Review: Thai Sunrise By Find

Smoking session review of the Thai Sunrise cannabis strain released by Find.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:12

With your house. The skipper and the professor.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

And welcome back to Gigolin's Highland. You're here with the Skipper and the Professor. Today we are reviewing Thai Sunrise by Find.

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Find the Curie Leaf Company out of Ravenna, New York, known for its high-quality flour for less. A 23-state MSO with a large offering.

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And they have tons of brands that you might know about too. As far as the strain, it is a sativa dominant strain across between Cambodian and Thai strains. The effects are euphoric, focused, creative, and uplifted. Flavors, citrus, sweet, chem, and diesel. Our friends at Leafly have no information about Thai sunrise. Do better, Leafly. All but has 21 to 24% THC and find says 31.9% THC.

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It comes in a half-ounce Mylar Ziploc bag, average price $90. This haul here comes from our good friends at Alta Dispensary in Ridgewood, New York. Make sure to pay them a visit. Definite. You ready for the roll? Ready for the roll skip. Let's do it. Back with the roll. How did it go, bro?

SPEAKER_04 1:38

It rolled pretty even, a little big. I'm going to say it rolled a little big. And as far as the sample being enough for both rolls, definitely was. It was a half-ounce bag. How about the look, Skip?

SPEAKER_03 1:48

Oh, these are big buds here. Big size buds with a very loud sweetness to them. Very fresh. Orange over deep greens, giving the buds a gold hue, like gold nuggets. Very loud, very sweet, but not too dank. Very soft to the touch, too. And those triangles shine. Nice, pretty bud. Ready for the smoke? Ready for the smoke, Skip. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 2:25

So first impressions. I am smelling it. Definitely sweet with a slight touch of dank. Are you getting that? Like a little dankness in it?

SPEAKER_01 2:33

No, I don't.

SPEAKER_04 2:34

So it's like sweet and sour.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:35

That's interesting. All right. So let's see how it goes with the light. First impression. Very light. Right. It's still similar to her profile, just lighter. Lighter. Definitely has a sweetness in the inhale and the exhale. The dankness is not there. It's funny because when I'm pulling, it has kind of like an airy quality to the I don't know if it's fluffy or what, but it's like I could feel that the air like rushing through it, through the J. And you know, I don't roll it loose, so I know that it's not the roll. Right. So it has to be that the herb is like, you know, very fluffy. Yeah. That reminds me of this one time that I bought, I cannot remember for the life of me the brand, but it was freeze-dried marijuana.

unknown 3:33

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_04 3:34

Freeze-dried marijuana. And of course, I bought it because of more of curiosity than anything, you know. But even with curiosity, you're hoping something gets you high. Of course. And no, it didn't get me high that day. The other weird thing was that the moment you like touched it, it literally just fell apart into like dust. Yeah. You just had to like touch it. You didn't even have to like break it. It was a strange uh consistency. It was strange. No turp profile. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

It's different. I had the same situation or anomaly with um pre-ground. One time, you know, I would they gave uh they had like a promotional. You buy one, get one for a dollar. Buy something, get this for a dollar. But what they were giving was that pre-ground uh herb, and it had the same that airiness, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

That powderiness. Yeah, and it's burning pretty fast, too.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

Yeah, it seems like it tries to have what one would think of like Thai weed, which also has a bit of that airiness to it.

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

There are buds always. Thai sticks are usually airy. The buds, at least. And it's it tries, it really tries.

SPEAKER_04 4:52

So, as we said before, find is one of the many subsid subsidiaries of CuraLeaf.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:01

Uh Grassroots, Select, uh, oof, they have quite a few. Um Find. Um they're even going into Europe, so they you can't even say that they're multi-state at this point. Right. They're in 23 states at this point, CuraLeaf. But they're global. But they're becoming global because they have stuff in Europe and Australia. So yeah, they're going global. This is supposedly the biggest cannabis company in the world since 2020.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Right.

SPEAKER_04 5:34

Or at least CuraLeaf is. Right. Uh, you know what's funny about that is that, you know, New York law says that they're supposed to be a local company.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Well, that's part of or part of the overall issues that a lot of consumers are having with what's going on in New York City. That it's that there's a lot of laws that um dispensaries, uh, cultivators, everybody have to follow. And there isn't much in the policing side of that.

SPEAKER_04 6:02

Right. It seems like a lot of people are playing phony maroney with a lot of these things.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

And because I mean, if the whole thing was to make it uh available for small growers to do their thing, to get a little, you know, shine under the light of dispensaries, things like that. Now, it's not saying that you don't see microgrowers, because that you will see, and you do, but not as much as the commercial stuff. So that leads us to question why is the previo prevalence of this commercial because of the power.

SPEAKER_04 6:31

And from what I understand, it's really like splitting the hair, right? So you have this like international company, right, and you're supposed to only use local growers in New York State. So what do you do? You buy one of the local growers and that's your representative in New York State. But really, think about that. All the seeds, all the equipment, all the everything is from this international organization. So is that really local if the guy's using the the big companies, all their stuff and just happens to be growing it on New York soil?

SPEAKER_03 7:04

And not only global, there's a lot of MSOs that are just nationwide are doing the same thing and not being called out on here in New York. What's going on, Holkel?

SPEAKER_04 7:18

So I blew past the third mark, and I'm between the third and the halfway mark at this point. This is a quick burner. And am I feeling anything? Not yet. Not yet. I'm not really feeling anything yet. So we're holding out hope. The terps is still nice, still tastes good. Um, let's hope that it gets me somewhere. This is not for the podcast. Shit. At this point, look, even the fact that this is the budget brand, because that that even gives them a uh a bit of plausible deniability, right? Yeah. Wow, so you weren't satisfied with this? So uh, well, you know, um it's because it's the budget brand. Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

Maybe you should spend a little more money. Which makes sense. I mean, the real reason that it I mean, it wasn't attractive only because of the price. I, you know, once I saw a dominant sativa that, you know, purportedly was such, I tried to, you know, let's see if we can review this or what have you. That was the first thing. But the second thing, which was attractive, was the price, you know. Even though, I mean, $90 for a half is still pretty bad. But for fresh, what seemingly fresh weed, it didn't seem like a bad thing. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

It definitely looks fresh. I'm talking about, it was like soft to the touch. It was very fresh. Very, very fresh. Very fresh. Very supple. Yeah. There's no doubt about it. That's some fresh marijuana. And it smells wonderful. He, you know, Skip is right about all those things. But you know, the eternal question is the most important question. Always the most important question. And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter all those other things what they do, if the most important question, the essential question, is not answered. And we all know what question that is, good mates, don't we?

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Blowing past a halfway mark. In a way, that's kind of messed up. To sell a particular product knowing that it's a part, and then an excuse for it is, oh, it's our budget brand.

SPEAKER_04 9:34

You're right. But I I I believe that when we run into strains that are like, well, you know what? I'm not even gonna say like this because we're not finished smoking. So we don't know if something's gonna happen in the second half here. But when we whenever we run into strains that just are too too light or don't seem to do much, I usually notice that or I try to consider the company's point of view that it's maybe not meant for us. Okay. Okay. We're experienced, we have a high threshold.

SPEAKER_05 10:05

Right.

SPEAKER_04 10:06

And maybe this is for, you know, I I know a couple of people that never smoke. Right. And, you know, they probably smoked us and they might get high.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

They might put it out on there and you know, took us. Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 10:20

And and then another another thing that that kind of will support that argument is that if I'm a brand newbie, right, and and I'm just coming in here being the casual guy, I don't even know nothing about which is which or anything like that. So what what's the safe bet? Right. Get the cheap one. Get the cheap one, get the entry level. Get the entry. Oh, wait, well, which one's cheap? Yeah, you know, I don't know. I don't care. I don't I don't do this anyway. Any of them will be good. Which one's the cheap one? There you go. Wow. You know, and and even if they feel even just a little loosey-goosey after smoking it, how they gonna know that they're not high or not? Wow, I got high. Meanwhile, you just felt maybe a little euphoria from the CBD. You feel you think you get high, you know? Yeah, this you know, marijuana's like that. I don't I try to be more charitable to the grower and the seller and say not that that why they're putting it in the market, but is it really meant for me? Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

That's more pragmatic view.

SPEAKER_04 11:25

I like that, yeah. And I think that that's that's how I try, and that's why I always try to like also say that. Like, if I think it's too mild, I always try to say maybe this is for a casual smoker or someone who's new to the game. Right. But also try to warn our fellow brethren that of course are experienced, you know, maybe you want to steer clear from this product, unless you want to roll a Cheech and Chong style, you know, sized thing, you know what I mean? Other than that, you might want to steer clear. Now we'll we're the verdict's still out on this one.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

I mean, I don't know. I have to get into growing because the question I uh it's always in my head is if you start growing weed and get this far, you you actually get buds that smell fantastic, look great. How much more does it take for it to be potent?

SPEAKER_04 12:22

I throw a curveball at you, Skip. What if you, the grower, don't smoke that stuff? Wow. Yeah, that's true too. What if you don't smoke it? You just grow it. You just grow it. And you grow it industrial size, so to you it's not even it's not even like something therapeutic. It's a crop. It's a crop, okay. So when you look when you have crops, what's your determination that it's a good crop? How it looks, how it smells, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:50

Right. And they do testing, they test, they have to test for THC levels. So is that real at 30 some odd percent? Well, I mean, give or take.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

That's total THC, right? So that can be THC, THCA, THC B. Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Because I mean, there are some wares out there in the dispensary world that when they say 30 some odd percent, yeah, you'll feel you feel 30%.

SPEAKER_04 13:18

You feel a full 30. Yeah, and that's why I really appreciate when sellers break down the THC. Okay, it's this much as this, this much is this. Because one thing I hate finding is the nasty little surprise that a lot of the THC I have in there is THCA. Right, right. It's like, why are you giving me this?

SPEAKER_03 13:41

And that, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

That's so that it could have shelf life.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

That's definitely another issue because they have found, and I read some recent reviews where they are proving, and I'm not saying names, but I'm just throwing a blank that some dispensary wares are actually, you know, something else. T with THCA, you know, like again.

SPEAKER_04 14:04

And yeah, that's that's unacceptable. If I want a THCA, I can order it, I can order it to come mail order. I can get a pound of that stuff for like a couple of hundred bucks. So yeah, no thanks.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Yeah. And there I read also where a lot of people say, it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 14:24

No, it is not. You know, it is not. THCA is what becomes THC when it's aged. The reason grow uh dealers, growers, whatever you want to call them, put THCA, you know, plants along in with the THC in their plants is because as the plant ages, what they're hoping happens while it's sitting in the shelf month three, month four, month five is some of the THC content is gonna is gonna fade. What they're hoping happens is that some of the THCA content converts into THC to make up for the lost THC. Right. And so it won't be as potent, but it won't be as inert as it would have been without the THCA. The whole point of that is shelf life, you know, potency for shelf life. And it's like, but I don't care about that. Like, you know, I want my top THC content. What you're telling me is on the package. That's what I want. Yeah, it's a it's a sad thing, man. I heard that, you know what? I heard street dealers are doing that nowadays. A couple of friends told me, yeah, that they're like selling THCA and trying to bump it off as THC because that the profit margin is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

Ridiculous. Or uh the acceptance now of spray packs, you know, things that have been sprayed. And I was surprised to learn that even on the street level, THCA, and they'll spray it.

SPEAKER_04 15:48

What? And then they give it to you with a like a terp spray or something. And oh wow, this is good weed. And yeah, man, that's you gotta be careful nowadays with, you know. I would tell anybody who's buying stuff in the street to familiarize yourself with THCA. Okay, familiarize with yourself with how it looks, how it smells, so that you can identify you know, when someone's trying to sell you THC A as THC. That's my advice. Okay, down to the last third. And you know, I feel something. Something, yeah. I guess something. Something is a little there. Like I feel like my eyelids are drooping a little. I think that's the best way to put it, but I don't feel any headiness, any bodiness. Um yeah, and I still I get a slight foggy, yeah. Like it's slight, dark slight foggy, yeah. But I guess we should do the rundown, right? So let's take a look. All right, so according to our fellow friends, this is supposed to make us feel uh euphoric. Do you feel euphoric?

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Yeah, I mean, if relaxed can be construed as such, just a little relaxed, a little relaxed.

SPEAKER_04 17:14

I can concur with that. Focused, not much. I mean, if if if by focus they mean sober, maybe uh creative, no, uplifted. How about the tastes?

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Is it still tasting like uh it still has the sweetness to it?

SPEAKER_04 17:40

And I just got it, I got the citrus finally at the end. Oh yeah, I got the citrus at the end. So, yes, the flavors are there. Citrus sweet, yes. I didn't really get chem, and I guess you can construe diesel a little bit like the the dank I got. So, yeah, okay. So we'll say diesel. So it did well with the flavors, it did well with the terps, smells and stuff. It did well with the looks, but but are you high, Skip?

SPEAKER_03 18:11

Are you high? That's what I mean. Good throw up, decent smoke too, nice.

SPEAKER_04 18:18

Yes, pleasant.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

You know, after you get through the coughing fit, it's all smooth sailing and it's very decent, a little relaxing. But that's about it.

SPEAKER_04 18:31

Like, I okay, I'm getting towards the end of it. Past blew past the last third, and yeah, I feel something. Something. Something.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 18:46

It's really we're like looking at each other, like trying to figure out like how to add to that, but yeah, there really is nothing to add. Okay, so but it wasn't a total loss, right? So we can't say it's like you're not gonna get high at all. I I could definitely see a casual smoker like enjoying this. Definitely, they will they would have fun with this. Yeah, so find it looks like there is a place for you somewhere, but unfortunately, I'm not so sure it's giggling highland. So hopefully there's some ascension here, and we're not worried about too much. So towards the end, I do feel a little bit of ascension, it's ascending a little bit, but I I want to use the term loosely because yes, it's ascending, but I don't want to, you know, think I don't want you to think that it's like, whoa, here we come. No, it's like okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

You know, and there is many places for budget brands. You know, budget is a very big word in any kind of retail spot, and I see now that a lot of cultivators are using that like this, or there's a lot in that price range that it's kind of like too good to be true. There's a lot of that. So there is some attention that we all should be putting towards the budget side of the of the weed world here in New York.

SPEAKER_04 20:15

Yeah. Like I said, there's a place for it. There's definitely a place for it. It's just, you know, I knowing who you are as a consumer, I think is the best way to put it.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

And we have to kind of change that narrative that just because this budget, you know, that that that gives the space for a lot of these uh, if you will, indiscretions in the weed. Or mediocre mediocrity. Right. That you know, that shouldn't be an excuse. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:45

Yeah, an excuse for mediocrity shouldn't be, well, but I I sold it cheap. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

I mean, uh fine that's fine with cable service and oh no, that it's not fine.

SPEAKER_04 20:56

That's why everybody hates their cable provider.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

What I mean is we've accepted thus far. You know, that is the kind of like the American way of life is like a tiered system. You can have this, or if you pay more, you can have this. But weed or crop, you know? Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 21:12

Yeah, there should be room for a budget marijuana that's potent.

SPEAKER_03 21:16

You know. But well, there's somebody out there that's gonna do it. I mean, we can go further and argue that in New York we're paying top dollar for things in other states. I mean, let's not even talk quality, let's talk quantity. You know? A good ounce in New York City in a dispensary at the cheapest, what, 150, 160? Where in other states for that same one.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

You might be able to find cheaper, but you have to really be at the right place at the right time and be a discerning customer.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

You know, and that's that's pre tax, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Oh, yeah, that's okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

So by the time you're paying two and change in another state, you get a lot more weed. Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 22:03

Yeah. That's why it's it's still the wild west here. Like this is the time to solidify the things that are right, you know, change the things that are wrong. And we gotta push for it. You know, as consumers, we have to push for it.

unknown 22:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:17

We have to let our voices be heard, you know, and say, hey, we want we want uh better you know, everybody's afraid to say these things, you know. I'm a pothead.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

I mean, here, no everyone will throw money at anything, you know. We'll want to stay anonymous. Exactly. So the the money problem, it is none as far as New York City. People will pay if you tell them right now this thing will, it's the bomb.com, it'll make even the roaches in your house high, but it costs $700 an ounce. Trust me, somebody will buy it. Somebody will. So why not give us good weed? We're for all we know, there's one out there. It's just that they're not in the front, in the forefront of this.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

Yeah. For all we know, there are many out there that are that fit the criteria that we want. It's just finding it.

SPEAKER_03 23:07

I'm sure. I know I'm I'm here, I'm getting my spider sensors are tingling, and that's probably the microgirl we're saying, hello, it's us, it's us.

SPEAKER_04 23:15

That's right, that's right. We're trying to find you, my friend. We're really trying to find you. Yeah, and we want to find you, and we want to shout you out to the world. Definitely, you know, when we find you. Yeah. So if you're out there, you know, and you need us to find you, help us find you. Yeah. How just contact us?

SPEAKER_05 23:34

I you feed.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

But let's just start off like coming from IUP until I U T.

SPEAKER_04 23:47

Okay, I'm in my just finished, rolled right into the just finished, as you heard right there with the ashtray. And okay, um, so let's see. I feel a little bit of fogginess behind the eyeballs, and a little bit of fogginess in the brain lobe right above my eyeballs. Okay, so that's a little bit of something. I'm not gonna lie. There's a little foggy, foggy going on. Um, let's run it down. Other than that, not feeling anything strong, nowhere near smacked. And yeah, that's where I'm at. It's it's even though it's very mild, not strong at all. I'm gonna say it's it feels a little fun though. It has a little fun element to it, and that's why I would definitely say that if some, you know, like we said earlier, like if somebody's casual, a newbie, yeah, this might be actually a good fun strain for them. Yeah, definitely. So, you know, not condoning uh marijuana use if you don't want to use it now, but maybe a newbie will be good with this. All right, it was ascending before. Hope springs eternal. Let's hope it's uh keeps ascending, and I have a better report for you in an hour. All right, talk to you guys in an hour.

SPEAKER_03 25:04

Let's do it. One hour later. One hour later and we're back one hour later. How did it go, bro?

SPEAKER_04 25:21

Well, it was interesting because there was a high there, felt it. It was in the background, it was going on while you know we were hanging out and chatting here, but did I get smacked? No. Was I high? Yes. Was it a high high? I can't say that. Um, but it was something that was pretty pleasant, uh, conversational. I definitely think a casual user will like this a lot more than I will.

SPEAKER_03 25:59

What do you think, Skit? Well, it was uh definitely interesting and uh decent smoke. Um very easy to smoke. It uh had a lot of uh notes, a lot of sweetness to it. Very nice, very easy. Not much of a high. And it had a magnetism, you know, something that kept the conversation going. It's pretty nice. Maybe something amongst people, you know. If you're trying to share it, definitely. Ooh, one thing I didn't touch on. So how how did it did it taper off? How do you feel now? One hour later, yeah, it tapered off precipitously. I don't I'm not high, and I don't even feel the remnants of it. But um, I got the uh experience was not terrible. I mean, the fact that one hour later, you know, that's just a benchmark we use. But for certain things, there are certain types of weed, and this fits those little moments maybe when you need a short getaway. But one hour later, I I don't feel anything really.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

I, you know, it's funny because I didn't even touch on that because it's so mild that I forgot to even mention that. But yeah, I it it be what what was there, it lasted for some time. But yeah, it definitely tapered off. And I'm definitely at whatever post uh high there is for what it's worth, whatever that is. Um, but yeah, it's pretty much over. I think we're ready for the smack ometer.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

Definitely ready for it.

SPEAKER_04 27:24

Let's do it. Let's do it. Definitely feel like this.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

This is alright. This is actually alright, and definitely feel like this. This is alright, this is actually all right.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

All right, and we're back with the smack-ometer.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Skip, final thoughts. It's a difficult one, you know. I mean, it's easy to put a number on something just with that benchmark. You know, are you high? One hour later, no. Was I high before? Slightly, yeah. It has to be a high. It is a high. Slight elevation, slight openness, but not cruising at all. More like running. So, I mean, it is it what it is for what it is, but for me, it isn't what I needed it to be today. And for that, I'll give it a four and a half. Whoa.

SPEAKER_04 28:12

Well, I am in a similar vein of skip. I am a little more charitable, but I'm in a similar vein where I think that there was a something there, it was a high. Uh, and it was it had a fun feeling. The the problem for Skip and I is that it was not nearly as strong as it needed to be. Uh, and so whatever was there, it lasted for some time. I'm gonna say about a half an hour. And then after that, really quickly started to taper off to the point that right now, aside from maybe feeling a little tired from the day, I really feel like uh nothing happened after that. Um, so I am definitely gonna say that this is for uh somebody casual or brand new user. I think they'll have a lot of fun with this. But for Skip and I, this doesn't work. And like I said, I am a little more charitable because yes, the question was answered, are you high? And I have a criteria for that. However, it didn't last long and it wasn't very strong. And so for that, I'm going to give it a 5.0. Okay. That's decent. Because it did get me high.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

It's just and the terps is out of this words.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

And yes, oh smells. That's right. If we do the rundown, the terps were great. You know, the packaging was nice, smelled wonderful, the smoking experience was um pleasant, right? Oh my god, it was supple and soft to the touch. It was just very nice. All of that was nice, but it didn't get us where we wanted to go. We didn't get smacked, we were just halfway there. So with that, yeah, 5.0 for me.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

Well, it is what it is. And good mates, that is our review. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, or just want to drop us a lifeline, visit our comment section or our YouTube page. And don't forget, hit that follow button. And with that, thank you for visiting Giggling Highland.

SPEAKER_04 30:15

See you on the next trip.