Alien Bubba reviews
Read people’s experiences with the cannabis strain Alien Bubba.
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This is one of my favorite releases by Cresco, I have the live sugar and it's the perfect strain to unwind you at night and help you fall asleep. also helps alleviate moderate to severe pain.
I have tried several hundred strains and yet this one stands out as one of the best performing indicas.
A few pinches from an Alien Bubba by Cresco pre-roll (vaped from a Flowermate V.05 vaporizer), 30.12% THC, no detectable CBD (thus I mixed it 50-50% with ground no-THC, high-CBD hemp flower).
Very, very, very relaxing, instantly calmed my racing pre-sleep thoughts and made me think all was well with the world, definitely absolutely helped me sleep. Probably good for pain, but I was asleep too fast to think about that. Which means it's probably good for pain, or I would have been noticing pain and/or been kept awake by it.
I myself wouldn't try to do anything requiring much focus, or mobility, on this (bearing in mind of course that I used it when already tired, just too stressed to sleep; anything that relieved the stress, which this did VERY nicely, would have let me go where I was heading, which was from tired to asleep). And my system is picky--I can't function at all on "vaunted productivity strain" Durban Poison (first too high & anxious, then crashed). I have a low tolerance esp. cf. to someone who uses concentrates more heavy than a couple puffs on an oil pen/cart. The only strains I can do any, say, professional writing on is good old Jack Herer and, to a lesser extent, Jack's most delightful but G13-crossed offspring XJ-13.
Alien Bubba did the usual for a 30%+ indica, on the "happy but asleep within 10 mins." front, but I could see how if you were a more experienced user--like, someone who owns and uses a dab rig--using it with someone else, or in a stimulating social situation like a party (and not with 5 grams of melatonin & some benzos I'm still tapering off that I take at night, that don't do cr@p for my stress levels but are sedating), it could leave one deeply calm, eased in spirit, but still coherent. I was exclusively using it as bedtime weed, trying to calm down and sleep, & with those other sleep aids. That I think AB will have me abandoning, the melatonin first (it's apparently linked to depression in D-prone individuals) and then the Klonopin as soon as I finish my taper. (Public health announcement: If you've been taking a benzo daily for more than a month, you need to taper off it, not go cold-turkey. If you've been taking one at very high dose daily for as little as a week, you really need to taper, as my friend who had a seizure and now has brain-damage from being taken off a week's high daily dose of Atavin cold-turkey can attest. End PHA.)
And I probably took 5 or 6 deep inhales (at 400F or so); because I was worried by a few other reviews saying AB wasn't heavy enough for sleep. For me it was, "Whoah, I feel like I just slipped between fresh yet fuzzy flannel sheets just washed by my mother, miraculously cured of her cancer, in the nicest way." Then the lights went out.
On potential con, which might well just be my tolerance, or lack thereof, plus hitting it too many times: I also had a struggle waking up next morning, and it took a LOT of coffee to clear my groggy head. YMWillDefinitelyV on that.
(Also, these IL dispensary-bought 30%+ indicas just do that to me. One good thing about heavy regulation of the supply chain is the labs and labels on the medical-dispo stuff are probably pretty accurate. One also bad thing about heavy regulation of the supply chain for 30%+ THC strains is that it's hard for me to go low and slow enough. --I just moved here from LA, where I first became a medical patient & had no tolerance, and being disabled and therefore very penny-pinching by necessity, was buying bottom-shelf weed in popcorn/shake out of unlabeled jars from (I've now read) probably one of the hundreds of unlicensed dispos just in greater LA, that an experienced stoner/patient/cannaisseur would no more buy than oregano cut with dandelion leaves. But bottom-shelf weed is actually great for novices on a budget, especially if they don't know they're using schwag is and thus get a nice placebo effect.
Anyway, I brought with me a retrospectively laughable, esp. since I lived in Chicago until age 17, "Cali" attitude about Illinois MMJ. Before I actually bought a couple of the medical-grade 30% indicas grown here and was knocked out as if by general anesthesia and left stoned half the next day. (I'd forgotten this has been an agricultural state time out of mind, "breadbasket of the world" territory and all, because it boasts some of the richest farmland in the world; the topsoil is, like, 6 feet deep, family farmers are millionaires (in non-liquid assets anyway) by virtue of owning a family farm's worth of IL "ground"; and the state's bigger growers can employ a lot of horticulturalists and agronomists and what-all who know a little something about growing things.)
Wow, that was a long-@ss review. I think I'm still half-stoned at 1:30 p.m. next day.
I smoke 4 or 6 times a day ,I love a indica buzz, this isn't a creeper, or knock you on your ass kinda buzz either, more like a fuzzy warm blanket ,that mellows you ,If you like a chill out buzz ,this is it ,I'm a fan
This had me drooling with my mouth closed
Used vaporizer, tastes great feels great!
Recently received some of this strain in a cartridge (made by Cresco) and the flavor was great (Cresco carts live resin carts always have great flavor) and it worked very well. I use it for insomnia and it certainly took care of that! Downside, is I did wake up later with a dry mouth. Took a drink and another hit and went back to bed.
Great strain for chronic pain, insomnia, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, PTSD, anxiety and muscle spasms. If you can, scoop up some of this amazing medicine while it’s available, great mix of uplifting, pain free euphoria and sleep will soon follow nicely. Relaxes the whole body and calms the mind. Another outstanding indica medical strain by Cresco.👌🏼🔥
The couch lock is strong on this one, supremely relaxing high.