As of Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, Ohio adult-use (recreational) cannabis customers can buy more marijuana per day.
The daily purchase limit has increased from 1 ounce (10-day supply) of all types of marijuana products (flower, extracts, edibles, etc.) to the following: 2.5 ounces (25-day supply) of flower and 1500 mg (15 grams) of extract, edibles, topicals or tinctures.
Each day a recreational customer in Ohio can buy two and a half ounces of flower and fifteen grams of raw extracts (hash oil, dabs) or extracts in edible form (gummies, chocolates). This purchase limit resets back to zero daily.
This new marijuana purchase limit aligns with the possession limit in Ohio, which is 2.5 ounces of flower and 15 grams of extract. Medical marijuana purchase limits in Ohio have not changed.
Starting April 21st, 2025, the Division of Cannabis Control has altered the testing standards for THC and terpenes in marijuana.
No longer will moisture levels be accounted for during testing. What this means moving forward is that the listed THC and terpene percentages will be lower with flower, vapes and extracts. No need to fear, it’s still the same actual amount of THC and terpenes in the products, it’s just that the testing standards have changed which leads to lower readings.
This makes you wonder how consistent THC and terpene percentages are with testing labs across the nation. Would the exact same cut of cannabis test lower in Ohio than it would in Oregon? Would it test different for North Coast Analytical Laboratories than it would for Smithers Cannabis Testing Services?
While on the topic of accuracy, on cannabis packaging I often see the phrase “Actual THC percentages can vary by plus or minus ten percent”. So the flower that you are smoking that is supposedly 30% THC might actually only be 20% THC. In my opinion, with the right terpene profile and grow techniques, a 20% THC flower can actually hit stronger than a 30% THC strain that has low terps and a poor cure job.
This also makes you think that Ohio will now be able to offer more potent marijuana in general, which is a win for stoners. For example, something that would have formerly been deemed too strong to sell at 40% THC might now test at a passable level of 35% THC.
We have all heard of pre-rolled joints. I’m sure you’ve made or bought a few yourself throughout your time on this planet. A pre-roll is a joint prepared for future use, rolled well before the intended toke time.
But how often do you prepack bowls? I remember seeing these little rubber rings in headshops called something along the lines of “Save-A-Bowl”. You would pack a bowl and then slide the rubber ring over top the pot to prevent it from plummeting from the pipe.
To properly use this product, you would need to buy a rubber ring that fit your specific bowl size. Conveniently, I had already developed a less expensive technique that worked even better for preserving bowls. The method required only three pieces of Scotch tape to achieve.
I will now explain this technique of “putting a bonnet” on it.
If possible, use the kind of tape that is about three fourths of an inch wide. The one fourth inch or half inch skinnier stuff will require you to use more tape to cover up the whole bowl head.
This bowl has been packed with Ice Cream Cake flower from Klutch.
Tear off a piece of tape that’s just a bit bigger than your bowl head. For wider bowl heads you may need to stick two pieces of tape next to each other to achieve full coverage. Most of the time this isn’t necessary, especially if you’re using tape that is three fourths of an inch wide.
Break off a new piece of tape that is about three times longer than the first piece. Lay the new, longer piece on the table facing sticky side up.
Hold the first, smaller piece and make sure its non-sticky side is facing up towards your face. Slowly stick the smaller piece in the middle of the big piece. Be sure to line the two pieces up as close as possible.
When you’re done, the longer piece should have a non-sticky portion in the middle which has been created by the smaller piece.
Pictured above is what the tape bonnet should look like after you’ve attached the two pieces together.
Now you can affix the bonnet to the bowl head as seen below. Make sure the non-sticky portion is facing downwards and touching the flower.
If you’d like some extra protection from crumb spillage, take another piece of tape and stick it crisscross atop the first piece as pictured below.
You should now have pretty good tape coverage around the bowl’s entire perimeter. For even better coverage, lay the tape flatter and tighter than usual.
The tape has been crisscrossed to prevent one from being pissed off that their weed has spilled from their bowl.
The pipe above is ready to be put in a case and taken to where it needs to be. Pre-rolled joints are great but pre-packed bowls can be just as handy if not handier in the correct circumstance!
When it is time to remove the bonnet, do so slowly and thoroughly. You don’t want to melt or smoke any of the tape’s plastic or glue. Usually a few cannabis crumbs will stick to the tape as you can see pictured above.
Discard of the tape in a responsible fashion. Smoke the bowl with a sense of appreciation for what has been and anticipation for what’s to come. Never let emotions get in the way of developing and following through with a strategy to achieve your most desired goals.
First, pack a bowl with great airflow. Then use a bamboo or titanium toothpick to grab a glob of extract from your jar of joy. In the photo above I used BHO extract from two different strains.
You want to drop the globs near the middle of the bowl so it doesn’t melt too much along the edges. With less-sticky forms of extract like shatter, sugar or crumble this is usually pretty easy, but with some gooier badder or diamonds and sauce it can be more difficult. I wouldn’t recommend putting RSO or FECO on top of your flower but I have had some people tell me they do it.
If you’re having trouble getting your hash glob to drop properly, use a second toothpick with your other hand to scrape the goopy clump downwards. You can also flatten the hash chunks into pancakes or break them into smaller bits if need be.
I now feel like there is enough hash atop my bowl to move forward with the process.
Try to avoid getting pieces of weed mixed in with the hash clumps. In the above photo you can see how some bits of weed got mixed in with the bottom left and bottom right chunks of cheer. When you go to melt the hash, these bits of weed will set ablaze and interfere with the cleanliness of your melt.
The lighter approaches.
If you don’t have any hemp wick handy, try to gather two lighters. It’s possible to melt the hash with only one lighter but the device can get hot in your hand after some time. Switching off between lighters when needed will help keep your thumbs from getting burnt.
Hover the flame just over the extract clumps. Don’t touch the flame to the hash. Take your time. There is no need to inhale through the mouthpiece during the melting process.
The oil will eventually become viscous and start to bubble. It will begin to pool up and melt down into the flower. If need be, use your non-lighter hand to move the pipe around so the hash doesn’t drip out of the bowl head. Switch lighters as needed, or if using a hemp wick, put out the flame and relight when necessary.
If the extract catches fire, gently fan it out with your hand, or use a subtle puff of lung air to extinguish the flame. Move forward with the melting process when the flame has floundered.
The hash pictured above is in a state of half melt. I wouldn’t go to smoke it quite yet. There is more melt work to muddle with before you can blaze this bowl.
Keep the bubbles brewin’ until the glob distinctly dissolves into the flower as seen above.
The pipe is now properly prepared for human consumption. In the picture you can see how some areas of the flower are black and charred because I held my lighter a bit too close at times.
I also accidently let small pieces of weed intermingle with the hash globs by not plopping them properly or precisely with the first drop. This led to additional unnecessary charring during the melt. If you have to relocate your hash globs after first drop, you may get weed chunks stuck within the BHO bits that will catch fire during the melting process. Fan them out with your hand as needed.
This is my glass dabber with carb cap for stamping out burning bowls.
While smoking the pipe, you’ll notice after each hit that the bowl keeps burning slowly but surely. To put out the ember between each toke, cup your hand over the bowl head. You can also use a glass carb cap like the one pictured above to quickly and safely cut off oxygen to the burning hash ball.
Globbing extract atop your bowls is a fun and fruitful activity. Use this heady technique to pack bonkers bongs that last for long lengths of time. Melting wax atop flower is also great when using hand bubblers or for any other situation in which your bud burns fast.
A packed bowl with bad airflow will burn the weed but the smoke won’t hit your lungs. You’ll have to use a toothpick or your finger to unpack the bowl and replace the partially charred pot back into the pipe in a looser fashion. This situation is not ideal.
There are several ways to pack a bowl with good or great airflow. I’ve seen many techniques over the years through various stoners.
I knew a guy who would take a big, dank, stemless nug and just shove it into the bowl head without breaking it up or anything. Afterwards he would use a metal poker to stick a hole through the middle of the bud. His bowls always burned beautifully.
This got me thinking one day. I wondered what would happen if I were to take a toothpick and stick it in the bowl before I packed it. Then afterwards I’d remove the toothpick to create a chasm that would allow for air to flow freely from the pipe to my lungs.
It worked. Eventually this technique became known as “using a flagpole” or “putting a flag in it”. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to pack a bowl with perfect airflow.
Put a toothpick inside of your pipe’s bowl head. Ideally this will be a bamboo toothpick to prevent splinters and sawdust from mixing in with your weed.
Issues with splintering and wood dust are usually only seen with cheap toothpicks. Most any toothpicks will do, including plastic or paper, but I try to avoid using titanium toothpicks to prevent scratching the pipe’s glass.
Break up your marijuana by hand or grinder. Fill the bowl with as little or as much cannabis as you’d like. Just make sure the flagpole stays in place.
I think this bowl is about full. Sometimes I’ll really pack the pot down in there with plentiful pressure if I want a heapin’ helpin’. Using a flagpole will allow you to do this in order to pack slow-burning, long-lasting bowls that burn properly.
Now you can take the flagpole out of the bowl head. During removal you may need to apply pressure to the pot with a finger or your thumb to avoid spillage.
In the photo above, take note of the bowl head’s four-o’clock area where I removed the flagpole. There is a noticeable hole or chasm where the toothpick once stood.
As seen above, take a small amount of marijuana and lightly patch the hole created when the pole was removed.
Typically, higher-quality marijuana ashes lighter in color and lower quality stuff ashes darker.
One aspect of growing that can influence ash color is the flushing process. Around 2 to 3 weeks before harvest, growers will stop feeding the plant nutrients and only give it water. This allows the plant to flush out nutrients and contaminants, leading to better-tasting bud.
If plants aren’t flushed properly, you will often see evidence of the residual contaminants in the form of dark-colored ash.
If your burnt bud leaves behind white-colored ash, as seen with King City Garden’s Blueberry Muffin Imperials, you will know that the nugs likely contained minimal contaminants. They were probably flushed properly and they probably tasted good.
Limonene is more of a sativa-leaning terpene, helping to achieve a cerebral medical experience. This is the opposite of the couchlock, body high found with many indicas containing high levels of myrcene, linalool or caryophyllene.
Mindonene is a concept I developed after consuming many high-limonene strains of cannabis.
When you feel the limonene in your mind, you are in a state of mindonene.
When a high limonene content elevates your level of mind and focus, you are in a state of mindonene.
24 states plus the District of Colombia have legalized adult-use marijuana in various forms. 25 dominoes have fallen, 26 more to go until cannabis is legal from sea to shining sea.
2012
Colorado, Washington
2014
Alaska, Oregon, District of Colombia (voters legalized marijuana possession in the drug war’s birthplace!)
2016
California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada
2018
Michigan
2019
Illinois
2020
Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, Vermont
2021
Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, Virginia
2022
Rhode Island, Maryland, Missouri
2023
Delaware, Minnesota, Ohio
NEAR FUTURE
Florida voters had a business-centric model and 60% threshold to contend with when they voted to legalize in November 2024. There was no home grow option with the legislation. The issue failed with a 56% Yes vote.
I predict Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Hawaii will be among the next states to legalize marijuana possession.
Pennsylvania and New Hampshire lawmakers are feeling the pressure being in proximity to several legal states. I think Pennsylvania will legalize before New Hampshire.
Voters in Hawaii might have a chance to legalize in the coming years, despite opposition from certain politicians. There are also legalization efforts underway by trailblazers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Louisiana.
In 2016, the rules for Ohio medical marijuana were written by the newly created Medical Marijuana Control Program along with the Board of Pharmacy. Initially they did not allow raw flower in the program but activists fought this against this and won.
It was determined that raw cannabis flower would be allowed for sale, but it could only be vaporized at low temperature with a special device. Combustion, also known as the traditional flame-to-flower method, would be outlawed. This means it would remain illegal to smoke Ohio medical marijuana in a joint, pipe, or bong.
The rule makers determined that a one-day supply of flower for patients is 2.83 grams. This is almost a gram less than the 3.54 gram eighth which has been the standard small-unit purchase for decades. All other legal states sell medical and recreational cannabis eighths except for Ohio.
For some patients 2.83 grams is just the right amount for one day. For others, 2.83 grams is enough to last several days. For those with severe medical conditions or high tolerances to THC, 2.83 grams isn’t enough for a one-day supply. Since the weight is broken down so small, the cost of buying one tenth for each day can quickly get out of hand.
With legalization of adult-use marijuna sales in Ohio, eighths are likely to hit store shelves eventually. For now, however, the flower is still sold in tenths.
No matter how potent the flower’s THC percentage may be, 2.83 grams (a tenth of an ounce) is always a one-day supply. 5.66 grams (a fifth of an ounce, or two tenths) is a two-day supply. A half ounce (five tenths) is a five-day supply, and an ounce (ten tenths) is a ten-day supply. Recreational customers can buy a ten-day supply (an ounce) each calendar day of the year.
To calculate THC percentage in an Ohio vape pen, take the total milligrams of THC and divide it by the amount of oil in grams.
THC mg ÷Total oil weight in grams = THC percentage
For example, the Fuzed Blood Orange disposable vape pen has 627.2 mg of THC and .98 grams of oil. 627.2 ÷ .98 = 640, so this vape is about 64% THC.
If the Blood Orange disposable was 1 full gram then there would be 62.72% THC in the device since there is 627.2 mg of THC. It’s easy to calculate THC percentage in 1 gram carts. Just move the decimal point 1 digit to the left.
Many vape pens in Ohio contain .84 grams of oil and hover around 590 mg of THC, which is a 1-day supply for vapes and extracts. 590 ÷ .84 = 702.38, which is 70.238% THC.
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