For the same reasons some people like their spinach and tomatoes pesticide-free, or their sirloin without any hormones or antibiotics, many people prefer their marijuana that way, too – au naturel.
There’s a backstory behind your blunt or edible – how the leafy green was grown. And everything that went into the process is going into your body when you smoke or ingest it.
Enter the concept of organic weed.
Consumers of Massachusetts’ Local Roots cannabis are also getting fungi, buckwheat, crustacean and alfalfa meals, herbs, and even supplemental crops such as tomatoes and peppers, for example. Also playing a hand in the high are worms and other beneficial insects making their home in the soil.