Can you smoke weed that isn dry

Over time, it begins to lose its aroma and potency. According to some older research, weed loses roughly 16 percent of its THC after 1 year, and it just keeps dropping from there:.

Mold is often hard to see unless you look very closely. It typically looks like white powdery or fuzzy spots, some of which can be pretty small. Moldy weed usually smells musty, kind of like hay. A study by researchers from University of California, Davis found bacteria and mold on 20 cannabis samples bought from dispensaries and pot growers in Northern California.

In people with weakened immune systems , inhaling smoke or vapors from weed containing bacteria or fungi could cause serious illness or even death. Light, humidity, temperature, and oxygen can all mess with cannabis and affect its aroma, taste, and potency potential. Ditch plastic baggies and containers.

Plastic holds static that can affect delicate trichomes — the tiny, crystal-like hairs on flowers that produce cannabinoids and terpenes — and mess with potency. Glass jars with an airtight seal, like mason jars, are the way to go. Weed is best kept at a relative humidity of 59 to 63 percent. Any higher and you run the risk of trapping moisture, which can lead to the growth of mold.

Anything lower can cause your weed to dry out. Seeds are even worse; they'll literally explode when set on fire, potentially blowing out an entire bowl or ruining your joint. Even sellers of low-grade ganja usually won't sell you stuff with seeds in it, but if you're continually finding a few in each bag, it's time to find a new source.

In this sense, marijuana is like any produce you might buy at the grocery store: You can just tell when it's healthy and ripe for consumption. Good weed has more vibrant color, like a thriving plant. It has a heady, pungent aroma and taste. It's somewhat springy, dense and coated with sticky, frosty, crystalline trichomes — tiny glands packed with THC, the psychoactive cannabinoid that gets you high. Bad weed, by comparison, looks like some junk you yanked out from underneath your lawnmower.

It's paler or duller in color, sometimes brown or yellowish. It's often dry or more crumbly, and it lacks a distinctive smell although sometimes it smells like hay or grass. It's also sure to taste terrible. In certain cases, this kind of marijuana may have been "blasted," or entirely stripped of its cannabinoids to make butane hash oil.

Either way, avoid it. Arguably the worst thing about bad pot is that it's not very potent — which means you have to smoke a ton of it to feel anything like the high you're after. It should still taste like weed, without off flavors. Enjoy your re-discovered stash! Kelsey Kennedy. Can Weed Go Bad? How to Store Weed The best way to avoid this question in the first place is to store your weed properly.

A container with an airtight lid means the freshest weed possible. Dank Depot on Flickr. Related Tags Health Drugs.