Cannabis Flower

Loose Flower

Loose flower refers to the dried bud from the cannabis plant. When you purchase loose flower at a dispensary, it is bud that has been cured and trimmed for your consumption.

Before smoking or ingesting loose cannabis, cannabis users often grind it and pack it into a pipe or joint. Ground flower lends benefits to the consumer – it typically burns more evenly, and it is easier to measure, manipulate and smoke.

Cannabis Pre-Rolls

Pre-rolled joints are packaged and sold in marijuana dispensaries—it’s a joint that someone else has rolled for you. Pre-rolls have become the preferred term, but many cannabis consumers still refer to them as “joint.”

Although you can roll your own joints at manually home, most dispensaries use a machine, ensuring a more consistent fill. Pre-rolls are crafted using thin paper, often rice, wood pulp or hemp, and include a paper filter tip.

Cannabis Shake

Premium flower consists of a well-manicured bud with the marijuana leaves surrounding the flowers well-defined. In contrast to premium flower, popcorn flower consists of a loose bud with tiny leaves.

Since shake is loose plant material packaged together, it can consist of different types of cannabis plants that are harvested together. Because of this, some dispensaries sell shake a lower cost than premium bud. However, often times shake contains plenty of kief that also fell off the buds, making it a potent product.

Popcorn Flower

Popcorn buds are buds that are just about or a little smaller than popcorn. They usually have an intermediate position between budget cannabis and high-quality bud. The potency of popcorn buds should be on par with, if not slightly lower than, A-grade buds of the same strain (by the same producer).

If you already love what a particular producer is growing, why not buy a pack of their tight nugs at a discount? The producer gets to sell their entire crop and you get A-grade buds at B-grade prices.

Reserve Flower

Reserve or Private Reserve flower is the highest quality flower available at that dispensary or by that grower. Cannabis flowers can be graded as low shelf, mid shelf, top shelf, and Reserve. There are different price ranges for each shelf, depending on the quality of product. Private reserve cannabis commands the highest premium.

Reserve buds are exotic and are often grown by an influential grower or brand. Sometimes a rare phenotype of a common strain is considered Private Reserve because it has a different color, flavor, aroma, or other unique traits.

Joints

As we touched on above, most professionals call joints pre-rolls these days. However, a joint is different than a pre-roll, technically speaking.

A pre-roll is a ready-to-use joint that you can purchase from a dispensary that has pre-rolled the cannabis for you. Although a pre-roll is indeed a joint, one can certainly purchase flower and rolling papers and roll their own joint at home rather than purchasing a pre-roll. It’s really just a matter of preference.

Pipes and Bongs

A bong is a cannabis smoking device made of glass, wood, plastic, silicone, ceramic, acrylic or metal.

Some of the most popular types of bongs include: Beaker, Bubble or round base, Multi-chamber, Percolator, Recycler, Straight tube, Zig zag and Carburetor.

Because a pipe is smaller than other smoking devices, like most bongs, it’s more discreet and easier to clean. Hand pipes are the most commonly used for those who like smoking on the go. You can simply throw your pipe in your bag and not have to worry about a bunch of accessories or storage space.

Dry Flower Vaporizers

Dry herb vaporizers are a type of vaporizer that is used to transform dry herbs into vapors. They are in contrast to e-cigs that use liquid cartridges.

One of the best things about dry herb vaporizers is that they’re easy to use, which makes them great for beginners. Whether you’re new to vaping or new to cannabis consumption altogether, a dry herb vaporizer can be a great introduction to these methods of consumption.