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Fake Marijuana Reviews



Canada’s Cannabis Culture magazine has a very good review of a few different varieties of “legal marijuana alternatives.” In particular, they did a test smoke of various products from the industry “leaders”, International Oddities and Riverdale Organics. None of these products of course actually contain any marijuana at all, and hence don’t pass muster. Also, the information they gathered from these companies is pretty hysterical:

After their products arrived, I called up these two companies to ask them about their wares. Spokesmen for both companies refused to identify their ingredients. I asked the Riverdale Organics spokesman what cheshteya was, and he told me that “only the top, top people, our founders, know what these herbs are.” He explained that they would not reveal that information, but that he believed that cheshteya “comes from the Caribbean.”

The International Oddities spokesman told me that their products were all “unique plant hybrids, splices of esoteric herbs.” I pressed him on this, asking how it was possible to hybridize and splice different plants together. He said it was a “secret process” known only to the highest echelons of the company. Yet their products are clearly not unique hybrids, but rather different herbs mashed together and smeared with resin.

Anyway, this review is definitely worth checking out if you’ve ever wondered about these any of these products.

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7 Reader Responses

  1. jp Says:
    October 24th, 2005 at 5:13 pm

    haha! they’re probably whatever the “top, top” founders had lying around in their spice cabinet

  2. james Says:
    October 24th, 2005 at 8:40 pm

    I tried some Herbal Ecstasy and other things like that… they’re bunk.

  3. vjb2 Says:
    October 25th, 2005 at 2:01 am

    Then you are a ninny. At no point in the ads for these products do they claim to be weed, or to have any measurable effect, instead speaking in vague terms. CC worte this less as any sort of expose, since all this is obvious, but as an attempt to attack HIGH TIMES’ major advertisers, since CC’s content is simply no comparison. CC is the “herbal smoke” to HT’s bitchen hydro, end of story.

  4. james Says:
    October 25th, 2005 at 2:57 pm

    Who are you calling a ninny, me or Tim? If you’re calling ME a ninny, then I suggest yoh stop reading things into terse statements such as “I tried some Herbal Ecstasy and other things like that… they’re bunk.” Where in that statement do I claim that I thought a product named Herbal Ecstasy was the real thing?

    “Bitchen hydro”? That’s ninny talk if I ever heard it, you fuck. Now go get your High Time shoebox and shine some shoes…

    (Yeah, I’m in a bad mood– what else is new?)

  5. alistair Says:
    October 25th, 2005 at 4:41 pm

    anyone going for the bitchen hydro ruse is a dumbass. we had a rule growing up in montreal; friends don`t let friends smoke shoe polish…..or something like that. i always wondered what the hell those legal high ads were about. but not enough to get some.

  6. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 25th, 2005 at 7:57 pm

    Yeah, don’t understand who the ninny remark was aimed at, vjb2. I was merely linking to what I thought was an interesting article on something I’ve wondered about myself, but have no intention of trying. I think it’s worthwhile info as I’ve never seen reviews of these products anywhere

  7. james Says:
    October 25th, 2005 at 8:35 pm

    I think I was the target of the ninny-ism, but all I was doing was offering a Consumer Report.

    I’m in a better mood now– more rational, less ornery…



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