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CatInATurtleShell
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PSA: Moldy Bud
#21569196 - 04/19/15 06:38 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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Hey folks, just thought I'd stop by to share something I learned about moldy bud this week. Don't smoke it.
I've been an avid toker for most of my life and until this past week, I'd never smoked seriously moldy bud before. I know we all smoke moldy bud every once in a while without knowing it, but if your weed tastes fucking weird check it for mold.
Now, I keep my stash in a mason jar and have never had any problems with mold before, but Wednesday night I sat down before bed and smoked a bowl to help me fall asleep. I usually don't smoke too much before bed, so I didn't notice anything off at first other than the taste, which was almost sickeningly fresh. Like cleaning supplies. I was smoking the random shake from about five or six strains mixed in my stash so I attributed the taste to some sort of blend I guess.
The next morning I woke up with a nasty headache and some stomach pains so I decided to smoke some more to quiet that down. I smoked a fat bowl and my shit still tasted really weird.
After the bowl I got up to do some shit and immediately had a pounding headache. Long story short, I couldn't move and the effort it took to get out of my bed and to the sink outside of my room to refill my water made my head hurt so much that I had no choice but to vomit violently over and over again every time I wanted more water. Throughout the day I was not capable of anything other than clutching my stomach which felt like it was trying to crawl out through my intestines and trying to sleep it off. Even after there was nothing left to vomit I kept puking bile and then just dry heaving. I couldn't even keep my eyes open for more than a few seconds at a time because everything was just so overwhelming.
Now it's been about three days and I've hardly been able to eat the last few days and I've had a throbbing headache. My roommate told me my smoke smelled like cleaning products, and sure enough when I broke up some of my nugs there were fuzzy little tufts of mold hidden away in some of them.
So just as a warning to others so that hopefully somebody can avoid a situation like mine, check your buds for mold! If your shit smells like ammonia, don't smoke it. That shit will fuck you up.
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wouldn't the heat kill it when smoked?
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Sounds like food poisoning.
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Re: PSA: Moldy Bud [Re: TopPmz]
#21569248 - 04/19/15 06:51 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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the taste of moldy bud smoke is freakin gnarly.
I use tortillas to get dry bud more damp. But if you forget about them for a while it molds
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I worked at a despensory in Flint and we got this terrible shit in. Moldy looking, nasty, he dried it in the microwave. Dood bought the plant from us like 4wks prior as a clone baby. Anyway, he fuckin sells it back to us, the greedy schmucks i worked 4 bought it back and we sold it for 10/g. AND PEOPLE BOUGHT IT! Make me fucked up just smelling it, and not in a good way.
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That is awful 
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Quote:
Shroom Kitty said: wouldn't the heat kill it when smoked?
The heat will kill the mold, yes, but the spores are still left and that's what you inhale.
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Yup I'm definitely looking to get my hands on some of these now.
And yeah it's one of those smells that leaves a terrible haunting memory on your mind. Like the taste of raw HBWR seeds.
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Burping/opening all of my airtight jars at least once per day works just fine for me, but obviously silica gel won't hurt.
Was it a puke-like smell? Not the catpissy ammonia smell, though the two are similar and often come together.
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Yeah I just burp my mason jars once a week and the bud stays fine. 3 ounces fit in each so it's not hard to do.
Mold is nothing to mess with. Especially in mushroom grows too. I work in business/commercial utilities and there are some places where a surgical mask doesn't do it.
I bought a face respirator. I ended up spending six months of the last 18 very incredibly sick from some nasty mold. My doctors kept me on antibiotics but obviously that didn't work for obvious reasons.
And to answer above, yeah you'll kill it with fire, but that inhale of mold spores before the flame hits it can be enough to get you.
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Re: PSA: Moldy Bud [Re: Adden]
#21569596 - 04/19/15 08:21 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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I don't know why OP thinks we've all smoked moldy bud.... I keep my shit air tight and give it breathing room every so often and make sure it's as dry as it can be.
Never once had a mold problem. If I saw or smelt anything weird, I'd just dump it out. It's just weed.
Mold is nothing to fuck with.
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Shroom Kitty said: wouldn't the heat kill it when smoked?
No....
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Re: PSA: Moldy Bud [Re: Uzziel]
#21569628 - 04/19/15 08:36 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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I'm sure not everyone has, but many of us have ran into weed that smells like cat-piss, or mildew/hay.
@Templar Well that sucks Hope you're feeling better now.
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If this happened we usually left the bud in the sin for a day. Usually killed most of the mold. Only had to do it once, but it worked out.
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TheGreenArrow said: If this happened we usually left the bud in the sin for a day. Usually killed most of the mold. Only had to do it once, but it worked out.
It's never about the mold - it's the spores they release. It's toxic and depending on the variety, it can be deadly.
Bad move. Don't fuck with mold. If you want to see or read about horror stories, you can go check out people who inhaled mold spores and get deathly ill. I think TEMPLAR just said he had an experience with this issue (mold)
I wouldn't do it again if I were you.... weed is not worth months or years of agonizing pain.
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Re: PSA: Moldy Bud [Re: Uzziel]
#21569697 - 04/19/15 09:00 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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I still haven't recovered. Then since my lungs were compromised I fell into multiple lung and sinus infections. I just took 6 weeks off from January to February, a few days here and there the past few weeks and have to use some 2 in 1 inhaler. My deep lungs are all fucked. Infections got so bad in my sinuses that my mouth swelled up like I bit into a prickly cactus hours on end and the skin started sloughing off. My gums receded. I hadn't smoked for 2 months. Weed was the only bronchial dialator so I could breathe. I'd constantly wake up in the middle of the night suffocating. It's some serious shit, and it's why houses are inspected for mold and asbestos before sale. When in doubt throw it out, don't risk your health for that bag of weed of all things. You can't buy your health back but you can always buy more weed. This was tens of thousands throughout this entire endeavor (thank god for health insurance). My company all of a sudden follows OSHA regulations. Since I didn't report it that day without 3 days missed work following, I wasn't compensated, thus compounding money lost out of my pocket.
Worse yet? I had to put the puzzle pieces together to figure out what happened and I should've listened to my gut instinct of not working in that dank and dark and damp cellar. Likely had asbestos too, the buildings were from 1880-1930 and we're used as extra holding cells for inmates during prohibition. Cuffs were still there. More of manacles, really. All of it for a few hundred bucks throwing some cat 5/6, coax cable and 16 pair phone wire up a few conduits.
Don't mess around guys. Especially mushroom grows which can give you mycotoxicosis as well. Be safe, thank you OP for the PSA.
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DustBunny said: I'm sure not everyone has, but many of us have ran into weed that smells like cat-piss, or mildew/hay.
@Templar Well that sucks Hope you're feeling better now.
That's just the windex. That shit will give youva headach too. They do it to add weight and precieved potency to dry bud. Fuckheads.
Yeah, pally, me too. Mullin is good for the lungs, i hear. Smoked or tea. Sending some reiki love enegy if you'll accept. Love and healing
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Re: PSA: Moldy Bud [Re: Adden]
#21569747 - 04/19/15 09:13 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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TEMPLAR PALADIN said: I still haven't recovered. Then since my lungs were compromised I fell into multiple lung and sinus infections. I just took 6 weeks off from January to February, a few days here and there the past few weeks and have to use some 2 in 1 inhaler. My deep lungs are all fucked. Infections got so bad in my sinuses that my mouth swelled up like I bit into a prickly cactus hours on end and the skin started sloughing off. My gums receded. I hadn't smoked for 2 months. Weed was the only bronchial dialator so I could breathe. I'd constantly wake up in the middle of the night suffocating. It's some serious shit, and it's why houses are inspected for mold and asbestos before sale. When in doubt throw it out, don't risk your health for that bag of weed of all things. You can't buy your health back but you can always buy more weed. This was tens of thousands throughout this entire endeavor (thank god for health insurance). My company all of a sudden follows OSHA regulations. Since I didn't report it that day without 3 days missed work following, I wasn't compensated, thus compounding money lost out of my pocket.
Worse yet? I had to put the puzzle pieces together to figure out what happened and I should've listened to my gut instinct of not working in that dank and dark and damp cellar. Likely had asbestos too, the buildings were from 1880-1930 and we're used as extra holding cells for inmates during prohibition. Cuffs were still there. More of manacles, really. All of it for a few hundred bucks throwing some cat 5/6, coax cable and 16 pair phone wire up a few conduits.
Don't mess around guys. Especially mushroom grows which can give you mycotoxicosis as well. Be safe, thank you OP for the PSA.
good god. Now I'm gonna be terrified of dumping contams
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Kill them with fire. 
It's the pink, black and white molds (mostly) that we now abandon job sites for and make them wait until cleanup crews come in. I'm training a new guy and he saw green saying "oh that grows on bread who can really care". He didn't put his respirator on and got canned.
As far as grows though, don't you guys just lysol the shit out of them and bury it? I'd never disturb a mold colony in mushrooms or weed. Adequate ventilation.
Things like this are reasons why people are so adamant about not even trying to eat a mushroom that stayed a little wet and "looks funny", smoke moldy bags of weed. If I was growing mushrooms I wouldn't even try to cut contams out to save it, but knowing what mold can do to your system makes it not worth the risk.
Please be safe everyone. This isn't scare tactics, it's advice, and what happened to me personally.
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Common urban legend, but you can leave a pungent nug in an airtight jar for a few days and find out if interested. First the smell mutes, then you get the mildew/hay smell, followed by the ammonia/catpiss smell.
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