
“I experience our joints differently than Ben does, and differently than my mom does.” He says that a baseline for most people is a mellow, chilled-out feeling comparable to drinking a nice glass of wine. “Everybody’s body’s different,” Katz points out. Now, as a somewhat regular smoker of Dad Grass, I find that about half a joint will get me the right kind of not- really-faded, like the light, smiley feeling you have a couple of hours after hitting a bubbler. For some reason, I felt the need to listen to Can’t Buy a Thrill while puffing away. I gave up pot half a decade ago, but when I first tried a Dad Grass joint, it really did take me back to that lazy-day feeling of smoking a J, fulfilling all of the enjoyable, ritualistic aspects of sitting in my rocking chair with the window open, enjoying a few hits alongside a cold beer after work, and hoping my neighbors couldn’t smell anything. You may wonder what to expect from a Dad Grass joint, especially if you’re a past or current Marijuanaut. It was out of a mutual desire for a more available, less intense high that Dad Grass was born. Today’s weed just gets you too damn high,” Starmer says. “When Joshua and I met, you could go into a dispensary, talk to a bud-tender who was an expert, and leave the dispensary with some kind of confidence that you'd picked up the right weed.

“My dad told me at one point that he smoked in his childhood, but eventually the grass got too high-test for him.” Now, if one wants to be assured that they'll experience the mellow blaze of yore, they need to sift through the THC-blasted strains at dispensaries (where legal) or find a friend with a strong body of knowledge and a hard line on the good stuff. “It’s nostalgia for a particular cannabis time period,” Starmer says, adding that weed used to be far less potent than it is today. The Dad Grass brand of nostalgia isn’t only about the experience of discovering that your old man loves the sweet leaf, though-it’s also about the quality of leaf he was smoking.
