Mountain Oils
Fake carts with no license or valid la tests. As some users claim the carts could be filled with hot dog water for ll we know. You can read more bout these crts here.
Off White Carts
Off White Carts
These carts don’t have any company information except for their Instagram ( even that is no longer active). DHgate and Alibaba both have Off White cartridges that can be bought and filled with anything. Be careful if you come across these carts. You can read more about them here.
Pakka Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Palmas
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Paradise Exotics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Paradyce Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Paramount Labs
Fake carts that can be found at local dealers. You can read more bout them here.
Passed Premium Clear
No detailed information is available at the moment.
PenEx
The Penex logo even imitates the logo for FedEx, a company known worldwide for its delivery services ( and the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks). FedEx, making tens of billions of dollars in revenue annually, would obviously sue any legit company through the ground for infringing its logo. There is also no reason why FedEx would diversify into the THC vape cart business. You can read more about PenEx in this great piece our editor Pete wrote.
Pennybeg
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pharma Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pharmacy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pharm House
No detailed information is available at the moment.
PhatCloudZ
These carts have the Dragon Ball Z logo. Do you need more to know if they are fake? You can read more about these carts here.
Phoenix Meds
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Phyto Supernova
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pico – 9
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pie Hoe
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Piff
No detailed information is available at the moment.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pink + Runtz
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Playa Sauce
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Plug Stop / PlugStop
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Plume
Fake carts that can be bought from local street plugs. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about these carts here.
PMO
No detailed information is available at the moment.
P O D
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pokecarts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
POM pen
Fake carts without a license or tests. You can read more about them here.
Pop Carts
Very visible on DHGate and the like, but they don’t seem to move. No samples on the street.
Potency on Demand
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Potent
Fake black market carts without a proper license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Pott
These carts look like they have been made by someone’s grandpa in his yard shed. Of course, no license or lab tests anywhere to be found. You can find out more about these carts here.
Powerlab Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pranks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Precious Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Premium
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Premium Sauce
These carts don’t have any valid licenses or lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Premium Terp Boss
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Premo
These carts pop up occasionally in Florida. Not much is known about them. Some users on Reddit report that they are decent-tasting. As always be careful with any carts that don’t have a legit background and trustworthy lab tests.
Primacan
Not much info is available when it comes to Primacan. They have a website that has not been updated for 3 years.
Primo
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pressure Carts
These dodgy carts don’t have any value lab tests or a license. You can read more about these carts here.
Promoco DC
These carts were available in the black market of Washington DC- They don’t have any licenses or valid lab tests. The oil in them could contain anything. You can read more about these carts here.
ProPen
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Properz
These carts don’t have a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Pulse
These fake carts don’t have valid licenses or lab tests. You can read more bout them here.
Pureburn carts
PureBurns
Fake carts that don’t have any legit background. They only have an Instagram page and as you may know, anyone can have that. Legit carts will have a third-party lab test on them, with the name and license of the lab, as well as the license number of the producer, the batch number, and the date, all of which you can use to verify the cart with the lab. You can read more about them here.
Pure Drip
Pure Drip carts don’t have a license or any valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Pure Earrl
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pure Nature
These carts are sold by street plugs. No license or valid lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about them here.
Pure Nectar
Pure Nectar Cartridges are widely counterfeited; the real brand appears to be unregistered, and the packaging is sold on eBay. You can read more about them here.
Pure Oil
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Pure Organics
The Pure Organics cartridges are counterfeit. The packaging lacks the California THC warning sign, as well as the manufacturing date, packaging date, batch number, and lot number, among other details. There are some mentions of them on Reddit.
Pure Organix
These carts mostly appear in Oregon. Some Reddit users report that they have decent quality but does not change the fact that they don’t have a legit background and that they may contain anything in the oil.
Pure Pulls
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Puritas
Puritas is a fake brand. No license or valid lab tests. Not even a site. You can read more about these carts here.
PurpleFyre
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Push Carts
These carts are sold via the usual fake cart accounts on Instagram. There are numerous Reddit threads about these carts and some users even report getting sick from them. According to rumors, there is a real “Push” company out there but you can’t prove it at the moment since you can’t find a license or a valid lab test for their cairts. You can read more about Push Carts in this great article our editor Pete wrote.
Pussy Pod
Fake pods are present on the streets. They can be also bought on some black market websites. Everything about them is ridiculous and obviously fake. You can read more about them here.
PŸNTREES
This brand has a site that only sells fashion items. Their social media is private and “top secret”. Huge red flags all over. No license or lab tests anywhere to be found. You can read more about this “brand” here and here.
QNTM
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rain City Extracts / RainCity Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rare Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Raw
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Raw REZN
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Razzle Dazzle Clear
Their producer, Dr. Zodiak used to be licensed (in AZ only), but got busted with dangerous levels of pesticides and lost their license. You can read more about that here.
Recommended.
No detailed information is available at the moment.
RecommendedLA
RecommendedLA appears to be a pod brand. Only two spottings so far so not much is known about them.
Red Sky
Look at the total cannabinoids section. 119%? Do you need more? The “brand” has a site that does not work and an Instagram page that is set to private. You can learn more about these carts here.
Red Tip Dabbin
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Refine RX
Fake carts that may contain anything in the oil. You can find out more about them here.
Refined Farms
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Remy’s Premium THC
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Reserve
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Revenge
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rhino
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rick and Morty
Do you really need an explanation? Nothing that is trademarked can be legally found on carts. Mickey Mouse THC carts or Ninja Turtles vodka won’t ever be legal brands. Needless to say, this R&M brand does not have a license or valid lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
Ride the Wave
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ridgeview Remedies
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ripndip
Fake carts that sometimes get a thread or two on Reddit. Some users say they are decent some users say to stay away from them. It’s up to you as to what advice you will listen to.
Ritual
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rockstar Genetics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rocky Mountain Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rolex
Another obviously fake cart brand. Sadly Rolex watches are so much faked on the streets that even having a real Rolex doesn’t make sense – you have to explain to everyone that yours is real. Rolex carts have a bland and simple taste, no background or proof of authenticity, and are not tested for pesticides. You can read more about them here.
Rolling Stoned
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Ronin Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Rooted cart
Rooted Farms
You can’t find much info about these carts but you can read something about them here.
Rosebudz Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Royal Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Royal Genetics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Royal Gold
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Royal Highness
The THX % is printed directly on the box and not on a separate sticker. That is one of the signs of a fake cart. Also “ultra refined live resin” also sounds like something a street vendor would shout on the street to attract customers. You can read more about these carts here.
Royal Ohana Estates
No detailed information is available at the moment.
R Star
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Runtz / White Runtz / Gruntz / Wonka Oil / Nerdz
By association with the candy brand, this is a family of fake gear spanning mylar nug bags, canisters, and carts, sometimes evolving into Willy Wonka references. “Joke’s Up” is/was a Runtz variant that came out, apparently tied to a rapper. You can read more about them here.
Safari Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Safe Cannabis Co
A black market brand without a license or lab tests. You can find out more about these carts here.
Savage
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Savage Sticks
The Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) issued a health and safety advisory bulletin in 2019 due to the recall of vape cartridges that failed laboratory testing. That included Savage Sticks. You can read more about that here.
Sauce Daddy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sauce Pen
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Saucey Carts
No license or valid lab tests. You can find out more about these carts here.
Schedule 1
Schedule 1
No license or valid lab tests. You can find out more about these carts here.
Schlarbs Connected
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Science Lab
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sci Extracts
Sci Extracts
Some members of Reddit report that these carts are pretty decent but that doesn’t change the fact it’s an unregulated brand that could contain anything in the oil. You can read more about it here.
Scorpion Venom
Scorpion Venom is a fake cart brand. One of the more convincing fakes, but the test sticker lacks the name of the lab that tested it, as well as the lab’s license number, batch number, and even the producer’s name and license numbers. You can read more about these carts here.
Screw Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Shadow Mountain
Shadow Mountain
You can get these carts from local plugs, not much info is available about them. You can read more about them here.
Shamrock Cannabis
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Shark Carts
Shark Carts
These carts don’t have a license or lab tests. Shady as they can be. You can read more about them here.
Shattered Clouds
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Shatter Gold
Shatter Gold is a black-market brand. Untested and unregulated. Not available in any legit dispensary. You can read more about this “brand” here.
Shell (Gas Stations)
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sherbidden
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sherbinks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Shipwreck Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Shlarb
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sigma
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Silence of the Lambs
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Silverback Clears
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Silver Bullet
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Simple
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Simple Niks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Simple Rick
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Simple Solutions
Simple Solutions
Fake carts that can be bought from local plugs. No license or lab tests. You can find out more about these carts here.
Simply Faided
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sirius Vape
No detailed information is available at the moment.
SizzleStix
These carts can be bought from local plugs. No valid license or lab tests anywhere. They could contain anything. You can find out more about these carts here.
Sky Sticks
Very dodgy-looking oil and spelling errors on the back of the box are some of the best know red flags when it comes to fake carts. Any information the box contained could not be confirmed. You can read more about Sky Sticks here.
Skywalker
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Smackabis
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Smart Cart
We are not totally sure if they ever were a brand. They previously maintained an Instagram page and now their website smartbud.us is down. Yet they claimed this copper test shows the difference between real and fake according to smartbud.ca, which has since disappeared. We also cover the Smart Carts trail here, after it was long cold.
Smoked Honey
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Smorz
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Snice
No detailed information is available at the moment.
SoCal
No detailed information is available at the moment.
SoCal Dabbers
No detailed information is available at the moment.
SoCal Sauce
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Social Vape
No detailed information is available at the moment.
SodaStix
A clearly fake brand since Coca-Cola would never allow the use of its products in this way. You can read more about SodaStix here.
So High Extracts
Fake carts with no license or lab tests. You can read more about this “brand” here.
So Icey
These carts can be bought from local dealers. As usual no license or valid lab tests. You can read more about them here.
SoKind
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Solar carts
Fake street brand No license. No lab tests. You can find out more about these super sun carts here.
Sorbet boyz
Fake carts with no license or lab tests. The color of the oil looks like it’s made for road signs that shine at night. You can read more about these carts here.
South Carts
As with any cart “brand” that uses cartoon characters South Carts are fake as they can be. You should always be aware of what are you buying when you get carts like these – random oil from random vendors. You can read more about them here.
Southland
No detailed information is available at the moment.
South West Amber
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sovrin / Sovrin Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Space Ape
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Spaced Out
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Space RX
Spark
Fake off-brand Muha carts. They are all over the streets. Be careful with these they could contain anything. You can see here what some Reddit users think about them.
Spartan
No license, no licensed labs = no legit. You can find out more about these carts here.
Speedy Weedy
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Split Brain Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sponge Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Springfield Exotics
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Springfield Farms
Same as with Bart carts. Fox would never allow this, and these carts can contain anything. Springfield Farms does not have consistent oil because it’s just packaging filled in a local basement home lab. You can read more about them in this article Pete wrote.
Square Root Pharms
These carts look a bit nicer than the average BM brand. They still don’t have a legitimate license, lab tests, or even a website. They only have an Instagram page. You can find out more about these carts here.
Squish Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stack N Trees
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stellar
Can be bought from street sellers in Nevada. Not much information is available about them. A few mentions of them on Reddit.
Stick Vapes
Not the same as Stick E Vapes. We don’t have much information about these carts.
STNDRD
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stoned Age
These carts can be bought from local plugs. You can find out more about these carts here.
Stoney Carts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stoney Patch
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stoned Sage
No License, no lab tests, packaging looks like it contains weed killers. You can find out more about these carts here.
Stoopid
Fake carts are available in some sketchy dispensaries. You can read more about them here.
Str8 Fire
Fake carts made by a single guy. Seems they are no longer in circulation. You can check what Reddit users have to say about them.
Super Loud Labs
Nothing legit about them can be found on the net. Some users report that they tried them and were happy with them, but you may not be so lucky. As always be very careful with fake carts – They could contain anything.
Supreme
They don’t have a company website. There’s no mention of Supreme vape on Weedmaps and past lab results show they test dirty for pesticides. You can read more about these carts here.
Staked Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stan Peterman
Nonexistent website, very little online presence, fake potency info. You can read more about them on Reddit.
Star Carts
AKA Star Wars carts. Obviously fake since Disney would never allow the Star Wars trademark to be used in this manner. These carts could contain anything since the oil is homemade and cut by the local street suppliers. You can read more about these carts here.
StarCboys
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Star Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Starlight Vapes
These carts don’t have valid licenses or lab tests. You can read more about them here.
Starman Farms/St☆rman Farms
These carts can be bought on the dark web cart market. Of course, as usual, they don’t have a valid license or any lab tests. You can find out more about them here.
Standard Oil
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Stan Peterman
Fake carts without a license or lab tests. You can find out more about them here.
Stellar carts
Stellar Carts
These carts don’t have valid licenses or lab tests. You can read more about them here.
SweetCarts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Sweet Dreams
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Tank Kings
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Tastebud DC
Not much info is available about these carts. Some users on Reddit report that they OK but you never know what kind of oil will you get when you buy them.
Tasty / Tasty Carts
These carts are easily identified as fake since they are very poorly made. You can read more about them here.
Tegridy Farms
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Terp Tanks
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Terpstar
No detailed information is available at the moment.
THClear
No detailed information is available at the moment.
THC Doctor
No detailed information is available at the moment.
The Dabbin Cabin
No detailed information is available at the moment.
The Duke
No detailed information is available at the moment.
The Foggy Forest
No detailed information is available at the moment.
The Gas Gang
These carts can’t be bought in legal dispensaries. You can buy them from local street suppliers. Oil in these kinds of carts could contain anything and can easily send you to the hospital. You can read more about them here.
The Goldfather
An obvious rip-off of the Godfather franchise. That alone should be enough to realize these carts can’t be legal. No license, no lab tests. You can read more about these carts here.
The Pure
No detailed information is available at the moment.
ToGo
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Tokemon
Tokemon carts and pokecarts are both black-market cartridges with no central source, with empty packaging on DHgate-style websites being the only source. Any time you see a cart with trademarked images like Pokémon, cereal, rappers, Mario characters, and so on, it was probably made in a basement by some random guy filling up cheap Chinese-manufactured packaging. These carts should not be trusted or used. You can read more about them here.
Tonix
A street brand that has fancy design solutions. If they put that much effort into their license they would not be on this list. Their site contains some info about their strains but no other information such as company details, address, license, or lab results. You can read more about Tonix here.
Top Shelf Extracts
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Trilly Wonka
Fake cart brand. Not much is known about it. Some mentions of it on Reddit.
trio carts
Trio
You can’t find anything on them online. Not a single piece of legit information. That makes it a clear fake cart brand. You can check Reddit for more info.
Tru Clear
No detailed information is available at the moment.
UFO Extracts
Some consumers report that these carts are so unclean they had to go to the hospital after using them. You can read more bout UFO carts here.
Unique Puffs cart
Unique Puffs
Fake street brand. A few mentions of it on Reddit.
Uplifted carts
Uplifted
No legit background information is available about this “brand”. No website, no valid lab results, nothing that would prove that the oil in the carts is clean. You can read more about these carts here.
Vape God
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Venom Vapes
No detailed information is available at the moment. (Different from Venom Extracts)
Virtuous Meds
No license information. No third-party lab tests. Nothing that would confirm the quality of the oil. You can read more about these carts here.
Waky Willy
No detailed information is available at the moment. Some mentions of it on Reddit.
Wave Extracts
These carts can be bought from street suppliers. No legit website or lab test info. You can read more about Wave Extracts here.
West Coast Carts
There are no “West Coast Carts,” and all of them are fake. No one with that name has ever been registered as a legal extractor. You can read more about these carts on Reddit.
West Coast Extracts (Emerald, Diamond, Platinum)
Fake carts filled with sketchy oil. No legit background of any kind. You can read more about it here.
West Coast Vape Co
Fake carts that are popular with some users. Be careful when using these carts since as with any unlicensed cannabis products they could contain anything. You can check Reddit to find out more about them.
Whackd Carts
Fake carts present in California. You can read more about them here.
Wolf Pack
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Wonka Oil
In the state of California, this company is completely illegal. There will be no compliance testing. No genuine testing at all. There isn’t even any of the basic information on the box. They are heavily involved in the infringement of copyrights. They ship across the United States, which is illegal due to federal regulations. You can read more about these rather known carts here. Willy Wonka branding also pops up in connection with the fake Runtz “brand,” especially the hat made famous by the late Gene Wilder’s signature performance.
Wrck
They mostly show up in the Chicago area. Batches are very inconsistent and quality varies a lot. You can read more about them here.
Wunderland
No detailed information is available at the moment.
XXX
No detailed information is available at the moment.
Yolo
Fake carts that have QR codes that don’t work. You can read more about them here.
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Synthetic cannabinoids are a class of artificially created compounds created to mimic the compounds found within the natural cannabis plant, with unsuccessful results. These molecules bind to the same receptors in the body’s endocannabinoid system, intended to mimic the effects of cannabis and its derivatives as closely as possible. They are classified as “designer drugs,” sometimes sprayed onto otherwise harmless plant matter, even natural hemp, as an enhancer or even directed to be taken as a stand-alone drug.
Every synthetic cannabinoid we have found so far has bad effects!
The number one thing to know about synthetic cannabinoids is “STAY AWAY”! There have been no known results so far where a synthetic cannabinoid produced the same effects as its natural counterpart, and in the meantime they have very toxic health effects.
There are hundreds of these chemicals milling about on the market now. In general, the most common side effects reported from synthetic cannabinoids are:
“Users of the synthetic mixtures can never be certain in which ways the drugs will harm them, but users have experienced symptoms that include renal failure, arrested heart rate, high blood pressure, loss of consciousness, violent behavior, nausea, vomiting, tremors, seizures, hallucinations, paranoia, agitation, anxiety, and even death. These effects can be similar to those of phencyclidine, or PCP.”
One consistent pattern is the effect synthetic cannabinoids have on the mind. Psychosis is a very common side effect, persisting for weeks and even months in some cases from a single dose. These psychosis symptoms tend to include suicidality, affective symptoms, self-injury, catatonic features, and/or Capgras syndrome. Many a synthetic cannabis experiment has ended in psychiatric hospitalization.
The issue with synthetic cannabinoids is that chemistry is just never that simple. Consider the case of THC and delta 8 THC, two otherwise identical molecules differing (in layman’s terms) only in the way the atoms bond. Yet they have vastly different effects, with delta 8 THC being far less potent than THC “classic.” That just goes for an example of how hard it is to predict the effects of any particular molecule.
Synthetic cannabinoids came out slightly before cannabis started to be legalized
The most common form of marketing synthetic cannabinoids were under the brand names “K2,” “Spice,” or simply “synthetic marijuana.” Sometimes, to dodge drug control laws, they were sold as “incense” or “bath salts.” They continue to be sold internationally, wherever the laws or enforcement of same tend to be most flexible. In many cases they are identified as “all natural,” because the chemicals are sprayed onto natural plant matter. They are also typically labeled as “not for human consumption.”
Some synthetic cannabinoids have their origin as intended for usage in laboratory testing, since they bind to the same receptors. But most are simply brewed up in garage and basement laboratories similar to how drugs like LSD and methamphetamine are produced.
Fake and black market cannabis products may be laced or substituted with synthetic cannabinoids
Since none of these substances are legalized in any way, there is absolutely no control over how they are produced. Likewise, black market cannabis products are also produced and distributed outside of legal standards and control. In one case, in Illinois in 2018, synthetic weed was passed off as the real thing resulting in dozens of cases of injury and two deaths. We have also seen one recent case of a fake Connoisseur Concentrates cartridge which was lab tested and found to be laced with synthetic cannabinoids, sending its user to the mental ward with psychotic symptoms.
Black market cannabis products are invariably a dirty business, resulting in thousands of hospitalizations and dozens of deaths from fake cartridges containing any number of contaminants. Synthetic designer drugs are just one more reason to avoid this hazard and only use products from a licensed dispensary selling lab-tested products.
One rule of thumb to go by in the cannabis vaping community is that, if you’re having trouble tracking down a brand, it’s probably black market. Such is the case with Dark Hawk Genetics, sometimes known only as “Darkhawk.” You will find many leads for this company, all of them dead ends.
Before we get started, “Darkhawk” is not to be confused with the comic book character.
All the “official” sources for DarkHawk are dead ends
First there’s the packaging, which lists “darkhawkgenetics.com” right on the box! That should be straightforward enough… but it’s a parked domain at GoDaddy.com. Note, this box shot comes from a Reddit post only 24 days old as of this writing.
How about that Instagram? Sure, here is @darkhawkgenetics on Instagram. It’s an account with zero posts set to “private.” However, it does list a separate domain, “darkhawk.co.” Could this be the actual home page of this brand? Maybe, but that domain is also nothing but a big logo on a page. Here’s a screenshot of the source code for that page, which actually contains the most information we’ve seen for it so far:
We see the claims “the next generation in cannabis brands,” and “one of Southern California’s fastest growing Cannabis brands,” and a name for the author, “Taha Khan.” We should view source code more often! Sadly this doesn’t narrow things down; there’s a lot of “Taka Khan”s out there including some high profile people in academics, and the name was probably used as an alias here.
Long story short: No company, no license, no source. Conventional wisdom in the vape community claims that Big Chief “owns” the Dark Hawk brand. For a recap, Big Chief was a black market brand for so long that their packaging saturated the black market supply sites, long before they ever thought of a license. They finally did acquire one, as an afterthought, and that license has blinked in and out of existence ever since.
Regardless of Big Chief’s license status, the damage is already done. Black market vape carts are now such a toxic epidemic, they’ve stretched well beyond synthetic cannabinoids to even avenues for fentanyl. That’s beyond the initial vape-related lung injury epidemic that predated COVID. Even if they extract the cannabis and make it right in front of you, every time you buy a Big Chief cart, you are supporting a company financed by blood money. As is the case with any brand which is counterfeit to the ends of the Earth and back.
The deadly reputation of Big Chief is their own doing from cruising without due regulation for so long, and they’re apparently doing it all over again with DarkHawk.
DarkHawks flood the market with no license in sight
Your most common search for Dark Hawk’s owners will simply uncover other consumers asking each other the same thing. Obligatory Reddit list:
5 months ago – note completely different packaging
This brand has also been on the streets since at least December 2019, going by this IMGUR video.
Speaking of video, Dark Hawk Genetics is prominently reviewed on YouTube. Dozens of hits there, it seems several reviewers have an interest in them.
Dark Hawk Genetics are not single-sourced
You will find no legit dispensaries carry DarkHawk, but every black market website and corner plug does!
We see a lot of Dark Hawk packaging with “delta 8” on it too. This might simply be a case of black market packagers in China getting whiff of the popularity of delta 8 and printing it on the box, with no connection to anything inside the cart.
We find a number of DarkHawk plugs on social media too…
So we can blow away any comforting delusions we might have had about the oil within these cartridges being “single source” or “centrally distributed.” They are concentrated in southern California (OC, LA, IE) but we’ve seen them as far east as Illinois.
Just treat every DarkHawk as fake
Between all the sketchy distributors, we’re going to say for safety’s sake to just steer clear of them now. Regardless of future developments, it’s far too late for the brand to save face with a token license now. It’s been 2 years, they have a blank domain. Take a hint: any company that insults you this way could care less about anybody’s health.
Readers, when the inevitable hospitalization reports come in regarding DarkHawks, file them here in the comments or detour to our forum.
We saw this coming ahead of time, but it wasn’t until the law’s deadline arrived that the vaping industry started to panic. Briefly, there seems to be a Federal law banning ALL vaping products from being sent through the mail. However, the language of this wording is so broad that you could interpret it several ways.
We’re seeing many conflicting reports and interpretations about this ban. We will try to sort them out below:
Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act (2020)
The original bill was introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas). The bill was passed on December 21st, 2020, and was scheduled to go into effect April 27, 2021 (today as of this writing).
There are huge issues with the way this bill is being interpreted. So much so that the US Postal Service has delayed implementing the bill because they’re frankly stumped at how to interpret it. The law also applies to FedEx and UPS, which has already said, quote, “they will follow the U.S. Postal Service’s directive and won’t ship vaping products.”
The USPS published a memo in the Federal Register to try to make a clear statement about their intended direction. In that memo, they specify “electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS),” and include details for an exception application process where companies can apply to claim their product as an exception. On the other hand, this is a sheet of impenetrable bureaucratic gobbledegook which leads off with a few sections about “alien physicians” (foreign-born medical students, not doctors from space). The upside here is that it seems to allow exceptions for both CBD and, possibly, some THC products!
At the same time, the exception approval process has the potential to be a bureaucratic backlog. HempToday quotes: “The Postal Service anticipates receiving ENDS-related applications at a rate several orders of magnitude above the historic norm.” The backlog to approving each individual product one at a time could be the actual ban, effectively delaying all products off the market.
Interpretation #1: The Law Doesn’t Ban Anything At All?
As we read it, the original PACT Act mandates that sellers of tobacco products:
Pay all applicable taxes (don’t they have to do this anyway?)
Comply with local laws pertaining to where the seller is located (they do this already, e.g., can’t buy Delta 8 through the mail in restricted states)
Register with the state and make periodic reports to state tax collectors
Verify adult ID both at time of purchase and upon delivery (is this really impossible?)
The new act simply extends PACT to cover vaping-related products. As the information sheet at Feinstein’s own website says, the bill merely requires online e-cigarette retailers to:
Verify the age of customers for all purchases
Require an adult with ID to be present for delivery
Label shipping packages to show they contain tobacco products
Comply with all state and local tobacco tax requirements
Interpretation #2: The Law Bans Everything in the Universe?
The PACT Act revisions are extended to cover a range of things detailed as “e-cigarettes, e-hookahs, e-cigars, vape pens, advanced refillable personal vaporizers, or an electronic pipe,” plus “any component, liquid, part, or accessory” of these devices. The language is both wonkily out of touch – what the hell is an “e-hookah”? – and so broad that you could probably apply it to a prescription asthma inhaler. No really:
> “any electronic device that, through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor, or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device.”
That “ANY substance” part is the kind of language that makes government regulation implementation fall apart. Air fresheners? Incense? Aromatherapy? Sinus spray? You could go on all day. We’re surprised the whole post office isn’t shut down.
There is a provision in the bill exempting products which are FDA-approved for “any other therapeutic purpose,” but that’s almost null and void anyway because the FDA doesn’t currently approve anything cannabis-related except for a narrow range of prescription products. The FDA doesn’t approve vitamins and baby formula; you can forget vaping stuff.
Interpretation #3: The Law Applies to CBD and Delta 8 Products
Even though hemp-derived products are legalized by the Farm Bill as long as they contain less than 0.3% THC, this ban is said by some to apply to CBD and Delta 8 vaping devices. Vaping360 asserts:
> “The postal ban and PACT Act provisions will include all e-liquid and oil vaping devices, nicotine and nicotine-free e-liquids, CBD and delta 8 carts, liquids and oils, and every related component, part or accessory intended for those products.”
Perhaps the authors there are taking a broad interpretation and hyping the panic just a tad. Particularly, small retailers are said to be up in arms about this legislation, because even though the regulations still permit operation, most small businesses can’t operate under such a burden of red tape and still make a profit.
Again we have the fog of uncertainty over government intent. From the Postal Service memo to Diane Feinstein’s bill, we see constant confusion between tobacco, nicotine, THC, CBD, Delta 8, and even any plain old inhaled thing. You have to find and question each author to discover if they intended to single out CBD or they’re just too out of the loop to understand the concept that not all inhaled products are for ingesting tobacco. I’d be willing to bet that if you took a poll of Congress today, there would be several members who thought CBD comes from tobacco.
Potential Fall-Out?
For one thing, this might hopefully cut off some of the criminal end of the vape industry, both the vape scam sites and the black market vape cart packaging pipeline. However, given that several laws against these criminal elements already exist and they’re still available on every street corner, one more law might not even slow them down.
In fact, the legit, licensed, and responsible retailers and manufacturers of these products might be hardest hit. This could have a blowback effect of driving even more people to the black market, making an already crisis situation that much worse.
Delta 8 and CBD forums all over the web are practically frantic with the news. Bear in mind, many users need hemp derivatives for both medically-approved treatment and personal therapy reasons. A bill aimed originally at preventing children from smoking tobacco (with the reasoning that it increases their risk of COVID, no less!) is now threatening the entire inhaled product industry.
For one more possible wrinkle: This could also speed the adoption of legalization for brick-and-mortar dispensaries in the states. All federal laws applying to USPS don’t apply when it comes to B2B industrial shipping.
Bottom line take-away:
If you depend on these products and have a legit channel to acquire them, buy them while you still can. Or maybe not; we’ve seen overarching draconian legislation fail before because it was impossible to implement. This particular logjam was signed during the Trump administration, after all.
Readers… Uh, say things? Maybe in the comments below, maybe in the forum? Knock yourselves out. We’re going to go lie down for a while.
Here we are in this in-between time in the US, when cannabis is still federally illegal but legalized in most states and even fully legalized in about 1/3rd of US states at this point. We’re also bordered by Canada and Mexico, two countries which have moved towards legalization. What a time to be alive, right?
Well, it’s not that easy. There is still one group which seems to live in the weed prohibition era, and that’s employers. Employment-related drug screenings have carried on pretty much as they had during the Reagan ’80s, despite four decades of progress since. This leaves most if us confused as to standing employment policy regarding cannabis use.
Your humble author might bring to mind that, had we all fought harder for our civil liberties a few decades ago, we wouldn’t be in this situation now where it’s completely normal to hand over a cup of pee to somebody in order to get them to hire you. But that train has left the station, seems.
Let’s cut to the chase and answer your biggest question:
Will CBD or Delta 8 cause me to fail a drug test?
Yes! In a nutshell, drug screens for cannabis look for THC chemical markers in your system. Even if you only use CBD or Delta 8, derivative cannabinoids like these still contain tiny trace amounts of THC. Even in states that prohibit cannabis except for CBD oil to treat some medical conditions, the most they ask for is less than 0.3% THC. That is still plenty to show up in a drug test.
Our bodies break down THC as metabolites, which stay mainly in the fatty tissues because they are lipophilic (this means fat-soluble) compounds. Cannabis drug testing looks for these metabolites and can detect even tiny quantities in a sample. These tests are so sensitive that they can find positives from eating hemp seed bars, taking CBD tinctures, vaping delta 8, etc. Anything that came from a hemp or marijuana plant that you have ingested will cause you to fail a drug screen.
How long does cannabis stay in my system?
That depends a lot on how heavy a user you are, your lifestyle, and your metrics such as weight and body fat percentage. The rule of thumb is one month (3-4 weeks). That may differ from one individual to another though, but if you’re not clean after a whole month, that’s an extreme outlier case. Some people can test clean after just two weeks dry.
Body fat is a consistent factor in how long THC stays in your system, because cannabinoids are fat-soluble (which is why you make oil for vaping and canna-butter for edibles). The more fat you have, the more cannabis traces stay in your system. This is bad news for the couch lock set! If you have a tendency to zone out on the couch with your bong and your munchies, you’ll have a month of going dry and engaging in rigorous healthy living before you can pass that drug test.
What are the different kinds of drug tests?
Urine analysis is the most common kind. There is also blood, saliva, and hair testing. Blood and saliva tests have a far shorter window of detection, basically 72 hours after you’ve consumed cannabis. This is because these tests only measure active narcotic influences at the time, similar to a breath test for alcohol. Blood and saliva do not reveal cannabis use from more than a few days ago. These two are usually only administered in settling immediate cases of intoxication, such as a DUI arrest.
However, the hair test goes even farther back than a urine test. A hair sample obtained from the scalp or body can detect cannabis use as far as six months back! So if you’re getting a hair test, you should hope that it’s a normal thing for you to have short scalp hair, and less body hair. If you show up to the test shaved and waxed, that’s kind of a giveaway. Generally, hair tests are only administered for high prestige positions like government contractors who need maximum security clearance.
There are additional ways to detect cannabis usage when you go into neurological imaging and other deeply involved technology, but these are highly unlikely to be administered anywhere outside of a clinical study.
The vast majority of the average civilian drug test will involve urine testing. It’s safe, non-intrusive, and practical.
Do any of the ways of cheating a drug test work?
Bottom line: It’s risky at best.
There’s three main ways that people use to try to fake-pass a drug test:
Obtaining a clean urine sample – best bet
Flushing and detoxing – bad idea
Using adulterants on the urine sample – worse idea
Faking the sample
There are two ways to get a clean urine sample: Get a clean friend to provide you with a sample, or buy fake pee. For the former option, that’s up to your connections – everybody likes having that one Mormon friend for this reason, because the Mormon religion forbids all chemical recreation even down to coffee.
Synthetic urine is a commercially available product! The technology is being improved all the time to meet demand. It is chemically created to mimic the exact ingredients of human urine, even down to PH levels and scent. It’s even legal in all but 2 states, New Hampshire and Indiana. These products come in the form of a kit, which must be carefully mixed ahead of time.
If you’re taking a urine sample in to your test to substitute for your own, the biggest tell that will reveal your ploy is temperature. At the best, you will have to store the sample in something like a hip flask next to your skin under your clothes, and even then it’s not likely to be in the 90-100 degree zone normal for a fresh urine sample. After that, some chemical markers may still raise suspicion. Human urine is a biological product after all, so things happen to it over time once it is stored outside the body.
Flushing and detox
If only it were that easy! The bottom line with 99% of the flushing and detox industry is that it’s all pure quackery. Several “natural cleanse” products are really just instruction kits to clean up for 30-60 days before the test – you could have done that without the product.
Detox and flushing kits can be both risky to your health and detectable in the sample anyway. None of the home remedies passed around in hippie lore, such as drinking lots of cranberry juice or certain kinds of tea, work. The whole of “detox science” is just quackery through and through. Your body’s natural processes are set to work at a given speed. There is no known method proven to speed up your detoxification. And again, there are various medical conditions which can make flushing and detox methods a risk to your health. Even drinking large quantities of water at once can cause hyponatremia, which is deadly.
Cleaning the sample
Finally, you’ve likely heard of urine cleaning products, typically advertised in the backs of magazines or behind the counter at head shops. These are all basically bleaching agents, which may help burn off cannabinoids but also drastically alter the chemical composition of urine. Bottom line, every single one of these will show up on the test.
It is always a bad idea to attempt to fool a drug test. Any tiny variance in temperature, chemistry, color, odor, viscosity, PH level, and so on, will just raise suspicion. In most cases the lab can flag you for a follow-up, such as a second sample under supervision, or a hair test. In some states, attempting to fool a drug screen is a crime in and of itself.
When is employment drug testing going away?
That’s the $64K question, isn’t it?
In light of the fact that about 33% of the United States population lives where pot is legal, you would think that testing for marijuana would go the way of the dodo. After all, we don’t screen for alcohol and tobacco, do we? In addition, cannabis is now medically recommended in more states than ever before for a growing list of medical conditions. Nevertheless, employers do not have to make an allowance even for medical usage, since it’s not a federally recognized prescription.
It is very difficult for a free market Capitalist system (which the United States dreams it is) to regulate how employers hire employees. They can test you on any metric, even 100% certified pseudo-science quackery like the Myers-Briggs “personality inventory.” Employers can do anything they want to in screening applicants, as long as they don’t violate federal discrimination laws. That comes down to “a person’s race, national origin, color, sex, religion, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), or age (40 or older).” After that, they can ask you to bark like a seal if they want to. And we’d all probably do it.
Are employer attitudes changing towards marijuana testing? It depends on whom you ask. Keep in mind, various business interests have a finger in this pie, including the background check industry, the drug rehab and treatment industry, and various business interests. For example, insurance companies offer a discount for business insurance if you drug-screen your employees. With all these conflicting interests weighing in, it can be difficult to find a true answer to this question.
The closest thing we can find to an unbiased authority of the subject is Nolo, the online legal library resource. They have this to say:
> “The California Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s medical marijuana law applies only to criminal prosecution, not to the workplace. Likewise, the Colorado Supreme Court has held that an employer may fire an employee for off-duty use of medical marijuana, even though the use was lawful under Colorado state law.”
> “A handful of states, however, have passed specific laws prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an employee or applicant for lawful use of medical marijuana or requiring an employer to reasonably accommodate such employees at the workplace. This area of law is relatively new; contact an employment lawyer to find out the rules in your state.”
Nolo has a listing of these states and their individual employer legal obligations regarding cannabis users here. Even there, the line is fuzzy. From state to state, there are exceptions and contingencies on both sides. It’s complicated!
Meanwhile, NBC News claims that some employers are finally relaxing drug screening policies. The most recent statistic we can find for this factoid is approximately 50% of employers screen for cannabis use, which is still far too high.
Employer cannabis screening is a growing issue
As more states legalize, and more legalization marches from medical to recreational use, something has got to give. We’re guessing that market forces will prevail, as companies which insist on full drug screening eventually run out of viable candidates. Oregon has just decriminalized all drugs, just to show what the wave of the future might be.
Readers, what are your experiences rectifying your employment and your cannabis usage? What is your projection for what happens next? We’re eager to get this conversation started, here in the comments or in our cozy forum.
Here at DabConnection, we proudly cultivate our reputation as one of the few truly unbiased review websites for the cannabis industry. Unfortunately, when you’re dedicated to telling the unvarnished truth as a staunch consumer-side advocate, you tend to make a few enemies. We get a lot of blowback from outfits whom we’ve called out in the past, but we’ll talk more about that further down.
Recently we’ve become quite alarmed at the number of fake websites online scamming users. These sites claim to sell cannabis products, but end up taking people’s money and sending nothing. The more we post about this, the more it blows up. A recap:
It seems for every one we report, commenters come back with ten more they found. The FDA and DEA are aware of this issue and have so far taken down 44 vape scam websites, but of course more pop up. The watchdog site The Scam Directory lists many more; at rough count they list 1,600 known websites running rip-off stores in the cannabis product niche!
Meanwhile our commenters here report sad tales of getting scammed for their money, some going into the thousands of dollars. Check the comments under those previous blog posts listed in the recap. One person after another reports getting ripped off. Let’s reiterate:
ALL Websites Offering to Ship THC Products in the US Are Scams!
All of them, all of them, all of them. There are no exceptions to this rule. If you live in a state where cannabis is still illegal without a medical referral, I’m sure that you wish that it were that easy to just buy some vape carts online like any other product. But it does not work that way.
You can ship hardware. That is legal. You can ship accessories, pipes, rigs, vaporizers, batteries, and so on.
You can ship CBD and hemp products. That is also allowed under the Farm Bill, as long as the products contain less than 0.3% THC.
You can ship Delta 8 THC. Delta 8 is so far federally unregulated. That may change, and it is already banned in several states that don’t have a legal cannabis plan yet, but for now, as far as the federal government is concerned, shipping it is fine.
You can get cannabis products delivered locally in a legalized state. Delivery is not the same thing as shipping. Shipping is an act requiring postage, packaging, and a nation-wide network. Delivering is something you do with a pizza.
YOU CAN NOT SHIP REGULAR THC IN THE UNITED STATES. That is because shipping falls under federal jurisdiction, and THC is federally illegal under the Controlled Substances Act. This applies even if you are shipping from a fully legalized state to another fully legalized state, because all postal services fall under federal jurisdiction.
> “Having marijuana legalized in only a few states means that it must stay there, no matter where you are from.”
> “Shipping companies, such as USPS, UPS, and FedEx, reserve the right to search any packages that they flag as suspicious. These companies have drug dogs that are trained to smell for marijuana. If your package is flagged, USPS, UPS, and FedEx have the ability to search it and call the police. In fact, in 2016, the USPS seized over 36,000 pounds of marijuana.”
So there you have it. Even if a website took your payment online and legitimately shipped THC products to you, the USPS, UPS, and FedEx would stop the package in their processing facility and turn it over to the cops. It would never get to you.
I understand, this is an extremely confusing time in the history of cannabis! Let’s try it as an infographic:
We have come all the way from a blanket banning of a whole plant to stressing out about percentages of an individual molecule, even to the point, in delta 8’s case, of distinguishing it from a very similar molecule. This is ridiculous, but it’s the reality of life right now.
Which Brings Us to Green Queen’s Dispensary…
One such scam site, greenqueensdispensary.com, made a great effort to bring itself to our attention and let me tell you, it’s a doozy! How many red flags are on this site? Let us count the ways.
#1: They demand payment in Bitcoin or CashApp only
They want payment methods to be non-refundable. Legitimate retail websites will allow you to pay in normal credit / debit card or PayPal. Readers have reported to us that with scam sites, the initial charge is just the beginning. Some sites will string you along with messages demanding more money to cover shipping, taxes, tariffs, the mule got sick, or whatever excuse. There is always a dramatic story with scammers.
#2: They show fake cart brands
They actually show several counterfeits of real brands too, but seem to make no distinction between real and fake. Now why shouldn’t they have only real brands? Because scam sites are not going by the true market; they’re going by what they see online. The fake and counterfeit vape cart brands are the ones getting spammed over and over on Instagram, so they’re more visible.
But hey, our old friends Mario carts, Cereal carts, Monopoly carts, and more! Haven’t seen these old boof brands around in months. And let’s not forget those Danks!
#3: They demonstrate blatant ignorance of the cannabis market
It’s interesting that the site shows a separate tab just for Moonrocks. We know that Dr. Zodiak’s Moonrocks is one of the oldest cart brands, now (to the best of our knowledge) long defunct, which were among the first to be counterfeited. We know that “moon rocks” are also a kind of cannabis flower offering which has been dipped in extract and rolled in kief. These seem to be a rare faddish trend that most cannabis fanciers avoid, as they’re usually sub-par buds. Compare the day-old steak at the grocery store where the butcher counter repackaged it with sauce, seasoning, and veggies as a shish-kabob or something.
So why the weird grouping and pricing? It makes no sense to charge such high rates for second-rate bud that’s been rolled around in leftover sauce and dust, definitely not side-by-side with a years-outdated vape cart brand.
Further down on the same page, there’s one selection just called “buy weed.”
This photo is a plain old bag of nugs, displayed exactly like you would find at a pop-up underground sesh. But why have them specifically on the “Moonrocks” page? What we’re seeing here is people with no actual knowledge of the cannabis industry, possibly not even speaking English. They are just cobbling things together out of copy-and-pasted text run through Google.
#4: Cartoon mascot logos are the sure sign of a scam outfit
Let’s talk about cartoon mascots:
Your humble author works in the freelance field, so this is easily recognizable to me. You see a hundred jobs like this every time you go onto the graphics section of UpWork, or more likely Fiverr or whatever freelance marketplace. You used to see them on the old Rent-A-Coder.com market too.
In international criminal culture, scammers and spammers are mentally obsessed with this concept of a “cartoon mascot” and they specifically mean that, not a logo. Their cartoon mascots all look like this: a cartoon character shaped like whatever the product is, white Mickey-Mouse-style gloves, 1950’s era smiley face. It’s always dirt-cheap graphics work, done by third-world providers. As you can see with the image we parody above in the banner and from the general look of the site, the graphics are all thrown-together mishmosh.
Every criminal subculture has its own quirky beliefs. Online spammers are unshakably convinced that a “cute” cartoon mascot will win us American idiots over and make us give them our money. This has created a cottage industry for cheap cartoon mascots across the board. There’s thousands of these, some as cheap as $10, money a legitimate professional graphics designer would not get out of bed for. What they’re actually doing is just ripping another design and copy-pasting elements together. This “vape cart man” was probably originally a spark plug for an equally scammy site about auto parts.
#5: Site details are sketch
Their address is listed as Vanir Tower in San Bernardino, California:
Now, San Bernardino would definitely be a likely place for a dispensary. But if you look it up on Google maps, the actual Vanir Tower happens to be a government building in the heart of downtown.
That building houses the local branch of the IRS, a US probation and parole office, and the San Bernardino City Hall. No dispensary would set up shop in this building!
Meanwhile, “whois” info for the domain greenqueensdispensary.com was first created on March 6th, 2021, just ten days ago as of this writing.
In between then and now, they found time to spam our forum in now-deleted posts under a nickname that is now banned. THREE times! Of all the cannabis industry websites they could have picked to spam, we’re the one site that built our reputation on busting fakes and scams…
Isn’t that just adorable? If some people would only read.
Why we are not afraid of blowback
We mentioned at the top that we get the occasional fake cart brand, unregistered counterfeit business, Internet scammer, and other lowlife writing us emails. These communications urge us to retract our bad press about them. They range from pleading and begging, to threatening us with lawyers and then just plain threatening us without lawyers.
So we have gotten a series of snivels from the scam website TKOExtracts.org. As we already point out, the real TKO company is at TKO PRODUCTS DOT COM, not “dot org,” and they do not sell any carts at all anymore, just edibles. They pretty much gave up on the cart market after the counterfeits flooded the earth.
Here’s why we don’t respond to threats or pleas when it comes to scammers: We are a REVIEW website. We function in the position of consumer advocacy. Just like movie reviewers are free to say a movie stinks, we are within our full First Amendment rights if we say your cartridge oil tastes like camel piss. That’s what a REVIEW site does! Unacademy for PC
We also have the public’s safety and well-being in mind. The vape-lung epidemic is still a real thing, people are still dying from it and many more are in the hospital, even though COVID-19 has obliterated all other medical news off the media. Kids as young as 15 are dying from it. So we have the world’s most solid good-faith argument, which is why we’re not afraid of being taken to court.
Luckily, we enjoy enough popularity that for every sour apple in the bunch, we get hundreds of readers thanking us for our commitment and hard work. And what the heck, sometimes our “tough love” puts the dodgy brands back on the straight and narrow. Look how Big Chief is doing these days, after all the times we kicked them around.
Readers, that was your bedtime story!
Take-aways:
Every time you see a website which offers to ship THC carts, they are a scam.
As always, thank you for keeping us informed and up to date about online scams! You have all saved other people potentially millions of dollars, if our math is right. Drop by our forum and give us a whistle.
Once upon a time, before marijuana was legalized at all in North America, the public knew one thing and only one thing about the active compounds in the plant: THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). THC gets you high, full stop, the only “active ingredient” most of us heard of.
Since legalization began, research has jumped down the long rabbit hole that is the complex chemical makeup of everyone’s favorite weed. It turns out that marijuana is composed of dozens of organic compounds, which we are just beginning to investigate. So far we’ve uncovered 113 cannabinoids and 120 terpenes in various strains of cannabis. This makes pot one of the richest known plants for concentration and variety of terpenes, as well as potentially significant psychoactive compounds, cannabinoids included.
Our DabConnection staff has been fielding questions about terpenes for a while now. They’re coming in from mail, comments, forum posts, and random people stopping us at dispensaries. We decided to put our research hounds on the job to help clear up some of the deepest mysteries about terpenes.
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1) How important are terpenes to the cannabis experience?
Very important! THC, CBD, Delta 8 THC, and other cannabinoids by themselves are almost completely odorless and tasteless. The terpenes contribute the aroma and flavor of cannabis products. An isolated cannabinoid will give you the effect of just that cannabinoid, like a prescription medicine. Terpenes act in conjunction with cannabinoid compounds to deliver a fuller effect.
The difference is just like the difference between taking a vitamin C tablet and eating an orange. The orange has a full organic compound profile which works in conjunction with the vitamin C. Plus, the tablet is highly processed, which causes the vitamin C to lose some of its potency. There may be some similar effect with processing compounds in cannabis.
But the bottom line is: try some pure THC or CBD, then try some in a more natural concoction that includes a terpene profile. You will notice the difference in a blindfolded test!
2) Do terpenes alone get you high?
No they do not, at least not the psychoactive effect we speak of from THC. When we talk about a “high,” we mean the combination of euphoria, gratification, tranquility, stimulation, and other mental effects.
However, this is not to say that terpenes play no role in the mental state you experience from cannabis! By themselves, some terpenes have a mild mental effect including stimulation, arousal, or sedation. Some of the better-known ones are:
Terpenes are part of why cannabis is recommended for psychological maladies such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and mood or stress disorders.
You can easily prove to yourself that terpene effects don’t get you high, because all the psychoactive terpenes are also found in other plants. Mangoes have myrcene, citrus fruits have limonene, and the spice basil contains pinene. Go ahead, have yourself a big mango and orange fruit salad seasoned with basil. You may feel better, since your body just got a shot of fresh fruit with all its vitamins and antioxidants. You may even be in a jolly mood. But would you describe that as a “high”? Probably not.
I highly recommend this if you’re looking for quality and tasty CBD.
3) Does CBD oil have terpenes?
CBD (cannabidiol), by itself, is just one of the many cannabinoids in pot. CBD can be derived from hemp or cannabis proper, both of which also have terpenes. Depending on the extraction process, CBD can include terpenes or not. Most CBD products will now list on the label whether they contain terpenes or other cannabinoids as well. Any product advertised as “full spectrum” will generally include terpenes too.
But CBD by itself can be made completely terpene-free. In fact, it’s even possible to make synthetic CBD oil, no cannabis plant involved.
OG Kush provides a more dense, weed flavor.
4) Are there terpenes in Delta 8?
Like CBD oil, Delta 8 THC is a stand-alone cannabinoid. Delta 8 has effects similar to THC (properly called “delta 9 THC”), but far milder. As with CBD, delta 8 has its own cult following as an alternative cannabis derivative product, thanks to its more legalized status and preferred effect for some medical and therapeutic applications.
Delta 8 products, especially vapes, will usually list the terpenes on the label if they contain them. Keywords like “full spectrum” or “naturally extracted” also apply.
5) Are terpenes by themselves legal?
Of course! Terpenes are found throughout nature, in almost every known plant. Terpenes are legal in not just the US, but around the world. It would be pretty impossible to outlaw terpenes – we’d all starve to death!
6) Can drug-sniffing dogs be fooled by botanical terpenes?
Yes they can! The main component of cannabis which drug-sniffing dogs go by is beta-caryophyllene (the same as caryophyllene, but more of a proper name). This same terpene is also found in black pepper, cloves, oregano, basil, rosemary, hops, and so on.
While we can’t find any evidence of drug-sniffing dogs being thrown off by somebody toting the whole spice rack around in their luggage, there is a claim that 75% of the time when a drug dog triggers, it’s a false positive. This is actually more likely due to the fact that drug dogs can smell residue. Frequently they will trigger off currency because it’s so common to use a rolled-up note to snort powders. Keep weed in your cargo shorts for a week, then remove it and wear the shorts while you go have a dog sniff you – they will still trigger!
7) Is the entourage effect proven now?
The entourage effect, which is the full-body effect from cannabis products, has been widely verified by generations of users. Terpenes are the most common cited cause of the entourage effect. But due to cannabis’ prohibition, scientific research was hampered. Now that laws are loosening, scientists are looking into this, but so far we don’t have 100% conclusive experimental proof. We do, however, have some strong theories.
Dr. Jordan Tishler, Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, states in interviews that “the entourage effect is real” and that this “also explains why pure THC is not particularly effective, and whole-plant cannabis is better.”
This Science Direct paper is perhaps the final word we have presently, stating “Some cannabis phytomolecules interact, causing enhanced biological activity. Defining this phenomenon, known as the ‘entourage effect’, is one of the leading challenges in the field of research.”
One famous study treated epilepsy patients with either pure CBD or full spectrum CBD with terpenes and found better response in the full-spectrum group. That is a sign that something could be at work, but still not considered conclusive until we separate all the contributing ingredients.
So: Research is ongoing, but science is slow. Note also that research into the entourage effect sometimes focuses on different cannabinoids (THC, CBD, etc.) working together rather than isolating the terpenes’ effects. Let’s put it this way: We mentioned at the top “113 cannabinoids and 120 terpenes” are found in cannabis (and counting!). Now to do exhaustive research, we have to test each individual compound to see what effect it has, then isolate and test a pair of compounds to see if they have an enhanced effect, then repeat these steps for every possible pair of all 233 compounds! Even if the entire world pitched in on this research, it would not be done overnight.
8) Is there confirmed medical research showing the benefits of terpenes?
That is a far easier question to answer. Yes, there’s plenty of confirmation into benefits of individual terpenes in experiments controlled against placebos. This applies not just to cannabis, but to the plant kingdom at large. Various terpenes have been known to be effective as insect repellant, antifungal agents, antibacterial agents, anesthetics, and cancer-fighting drugs.
Results on individual cannabis terpenes, however, may differ. Some are proven, some are still in clinical trials, and some don’t seem to do much.
9) Are there any harmful terpenes?
Remember that terpenes are found in plants throughout nature. There are some plants, such as toxic and poisonous species, which are proven harmful. As for terpenes in cannabis, very few if any could be said to have outright harmful effects, at least not in the concentrations we see in cannabis.
However, as in all of nature, effects change when we scale the dosage. If you just concentrate one terpene into pure form, there can be damage potential. The most common harmful effect from terpenes is flammability – pinene and carene are both components of turpentine. Meanwhile, eucalyptol is lethal at high doses, but we’re talking about a third of a pound of pure eucalyptol consumed at once. You’d have to smoke roughly a truckload of weed in one sitting to get close to that dosage.
Several users do report allergic reactions to some terpenes, including some found in cannabis, like linalool. As for vaping, some studies have suggested that vaping terpenes releases trace amounts of toxic chemicals. But you could say the same for burning a pile of autumn leaves.
Keep in mind that marijuana has been cultivated since 500 BC, in continuous usage since then, with so far a mortality rate of zero. So at least within bounds of normal consumption, if there were anything deadly in it, we would have found it by now.
10) Aren’t terpenes just “essential oils”?
At least most terpenes fall into the same category as essential oils.
It is unfortunate that so many years of pseodoscience and quackery have given plant-based compounds a bad rap. Let us be mindful of the fact that much of our medicine comes from natural plants in the first place. Like anything in nature, essential oils and terpenes can be misapplied. For example, there is consistent quackery around vitamin D, but just because somebody makes outrageous claims for it does not mean that vitamin D does nothing.
There are, indeed, suspicious claims going around about terpenes and other cannabis-derived products as well. For example, that CBD bathbombs fad that was going around turned out to not have much science supporting it.
On the positive side, sometimes a long-standing claim is eventually proven out. Chamomile, which shares the terpene bisabolol with cannabis, has a long-standing tradition in folk medicine. When modern science came along to test the beneficial claims, many of them were cast into doubt but a few of them were proven true.
We here at DabConnection are careful not to make unfounded health claims for or against cannabis. When we do refer to a health claim, either we link to a reasonably scientific source to back it up, or we identify a claim as unproven. All consumers of cannabis products should likewise maintain healthy skepticism. Cannabis derivatives have been proven effective in some medical applications, but that does not make cannabis a panacea.
11) Why do botanical terpenes taste worse than cannabis terpenes?
Extraction of any plant-based compound is never a completely sterile business. Many terpenes are extracted through simple means such as steaming and distilling. Inevitably, some flavor from the source plant carries over. So while some weed strains are appreciated for having a peppery taste, it’s not as nice when the caryophyllene comes from actual pepper.
Botanical terpenes typically have an off flavor, reminiscent of an herbal vape, and are often harsh on the throat besides. Natural cannabis terpenes at least hit more like pot, because they are pot.
12) Are terpenes responsible for marijuana’s strong, pungent odor?
Yes indeed! In fact, terpenes across the plant kingdom are the cause for many plants’ aromas and flavors. Pinene, common to cannabis and pine trees, is a strong component of the sap of trees in the conifer family and is responsible for that “fresh pine” smell. Terpenes in general are also widely used in the perfume industry, precisely because they carry so much of their source plants’ signature aromas.
13) What extraction method is best for preserving the full spectrum of cannabis?
Live resin and rosin are so far the preferred methods of cannabis extraction for preserving the plant’s full spectrum effects.
14) What is the purpose of terpenes in the first place?
In nature, plants evolved terpenes, alkaloids, and other organic compounds to serve many roles, chief among them moderating their interactions with other wildlife. Many terpenes double as effective insect repellant or anti-microbial agents, chasing away harmful pests and fungi. Some plants exhibit a nasty taste or odor to ward off herbivores who would otherwise graze on the plant and destroy it before it had reached maturity.
However, there are nearly as many cases where terpenes serve a function to attract wildlife selectively. The familiar smell of freshly-mowed grass, for instance, is a chemical “distress signal” which attracts predators of grazing herbivores. And of course, the sweet scent of flowers is attractive to more than just humans. It’s also there to attract pollinating insects which the plant depends upon to reproduce.
So the question is more “what purpose don’t terpenes serve?” Each plant species has its own unique strategy to promote its survival, and chemical production is the first line of defense.
15) Do mangoes have some effect with cannabis terpenes?
Yes, that’s been confirmed for a long time. Mangoes share the terpene myrcene with cannabis. Myrcene binds to some of the same receptors that cannabinoids do, resulting in a more pronounced entourage effect. For best results, eat mango about 45 minutes before vaping or smoking marijuana. All this really does is make the buzz a bit more mellow and relaxing.
16) Are terpenes effective in topicals or aromatherapy?
In the case of topical application, which means applying it externally, some terpenes do have therapeutic effects such as being anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, or acting as a healing or anesthetic agent. Recall above that some plants produce terpenes as an anti-fungal measure. Well, guess what we use in ointments to treat fungal infections?
There is a lot more skepticism about aromatherapy. Conventional wisdom is that it’s pure baloney. A lot of aromatherapy has become tied up in New Age alternative medicine, to the point where it speaks of “eliminating toxins” and “toning and firming the body.” Not a smidgen of scientific evidence for this class of claim exists, and it would be ludicrous to think that merely inhaling a scent can make you thin! The chief argument against aromatherapy is not that the terpenes do nothing, but that merely inhaling them from a distance is too weak of a dosage.
The bottom line for aromatherapy is that for every claim that has some slight merit, there’s ten more that are just bunk. As we mention before, it’s good to preserve some skepticism and check out claims for yourself. It’s pretty easy to verify that cannabis helps stimulate the appetite and overcome nausea for cancer chemotherapy patients. That is miles away from suggesting that anything in cannabis cures cancer.
Quite a few terpenes can trigger allergic reactions, such as linalool, which is found in both cannabis and lavender. Check the individual terpene’s studies for possible adverse effects.
18) Are there miracle drugs waiting to be discovered in terpenes?
Let’s not say “miracle,” but you could very well support the claim that future cannabis research has the potential to unlock more medical applications. We have just been delayed from research by decades of prohibitory laws. As we mention above, there’s over 230 organic compounds in cannabis, some of which we didn’t know existed until just a few years ago. With what we’ve found so far, cannabis shows promise as a source of many useful compounds. However, remember that terpenes are not unique to cannabis, so most terpenes in cannabis have had more research from other source plants already.
19) Does vaping give the full effect of terpenes?
The answer varies depending on the temperature and terpene. Terpenes are effective when activated in the range from the low 200s F to the high 300s F. But provided you’re vaping the right temperature, it can be a more effective way to consume terpenes than smoking.
20) Are terpenes just a lot of hype?
Terpenes are definitely the subject of hype right now!
It was inevitable that this would happen. You take a benevolent drug enjoyed by generations since the dawn of agriculture, outlaw it for a near-millennium, and then slowly legalize it gradually after realizing its medical applications. Of course people are going to be spun into a frenzy about it!
There is something to terpenes and they are a fascinating aspect of cannabis, but there’s a lot more news coming out about the organic components of the hemp family besides. They are an enjoyable part of the cannabis experience with their own therapeutic applications in some cases, but perhaps they have been the subject of too much attention after being shunned for so long.
This is an update for the Dabtabs review, and specifically the new Vari vaporizer. I tried Dabtabs a few months ago now, and right from the beginning, I have really liked them.
Pros:
100% Cannabis derived cannabinoids and terpenes
Innovative, almost no mess concentrate option in Dabtabs
It’s much easier to track usage and see how much you have left, in contrast to traditional concentrates.
Others have had success using a regular banger and torch, but I just never got the hang of that, so I haven’t tried it myself.
State maximum allowed THC percentage (70%)
Cons:
High prices at most dispensaries, but some places have them for much less. Sadly, I think this is a sign that they are not going to carry them anymore.
Recommendations:
They are convenient and easy to use. I don’t have to worry about storing them properly, right side up, like regular concentrates, and you can even just tape a label on each little bottle and stick them in your pocket. The Shatterizer Dabtabs Edition has a nifty little case that attaches by a magnet to the bottom of the battery. It can hold a few Dabtabs.
I am beyond grateful that Natalie at ILO sent me and a couple of others their new Vari vaporizer to review, and that she helped us do a giveaway, for the Dabtabs subreddit that I made, which is just reddit.com/DabTabs. There are definitely pros and cons to both of the Dabtab vaporizers that I own.
Dabtabs Basics
Dabtabs is an innovative Cannabis concentrate product, where a tiny piece of ceramic, that they call a “Dablet” is infused with Cannabis concentrate. In this case, the Klutch brand uses strain-specific full-spectrum CO2 oil, from their own top-shelf Cannabis flower. Klutch is one of the most popular Cannabis brands here in Ohio, and they have some of the most popular strains too. Each jar, here in Ohio, contains 17 “Dablets”, and each one is infused with 50 mg of Cannabis concentrate.
You just shake a dablet out of the little jar and load it into your device. I use this vaporizer called a Shatterizer dabtabs edition. Mine came with an extra glass top, an extra dabtabs atomizer, and even one standard Ctech atomizer for regular concentrates. I’ve read that people have success with using dabtabs in standard bangers and also eRigs like the Puffco Peak, but I’ve just stuck with the Shatterizer, because it’s easy to use and it pumps out the vapor.
Cannabis-derived terps
I’ve been using Dabtabs for the last few months now, and I still absolutely love them! I’ve only been using the Shatterizer Dabtabs Edition vaporizer, and recently I got this Vari Vaporizer from ILO, the company that makes the Dabtabs. So far, I really like both vaporizers, but they both have their pros and cons. I will start with the Shatterizer, because I’ve been using that for longer.
There is nothing to complain about when it comes to the Shatterizer, other than the glass top being a little bit fragile, and also the battery doesn’t last that long. I had my first glass top break one time when I removed it. That was definitely a fault, and a potentially dangerous one too. I really like the Ctech coil that they sent me for free as well. It can be annoying to use, especially when the coil is dirty, because you have to remove the screw top.
I really like how the Shatterizer has three heat settings, and it works great with Dabtabs and regular concentrates too. The Vari, on the other hand, is simpler than the Shatterizer, and it has a ceramic top that has a much smaller chamber and should provide much better flavor. I’ve tried it with both Dabtabs and standard concentrates, like live hash rosin and live resin sauce. They work great, but the Vari doesn’t get as hot as the Shatterizer. I really like how the Vari has the haptic feedback too.
I have a few kinds of live hash rosin, live resin sauce, and a bunch of Dabtabs, that I will review in a video, with both of these vaporizers.
One thing that I really love about these Klutch Dabtabs is that they make it so much easier to tell exactly how much you are using and how much you have left. With conventional concentrates, you have to estimate how much you load each time, and how much you have left. It’s much more difficult to judge how long traditional concentrates will last for me, compared to these Dabtabs.
Klutch Quality
Klutch is one of the most famous Cannabis brands here in Ohio if you look on the Ohio Marijuana subreddit or just look up Ohio Marijuana reviews, and for good reason. They have even recently started producing and selling their own live hash rosin and live hash rosin jam. They are only the second Ohio brand to offer rosin, from what I’ve seen and read.
I’m a believer in the Entourage Effect. I wish that Klutch would provide the terpene content for us. I can taste and smell the terpenes when I vaporize these Dabtabs, but it would be nice to know exactly which ones and how much there is in each strain. It’s great how each bottle of Dabtabs has the maximum allowed THC percentage and also the maximum days allowance of THC too. I know that when I first got my medical card here, I was appalled to see the 70% maximum THC limit for concentrates and vapes, but since I learned about the Entourage Effect, I definitely appreciate our options more.
Another quirk of note in our medical Cannabis system here is our “days allowance”. I won’t go into too many details, but basically, one day’s worth of THC in a concentrate or vape cart is 590 mg. This means that you will often see carts and concentrates that have 0.85 grams, or 850 mg of oil because 70% of that is right at the one-day maximum. There are also full-gram carts here, but they have lower THC content. They do not have too much over the 590 mg limit, and they just have more CBD or terpenes than the other 0.85 gram options.
I recently read that one brand here, Certified Cultivators Carts, actually adds Delta 8 THC, to bring down the Delta 9 percentage to the 70% allowed. I thought that was interesting, but I don’t know how I feel about them only using delta 9, delta 8, and terpenes. It seems like most people want a full spectrum option now, and would prefer the more standard CBD, CBG, CBN, and other minor cannabinoids that are in the actual flower.
Who would enjoy this?
I think that any fan of Klutch would really enjoy these Dabtabs, but you should get either the Shatterizer Dabtabs edition, new Vari Vaporizer, or I’ve read that they work well in e rigs, like the Puffco Peak.
Good flavor and effects!
I really enjoy all of the Klutch products I’ve tried so far. I wish they listed the terpenes on their labels. From looking online, it says that their Sunday Driver has Limonene, Caryophyllene, Linalool, and Pinene. Their Orange 43 has Terpinolene, Myrcene, Limonene, and Pinene. Klutch Super Lemon Dog has Ocimene, Farnesene, Myrcene, Terpinolene, Pinene, and Limonene. I can’t find a Klutch OG Kush, but under their Josh D brand, they have terpenes as Limonene, Myrcene, Caryophyllene, and Linalool.
I recognized Limonene and Linaloool as the terpenes responsible for the citrus flavor and aroma of Limonene, and Linalool has a nice lavender scent and flavor. A quick Google search shows that Humolene is the compound in hops, so it gives an earthy, spicy flavor and aroma. Last, but not least, Caryophyllene is the compound found in black pepper, basil, and oregano, with a funky warmth similar to cinnamon and cloves.
These Dabtabs recreate the experience of vaporizing the actual Cannabis flower. I think they probably also leave behind some smell. It should dissipate quickly, but if you’re looking for a less conspicuous option, then maybe a distillate vape cart would be better.
Similar Cannabis products for comparison:
I’m not sure if comparable products to these Dabtabs would be other concentrates or vape carts. With the Shatterizer Dabtabs Edition vaporizer, these Dabtabs are nearly as convenient as vape carts and actually are more convenient in some regards. You don’t have to worry about putting the Dabtabs in your pocket because you have to heat them up pretty high in order for the CO2 oil to have anything happen to it. Also, with the Shatterizer, you have to be careful not to tilt it too far in one direction, because the Dablet will fall out of the atomizer.
It usually sticks to the inside of the glass top, from the reclaim that’s building up in there, and I just have to take off the top and pull out the Dabtab and put it back. I think that people would really like these Dabtabs, if they gave them a chance and also have the right hardware. They offer a quick, easy, no-mess way to enjoy the top shelf Cannabis strains that I know and love. Since I’ve found them for an affordable price, they have quickly become a favorite of mine.
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Conclusion
These Klutch Dabtabs are great! I still love this Shatterizer Dabtabs edition vaporizer, and I definitely think that the Vari has its uses too. I do wish that it could get a little bit hotter, to use with Dabtabs, but I do really like using it with standard concentrates so far. It’s amazing how much vapor you can get from such a tiny piece of ceramic. It is a pain that you need the right device in order to enjoy these Dabtabs, but from my experience, it’s worth it.
I will definitely try out Vari’s more portable features. So far, I have just been leaving both of these at home, and just bringing a vape cart or something like that with me, when I am on the go.
Dear readers, as always you can tell us your thoughts in the comments or on our forum.
In the few years since vape cartridges have become popular for both nicotine and THC vapers alike, many alert users have noticed an odd phenomenon: vape oil turning different colors inside the cartridge. Ever since the vape lung health epidemic, vape users are especially wary of vape oil that appears to have something wrong.
We’ll give you a complete guide to cannabis products vape oil discoloration here to the best of our present research. Through this guide, you’ll hopefully know when and when not to be concerned.
Bottom line: Some discoloration is normal, more is a problem
Vape oil comes from the cannabis plant and other sometimes hemp, or plants in the case of botanical terpenes. Like any organic compound, these various cannabinoids, terpenes, and other bioactive chemical agents can be affected by a number of factors. Chiefly, vape oil can discolor due to any of these reasons:
Time – Vape cartridges actually have a shelf life! Over time, the oil in a cartridge left to sit will just change on its own due to oxidization
Temperature – Heat is the number one factor in most chemical changes
Sunlight – Like any extract from plant matter, sunlight can affect it
Moisture – Plain old water vapor can also play a role in breaking down organic compounds
Contamination – Other agents such as mold, mildew, bacteria, or invasive chemicals or additives, can all affect the appearance of the oil
So, to avoid cartridge discoloration and protect the ingredients of your cartridges, you should store them in a cool, dry, place out of direct sunlight. By “cool” we mean normal home temperature. A drawer in your air-conditioned home is ideal. However, do NOT freeze a cartridge! Not only will this cause moisture to form inside, but taking a cartridge from the freezer to vape it can cause it to heat up too fast and break.
Experienced coffee drinkers know the drill: Treat vape cartridges like coffee beans and they’ll stay fresh longer.
The ordinary electric lighting in your room should have no effect, as the light that can break down your ingredients is UV radiation from sunlight. However, you’re still better off keeping your cartridges in the dark if you use tanning beds or sunlamps, or have windows nearby.
As for the time factor, this varies. Extracts (for dabbing) last three to six months when properly stored. Vape carts may last up until one year.
Most of the time, cart oil changing color is a sign that the oil is losing its potency. THC and THCA may degrade into to CBN or delta 8 THC. Delta 8 THC has a decreased psychoactive effect while CBN does next to nothing at all. This process is most commonly caused by sunlight and oxydization.
Furthermore, terpenes can also be separately affected by the same environmental factors. For instance, humulene has a boiling point of only 223°F (106°C), while also reacting quickly with ozone in direct sunlight. So the terpenes can be affected even if the THC is still potent, resulting in less flavor and entourage effects.
So it’s not like an older cartridge showing discoloration is going to hurt you. It is, however, likely to lose its potency.
Discoloration happens more often when you buy a cartridge on sale!
Let’s think this one over: Your local dispensary has a sale going on a cartridge brand. More likely than not, this is because the carts are going to expire soon. Dispensaries, like any retail business, have to manage their inventory and be careful not to overstock. When a brand doesn’t sell as fast as they’d hoped, they have extra sitting around and when that batch is getting near the end of its shelf life, they price it to move.
Some dispensaries might also be less aware of how cartridges are handled. So they might have carelessly left a case in the sun too long or transported it in a hot van, and other mishaps. Some dispensaries might have inexperienced employees that don’t know better. So if you add these affects together, an improperly stored and handled cartridge that’s six months old might deteriorate further than a year old cartridge that has been properly stored.
Cartridge discoloration affects all cannabis and hemp by-products
Not only THC vapes, but CBD and delta 8 vapes, can also become discolored. In most cases, the best color for cartridge oil is a transparent hue of light yellow or amber color, close to the shades of lemonade to honey. Some vape oils, particularly delta 8 THC cartridges, are as clear and colorless as water.
Things to watch out for in vape cart oil:
Darkening
Banding or stripes
Gradient color (darker at the top, clearer at the bottom)
Cloudiness
Crystals
Specks or grit floating in it
Bitter or sour taste
Extremely harsh on the throat when vaping
One rule of thumb is that if it looks extremely weird or tastes nasty, there’s probably something wrong with it. Logically, any full-spectrum cannabis derivative should have some marijuana flavor to it. With experience you can quickly tell when something is off.
Things to never do with a cartridge:
Leave it in the car on a hot summer day
Leave it on a sunny windowsill
Carry it around in your pocket, since that is also warmer than 70°
Keep it in the freezer (this is bad for coffee too, which is where this urban myth comes from)
Store it someplace damp or frequently moist like a sauna, poolhouse, bathroom, or greenhouse
Leave it sit for a whole year
Leave it sit attached to the battery for an extended time of weeks or more
Vape at too high a temperature
If you do have to transport vape carts on your person or in your car on a regular basis, consider investing in a carrying case. Carrying them in an external pocket, such as a coat pocket or tote bag, is preferable to cramming them in your jeans pocket.
Readers, share your other safe handling tips – or horror stories about mishandled cartridges – in the comments or in our forum.
In the cartridge vaping world for both THC-based and nicotine-based vapes, two chemicals have risen to lead the controversy over vape ingredients. Vegetable Glycerin (VG) and Propylene Glycol (PG) are still commonly used ingredients in many products. But what are the effects of vaping these two additives, and how can we nail down conclusive research?
The bottom line is that we simply don’t know that much yet. But we will post the latest findings and readers can draw their own.
What are Vegetable Glycerin and Propylene Glycol?
Both of these chemical agents are widely used in many industries. Both of them are composed of the atoms carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Both of them are common components of “e-liquids,” used as a carrier to inhale the payload (nicotine / THC / etc.) and for their vapor-producing properties.
Both are classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as generally recognized as safe (GRAS). HOWEVER, that applies to uses in food, cosmetics, medicines, etc. There is relatively little research on their effects when vaporized and inhaled. Water is “generally recognized as safe” too, but you don’t want it in your lungs.
(spoilers: get used to that word “however,” it comes up a lot in this topic)
Take note, this is NOT about other harmful fillers like the notorious vitamin E acetate and other cutting agents which have led to vaping-related lung injuries. Nor is this about terpenes, relatively harmless organic compounds found in most plants. This is just about the two additives vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol.
Safety research is inconclusive either way
One problem we run into in researching additive safety is context, because most media outlets refuse to differentiate between “electronic cigarettes” and vaping literally anything else, including CBD, live cannabis resin, and delta 8.
Another problem is that the media and medical establishment often report on this issue in the context of comparing “e-cigarettes” to smoking actual cigarettes. Since the media has spent decades dramatizing the dangers of smoking to the point where one would assume that “people who don’t smoke will never die,” reporters are reluctant to say that vapes have harm factors as well.
Cancer Prevention Research published a 2019 study: “Vaping propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine may lead to lung inflammation.” The conclusion was that people who vaped had higher concentrations of chemicals associated with lung inflammation. HOWEVER, the study itself concedes that this was a small and inconclusive test.
Journal of Clinical Investigation published a 2019 study: “PG/VG in ecigs tied to lung damage in well-done experiment.” HOWEVER, that study was only done on mice. Again, inhaling VG/PG vapor was tied to damaged chemistry of the lungs, but not significant.
For an argument from the other side, this study of Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes finds PG, VG, and vaping ingredients in general to be “practically non-toxic.” HOWEVER, the study only concerns exposure “orally or intravenously” and “from dietary or occupational exposures.” There is very little information on the health effects of vaping.
You can of course find several articles studying the safety of VG from the vendor’s perspective. This Canadian vaping source settles the matter at “The chemical was flagged as a low human health priority.” HOWEVER, that site is geared more towards helping smokers quit smoking by turning to vapes instead.
Vaping these agents produces chemical byproducts
For an example of how the rules change when temperature changes occur, tests have detected that vaporizing any common vaping agent produced acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, and acrolein in measurable amounts. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) produced the most, followed by propylene glycol (PG), with vegetable glycerin (VG) and medium chain triglycerides (MCT) producing the least.
However, all of the above were only found in trace amounts and, again, are only noted as potentially harmful in these amounts, but not assumed harmful in this context. For comparison, you encounter aceteldehyde every time you take a bite of ripe fruit, and inhale acrolein every time you fry bacon.
Formaldehyde is the only ringer, as a known carcinogen, but only in large amounts. For comparison, formaldehyde is a frequently used food preservative, and is also produced naturally by the human body itself.
Other uses of Vegetable Glycerin and Propylene Glycol
Vegetable glycerin (VG) commonly goes by the name of Glycerol, and sometimes is modified to Glycerin. Glycerol and propylene glycol have traditionally been used as:
a food additive – as a solvent, sweetener, and preservative
first aid and medicine – as an mildly antimicrobial and antiviral agent
personal lubricants – for its topical properties
antifreeze – it disrupts the formation of ice crystals
chemistry – for one thing, glycerol is a component of nitroglycerin
other industry – vibration damping, water effects, fog machines, diesel fuel component
While none of this is that helpful to tell us anything about vaping, it does makes the argument that we’ve been using vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol for years in a number of industries and so far nobody’s dropping dead (except for when you add nitrogen to make nitroglycerin!).
For just one example, the commercial personal lubricant K-Y Jelly contains both glycerin and propylene glycol. K-Y Jelly was first introduced in the year 1904, so it’s been in use for over 100 years. Now when you consider all the people who have used it worldwide and all the orifices that have come in contact with it, with no ill effects being reported, that makes a strong case for lox toxicity. HOWEVER: Nobody has been going around vaping K-Y Jelly.
Final conclusion?
We of course want to stay as safe as possible. There are extracts and distillates as alternatives if you want to go completely VG / PG free. But let’s face it: At some level, you are heating an element and inhaling it with your lungs, something nature didn’t design us to do all day. There’s bound to be problems with something somewhere.
At the same time, studying the health effects of literally anything is never straightforward. Too much of anything will kill you, including nicotine (60 mg), caffeine (10 g), and drinking water, which is why we have sports drinks with electrolytes.
We will monitor this topic and update this post as more results come in. We are still at the dawn of vaping, so we may have to wait a generation or two before we find out. Look how long it took us to figure out smoking.
Here we have the Trifecta Relax Cartridge made by Bay Stay Hemp company. These full gram cartridges contain Delta 8 THC,CBD, hemp-derived terpenes, and other cannabinoids. Furthermore, these carts deliver a smooth and mellow experience, not as intense of a high, but more relaxing and slight effects.
Pros:
Very smooth and light hits
CCELL hardware, effective cartridge
Flavorful taste
Not harsh
Cons:
Not very potent, won’t give you strong effects
Currently, only one strain found for these cartridges
Recommendation: Have higher levels of Delta 8 THC, and provide more strains.
Trifecta Relax cartridge delivers smooth and tasteful hits, light effects
Being infused with CBD and Cannabinoids, Trifecta Relax is a lot more lighter than your typical D8 cartridge.
Seeing that this cartridge is infused with CBD, I assumed that it would hit a little lighter than cartridges filled with straight delta 8 distillate. And it sure did, Trifecta Relax cartridge delivers very soothing and mellow hits. A nice and light high, this cartridge is great if you enjoy CBD and want something only a little stronger than that.
Don’t get me wrong, you might feel some slight effects, but only after several hits. These cartridges are good if you just want a smooth experience with a light high. If you think Delta 8 gives a strong high, these carts give a much lighter high.
Delta 8 THC infused with CBD, cannabinoids, and hemp-derived terpenes
Trifecta carries authentic lab results done for pesticides, residual solvents, and terpenes. You can find their lab results on their official website here.
As shown above, Trifecta Relax cartridge contains not only D8 THC and CBD but also a full spectrum of cannabinoids. Like cannabigerol (CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), and cannabinol (CBN). This great blend delivers a much more relaxing high than a typical Delta 8 cartridge.
Along with this, the rest of the cartridge contains Linalool and Limonene hemp derived terpenes. This is what gives it its flavorful taste. Smooth and tasteful hits, these cartridges aren’t really as harsh as most D8 carts and distillate.
Oil Quality- Thin distillate and light strength
Fair oil quality and tastes clean, but the distillate itself is pretty thin.
Because the Trifecta Relax cartridge is infused with a variety of cannabinoids and terpenes, these cartridges have a much lower percentage of D8. Within their lab results, Trifecta cartridges only contain 8.5% Delta 8. This is much lower than most D8 cartridges I’ve tried, which contain up to 80-90% D8.
Furthermore, this cartridge won’t really give you a strong high at all. It’s more for someone who wants a lighter and smoother experience. As mentioned earlier, you may feel some slight effects, but you won’t get stoned off it. Regardless, this cartridge is still enjoyable to vape.
Trifecta Relax cartridge use CCELL hardware
Being a CCELL cartridge, the Trifecta Relax cartridge delivers efficient and effective hits.
Trifecta delta 8 cartridges use authentic CCELL hardware for their cartridges. As with every CCELL cartridge, they deliver effective hits and nice clouds with the right battery and volts. I would say these cartridges are efficient, but because of how thin the oil quality is and how light it is, it is easy to smoke and finish. I finished nearly half of the cartridge in just a day, but I kept hitting it consistently.
Smooth and tasteful hits, more of a lime taste
As mentioned earlier, the terpenes infused with this cartridge is Linalool and Limonene. This blend of terpenes delivers a nice, lemony flavor. Not that strong of a taste, and doesn’t taste harsh at all. Not as sweet or dense of a flavor, but a smooth, light mix.
Value: Fair price, worth the experience, if into CBD and Delta 8 THC
The price for these cartridges goes for $35, which isn’t so bad depending on what you’re looking for. If you want a pure Delta 8 THC cartridge or something that will give you strong effects, then I’d recommend you view our best Delta 8 list. Simply because at this price, you have many options and even cheaper ones to pick from.
But if you’re looking for a cartridge that gives lighter effects than Delta 8, let alone Delta 9 or high-quality THC, then this is a good product for you. Because of how light the high actually is, it’s perfect if you want to feel a slight buzz. Or maybe you want to take a tolerance break and don’t want to full stop. Regardless, these cartridges do deliver a unique and interesting experience.
Overall, the Trifecta Relax cartridge delivers a unique and relaxing experience
Closing up the Trifecta review, these cartridges really do deliver an interesting experience. A great blend of terpenes, they deliver very smooth and tasteful hits. Again, not the strongest high you will get. But you may feel some slight, mellow effects. If you’re more into CBD, at this price you will enjoy these cartridges. You can learn more and purchase Trifecta Relax cartridges here.
Here we review the Standard Oil Cartridge, in particular, the Lemon Slushie. We got this at Oasis dispensary in Las Vegas, Nevada, through a deal we found on Dankoil. Standard Oil Cartridge uses real cannabis terpenes, offers great strength, and uses quality hardware. So far the Standard Oil cartridge we have tried is one of the better distillate cartridges that are out there and that is why it made on our top carts for Nevada list.
Pros:
Excellent taste
Real cannabis terpenes
Quality hardware
Thick long-lasting consistent oil
Cons:
Not available everywhere
Recommendations: We would like to see this cart in more places. We would also like to see a live resin version.
Standard Oil Co cart hit all the points of a great cart
Here we will go through all the categories on the Standard oil carts. Overall it’s a great cartridge; if you are looking for a fast answer – you should just go and get it. Most likely you won’t be disappointed. We got this on a deal but we wouldn’t mind paying full price for this especially considering how strong it is.
Standard Oil uses CCELL or a very close clone
The cart used on this one looks very similar to the Tumbleweed extracts cartridge that we get quite often. I didn’t see CCELL marking on the bottom, but CCELL has changed some of the designs on their cartridge hardware. This does seem like a CCELL cartridge or a very close clone.
Standard Oil uses all-glass hardware with a ceramic core
This means that you will be getting top efficiency and nice hits. There is really nothing to complain about here regarding hardware even if it is a clone, which we can’t tell for sure.
Standard Oil Co cart delivers strength and is very energetic
The version we are reviewing here is a Sativa and it really delivers on the energy. You do not feel sleepy at all from this cart and I would say that this is one of the best cartridges I have hit so far. On top of that, the effects last for a long time. You don’t feel like you have to hit this every five minutes, as is often the case with Delta 8 carts or some of the weaker THC carts like Kings Garden and RAD Vape. For strength, there may not be many carts that are that much stronger out there. Strength on Standard Oil Co carts is pretty comparable to some of the Roots and Cannavative carts out there, which have continuously been the strongest distillate brands we have tried out after multiple cartridges.
kings garden cartridge has a nice light shade
Excellent taste with real cannabis terpenes
The Standard Oil Co cartridge uses real cannabis terpenes and nothing fake. This really reflects on taste. There is nothing off-tasting about it and it still does taste like the Lemonnade in the strain without tasting fake or artificial like the RAD Vape.
Definitely, one of the better tasting distillate cartridges out there, and it is better tasting than quite a few live resin carts out there.
Standard Oil Co has excellent oil quality.
The oil on these carts is really thick. You won’t see almost any movement from it since it’s that thick. It is close to the thickness of Roots and a little less thick than AMA thick distillate.
Nothing changed on oil consistency or the color as we went to the bottom of this cart. This one is actually so good, that I saved a bit for a friend to try it out.
The thick oil gives a lot of puffs
Standard oil is so thick that you get a lot of puffs out of it. Compared to some of the thinner carts out there I might get an extra half a day’s use from this, and that’s coming from someone that gets about a day and a half or two from a standard THC cart. Overall there is nothing to complain about here about the number of puffs and it really excels here.
Great value even better on a deal
When I picked this up at Oasis Cannabis in Las Vegas it was something like $25 with tax. I believe this costs around 35-40 dollars at most dispenseries and it’s definitely worth it. Comparing to some of the weaker cartridges, you might be getting twice the value, since you don’t have to hit this thing all the time to get the desired effects. I have noticed that for some low quality carts, you have to hit it five times as much and you are getting way less of a good value. These are a great value, whether you get them on a deal or if you are getting them at a standard price – provided you are not getting them in an extremely overpriced dispensary like Pisos.
Concluding our Standard Oil Co cart review…
Overall there is nothing to complain about the Standard Oil Co cartridge. The only thing I would like to see is a live resin version. The oil is thick, it tastes good, it’s strong and the effects last long. On top of that for the Sativa, it’s extremely energetic and you don’t feel you have to hit it all the time.
Have you tried Standard Oil carts? Let us know in the comments or on our forum.
If you are reading this you are probably looking around to see what cannabis ad networks are out there. Here we will go through the current ones in detail and tell you which ones we think are the best and the worst. In short, currently, the Mantis Ad Network is the best cannabis ad network for publishers.
Currently here are the cannabis ad networks that are out there that we know of:
Ad Networks Designed For Cannabis
These ad networks are either targeted specifically to the cannabis industry by companies who realize the special needs of this market, or at least they specialize in highly regulated markets including the cannabis industry.
Mantis Ad Network – Currently Our Top Pick
Mantis is a US-based cannabis ad network. It’s currently the most popular ad network for cannabis and CBD. It has many websites as part of its network including this site and Leafly, MedicalJane, GrassCity Forums, and more. Originally, the “420 Ad Network” was acquired by Mantis Ad Network and is now part of that same merged company. Mantis offers no intermediary fees and has been effective for both publishers and advertisers.
Review of Mantis Ad Network, Publisher Side
Currently, Mantis is our main network and the overall best. It pays the most, has the highest fill, and they take 0% commission, and pay 100% out to advertisers. Mantis’ platform allows you to manage your own ads.
CannBe is based in Israel and is our choice for the current second-best cannabis ad network. They run on a revenue share model that’s generous and publishers are assigned an account executive to help them with any support issues. They’re a media company founded by cannabis entrepreneurs.
Review of CannBe Ad Network, Publisher Side
We previously ran ads with both CannBe and Mantis, and at times CannBe had a higher average CPM. Additionally, CannBe backfills with their own sites and pays publishers for that as well.
CannBe Review, Publisher Side
Currently, we do not run CannBe ads because they did not have enough fill consistently for us to continue.
For a smaller volume site, CannBe may be a very good fit. We ran their network for about 4 months and they operate on a split fee agreement of ad revenue. Payments were fast with CannBe and a dedicated representative assists with any issues you might have.
Overall, CannBe is a great network and something we would consider running again once there is more fill alongside Mantis.
As of 2023, CannBe is not operational. Their site is down.
Puff Network – Fast Payouts, But Lower
Puff Network is based in Canada and has some high-level publishers including High Times and Skunk on its platform for publishers. As the name implies, it was founded with cannabis businesses in mind first.
Puff Network Review, Publisher Side
We ran Puff Network on this site for a few months and customer service is very fast and impressive. It’s also nice that you can cash-out anytime via PayPal and get paid quicker than some of the net terms of most other ad networks.
The downside of Puff Network is the CPM deteriorated over time and the payouts are overall lower than that of Mantis or CannBe.
As of 2023, Puff Network is not operational. Their site is down.
Traffic Roots – Now More Ads On General Sites
Traffic Roots is a US-based cannabis ad network that received funding from Canopy Boulder. You can find a much more detailed rundown of Traffic Roots here. They deliver ads across cannabis and other sites and give advertisers the option to show traffic on adult networks as well.
Traffic Roots Review, Publisher Side
Unfortunately, Traffic Roots paid out the lowest rate of any cannabis ad network we tried. They also had a $250 minimum cashout, which is substantially more than any of the other cannabis ad networks. The overall CPM paid out several times lower than other cannabis ad networks.
Lately, it looks like Traffic Roots now also focuses on non-cannabis sites that still allow cannabis and CBD ads. For companies looking to advertise cheaper, but not necessarily targeted at cannabis alone, it might be a good option.
For those looking for more targeted cannabis and CBD traffic, the standard cannabis ad networks may be more effective.
We haven’t tried the following sites, but they indicate that they may also be cannabis-friendly ad network and affiliate alternatives.
Kush Clicks Marijuana Ad Network
Kush Clicks is a US-based company that helps advertisers connect with publishers. It does not seem that this network actually takes any direct publishers but is more in the business of assisting advertisers, possibly with multiple platforms.
All of these specifically prohibit cannabis, marijuana, CBD, drugs in general, or “any illegal activity” even by other countries’ laws.
The topical CBD exception
All ad networks do allow hemp-derived topicalCBD advertising. This means:
bath bombs
cosmetics
pet products
lotions
beauty care
Anything that is a non-ingested application (you do not eat it, drink it, smoke it, vape it, etc.). This is a really weird exception, and takes a lot of explaining. Since CBD is federally legal to sell (barring all the health claims restricted by the FDA), all CBD should be allowed. Word is still out on Delta 8, too.
Other than the US, only four countries in the world allow complete, unfettered recreational cannabis use: Canada, Uruguay, Georgia, and South Africa, and of those four, only Canada and Uruguay allow the sale of cannabis products (the others allow consumption but not free trade). Roughly one-third (???) of the other nations on Earth allow cannabis in some limited degree for medical purposes, personal use, or decriminalization.
Now, the Internet is a global market. This means, when you advertise on the Internet, you have far more to worry about than your own country’s laws. True, your country may let you post whatever the heck you want on the Internet… and other countries can ban your website! Advertising networks want to be as global as possible because that increases the income pool for the ad network and its clients alike. So if an ad network takes the conservative approach and prohibits content that could be illegal in almost any country, they broaden their scope and increase potential revenue.
Not only does the cannabis industry fall into the grayest of legal gray areas right now, but it’s far from being the only controversial industry. Just for one example, here’s the list of prohibited content on Taboola, and the even longer list of partially allowed, but restricted content. Stuff like tobacco, prescription medications, and firearms are prohibited right out. There are even restrictions on dental products, cosmetics, and cryptocurrency! Beyond that, literally, every ad and its landing page is screened by personnel for quality, spamminess, and general edgy practices.
So cannabis is just too hard-core for the global ad market. You have to remember also that outside of international laws, advertising an edgy product causes other sponsors to drop out. There are products that don’t want to advertise on certain sites, and there are sites that don’t want certain products advertised there.
These same kinds of hangups are affecting other financial spheres of the cannabis industry, like banking and insurance. It’s one reason why your local dispensary still deals only in cash. Times may change later, but even if the US goes fully legal like Canada, digital marketing will always be weird for the cannabis industry, as is advertising for other adult-oriented products.
We’ll keep this list updated!
readers, we welcome your input if you have experience with a marketing platform in the scope of the cannabis industry – but negative and positive stories. Business owners, we mean you too, don’t be shy! Check-in in the comments below or in our comfy forum.
