Tag: Ohio Cannabis Company

Paragon Buckeye Purple 22% THC Hybrid Flower: I Bought A Bag Of Boo-Boo

September 18th, 2025

I was low on flower. I was at Ohio Cannabis Company to buy a Pure Ohio Frozen Bananas pre-roll. While looking at their half ounce menu, a strain name caught my eye: Buckeye Purple.

I love purple weed, and since Paragon is a veteran-owned company, I figured I’d give the strain a shot. The only other Paragon strain I have tried was a tenth of Kush The Alien which was a little dry but overall not bad.

Paragon’s Buckeye Purple half ounce was packaged in a black Mylar bag with a see-through window. The buds looked cheesy with purple flecks throughout. They didn’t seem dry. I should have checked for terp info, because if I would have saw there was no terp info listed on the bag, I would have moved on to something else.

I was thoroughly disappointed upon opening the bag and taking a whiff of the wares. It didn’t smell like purple weed, or really like weed at all. It smelled like hay or lawn grass. If I would have been able to smell this weed before I bought it, I would have quickly moved on to something else.

The half ounce weighed 14.10 grams, just under the 14.15 grams that I paid for. The buds themselves looked pretty dense and chunky, with visible trichomes when broken apart. They were green in color with purple specs and low stemmage.

Paragon Buckeye Purple

Paragon Buckeye Purple

The buds were a little dry but broke down nice through a grinder. The weed didn’t turn to dust when ground up. The nugs were not very sticky.

Packed Paragon

The Buckeye Purple burned at about a medium speed and produced a greyish ash. The weed tasted terrible and wasn’t particularly smooth going down. It had no “purple” taste whatsoever. It was nothing like Butterfly Effect’s superb Purple Panty Dropper or Kynd’s terrific Purple Chemdawg. The Buckeye Purple left a bad taste in my mouth, kind of like a fertilizer or lawn grass flavor.

The medical effects were mild and short-lived. I could feel a little something after smoking this stuff, but I was wondering if it was just a buzz from the residual pesticides. Now I have a half ounce of bad weed that I don’t want to smoke, with no other weed to bounce back to. You shouldn’t have to worry about that when buying a bag of legal weed from a licensed cultivator.

After buying a half ounce of this boo-boo, I won’t be purchasing Paragon pot ever again. It’s too bad it has to be this way, but when you spend your hard-earned cash on a bag of weed this bad, it makes you not want to take another risk with the cultivator.

I bought this bud based solely on name and paid the price. I was worked. If I was the cultivator, I’d be ashamed not only to sell this stuff but also to put the word Buckeye in the name of the strain. I feel like we deserve better.

Boo hoo, I bought some boo-boo.
What would you do, scream “I got screwed, too!”?
Fire I would have blew through, but I
avoid Buckeye Purp like a goo stew.

I gave the Buckeye Purple from Paragon a 3/10 for taste, 5/10 for harshness, 4/10 for strength, 3/10 for smell strength, and 15 minutes for length of medical effects.

Total THC 22.2%. Delta-9 THC 0.31%, Delta-9 THCA 25%. Total CBD 0.055%, CBDA 0.063%.

No terpenes listed. No QR code to check on lab testing results.

Harvested 05/14/2025 by Paragon Development Group LLC, tested 08/26/2025 by North Coast, packaged 09/10/2025, first consumed 09/17/2025, expires 05/14/2026.
Certified Cultivators Moonbow Indica Flower 23.1% THC: Higher Than All, Guaiol

May 22nd, 2025

When in the area, I always enjoy visiting the Certified Dispensary in South Euclid. They usually have pretty good deals and a nice selection of Certified flower and vapes. Last time I was there the special was spend $300 and get a Certified shirt for a penny.

That deal wasn’t as good as Ohio Cannabis Company’s current offer, where if you download their app you get a free shirt, but I still ended up spending enough at Certified to get the shirt for a penny.

Recently I was the lucky recipient of a gift from a friend: a sample of Certified’s new Moonbow indica strain. The lineage is ZKZ (Zkittlez) x Doe-C-Doe. It came packaged in Certified’s standard tenth glass jar with a black label and black plastic lid.

It smelled light, floral and sweet. There was some weediness to the smell without doubt, but I noticed a lot of limonene and linalool in the aroma. The smell was unique. It definitely made me look forward to tasting the bud!

The top listed terps were limonene, linalool, b-caryophyllene and guaiol (pronounced “gwhy-EEE-ol”). After reading a little bit about guaiol I learned that its most prominent aromas are pine, wood and rose. Maybe that explains why I thought I smelled a hint of rose while whiffing the wares. Upon analyzing the bud, I realized the following: A

friend with weed is a friend indeed. I
spend around three at the dispensary. I
sample tree, an ample hobby for
those who enjoy using THC.

My two-bud sample of Moonbow weighed 0.53 grams. It was light green with slight medium green hues. There were small orange pistils on the pot and fuzzy-looking trichomes throughout. When I broke the bud open I could see some shinier trichomes. The flowers were stemless.

Certified Cultivators Moonbow Indica Flower 23.1% THC

The stuff wasn’t dry and it was reasonably dense. It broke up into nice chunks with my fingers but it wasn’t very sticky. When I ran the Moonbow through my Flower Mill it broke down beautifully. The milled marijuana was fluffy and easy to work with. Since the bud wasn’t dry there was no dust or marijuana mist.

Packed Moonbow bowl

When toke time finally arrived, I was thrilled to discover the Moonbow tasted not only just like it smelled…but better then it smelled. I could honestly taste the large amounts of linalool and guaiol in this stuff. What a unique and exciting terpene profile!

There was miniscule harshness to the Moonbow smoke as it flew through my esophagus. It went down smooth and produced no phlegm on the exhale. I truly enjoyed my time with every toke. The experience was something to behold.

The encounter made me think of my grandpa, puffing away on his tobacco pipe, enjoying the aroma with each draw. Smoking slowly and sufficiently, he savored the smoke with each toke he embarked upon. Thankfully in these modern days we are able to smoke cannabis instead of tobacco.

When the Moonbow bowl was finished the ash had a light hue.

Beat, cashed-out bowl of Moonbow (it had been Cashius Clayed)

The medical effects were relaxing yet inspiring. While smoking the Moonbow, I wrote this article, finished a song I had been working on and got an idea for another brand new song. Time flew by as I focused on the tasks at hand. I started the session at 8:00 am and by the time I looked down at the clock it was already 9:40 am.

I would definitely buy this stuff myself. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a rejuvenating, tranquil strain that tastes floral and unique. In my opinion it was more of a hybrid-leaning indica. I’ll keep my fingers crossed to see the Moonbow available in a half ounce!

I gave the Moonbow from Certified Cultivators an 8 for taste, 2 for harshness, 8 for strength, 7 for smell strength and 60 to 90 minutes for length of medical effects.

Total THC: 23.1%, Delta-9 THCA 26%, Delta-9 THC 0.27%, CBD 0.05%.

Terps (mg/g): Limonene 6.16, Linalool 3.68, b-Caryophyllene 3.65, Guaiol 1.25.

Harvested 03/21/2025, tested 04/29/2025 by North Coast Testing Labs, packaged 04/30/2025, consumed 05/22/2025, expires 03/31/2026.
Kiva Terra Milk Chocolate Blueberry Bites 100 Milligram 20 Pieces: Testing the Taste and Treatment

March 31st, 2025

Kiva Terra Milk Chocolate Blueberry Bites

I avoid buying edibles because they typically don’t give me much of an effect. Gummies, even high doses of 50 to 200 milligrams, don’t seem to do much to me. I took 300 milligrams of UB Good capsules and felt nothing but a bit of tiredness.

It’s strange though, because there’s been times where edibles have worked for me. Years ago I had a buddy who made some infused sugar cookies and they were the most powerful edibles I’ve ever had. The cookies were in the shape of weed leaves, and eating just one piece of those things would get me medicated. An entire cookie was an hours-long, mildly psychedelic experience.

Infused chocolates seem to work better for me than gummies. Depending on the brand and dosage, chocolates can also be hit or miss, but I’ve had much better luck with chocolate than pectin or gelatin. Maybe it has something to do with the fat that’s in the cocoa butter helping to better absorb the THC into my body.

Last year I ate an entire 100 milligram Kiva Blackberry Dark Chocolate bar before a game of putt-putt and definitely felt the effects. There used to be a processor here in Ohio called Garden Society that would make excellent infused chocolates I’d buy from AYR Wellness in Woodmere and Ohio Cannabis Company in Canton. I’ve also had medical morsels from Standard Wellness, including a 100 milligram S’more Marshmallow Graham Cracker Milk Chocolate bar that didn’t last longer than one sitting.

This past weekend I was going to visit the newly-opened AYR Wellness in Streetsboro, but after browsing their limited menu with unimpressive prices, I found myself at Nectar in Euclid. This dispensary is open from 7 in the morning to 11 at night 365 days a year!

Nectar is known for heavy discounts, and my most recent visit didn’t disappoint. They had 40% and 50% off of a bunch of stuff, including Certified 510 carts, Klutch 510 carts, disposables and many different flowers and edibles. They even allowed for discounts on Certified iKrushers, which isn’t something you see everywhere.

Other than the parking, the only thing that sucks about Nectar is the fact that it’s in Cuyahoga County, so for non-medical purchases you have to pay an additional county tax on top of your recreational and sales tax. Three taxes to many. Medical patients are spared from the recreational tax but must submit to county and sales taxes during each transaction.

While at Nectar I picked up a few edibles I’ll be reviewing for the site for 420 season, including this tin of Kiva Terra Milk Chocolate Blueberry Bites by Klutch. They were not labeled sativa, indica or hybrid. There was 94.86 milligrams of THC in the entire tin, which housed twenty 4.743 milligram pieces of chocolate.

The edibles didn’t smell weedy. They smelled like chocolate. I noticed that some of the pieces were slightly bigger than others.

Each ball was stamped with a little white THC! symbol that was barely readable. When I saw the ingredients that went into producing that white stamp, which I listed at the bottom of this article, I wished they had passed on it!

For general safety though, it’s good to know there is THC in the chocolate you’re eating. As an alternative, maybe they could stamp the THC! symbol as an indent pressed down into the chocolate. Perhaps the reason they used the white ink was because they physically weren’t able to press an indent onto the sphere.

I had eaten twelve Terras by the time I took this photo.

The chocolates had a nice soft consistency and slightly tasted of cannabis. Inside of each piece was a delicious blueberry filling that made it difficult to stop eating! There were no blueberry seeds or skins. The chocolates reminded me of those Brookside treats I used to eat by the bagful until I got too many cavities and had to stop.

The cannabis extract inside of the Terras was removed from the plant with ice water. This explains why I didn’t taste any sort of solvent or butane while chewing these things. They should advertise on the front packaging that Terras contain solventless extract!

The medical effects seemed to hit me quick. I was on an empty stomach but it still surprised me how fast I felt the first four Terras, which in total contained about 18.972 milligrams of THC. I was medicated within ten or fifteen minutes and the effects lasted about three hours. My chronic pain faded into the background but I did feel kind of tired, which could have been due to a lack of sleep the night before.

I was surprised how much medical effect I got out of eating just four of these things at once. I had a head buzz along with a bit of a body high. The medical effects definitely felt like I had eaten an edible as opposed to inhaling a flower toke or breathing in a hash dab.

When the effects wore off I ate another four Terras but I didn’t seem to get as medicated as the first dose. The next day I ate another batch of four and felt medicated for a few hours.

If the price was right and I was in the mood for edibles I would purchase this product again. They got me more medicated than I thought they would.

I gave the 100 Milligram Kiva Terra Milk Chocolate Blueberry Bites an 8 for taste, 2 for harshness, 7 for strength, 5 for smell strength (they smelled chocolatey, not weedy) and 180 minutes for length of medical effects.

Milk chocolate blueberry bites, edible for oral administration, extracted using ice water. Net weight: 34g. Serving size: 1.7g (1 piece). Servings per container: 20.

Total THC 94.86mg, Delta-9 THC 94.86mg, CBD 0%.

Feedback@KlutchCannabis.com. Manufactured by Klutch Cannabis on 06/20/2024, tested 07/26/2024 by North Coast, packaged on 08/22/2024, first consumed on 03/30/2025, expires 06/20/2025.

Contains milk and soy. Made in a facility that also manufactures products containing wheat.

Ingredients: Milk Chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk, unsweetened chocolate, sunflower lecithin and vanilla), Cultivated Blueberries (sugar, blueberries and sunflower oil), Gum Arabic, Cannabis Extract, Cocoa Powder, Confectioner’s Glaze, Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Sucrose, Glucose Syrup, Edible Ink (titanium dioxide, dehydrated alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, shellac, povidone, propylene glycol, butyl alcohol and sodium hydroxide).