Strains Review ⟫ Aurora Pedanios 27/1 FRG-CA ⟫ Farm Gas ⟫ October 2024

Strains Review ⟫ Aurora Pedanios 27/1 FRG-CA ⟫ Farm Gas

There are some pros and cons to this particular strain. Firstly, the smell is strong! Like, strong enough to make each of the cats give us a stunned glare after they forced their noses into the tub as if to accuse us of wishing them harm. They are not fans of the way it smells. It’s hard to describe other than to say it punches you in the nose as soon as you open the container.

The first few times I vaped it, I had a bit of a cough so assumed the roughness I was feeling on my throat was due to that. However, every single time I’ve vaped this, the first couple of inhales has had me hacking like an old sailor on his last legs, gasping his last breath. It’s not pleasant.

I decided to cut it slightly with the Big Narstie Purple Milk which has a much milder smell and taste. Initially, I put the farm gas into the bowl first then topped it off with the purple milk, but I kept getting the hacking cough result. So I swapped it around – purple milk first for half a bowl, then half a bowl of Farm Gas. Instantly took away the harshness of the inhale and meant no losing a lung just to vape.

Effects-wise, it’s been variable. The initial stages are slow to hit but then I end up getting completely locked in place. Everything internally is running 100 mph but externally, I am literally just a body stuck to the bed. Stripes has had to put me to bed at least twice whilst on this: take away all of the vapes, reading tablet, etc that litter the bed, help me into my CPAP and turn off the lights. Last night, I think I got about 9 hours sleep which is pretty extraordinary for me.

On other occasions, however, I have found that it feels like the effects have warn off – I’m still high but the sleepiness has gone. It meant that a couple of times I ended up staying awake all night just because – I didn’t want to do anything in particular but I was too awake to sleep.

So, like I said, variable effects.

I think I’m going to experiment with the amounts of farm gas alongside the purple milk to try to get a decent mix. Anything that helps with the insomnia is appreciated but I don’t like the fact that I don’t know whether it’s going to help me sleep or keep me awake all night.

In other news, I sent a copy of my weed prescription along with my PIP renewal form and to be completely honest, I’m not sure I should have. I know that they’re not meant to discriminate against people using marijuana but I’m fearful that I will get an assessor who disapproves and thereby fuck up my application. It very much feels with PIP that you are at the mercy of the luck of the drawer. I’ve spoken to people who treated me like utter shit and I’ve spoken to people who seemed empathetic – it was just luck of the drawer. I just hope this time I get someone who understands.

No high thoughts because I can’t find the book but I will dig it out and see how bolshy/belligerent being on the farm gas makes me!

And my prescription is finally here....

Just after midday, I received my delivery of Farm Gas from Mamedica. So, from the initial repeat prescription ordered on 11th September, it’s taken 9 working days for me to receive my order, but just under two weeks in total. I’m not sure how I feel about that – on the one hand, when it’s considered in working days, that feels like far longer than all of the blurb says. And when you just think of it in terms of ‘normal’ time, that’s nearly a fortnight. So much for next day delivery.

Last night, I vaped some purple milk with a peach topper, and that stuff took my head off. Not helped by the two baby Guinness I had (Stripes found a baby Guinness kit at B&M so we treated ourselves to three of them). Gidget showed off her bartending skills and it was pretty darn impressive the way she made this baby Guinness look! Of course, I then dunked my finger in it which messed it up a little! And as neither of us like coffee liqueurs, the best way to drink them was to either slam them down or mix them so we couldn’t taste the Tia Maria.

We were messing about with the exercise resistance bands I bought a week or so ago, which to be perfectly honest added to my general exhaustion so it’s no wonder I went to sleep around 2.30 am and didn’t wake up until 10.30 am this morning!

Tonight, I want to give the Farm Gas a try, with nothing else on top of it. I shall have to keep my high thoughts notebook with me so that I can keep track of anything that particularly strikes me!

more order issues - sigh...

20/09/24

Well so much for promises. Okay, I know that when I spoke to the nice lady from customer service way back on 24th August, she told me that they were implementing system changes to ensure that payments not made through their Crezco system would be automatically allocated to the correct invoices. I know that such things take time but I would have thought ensuring that their payment system works in such a basic manner would be pretty high up on the list of things to be done.

I placed an order for some Farm Gas on 11th September and waited for the invoice. I received that on 14th September. Obviously, in that time Crezco hasn’t suddenly added my bank to their list of accepted places, so I had to request the alternative payment method. The second invoice was received on 16th September at close of business (around 6.00 pm) and I paid it first thing on 17th and received confirmation that the transaction was completed.

Time to sit and wait.

By this morning (Friday 20th September) I hadn’t heard anything. By this time, I was expecting to have received the email from Royal Mail letting me know that they had my parcel and when they expected to deliver it. I contemplated waiting a bit longer – perhaps things were a little backed up – but realised if I wasn’t careful, this wouldn’t be sorted out before the weekend and it might well be the middle of next week before I got such confirmation from Royal Mail.

So I joined the twenty seven people waiting in the queue to speak to someone in the Dispensary. TWENTY SEVEN people ahead of me in the queue with an estimated waiting time of 35 minutes. I almost put the phone down but decided that was defeatist, lobbed my headphones and began to work on some fan-art. It was actually interesting being on hold with it on speaker because I could tell when someone gave up on ever having their call answered and hung up and when things were a ‘quick’ call by the speed with which I moved up the queue. It did actually take just under thirty minutes so at least the estimate was correct.

I spoke to a very helpful lady called Kay who checked their system and confirmed that the payment hadn’t been received. I explained about the alternative payment method and how normally the payment didn’t get automatically allocated, provided the invoice number and the amount and she found the payment straight away. And, once again, it was received but not allocated, which meant it sat in limbo not in my bank account but in theirs. I expressed my disappointment that once again this had happened and she apologised and said she would try to get me onto the ‘urgent’ list for the day.

I’m once again waiting for the email from Royal Mail to confirm that my Farm Gas is en route, but at least now I know the payment has been allocated. So, what’s a reasonable amount of time to give Mamedica to sort out this whole payments system? And I find myself wondering if changing pharmacies is even worth it – are there the same issues with other companies? Admittedly, I’m in a relatively enviable position of having a small stash of products, albeit not necessarily the strains that I want. I wonder how bad it gets for people who use more than I do and don’t have a backlog? Again, I find myself thinking that this wouldn’t be acceptable for any other service that I can think of.

I guess as long as I’m only using minimal amounts, it’s probably not worth moving but it’s something to think about in the new year – assuming that I keep receiving the same level of PiP which is a whole other battle!

Sh*tsNG*gs and Missing Certain Strains

”When men defecate, do they balance their penises on the toilet seat or let it hang loose in the bowl?”

Sh*tsnG*gs on YouTube

The above is bad enough, but we now have a secondary high thoughts because I couldn’t in all good conscience not post it! This is what happens to Stripes and Gidget when I vape Powdered Donut ‘dust’ with a sprinkling of Morrocan Peach!

”I’ve just reverted to a teenage boy – I said crap outside for the first time and feel like a Big Man!”

Stripes

”It’s just given me a headache!”

Gidget

I am feeling absolutely exhausted – went for a tattoo, recovering from COVID and struggling to sleep. I am really missing Powdered Donuts and may be putting through an order for it sooner than expected. Anyway, I scraped out the dust from the grinder that I used on the Powdered Donuts and sprinkled a little Morrocan Peach on top of it, and oh my word!

According to Stripes and Gidget, I get belligerent and bolshy on it. Not my impressions at all – whilst I’m on it, I just feel welded to the bed and happy to go to sleep! Admittedly, I may lose a little of my filter and say things without thinking – watching TV whilst on this is a trip in itself as my hatred for stupidity in characters and plots is at an all time low! We’ve discovered that Legacies is on Prime and as we couldn’t get hold of it after season 1, it’s given us all something to watch. However, it’s reawakened my hatred of several characters and apparently, I’m quite vocal about it.

We’ve also been watching Sh*tsnG*gs reaction videos on YouTube and when you’re high, a lot of that stuff hits different! I feel like I should request popcorn that I can throw at the screen!

So, the Big Narstie bud is still working but I miss Powdered Donuts/Farm Gas and need to budget for that as soon as I can!

Response to 'Karen' SKM

Received a phone call from Mamedica (wish I could remember the lady’s name) with regard to my complaint. I got apologies and she explained that she had only just started working there, they had taken on more staff and were aware that things were slipping through the cracks. She said they were implementing things to ensure that from now on, people who paid not using the Crezco system would be able to pay easier and their payment attached to their profile. It was a good talk and, if they manage to implement the practises she spoke about, then hopefully things will get better. I can only take them at their word.

I’ve been vaping the Morrocan peach and purple milk alternately the last week, and they feel quite consistent – you can tell that they come from the same place. I can’t say I actively enjoy them as much as I have other strains – I miss farm gas and also powdered donuts – but they are helping with regard to feeling sleepy, so I can happily keep using them. I need to replace the sofa so I won’t be buying anything from Mamedica until probably November, so I shall use my ‘stash’ in the meantime. And that gives Mamedica time to keep their word and get their system up and working properly.

Strains Review ⟫ Big Narstie Purple Milk ⟫ August 2024

”Feeding Xanax to the fish – cool.”

Stripes

My order was ‘redirected’ by Royal Mail a couple of times but turned up by 1pm on Thursday, so Mamedica followed through on sending it when they said that they would after my telephone calls. I decided it was time for a strain review.

The strain I bought is Big Narstie Purple Milk, with a THC level of 26% and CBD of less than 1%. I had eaten soup and bread, taken my night-time meds and we settled down to watch TV. Initially, I found myself getting very emotional – I felt like my skin was very thin and everything was just a little too much. This did calm down and I felt very chilled – warm and safe, happy.

I have no idea why – especially since all I was doing was lying down watching TV – but this then changed again until my heart was pounding and I was sweating up a storm. We were watching season 2 of ‘Wolf Like Me’ which is a dark comedy, so nothing there to get me overheating. Shortly after that, I began to feel quite normal – not high, not stressed – almost as if I hadn’t vaped at all. I wasn’t feeling particularly sleepy – fatigued but that’s been quite normal the last week because of COVID. I made a note to myself that perhaps trying a new (to me) strain whilst struggling with COVID wasn’t the best idea.

Bedtime – just after 2 a.m. and I was out like a light. I’m not sure I even moved in the bed from the time I initially crashed out until 5 a.m. when I woke up to go to the bathroom. Gidget had just got back from work and we had a very brief chat, before I thought I’d see if I could get back to sleep. Woke up around 11 a.m. which was pretty darn impressive considering I didn’t think I could still feel the influence! I’m going to give it another go this evening, but at this point in time I think I may well have found my new sleep strain!

Complaining to Mamedica by 'Karen' SKM

Yeah, I threw my toys out of the pram. I ended up calling this afternoon because I didn't want to wait until tomorrow - especially if it meant that I would be waiting another day for my stuff to be delivered, or as happened last time for it to be out of stock and have to start all over again.

If you want to see the complaint I sent through the website, I’ve tried to hide it behind this spoiler, but I’ve never done a spoiler on here before so it might not work!

I would like to raise my concerns and complain about the amount of time it has been taking to receive my product after I have made payment.

1. Your Crezco system does not recognise my bank so I always need to contact you once I have received an invoice to request a different payment method. I then have to wait to be re-invoiced which generally takes at least a day.

2. After paying through your alternative system, I receive confirmation that the transaction has gone through successfully and the money leaves my bank. However, for the second time, I have been waiting for my product to arrive, only to receive a communication that says you are still awaiting payment. My understanding is that when I pay using the alternative system, my ‘profile’ is not automatically updated so the payment does not show.

3. I then have to contact you to get you to find where the payment has gone and get it attached to my profile, at which point I have to wait up to five days for my product to arrive.

I shouldn’t have to be in touch with you two or three times in order to receive what I have ordered. The members of staff I have spoken to have been very helpful but that doesn’t mitigate the frustration I experience knowing that I have done everything that I am meant to do, but am at the mercy of your system that does not even do the basics like match payments to invoices. The fact that your staff have to manually find the payment and update my profile means that it is far too easy for things to be missed.

Today, the member of staff I spoke to initially thought that my payment had been rejected for some reason and returned to my bank. She then found it and saw that, once again, it had not been added to my profile, hence me receiving a second request for payment. This has gone far beyond ‘teething problems’ – having paid out what is a large sum of money (to me) yet still have to wait whilst the payment is tracked and allocated. The last time this happened to me, by the time things were sorted out none of the items I had requested were in stock and I had to go through and choose all over again. That’s not acceptable.

What can you do to reassure me that this will not continue to happen? That I won’t have to keep making numerous phone calls when the unnecessary reminder comes through in order for someone to have to manually match my payment to the invoice? Why is this still happening after nearly a year of me being with you?

I would like to express my gratitude to the staff I have spoken to (Nicola in particular was really helpful and went above and beyond to help me) and confirm that I am not complaining about your staff. I am complaining about your system and how it is not working.

I look forward to hearing from you.

So basically, once again my payment went through but wasn’t allocated to my profile so it looked like I hadn’t paid. This happens if you use the alternative payment method. But again, I ask, if you know this happens when the alternative payment method is used, why aren’t you looking out for it and making sure payments don’t go astray? Why does it take several phone calls to get it rectified when the same damn thing happens every month?

I wasn’t rude to the woman I spoke to and made sure to let her know that my complaint wasn’t about her or her level of customer service – it was kinda bigger than that, and she seemed to understand.

Anyway, allegedly it’s being posted tomorrow and should be with us by 1 pm on Wednesday, I ordered Big Narstie Purple Flower or something like that? Who the heck can remember at this stage – let’s just hope it helps me handle all of this COVID stuff!