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Bongs Not Bombs

December 18th, 2006 by Alex

Look out below!

Here’s a cool piece of apparel for the ladies. Printed on American Apparel stock, some might call this hippie gear. I call it awesome.

Looks like it might be an old design, but you can still get the shirt in size medium. Hopefully, a re-print will happen soon enough.

Marijuana “Street Terms” Poster

December 8th, 2006 by Tim

Posterize

LA Pop Art is selling an exclusive marijuana leaf poster created by using the official U.S. Government list of 647 marijuana “street terms”.

As described by LA Pop Art:

So you think you have heard every name out there for Marijuana?? Some are funny, some creative and some are out there - but what people dont know is that the United States Government keeps an official list of all these names. And surprisingly enough over the years, this official list has grown to a shocking 647 official “street terms” for Marijuana.

Upon discovering this list, we here at LA Pop Art felt that we had a “responsibility” to you - our customers - to turn this list into a big ass Marijuana leaf. Enjoy!!

The poster is currently offered at 24″ x 30″ with a $13.99 price tag. Not a bad investment if you commonly find yourself staring at blank walls and going crazy with eye-bleeding boredom.

A novelty item like this will definitely jazz up some of that bleakness. Plus, if you have parents, it’s an educational tool. Right?

Juicy Blunts: Pear

December 8th, 2006 by Alex

Juicy Blunts: Pear

Earlier this week, tFS handed out a 6.5/10 blunt rating - our lowest yet. Well, that record isn’t going to stand for long because a new crown holder has shown up.

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Blunts
Company ZenSmoke
Made In Dominican Republic
Pros Easy to Roll
Cons Everything else
Price $1.00
tFS Rating 5.0/10

Juicy Blunts released a Pear flavored blunt in their latest flavor pack. We covered almost all the flavors in previous reviews and were generally impressed by them. Too bad Pear doesn’t fit in with its brothers. On the positive side, the wraps characteristics make this review extremely easy to do.

The wrap smell? Nothing like pear, completely synthetic. The wrap taste? None. Taste of the smoke? None. Smell of the smoke? Nothing like pear. That’s about as bad a job as you can do on a high-end, flavored wrap. Juicy is almost always pinpoint with their aromas, but need to seriously go back to the drawing board on this one.

To get a 5.0/10 rating there needs to be absolutely no resemblance to the flavor on the packaging. If you think about it, that’s pretty damn hard to do. The only positive I can say is that atleast the leaf didn’t taste bad, it just didn’t taste anything like a pear.

Hopefully, our next review has a much more positive tone.


Royal Blunts: Purple Haze

December 6th, 2006 by Alex

Royal Blunts: Purple Haze

One of the newest flavors out of the Royal Blunts camp is Purple Haze. It’s hard to find a quality grape-flavored wrap these days, so I was pretty stoked when we got these in.

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Blunts
Company Royal Blunts
Made In USA
Pros Quality packaging
Cons Smells like Dimetapp
Price $1.50
tFS Rating 6.5/10

Royal Blunts uses a 60/40 split of paper & tobacco to create each wrap. This, plus their new Freshness Guaranteed packaging adds up to a consistently high-quality blunt. The inner packaging even contained a perfectly rolled leaf, around the filler tube, with no creases - that’s a lot easier said than done.

RB describes this wrap as a “grape and fruit blend that enhances any flavor.” Ooook, not sure what that means. Sounds like marketing hype to me. What the blunt actually smells like is Dimetapp, one of the most heinous substances known to man.

It’s an over-powering smell that gives off more of a synthetic grape than anything else. The blunt wrap burned great and had a sweet taste to it and luckily, no Dimetapp-esque flavor was lurking in the shadows.

Purple Haze isn’t the worst blunt wrap I’ve encountered, but it definitely isn’t the best. For a company that puts out so many winners, this one was a miss for me. What do you guys think?

Juicy Jay’s: Candy Cane

November 27th, 2006 by Alex

Juicy Jay's: Candy Cane

Well, Thanksgiving is over and that means it’s officially the start of the Christmas season. Why not start with a holiday treat? Say … Juicy Jay’s Candy Cane papers?

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Papers
Company ZenSmoke
Made In Spain
Pros Holiday cheer?
Cons Can have weak glue
Price $2.00
tFS Rating 6.5/10

These papers sure don’t hide the Xmas theme. The packaging is covered in candy canes, the leaves are covered in candy canes and the dude who sells them is probably covered in candy canes. The 1¼” rice papers are smooth & thin - text book Juicy Jay’s style. Each leaf’s gum has a peppermint taste to it. As far as the smell, more peppermint action, but this time understated.

This obviously isn’t one of Juicy’s big sellers, but it is cool for some holiday cheer. It’s nice to see paper companies mix things up (well, except for Sizzling Bacon flavor) and give its customers some seasonal variety.

Brown Sugar: Strawberry

November 22nd, 2006 by Alex

Brown Sugar: Strawberry

Sporting a new cover design compared to first generation packaging, Brown Sugar is back. They’ve also released some new (and unsurprisingly common) flavors for our smoking pleasure.

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Papers
Company ZenSmoke
Made In Spain
Pros Strong glue
Cons Very common flavor
Price $1.50
tFS Rating 7.0/10

By now, tFS has logged a couple of strawberry-flavored reviews. I’m not saying our reviews taste like strawberries, but I am saying we’ve got expertise in this area. Brown Sugar Strawberry measure 1¼” and pack 20 leaves per package. The papers that most resemble them are Golden Wrap Stawberry. Both have thicker leaves than normal, both have rough textures to them and both give off similar aromas.

Unfortunately, you can tell the little things have been done that make Golden Wrap leaves stick out from the pack, while the Brown Sugar just kind of blends in with the background. They aren’t as uber-infused with a strawberry essence as other brands.

As more manufacturers enter the game, we’re going to see very similar products. Even ZenSmoke, which has multiple lines underneath its brand name, puts out similar shit compared to other papers in their own product line. The strawberry papers from Brown Sugar are good. They won’t blow your socks off, but won’t disappoint either.


Scrolley Tips

November 20th, 2006 by Alex

Scrolley's

There are two camps when it comes to rolling – filtered or un-filtered. Pros and cons surround both, easier to roll for un-filtered versus more effort for filtered. Harsher smoke with un-filtered papers and smoother with filtered. In the end, it all comes down to personal preference.

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Filters
Company MN&J
Made In Australia
Pros Good perforation
Cons Could be thicker
Price $2.00
tFS Rating 7.5/10

Australian made Scrolley Tips are a solid solution for people sick of using magazine subscription cards, notecards, the inside of cigarette packs or any other random ass thing to create DIY filters. They cost around $2 at your local smoke shop and cut down on the big headache of searching for crutch material. Not to mention, they’re specifically designed for the task at hand. Made from wood-free fiber and lacking any chemical by-products, these tips do more helping than hurting. You’re putting enough into those lungs as it is, no need to add any more chemicals right?

Sizing on the Scrolley’s is just about perfect. They’re big & tall enough to handle a fatty roll, but can be ripped down for smaller-sized joints/blunts. Each pack comes with 40 strips and are all perforated for easy removal. One thing I would like to see is a filter made specially for spliff smokers; something that reduces the toxins and tar from tobacco but leaves in everything THC-related.

Overall, you can’t go wrong with Scrolley Tips, they do exactly what they’re made for.

Scrolley Backside 180

aLedinha: Mini Cellulose Rolling Papers

November 20th, 2006 by Alex

aLedinha Front View

To follow up on the review of aLeda King Size Papers, we decided to get a hold of their little brother - aLedinha.

I went pretty in-depth with the last review, so this post will be more light weight with some additional observations. First, the aLedinha’s have the same distinct, embossed packaging just like it’s big brother. It also has those annoying little closing flaps. This pack comes with 50 transparent, cellulose based leaves. The packaging is pretty sturdy and won’t bend if you throw it into your backpack or anything. As far as size, they are equivalent to any 1¼” papers.

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Papers
Company aLeda
Made In Brazil
Pros Odorless, tasteless
Cons Tough low-light roll
Price $2.50
tFS Rating 8.0/10

One thing these papers aren’t good for is low-light rolling. Good luck finding the seam without a flashlight. The shorter length makes them easier to control than the aLeda’s - less paper to handle in general. Also, the same deal goes as far as rolling these a little looser than your average paper. The cellulose just doesn’t breathe as well as thin, rice/hemp-based leaves.

It’s obvious there is a lot of interest in these papers. Maybe people just think transparent stuff is just plain cool, who knows? What’s for sure is these are healthier than your average paper and fun to roll. Not a bad combination at all.

aLedinha Inside View





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