Mint Cake, what can I say, what a beaut.
This was the first time I had tried this strain, and this has been one of the best weed decisions I've made. Mint Cake is a a hybrid strain, according to 253farmacy, between Lemon Pound Cake 75 and Kush Mints. It was comprised of 0.59% THC, 22.59% THCA, 0% CBD, and 0.09% CBDA and smoked out of a 1 percolator bong, around 2 puffs worth.
Leafy reported that this strain results in a relaxed, euphoric, and tingly feeling, which to me, sounds like a the trifecta of orgasms. I also felt the tingly sensation, specifically in my slightly shaking hands, but also a slight tingle like someone hitting your funny bone. You feel jittery towards the top of your high, which could also feel like tingling. 253farmacy noted that it results in increase focus and functionality, hence why I would choose to write this post now, mid-high. Lucky you, productive stoners!
Apparently Leafly also reported that it helps with inflammation, pain, and arthritis, which targets your joints mostly. I don't experience chronic pain, but I have occasional mid-twenty-year-old back aches due to my job (therapists sit a lot), so I can imagine that this strain would help with overall muscle pain as well.
Mint Cake has a more distinct, direct, earthy taste and takes effect quickly. It's reported that the main terpene present in this strain is Limonene, which is found in citrus, like orange and lemon rinds. No wonder it's a direct taste; on the first draft of this post, I wanted to use the word sharp, but I didn't know how it would be perceived next to the word 'earthy'. Mid-high I felt as though there were electric currents driving through my body like a racecar on a track. Instantly, I wanted to play music. I've been trying to diversify my music taste and hopefully discover some new bands. I was dancing around my apartment, feeling genuinely happy, therefore the euphoric review.
It's a hardcore vibing strain. Your head will bob up and down eternally. It helps you absorb the melody and really construct a little story with the lyrics, bringing you deeper into your understanding of music. I've always been jealous of those who learned to play an instrument. Unlike more recently in my life, I was an impatient person, especially as a child, which is when it's easier to learn music. I can't go back to change that because I think it gives me a unique relationship with music where I'm mesmerized in it and how humans can construct it, something so abstract as music. I would describe it as an appreciation for music from someone who know they will never be able to use such magic. God, I'm going to proof read this tomorrow and delete half of this. I've used this phrase before and I will do it again, are these actually philosophical of the babblings of a stoner? Let me know in the comments.
But lets just follow this idea because I know I can relate it to the topic that I wanted to talk about.
So! Music, an extraordinary concept that consists of a collection of atoms constructing a sound wave hoping the next collection of atoms will perceive it emotionally, physically, existentially, whatever. It's a superpower in my opinion, it's something etic, something that proceeds culture. Some things are found in every culture on the planet, throughout history, like food, sex, and music. Now please correct me if I'm wrong in the comments if these aren't found in every culture throughout the planet's history, but I'm pretty sure they are.
I love music, as do 6 billion other people on this planet, but I also love food! I'm really grateful that my parents did not instill unhealthy eating habits with me, growing up; I have a healthy relationship with food. This is how much I love food, whenever people ask me what sense I would lose if I was forced to pick one, and every time I would say touch, because there is no way I'm picking taste, therefore smell, so I can have the most enhanced taste. I can't pick music because of what I previously stated, and I'm very clumsy, I would get myself killed if my sight was immediately taken from me.
"SO" and I were talking about life and things and the conversation eventually led to the way that society and core functions of day-to-day life make it more challenging to do the right things. The way things are structured, existing feels like a chore that must be done regularly (i.e. filing your taxes, 401k, out-of-network and in-network providers); these all make things more difficult to get through. Which, the whole point of functionality is efficiently at a societal level.
I felt this at the core of my being. We're not depressed, but maybe "existentially disappointed" is the right phrase. We actually just finished talking about related topics and I need to write down everything before my high mind travels a little longer with the thread.
Note: The following babblings of a stoner are from two liberal stoners who have been born and raised in the US, so these thoughts are very culturally bound.
In American media, we have the following trope, "I hate my spouse. I hate my job. I hate my life."
The miserable person who missed their potential and settled for less. The fear that has been instilled in all of us. Are we going to work hard and be the very best, or are we going to settle and have just a normal life?
But here's the back up question, why is normal life so bad? Because it's designed to be difficult. Society has designed the system around two things (please tell me if you think of any more), power and resources. Year after year, figures in society make more selfish and more unethical decisions to gain power/resources, resulting in the modern inconvenient society we have today (i.e. taxes, insurance, healthcare, etc.).
We are Americans being worked to death, exhausted, financially limited worker bees. We see the top enjoying the world, learning about new things, and influencing the system that made them; we crave it.
Here in America, our labor force is designed by the wealthy, those who have power and resources, to crush the working and lower classes, to continue to control the power/resources. The "American Dream" is a weekend at Vegas, all of the working and lower classes save up their resources for one chance of getting rich quick, this is the one time in your life you'll probably go to Vegas and if it's not now, then it'll never happen to you. You want to be like the ones at the top, who have it easy, who don't have to worry about basic necessities and luxuries like education, with the possibility and opportunity to make this world a better place for the ones like us, down here. We walk into the casinos believing that we can win, but it's designed to pick extremely few, made by the extremely few, while sacrificing the resources of the working and lower classes. We spend all our resources trying our luck, but it's not in our favor because the system is designed to have employees playing the games with the customers, stacking the deck for the house, just to lessen the probability of you actually coming on top. You lose everything, and are doomed to roll the rock up the hill like Sisyphus, eternally.
They tell you you're not working hard enough, or you're doing all the wrong things, but you're not naïve, you are just someone who the system doesn't work for. The system is designed to reap somebody else's sown.
What are your thoughts on this take on American society? Let me know in the comments!
- IWWSS
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