I bonged a bit of NF-1 before lying down for sleep last night. The smoke didn’t taste of much. The high didn’t come on right away; it felt thin, at first.
I read a little, drifted, sipped a little vodka. Became aroused. The high slowly crept in, crept on. Half an hour or maybe forty-five minutes later, I was feeling it. The effect was an almost psychoactive high that took time to build, similar in onset to the effect I would experience from cannabis edibles or magic mushrooms. My mind was wandering. I had some paranoia.
I was close to putting pen to paper but I was too tired; it was too late. I had some funny, odd, quirky phrases in my head. I wish I’d written them down. Alas. I ought to try some of this NF-1 earlier in the day, at tea time, to see where it might lead me.
I hadn’t thought much about this particular strain until last night. For no particular reason, I had set it aside. It’s a common occurrence with this strain or that strain. The effects can be different from one day to the next even if I smoke flower of the same strain from the same batch. I can dismiss a strain, let it sit around, then revisit it weeks later to find I had been sleeping on something I really appreciate.
For what it’s worth, the NF-1 has a strong user rating via the dispensary’s online store. I bought this NF-1 for $25 at Beyond/Hello in Sauget, Illinois. It is a cross of Chemdawg and Northern Lights, a couple of old school classic strains.
Another NF-1 night
Later I took a bowl of NF-1 into the subporch and had a nice smoke. It never tastes like much.
It didn’t keep me up. I was ready to sleep, I guess. I went right to sleep; don’t remember anything other than reading a few pages first. Or did that happen when I woke up in the middle of the night? Maybe both.
Felt good when waking up.
Further notes on the first package of NF-1
The NF-1 is pretty good. It has a long runway, or a long track. It’s a trail. It doesn’t ever get me very high; or, if it does, it’s toward the end. Ninety minutes later, two hours. It’s a pleasant body buzz, something of a creeper. Distance runner. Pairs well with gradual additions of vodka. Accomodative. Sociable, social-able. Keeps me up a bit, even late. Switches back and forth between, or has contours of both indica and sativa effects.
I’ve had that NF-1 since November. This is February. I have one massive bud left, in the glass jar it came in. What I just smoked was in joint form for two weeks.
This NF-1 wasn’t cheap. In fact, I paid more for this batch of NF-1 than I have for any other bud. I got a little carried away, I think.
Writing now, a year and a half after that first NF-1 purchase, here’s the deal
That first eighth of NF-1 cost me $68 at the Beyond/Hello on Mississipi Avenue in Sauget, IL. Considering how much prices came down when Missouri legalized recreational cannabis, I feel sheepish about paying $68 for an eighth of anything. Here’s how it happened. I was out at Farm reading a copy of Riverfront Times I was about to use to start a fire. But I happened to see a cannabis column reviewing several sativa strains that had been entered into the Cannabis Cup in 2022 in Illinois. UpNorth’s Durban Poison earned a glowing review.
I got really excited about buying the Durban Poison, which I did. I also bought the other UpNorth Humboldt strain on offer at that time, which was NF-1. The Durban was $50. The NF-1 was $68. Weed wasn’t legal yet in Missouri. I had mostly been buying gummies in Illinois but I was starting to buy single grams here and there from Beyond/Hello. I splurged. The Durban Poison was phenomenal. It was some of the best-tasting weed I’ve ever smoked. The NF-1 was overshadowed by the Durban and I was bummed I had paid more for it.
But the NF-1 hung around. The Durban was tasty and potent but sometimes it was too potent. Too racy. Too head-rush, too biting. I bought another batch of the Durban months later; it wasn’t nearly as tasty. Six months later, or maybe it was nine months, the NF-1 dropped to $25 an eighth in Illinois and I couldn’t believe it. The Durban also sells for $25 an eighth, sometimes. I have since bought NF-1 twice more. One of the blurbs above was written on that second batch. The third batch I have in its original, sealed glass jar unopened but sealed further in glass mason jar. I’ll get around to smoking it some day.
One Line Postscript
NF-1 says, “Don’t forget about me. I was the real deal.”
And that’s why I bought more, and will do so again.
Weeds of Grass 