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Illinois News Joint
JUNE 8, 2025
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Illinois News Joint
JUNE 8, 2025
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Illinois News Joint
JULY 14, 2025
My latest edible samples included a couple containers of Berry Burst Sweet Indica Gummies by Encore. The Berry Burst Sweet Indica Gummies came as a 10 pack with 10mg of THC per gummy. Though labelled indica, the effects landed in the middle with a functionable head high and a heavy body buzz.
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Illinois News Joint
MAY 10, 2025
As an oil ring started to show, the sweeter berry flavored infusion left the organic pepper and onion flavors tasting light and surprisingly floral. Overall, the Wake N Puff line delivered a balanced flavor infusion with experiential profiles that lined up with their indica-hybrid-sativa designations.
Illinois News Joint
MAY 8, 2025
Bio Jesus is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Bio Diesel and Gumbo. A slightly longer version of the classic cylindrical 510-threaded vape Cresco uses, there was a clear plastic mouthpiece, a branded glass tank, with a thick blue band at the base, indicating the indica nature of Bio-Jesus. For Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
MAY 29, 2023
During a recent visit to River Bluff Roselle , I stumbled upon Ozone’s Sweet Indica gummies and couldn’t resist picking up a sample to review. This flavor quickly dissipated, leaving a subtle bitterness from the cannabis oil as the finish. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
JANUARY 27, 2024
Blue Unicorn Poop is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Blue Sherbet and Unicorn Poop. These moonrocks are a blend of flower, kief, and oil that tested at 11.448% THCa, 48.847% THC, and 62.307% total cannabinoids. A cross section of the moonrock revealed a turf-green center soaked in deep-amber oil all the way to the core.
Illinois News Joint
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
DNA Cake is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Gelato Sorbet and Lava Cake. The aroma inside the jar was layered with a sweet top-end combination of vanilla-buttercream frosting and cooked carrots, followed by a warmer, earthy blend of wet-forest floor, roasted mushrooms, hot oil, and hints of diesel fumes on the finish.
Illinois News Joint
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
The dark oil had completely encased a small forest green piece of flower that acted as a backbone to support the oil around it. The moonrock required a technique similar to hash smoking, with long, slow pulls and steady heat allowing the oil to melt, bubble, and vaporize. To find cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
MAY 27, 2024
Chem Scout is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of ChemDawg and Girl Scout Cookies. This oil tested at 74.05% THC. Cresco’s classic half-gram cartridge is a cylindrical affair with a clear mouthpiece, branded glass tank, and a small blue band indicating the cart’s indica status.
Illinois News Joint
DECEMBER 15, 2024
Gobby is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Gelato Mint and London Pound Mints. ILNJ photo A mound of large kosher-salt sized clear THCa crystals took on a bright sunflower-yellow color at the edges from a terpene heavy oil that seemed to cling to the outside of each crystal. To find cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
JULY 20, 2024
Cresco Triangle is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Las Vegas Lemon Skunk and Triangle Kush. ILNJ photo Despite being a simple metal coil in a glass tank, the Cresco cart manages to maintain brand identity with a few features, such as the clear circular mouthpiece, colored indicator band (in this case, blue for indica), and branded tank.
Illinois News Joint
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
I recently discovered BLOOM’s take on the creamy indica in the form of the London Pound Cake Sherbert Surf Disposable. News Joint Events is set to host BLOOM as one of the more than two-dozen craft brands offering samples at the Illinois Craft Showcase from 12-7 p.m. To find cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
JUNE 4, 2024
As a staple sample at cannabis events for more than a year, Ozone has been ahead of the recent explosion of infused preroll options with its Reserve Live Resin infused two-packs. Butterstuff is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Peanut Butter Breath and Velvet Glove. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
ILNJ photos The box slid open to reveal a half-gram cart filled with deeply amber-colored oil. The flavor started to lean further into the herbal tones as the oil burned down with rich-roasted oregano and cooked-butter flavors appearing near the last doses. Pressure set in behind my eyes, accompanied by a tight headband effect.
Illinois News Joint
JUNE 13, 2024
Chunk Dawg is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Deep Chunk, Sour Diesel, and I-95. The oil inside the tank was a notably dark honey-amber color that was visually closer to a resin extraction than a distillate. Dense and viscous, the oil burned best after a preheat cycle or priming hit to get things flowing.
Illinois News Joint
MARCH 1, 2024
Select’s new 2-gram Briq vapes attempts to serve these folks by offering an expanded oil tank, which should help space out dispensary stops. The Select Grape Ape Briq Vape is a THC distillate-based oil infused with botanically derived terpenes. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
MARCH 3, 2023
The Stoned Pear indica gummies came infused with Blueberry Clementine (Blueberry and Clementine). ILNJ photo In the Lychee Grapefruit Hybrid, the ingredients were listed as sugar, tapioca syrup, water, gelatin, palm kernel oil, natural flavors, malic acid, citric acid, cannabis extract, sunflower lecithin, salt, red beet concentrate (color).
Illinois News Joint
MAY 3, 2023
They offer three options: Mango Thai Basil Indica, Ruby Red Grapefruit Mint Sativa, and Red Raspberry Yuzu Hybrid. The ingredients are tapioca syrup, sugar, water, gelatin, citric acid, sunflower lecithin, natural flavoring, natural coloring, cannabis oil and terpenes. CannaWerks gummies come in 10 packs of 10mg THC gummies.
Illinois News Joint
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Ozone has released a candy labeled as a “soft chew” with a completely different formula, shape, and texture than the Sweet Indica Gummies I reviewed from the label back in May. Interestingly, I detected less cannabis oil in the flavor than in the aroma. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
JUNE 5, 2023
ILNJ photos The Marionberry and Sour Cherry Gummies were labeled as indica, and the Huckleberry Gummies were labeled as hybrid. I don’t find much difference effects for indica, hybrid, and sativa labeled gummies. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
AUGUST 9, 2023
The ingredients are sugar, corn syrup, water, pectin, citric acid, potassium citrate, malic acid, cannabis oil, tapioca maltodextrin, coconut oil, natural flavors, natural color from apple and carrot juice. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
AUGUST 8, 2023
GMO is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Chemdawg and GSC. A wet sheen of terpene-heavy oil floated to the top where I had manipulated the rosin after each session. GMO is known to be a heavy hitting indica and this example is no exception. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
JANUARY 2, 2023
The classic Blueberry strain is an indica cross of Purple Thai and Thai. The live-terpene oil had a light golden color. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here. I found that Magnitude ’s Blueberry Vape Cartridge, produced by Pharmacann and picked up at Verilife River North , did just that.
Illinois News Joint
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The Cannect Wellness Alien Rainbows Vape Cart is filled with a distillate-based oil, infused with cannabis-derived terpenes. The oil inside was almost clear with light tones of pale yellow revealing itself in direct light. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
APRIL 5, 2025
Bloom Apricot Punch Surf vape is filled with a distillate-based oil infused with botanically derived terpenes. The remaining top quarter was a slick translucent tinted plastic that acted as the mouthpiece and an oil visibility window when held up to the light. To find cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Watermelon Z is distillate oil blended with botanical terpenes. Stiiizy labeled the Watermelon Z vape indica but the effect profile struck a center-spectrum hybrid chord. ILNJ photo To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.
The Cannigma
OCTOBER 2, 2022
You can find CBDA in: Tinctures and oils Pills/ capsules Edibles Cannabis tea. When it comes to finding a strain to quell a queasy stomach, don’t get hung up on indica/sativa labeling. These commonly misused terms are morphology terms; telling you only whether your products came from a cannabis indica or cannabis sativa plant.
Illinois News Joint
JULY 2, 2024
The RSO Blue Raspberry was a classical indica edible providing a slow building wave of body pressure that relieved some of my chronic pain points along the way. The RSO Blue Raspberry had an additional cannabis oil, violet color, and navy blue color. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
The Cannigma
AUGUST 31, 2022
Most people divide their weed into categories of indica and sativa. Indica and sativa are plant morphology terms, differentiating between the physical appearance of the plants. Severe cases could put those with existing heart conditions at a greater risk for a cardiac event. How to choose cannabis for working out. "
The Cannigma
MARCH 31, 2022
The American Psychiatric Association defines PTSD as a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who experience or witness a traumatic event. What constitutes a traumatic event can be a wide variety of experiences, but PTSD is perhaps best known historically as “shell shock” or “combat fatigue” in veterans. An estimated 3.5%
Illinois News Joint
DECEMBER 21, 2024
Blood Diamond Runtz is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Blood Diamond OG and Runtz. A savory mix of cooking fat, motor oil, roasted nuts, coconut, basil, and oregano led much sweeter undertones of candied lavender, artificial cherry, tangerine flesh, lime peel, and fresh blueberries. For Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.
The Herb Collective
SEPTEMBER 10, 2016
PHOTO CREDIT: [link] Marijuana oil vapor cartridges are better than other methods of smoking according to a growing number of people. Most vapor cartridge brands come in indica, sativa, and hybrid. They are usually made with natural ingredients like coconut oil, so they are also are free of solvents.
Illinois News Joint
JANUARY 30, 2025
I recently had the opportunity to pick up all three flavors of the new infused Rosin Belts: Sativa Cherry Limeade, Indica Strawberry Lemonade, and Hybrid Blueberry Lemon Drop. There are three flavors: Sativa Cherry Limeade, Indica Strawberry Lemonade, and Hybrid Blueberry Lemon Drop. For Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.
Greencamp
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Acute insomnia is a brief episode of sleeplessness, usually caused by a dramatic event, either positive or negative. Indica flowers tend to have a really dark-green shade, unlike the sativa strains, which are vibrantly light-green. There is usually no need to treat acute insomnia since it generally resolves by itself.
Illinois News Joint
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
8 Inch Bagel is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of GMO and Project 4516. The top of the aroma was a rich, savory blend of roasted peanuts, motor oil, wet moss, and freshly turned earth, with lighter and fresher undertones of magnolia and lemon cleaner cutting through at the finish. For Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Chimera is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of White Truffle and The Creature. The Moondust is a three-way blend of flower shake, butane extracted oil, and kief. ILNJ photo A blanket of deep forest-green finely-ground shake was dotted with slightly chunkier pieces of flower-encrusted oil.
Illinois News Joint
AUGUST 13, 2024
News Joint Events is set to host Bloom as one of two-dozen craft brands offering samples at the Illinois Craft Showcase from 12-7 p.m. Bloom Gush Mints Vape Cart is a distillate-based oil infused with cannabis derived terpenes. This batch of oils tested at 0.2% This batch of oils tested at 0.2% 7 at Molly’s Joint.
Illinois News Joint
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Select Brazzy Kush Vape Cart is a distillate oil blended with hemp derived and botanically derived terpenes. The oil inside was a consistent transparent straw color. Very dense, the oil moved extremely slowly, taking several seconds to release a bubble from the coil even after long high temperature hits. THC, and 95.6%
Illinois News Joint
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Blood Moon is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of EmergenC and Kush Mints. ILNJ photo The small jar was filled with a finely ground flower shaded from lime-to-forest green with tiny rounded black chunks of oil appearing at random. Blood Moon hit with a fast-acting indica style buzz in both my head and body. THCa, and 45.4%
Illinois News Joint
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
Grape Sugar Cookies is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Girl Scout Cookies and Purple Haze. ILNJ photo A pile of roughly shaped, kosher-salt-sized crystals were suspended in a dense, transparent, sunflower-yellow oil. The oil had a stickiness that allowed me to choose how many small diamonds I wanted to pick up with each dosing.
Illinois News Joint
MARCH 25, 2025
Vapin Ape Grape Runtz Disposable Vape is a 1-gram distillate-based oil infused with cannabis-derived terpenes. A large visibility window revealed a transparent honey-amber oil that remained dense and slow moving even when warmed by chained hits. To find cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Illinois News Joint
OCTOBER 3, 2023
ILNJ photos All three vapes came as a small cylinder, a few inches tall and a half-inch across with a rounded top where the mouthpiece was located, a small window underneath where the oil level could be tracked, and a USB charge port and light at the bottom. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.
Puff Puff Post
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
The spread of the cannabis plant first started in China, where hemp – one of the varieties of the cannabis plant – was grown as an agricultural crop because of its high protein, seeds, oil, and fiber properties. The cannabis plant consists of two basic species, Cannabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica. Cannabis Indica.
Illinois News Joint
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Spiked Punch is an indica-leaning hybrid cross of Purple Punch and Larry OG. There was a small line of terpene heavy oil surrounding the base of each mound. To find cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here. This batch of concentrate tested at 0.23% CBDa, 2.11% THC, 76% THCa, and 81.7% total cannabinoids.
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