There is no standard system in place for grading marijuana quality, so it’s often hard to tell the difference between someones ‘good’ weed and another person’s good weed. There are various categorical names for grading marijuana quality on the street, and unless you buy marijuana often it is quite easy to get turned upside down in the world of marijuana quality and grades.
This list goes from lowest quality to the highest quality marijuana:
- Schwag, Dirt weed, Bobby brown, Catnip, Brick weed- The lowest grade of marijuana available. It has very low potency and quality, due to its either harvested too late or too early in the growing cycle. Schwag is often poorly cured and poorly treated low grade marijuana that is often dry typically brown, or green/brown and has loads of seeds and stems. It is compacted/flattened and smells bad. Majority of schwag is associated with marijuana coming from Mexico pressed into bricks for easy transportation across the border. Schwag is very cheap (ounce for less than $50), and you have to smoke much more to get as high as higher potency marijuana.
- Reg, Regs, Reggies, Regular weed,Regular bud- This is a step above schwag, though some higher quality schwag could be considered reg marijuana and vice versa. It depends on who you talk to. Regs is regular bud that you can usually find pretty much anywhere for a decent price, about $5 a gram. Reggies are usually green, but it doesn’t have any THC crystals, or anything that makes it look too beautiful, but it’ll get you higher than the schwag. Regs give off that typical marijuana odor, nothing too good, but it doesn’t smell bad Reggies usually has lots of seeds and stems as well, you won’t get a headache from smoking regs.
- Mids, Middies, High Mids, Low Mids- Mids is a step above the regs, usually low mids are a little bit above regular bud, and can overlap. Mids will definitely get you higher and usually cost a little more, but they also look better, a brighter more greenish plant and were handled a lot better than schwag and regs. Mids still have seeds and stems, but not as much as schwags and regs, a lot of high mids that I can get usually have very few seeds and stems, and are often nugs from the marijuana branch. High mids are usually a pretty good value for the high you get, at around $7.5 a gram high mids can get you pretty high, and usually smell really good for what you pay for.
- Beasters, Fire Mids, Kind Bud- Beasters is some pretty dank bud, the next step above high mids, beasters are also called fire mids. Usually have some good looking buds with some dark green and bright green colors. Usually have red or orange hairs, and contains no seeds, this marijuana smells good and fresh, sometimes it is still a little damp from being harvested. Usually comes in dense nuggets, sometimes can be fluffy nugs though. Costs a bit more than high mids, probably around $10 a gram, but if you know the right people you could get a quarter for about $40/$45.
- Dro, hydroponic, baby dro, chronic- Dro is home grown hydroponic marijuana, it grows much faster and of higher potency because of the hydroponics. Come in dense or fluffy bright green nuggets with hair visible, and THC crystals abound. Usually have hardly any or no seeds. Dro is a step below headies and usually cost around $20 a gram, $15 a gram if you have a good dealer. Dro smells good and is dank weed, it can get your room smelling like weed in a couple of minutes. You can probably smell it from all the way across the room when it’s still in the bag.
- Headies, Heads, medical marijuana, strains like purple haze, white widow, kush, etc- Headies are usually the named strains that you all those medical marijuana smokers smoking on tv and in the documentaries, they are brand name headies and you get what you pay for, usually $20-$35 a gram. They have beautiful colors, often blues, purples, greens, and have an amazing smell. THC crystals are just glistening off headies, and they’re usually very sticky from the resin. Some are developed for certain characteristics like pain relief, depression, and anxiety. Headies is the kind of marijuana that has been selectively grown for decades to get the most THC and the best quality marijuana out there.
As you can tell there are a variety of marijuana qualities and grades, and it takes some time to become familiar with them all, usually when buying on the street you learn from trial and error, because unless someone knows exactly what kind of strain your headies marijuana is. There is no way to tell unless you have a geneticist check out the DNA, sure you can guess, but there’s no 100% surefire way.
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Yea blazed ur on crack i live in Jersey and buy by the pound multiple, and i dont even get it that cheap… ur buyin ari or some bullshit… Kush goes from 350-500 depending on the amount bought.. but i usually get off single oz for 450 all day.. Lets just say u made a mistake and u ment 120 for a qtr oz thats about right… lol smdh….
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the ounce better give me a blowjob when ever i want it to if it cost 450. your a idiot for paying that kinda cash for 1 ounce, i get a ounce of top of the line purp for 200 cuz i get it from a small time grower, anyways fire green with a shit load of crystals sells for 300-350 at best and legit despencerys in cali sell ozez of high grade for like 280 and purp for like painful cancer is like 350 at most. Also the guy who wrote this is completly talking outa his ass cuz mids is zona and its 5 a gram plus that mids pic is low grade crip which is 10-15 a gram and the dankest with flavors is 15 and 20-25 if ur geting ripped off.
i was born and raised in NJ i pay 350 375 an O … now i live out west where 8ths are 25 30 bucks and O is like 250 – 200 trust me dude bud is mad cheap out west . in denver you can get top shelf from any dispenser for 250 an O
im from santa cruz and i go to orange county,and humbolt a lot and just by walking around i can get 40 dollors worth of weed for free up in humbolt.they dont have to know you,i bought a half pound for 800 dollors and it wasent crappy weed it was good shit sour ak-47 and grand daddy purp
I live in south texas n I get an ounce of dro for 300-350 tops. So to me those priced are high. But then again we barely started gettn dro around here a few yrs. Ago. But reggie 10bks a qtr.
i can get good 33 gram ounces for 200 nzd
i have a question can you smoke the stem of regs and get high?
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Hey Henry I live in south Texas too, what city do you live in? I just moved here I need some hookups
i get an o and a half for $180
i live in del rio texas and i get ozs for 180 of some dank shit, good quality.. you just have to find the right guy..
In Orlando Florida I can get a O for $275 of Some Sour D and shit like it. I just got a O of Blue dream for 275….Only one i have ever paid over 300 ($325) was a O of white rhino.
i live in new hampshire, and it’s 25 a gram of blue dream.
chicago suburbs and our levels are shitty weed (dont even know where to get it but Ive seen it), then regs/mids (use them interchangably) and they cost $10/g with good bulk dicounts, then good/dank regs which are too good to just call regs but not quite up to the next level and this also costs $10/g with the same discounts (i usually get dank regs but sometimes my guy cant get it so thats when I get just regs). The last level is dank/great/crazy. This costs $20/g and cant usually get discounts cuz I dont go to my regular guy for this, but if he has it I can get discounts. The highest level has a lot of variation in quality but those are the prices unles you get some amazingly mind blowing stuff and that will cost more but that is rare.
You guys are lucky, over here in the east coast everythings so expensive. Usually 10 a gram for shit 20 for good quality. 50-70 for an eighth. 100-120for a quarter. 200 for a half. and 44 for a full ounce.
You guys are wack for paying that amount for herb, come too BC Canada, all you yanks are retarded,real Bud is BC bud fools
160-200 for kush and thats canadian money
Hey how much mid grade will I get for 500 dollars I live in NC.
Then you guys are gonna shit your pants. I use to do a bit of peddling in the early 70′s. lb. of top leaf Jamacian $300. I still connections and can get any seed I want. Decided to try the WW two yrs ago and its gone faster than I can grow it. I do it for a kick and past time. Here comes the mind blower to ya all.
O’s go for $75…… bet ya wished ya lived near me. Nova Scotia baby. Nova Scotia
@Randell, I live in NC you’re looking between 3.5-4 ounces in my area.
Im gettin headies for like 25 a G and it’s ok quality. I live in Massachusetts and everything is mad expensive
I’m 63 and I had a operation on my neck for servical stynosis, leaving me with pain and depression I was prescribed Dilaudid (narcotic) and oxycontien for pain. I wanted so badly to get off of oxy that I just STOPPED! A friend of mine gave me some marijuana (a high quality). After smoking this my depression had subsided, I was getting up doing things, I had regained my energy and appetite . I don’t know much about the trade, but if anyone wants to contact me, thats cool because I don”t have any contacts and the the law enforcement is stupid and can kiss my ass!
Can I get a number for some blue dream I’m from chicago
yall are retarted i paid around 300 bucks to get my grow room going 3 years ago now im producing 6 lbs of ww every 6 months i have 30 plants growing at all times 15 in veg n 15 in flowering all my plants produce around 400 grams a plant stop wasting money buying bud. grow your own shit will be the best shit yall ever done! by the way i live in alabama an grow in a 10′ by 10′ by 10′ shed with a 1000w hps an 2 400w hds
i get medical from my uncle for 80 a oz and he has a growers card . he has alaskan thunder fuck for 60 a oz
i live in cary north carolina and grams costt 5 dollars for mids and 20 dollars for headies
Great point in that there really is no standard for grading marijuana. This is a major stumbling block in any legalization movement. If you can’t measure it, how are you going to control it.
Marijuana has always been a subjective substance. Its goodness has always been determined by aesthetics as opposed to science. Many times in the weed is simply smoked and either bought or not. When that is not possible, look and smell are used. Good weed sells. Bunk weed doesn’t.
Because THC content alone does not determine the actual “goodness” of any strain of marijuana, the use of scientific quantitative analysis is only one piece of the solution, but a good one.
Examples of this subjectivity are individuals who like browns, reds, and golds as opposed to the greens. A person who prefers outdoor grown over indoor grown weed. An individual who likes the localized strains like guerro, Panama Red, or Malawi. The character of these is achieved by being grown outdoors in their locales. A lot of early Baby Boomers and 60s kids are familiar with these weeds and would like to see them come back. There a lot of folks who prefer reds, golds, even browns, over any green, no matter how “good” the green is said to be. I’ve talked to a lot of folks, especially early Baby Boomers, who don’t get very high off the super hydros. A $50 eighth doesn’t go very far with us. We are from a time where one could not sell Any weed that was green. One could not sell something that could be grown relatively freely. Times changed but our taste preferences remained.
Even with the genetics from the legends, today’s indoor grown derivatives are not their ancestors. Whether the strain grown out of doors or indoors, that seed from wherever will not produce a product that is exactly like it’s parent due to environmental differences – the only way one can only get real Cambodian Red by growing it outdoors there. The beauty of cannabis is that no matter what seed strain used, when grown out of doors for several seasons, it will take on a unique character and taste given by that locale.
Some system is necessary that addresses the qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of marijuana in order to produce some standard that helps legalize it.
ya’ll niggas are crazy with your prices dam im glad i live in fl the orlando area i get oz of the best dank ever for 150 the most i ever paid was for some skunk purp i paid 225 for it an oz an some good midz 50 an oz an are 5 dollar bags are 1.5 gs for midz green green and one more thing FUK THE POLICE
i planted them,,, haha i tried but they were eaten by ants..
Maaan, I miss the Miami weed i used to get.. 3.5 for $50 of real good stuff.. Now, I live in Portage, IN. & can’t find a decent hook-up! If anyone know ANYONE in my area… let me know!
Live in chicago`s s.side but out west is where i grab my medical strains for straight pricing for the extreme quality strains. So be easy remember its 421 stoners are CHRONIALLY late!!!!!!
Lisa, you should either go into Michigan and try to make some friends, since they allow it medically up there. Indianapolis and Bloomington always seemed to have decent stuff that could be found, maybe try fort wayne?
KB is like $300ish an oz and Schwag-Mids run about $100-$110 from my experience around Indiana