An adulterant is a chemical substance added to pure things to contaminate it and reduce its quantity and quality in combination. The most common sort of adulterant that we know about is when water is added to alcohol, making water the adulterant.

For one to understand that their marijuana is spiked with adulterants or not is quite a difficult job, unless you’ve smoked for years. For a beginner or novice, to differentiate between spiked and unspiked is a near impossible task. Quite often hash is spiked with Vaseline or small amounts of balms that make it smell minty but the taste becomes horrible.

When vegetable oil is used, it makes the weed starchy and parches the throat. While these reduce quality and taste, there are also weed spiked with dangerous substances like incense, stems or seeds, which are very harmful to one’s body. This is why it is necessary to not be fooled by local vendors and harm oneself with cheap quality of weed that is mixed with adulterants.

If you’ve not tasted good and bad both, it would be difficult to understand whether your weed is spiked or not. One of the things you can do to ensure you’ve not been overcharged or cheated is to ask for a sample before buying from some vendor. If the dealer does not want to give you any, there is a high chance that you were going to be cheated. Block the dealer’s number, and don’t have to visit them again ever.

In metropolitan cities, another issue is that weed usually is stored in gunny bags and it imparts a smell to it. The dealers here keep selling until their bags are empty. There is a chance for it to be spiked with pesticides so that it does not mould or some powder that might result in your having a terrible headache. That is definitely not safe to have.

Spiked marijuana causes depression, lung problems like excessive phlegm, respiratory infections or diseases, and also an addiction. They ruin your health and also are the reason why ‘junkies’ get a bad reputation. 

The only way one can enjoy pure marijuana is by growing a plant of one’s own. It would not give you health issues and you’ll definitely know the good from the bad. If you have the resources to grow a plant, go ahead!