| I remember my first experience with legal buds. A | | | | My friend explained that legal bud is the latest trend |
| friend of mine broke out a can of legal bud when we | | | | in legal herbs and these rare plants have been |
| were walking through a park. I couldn’t believe it. | | | | uniquely chosen for their particular qualities. Although |
| Right there in broad daylight, he rolled up a fatty of | | | | some claim it tastes remarkably similar, legal herb is |
| the greenest herb I’d ever seen, and then | | | | not marijuana, does not contain any THC and is not |
| sparked it up like we were in a coffee house in | | | | marketed as a drug. Instead it’s an exotic |
| Amsterdam. I nearly floated out of my skin. | | | | smoking alternative, the perfect way to mellow out |
| There weren’t too many people out, but this | | | | without risking losing your job or going to jail or |
| was a place often frequented by cops, and I was | | | | getting looked at sideways on your lunch break for |
| understandably nervous. My friend just kept puffing | | | | firing up a stinky tobacco cigarette. |
| calmly away, just as if he’d lit up a Camel and | | | | He was quick to warn me that all legal bud is not the |
| was having an ordinary smoke. | | | | same. Some less reputable companies sell the brittle |
| “Are you crazy?” I said. “Aren’t you | | | | shake of their plants, weirdly dyed with food coloring. |
| going to get us busted?” | | | | Often, it’s pasty and crumbly like oregano. This |
| My friend smiled and showed me the can of legal | | | | ditch weed gives the legal herb industry a bad name |
| buds. You could see the bud through the transparent | | | | and it’s hard to tell the good companies from |
| lid provided in the package, and when opened it | | | | the bad companies. Legal bud should live up to its |
| shined like an emerald, the bud puffy and green, | | | | name and be bouncy, bright green buds, perfect for |
| almost bubbly. It had a brand name, but marijuana | | | | packing in a pipe or rolling up a nice fattie. It should |
| wasn’t it. The smell was familiar yet exotic. You | | | | be so fluffy it actually bounces as you pack it in the |
| could tell this was no ordinary cigarette. He offered | | | | pipe, like the bud of a flower that smells like an |
| me a hit, even passing it to the left as if we were at | | | | exotic dream. |
| a concert, never looking my way or altering his gaze | | | | I learned you can get it online or in many tobacco |
| into space. | | | | stores or an exotic smoke shop. It’s good to |
| It tasted wild, packed a punch, and I kept licking my | | | | know beforehand the quality you are buying. The |
| lips as I passed it back to him. Images of dorm days | | | | best legal smoke is high-grade, premium buds, the |
| and Allman Brothers concerts floated through my | | | | kind you wouldn’t be embarrassed showing to a |
| mind, and I felt relaxed and calm, supremely mellow | | | | friend. |
| in the bright sunshine of the afternoon. | | | | |