Special Sauce reviews
Read people’s experiences with the cannabis strain Special Sauce.
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Very good for sleeping (as long as you fall asleep within 2 hours of smoking), made me feel relaxed in general, with the exception of getting startled kind of easier than usual, made me feel slightly happier, and a slight headache the next day, I don't normally feel that way afterwards. The most prominent feelings were sleepiness and relaxation.
***Note*** CBD version CBD: 20.739% and only 0.067% delta-9 THC
Good calming blend. I like to use this to cut my weed. Easy smoke, good taste.
relax and mellow feeling
bought an OZ from a reputable distributor on a super sale. I take for anxiety, see it as a microdose of THC with the help of CBD. This has been super helpful as high THC strains (even "low" thc strains technically classified) can push me towards anxiety. Thats why I love that leafly is including us super low/industrial hemp people into the fold.
But back to Special Sauce more specifically: tastes great, I actually love my "pre bed" dose the most as when I lay down I feel.. idk, like everything is softer? More cozy? Its great for my anxiety to begin with, but yeah, just an interesting note. Speaking of my anxiety, I chill out so long as I keep to my dosage schedule (4 doses a day necessary, more if I just feel like it, cuz, why not right? lol)
The only negatives I can really think of is that I do get a little sleepy. Which really isn't necessarily a negative in the first place if your looking for that kind of thing, but even for me its not really bad as its not like super sleepy or anything, its more "sleep if you want to" kind of sleep. More allows you to sleep than forces you (which is usually kinda scary to me anyways) to sleep.
Absolute banger of a strain.
February 17, 2020
My batch was an Oz for $60 and was high in THCV and CBDA. A joint leaves me calm and clear minded and if I spice it up with some keif I get a nice body calming with some psychoactive effects. Def worthwhile, I use it to make my (overpriced) medical bud last longer - DC dispensaries are great but EXPENSIVE :)
Mellowed me out before bed. Lifted my mood a bit too but in a calm way.
Special Sauce CBD Flower Review
Purchased from a local reputable head shop that sources cbd flower from North Carolina. Packaged in a vacuum sealed mylar ziplock the entire 3.5 gram item was one singular giant bud! Marked as 17% CBD.
Bag Appeal: One massive bud, easily the second largest cannabis flower I have ever personally touched in my 40 years on this planet, it barely fit in the bag! Medium density bud (huge but not heavy) made up of various dark and medium greens and a good dusting of rust colored trichomes and rust colored hairs. Looks outdoor/sun grown. Super sticky when touched, almost like a glue stick, no shortage of resin here!
Smells of lemon grass, sweet black pepper/clove, and floral hops.
Combustion: Meh, like burning cannabis flower. Its fine, not much else to be said.
Vaped: Much like the smell, notes of sweet spice/clove, grassy black pepper, floral hops, sour fuel, and unfortunately more hay than I can ignore are most noticable. Tastes pretty typical of white label CBD flower in this blossoming phase of the industry. Not terrible, but not great either. Flavor mellows and softens as the flower is vaped over a few minutes.
Effects: It works like a balogna sandwich works for lunch. It does its job, its maybe even mildly satisfying in some way, but meh, that meatball sub would've been way better. For me special sauce is a bedtime strain and nothing else, it makes me very sleepy and mellow enough to want to curl up on the couch and not move, and all the while Special Sauce quietly does something mild in the background to round out physical aches, pains, inflamation and yet, none of it is spectacularly apparent when compared to louder and more upfront strains like ACDC, Remedy or Suver Haze that can really get on top of you. Sprinkles of physical relief come on top of two scoops of anxiety relief served on top of a giant clove flavored cake of plain ol' sleepy.
Overall: I dont want to shortchange this flower and its usefullness, but its just not the raw flower experience I'm generally looking for. It does make me sleepy for sure, that alone has real merit for me because I always have trouble sleeping. Yet, the taste was just okay and the physical relief was effective but very subtle. Maybe some future child strains from this flower will have more mentally uplifting/mood enhancing properties and an improved flavor, until then I most likely will leave Special Sauce to the oil and extract manufacturers.
My background: Over 20 years of delightful cannabis toking including 1 year of cbd flower experience.
Second strain I ever tried, and let me tell you, if you need a calming experience or help sleeping, then this is the one for you. I made the mistake of trying it before class (I'm new to the cannabis industry), because I like the Hawaiian Haze but that one made me really energetic; this one was quite the opposite, as I was fighting sleep during class.