I first smoked Durban Poison in 2019. My wife and I had traveled to Vegas, our first time since legalization, so of course the first thing we did after checking in was hit the dispensary!
I believe it was called Nuwu and it was exactly one and a half miles from our hotel downtown. That mile and a half becomes relevant later in the story. We hopped in an Uber and it had us there in minutes. I feel as though I just spun and and gazed in awe as my stoner brain tried to process the magical wonderment my eyes were beholding! I didn’t cry, there’s sand blowing everywhere in the dadgum desert! Anyway, once assigned a budtender(fancy!) the “Kid in a Candy Store” sydrome kicked in. Sativa gummies, Sativa Live Somethin capsules, and then the prerolls(we’re on vacation), the sweet sweet prerolls. I knew from research I wanted to try Durban Poison, its smoke reviews made it sound like my perfect.
When I meantioned it, the budtender’s eyes lit up. Like a scared, excitement. He said he had the perfect preroll, it’s moniker, The Motivator. It was 1/2g of Durban wax, rolled inside 1g of flower, the cone then rolled in Durban oil, before finally being dipped in…Durban keif. The official looking lab report stickers on the tube reported 61% THC. We bought 4. So with our NEON GREEN MYLAR bag of goodies, we left our new friends with the plan of walking back towards downtown while we smoked this THC baseball bat and getting an Uber when we were done.
My Loverly sparked that doob and the lucious smell immediately gripped my interest. Never in my life had I smelled weed like that! My Queen says I m crazy but I say it smells like a spicy, grape HubbaBubba! We passed that joint 3 times and I told her to short that thing. We were high AF. Like it felt like we may fall off the Earth in some collapse of gravity as we know it, and yet confident and motivated to take on the challenge. We were still in the parking lot, mind you the end of the parking lot, but the parking lot nonetheless. Logical folk would have stopped, called an Uber, and awaited a nice, air conditioned jont downtown. But the Poison had already reached our brains. We had a chronic case of the giggles and just enough paranoia to not want to stop and call a Uber like civilized folk. So we walked, and laughed, and took it all in. A mile and a half. Through the desert.
The first casino we reached was Main Street Station, we tore open those doors and the wave of A/C was enough to make a grown man cry. I didn’t cry, there is literally sand blowing everywhere. Anyway, the key point here is that after all that, we were still so high we shouldnt be in public. We remained in public. The next 36 hours were something out of a Hunter S Thompson masterpiece, and somehow we won enough money to cover the trip. One of the best damn vacations of my life.
I had not smoked it since then. I searched, my friends searched. It just wasn’t to be found. So when my state went legal, my wife bought me Durban Poison seeds. I planted one and over the next 6 months you would have sworn i was trying to kill the poor thing. But I learned and she improved. I ended up getting 10ozs wet and 2.5ozs after dry and cure in my buddy’s Cannatrol.
I just smoked my first joint and it is fire! Just as delicious and potent as the first time and twice as awesome because I actually grew it! First time seed to smoke! I feel pretty damn good about it and the smoke ain’t hurtin either!
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Killer story, fantastic finish! Well grown and excellent work.
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Great tale and well told lol. The Sand Durban Journal lol.
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I like that!
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Thanks for the kind words! That spliff had me inspired!
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That was a good read thank you I needed that.
Congrats on the harvest, now take everything you learned and try it again 
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I am pretty far down the rabbit hole! I am working a clone of my first plant, a Blue Dream auto in dwc, a Love Potion, Marley’s Grin, and a freebie from Mephisto. All autos in HF. I am hooked.