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Buckeye Relief Sour Larry Cross 1 Gram Hybrid “Raw” Pre-Roll: My First Ohio Store-Bought Joint

August 25th, 2025

This past week I heard some people say Firelands Scientific’s The Landing dispensary in Cleveland had started selling pre-rolls. Earlier today when I called them on the phone about it, they said the pre-rolls had sold out.

The Landing was one of the first Northeast Ohio dispensaries to sell pre-rolls.

I was informed that The Landing’s one-gram pre-rolls were $7.50 for non-infused and $16 for infused. I told the employee I’d call in a week or so to see if they were back in stock.

I contacted Amplify in Bedford to check their pre-roll situation. They had two types of pre-rolls in stock: Sour Larry Cross and Fastbreak Frost. They were $13.00 a piece for recreational customers and $9.75 for medical patients. I was told they only had raw, non-infused pre-rolls in stock. Infused joints were supposed to be hitting the shelves two days from then on Wednesday, 08/27/2025.

I I got to the dispensary, checked in and bought two raw, non-infused pre-rolls, one Sour Larry Cross and one Fastbreak Frost.

Buckeye’s dispensary product sticker called them pre-rolls. The Division of Cannabis Control insists on calling them Raw Single Serving Units and Infused Single Serving Units.

The Landing’s (Firelands Scientific’s) website referred to the joints as pre-rolls and so did Amplify’s (Buckeye’s). Amplify’s in-store menu and internal product stickers also called the products pre-rolls.

Buckeye’s actual packaging didn’t say the word joint or pre-roll anywhere. The word pre-roll only appeared on the sticker that the dispensary used to scan the product. The Division of Cannabis Control product ID stickers on the tubes themselves said the products were Raw Single Serving Units. I thought this was what the budtenders at the dispensary were supposed to call the joints, but thankfully they were using the word pre-roll.

In Ohio’s legal cannabis market, the DCC says “Raw” means a non-infused joint without any bubble hash, rosin, resin, THCA crystals or distillate. It is a joint with only cannabis flower inside of the rolling paper. “Infused” refers to a joint that contains not only flower but also bubble hash, rosin, resin, THCA crystals or distillate. Essentially, infused joints contain additional hash to make them burn slower and hit harder.

Ohio medical patients can buy raw, non-infused joints with their medical day supply. One pre-roll counts as one day supply, even though it is only one gram. If a medical patient walks into a dispensary with 45 days on their supply and buys 5 raw pre-rolls, they will leave the store with 40 days left until their next refill.

For now, Ohio medical patients cannot buy infused joints with their medical supply. If an Ohio medical patient wants to buy an infused pre-roll along with their medical order, they will have to complete their medical purchase, collect their change and start a second transaction for the infused joint as a recreational customer. The first medical purchase would count towards their medical day supply and the second recreational purchase would count towards their adult use daily purchase limit.

Will infused pre-rolls count towards both a recreational customer’s flower and extract daily limits? For example, if an infused pre-roll had 1 gram of flower and a half gram of extract, would the state remove a gram from their flower daily limit and a half gram from their extract/edible/liquid/tincture/topical daily limit? I would imagine so, but when I get a definitive answer I will update this post. Edit: I got the answer. Even though they have hash in them, infused pre-rolls count only towards an adult-use daily flower limit, not the daily edibles and extracts limit. However, loose, non-rolled pre-ground infused flower, such as Riviera Creek Riv Sticks or Hundred Percent Labs Crumble Infused pre-ground bud, count towards the daily edibles and extracts limit, not the daily flower limit. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, because an infused pre-roll is essentially the same thing as a rolled-up Riv Stick, but that’s the way it is set up in this state.

Joints!

When I opened the Sour Larry Cross tube it smelled like cannabis, not hemp. There have been times I’ve opened those THCA hemp pre-roll tubes and was immediately hit with a whiff of boof. That didn’t happen when I opened this Buckeye pre-roll tube. The weed smelled fresh. It didn’t smell or taste artificial like a lot of those flavor-infused pre-rolls you see from Michigan.

The Sour Larry Cross raw pre-roll weighed 1.39 grams with the paper tip included. When looking at the weed through the paper I didn’t see any stems, sticks, weird-looking chunks or harsh-looking material. It looked like it was supposed to, like some ground up weed rolled within a paper.

I’m not sure what brand of rolling paper they used. The tube’s label says the paper is made from unbleached wood paper and wood pulp kraft paper, not hemp. It didn’t have the RAW checkered watermarks. The watermarks were straight lines. The paper tip had the Buckeye logo on one side and a THC! warning on the other.

Buckeye Sour Larry Cross 1 gram raw pre-roll

Buckeye Sour Larry Cross 1 gram raw pre-roll

I sparked my first Ohio dispensary-bought pre-roll and took a few tokes. It was easy to light with a regular BIC lighter, but I did use hemp wick to avoid any butane hitting the flower.

Spark one for Ohio!

I had smoked a few of those artificially flavored joints from Michigan recently, in particular one called Banana Pancakes. It didn’t really taste like weed. It tasted very botanical, like it was infused with foreign flavorings. This Ohio-bought Sour Larry Cross pre-roll tasted completely different. There was no artificial taste whatsoever. It wasn’t harsh and didn’t make me cough.

I was very happy to see that the Sour Larry Cross pre-roll burned evenly, ashed white and tasted good until the end. Despite it being a somewhat windy day outside, the pre-roll did not run and only required one relight when I saw a slight canoe start to form. The airflow was exceptional until the very end when the joint got a bit resinated. The joint didn’t become impossible to hit, but at the very end, the airflow diminished a bit.

With that in mind, the day prior I sparked up a $26 rosin infused pre-roll from Michigan and the airflow was so tight and unhittable that I had to put it out, unroll it and pack it in a bowl. So compared to that, I was very happy with the airflow on this Buckeye Sour Larry Cross pre-roll.

Going…

Going…

Gone!

This is what the bud inside of the joint looked like after it was finished. The weed was resinated but contained no sticks or unwanted bits.

I felt medicated from the Sour Larry Cross pre-roll for well over an hour. I was actually surprised with how long the high lasted from this joint. You could tell that they used only nugs to roll this jib, refraining from bulking it up with sticks and junk matter like a lot of the free and low-priced pre-rolls you see from Michigan.

Overall, I walked away from the experience impressed with my first Ohio store-bought pre-roll. It tasted great, burned slow and even and ashed very light. It got me medicated and creative for well over an hour, probably closer to two. It cost under $10 with the medical discount, which is more or less on par with Michigan prices to a certain extent.

I gave the Sour Larry Cross Hybrid Raw Single Serving Unit an 8/10 for taste, 3/10 for harshness, 8/10 for strength, 7/10 for smell strength and 120 minutes for length of medical effects.

Ingredients: cannabis plant material, cone (unbleached wood paper, wood pulp kraft paper, starch). Net weight 1.00 grams (it weighed 1.37 grams with the tip). Total THC 23.18% by 1 gram weight, Delta-9 THCA 25.34%, Delta-9 THC 0.96%, CBD 0%.

Terpenes: b-Caryophyllene 0.40%, Linalool 0.37%, Limonene 0.21%, a-Humulene 0.12%. Manufactured by Buckeye Relief on 08/14/2025, tested by CP Labs on 08/21/2025, packaged 08/21/2025, blazed on 08/25/2025, expires 08/14/2026.

I got creative after smoking this joint. I painted cat-shaped rocks and fed a stone bird some stone heads.

Cat rocks

Cat rocks

Stone bird feeding time

While outside smoking the Sour Larry Cross joint, I took these photos!

A baked butterfly! Or was I the baked one?

Progress?
How to Wrap a Lighter with Hemp Wick

January 14th, 2025
When you flick a lighter’s striker wheel, a flint spark ignites a jet of butane gas. The ongoing source of the flame is butane.

When you hold that lighter flame to your bowl and inhale, you are directly breathing in that butane gas. This is not ideal for your health. I’ve even had people tell me when they light pipes, joints and blunts with a standard lighter, they can detect a subtle butane taste throughout the session.

This is why you’ll find hemp wick sold in every headshop throughout the world. When hemp wick is used to ignite your flower or melt your hash, the flame originates from a cleaner source. This allows you to avoid the inhalation of butane while smoking, which in turn helps you to experience the truest possible terpene taste.

For convenience’s sake, I usually wrap my lighters in hemp wick for use during smoke sessions. Hemp wick is coated in a thin layer of beeswax, which makes the wick kind of stick to itself when wrapped around a lighter. It works nicely.

In stores you can find special lighters that have hemp wick dispensers, but if you want to go the D.I.Y. route, check out the following guide on how to wrap your lighter in hemp wick.

You’ll need the following items:
- A lighter, preferably Bic, but other brands will also work.
- A roll of standard adhesive tape, preferably 3/4ths of an inch in width.
- A roll of hemp wick.
  It’s sold in both small and large bundles. I usually buy a 200 foot roll to get a good bang for my buck.
  Different brands come in different colors and thicknesses. Companies that I’ve used in the past include I-Tal, Bee Line, RAW, ZONG, Twisted Bee, Zippo and Humboldt Hemp Wick.
  In this article I am using a 200 foot roll of Hemptique Organic that I bought on eBay for $9.32 after shipping. I particularly like Hemptique Organic because it’s thin, malleable and burns super clean without leaving behind soot or black ash residue.
200 foot roll of hemp wick

First, break off an inch-long piece of tape.

3/4th inch wide Scotch tape

Take one end of the hemp wick and place it in the middle of the tape like this.

Fold the tape around the hemp wick but leave the two sides apart from each other. This will allow you to stick the wick to the Bic.

In this image the sticky side of the tape is facing down.

In this image the sticky side of the tape is facing up.

Prepare your lighter.

Flip it over so the back of the lighter is facing towards you.

Tape the hemp wick to the bottom of the lighter. Make sure the wick is facing downwards like this.

Wrap the wick around the lighter.

Wrap as much or as little as you’d like.

When you’re ready to smoke, use the lighter to ignite the end of the hemp wick. It’s important to be mindful of the flame at all times. While the wick is lit, tilt up or down to control the flame’s size and shape.

The flame approaches the flower.

Be sure to extinguish the flame completely after each toke. I typically use a gentile puff of lung air to kill the fire and then use my fingers to pinch out the remaining ember. Another way to kill the fire that burns upon the wick’s end is to quickly flick the flame with your wrist.

After killing the flame, use your fingers to extinguish the burning ember.

If you’re afraid of the heat, you can also stamp out the ember against the glass bowl with one finger. I don’t feel anything at all when I use this method.

Stamping the ember against the bowl seems to be a little less intense than using just your fingers to extinguish the smoldering hemp wick. However you choose to do it, make sure you kill the ember after each hit. Never assume it will burn out on its own.

Zong! Wick

Now that you know how to wrap your lighter with hemp wick you can say bye-bye to breathing butane. You can use hemp wick to light bowls, pipes, one hitters, chillums, bubblers, bongs, joints, blunts and hookahs. Smoke strong, live long and bubble your bong ’till the song is gone.