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The Oregon State Fair is featuring award-winning weed:
Whether you're in Maine or Michigan, state fairs have their own smell — a mix of hot oil from the curly fries, and that unmistakable livestock tent. One exhibit at this summer's Oregon State Fair, though, has a particularly distinctive funk. It's the one introducing a new crop: marijuana.
"It was this year that the state legislature designated cannabis as a farm crop. And the general public should know what it's all about," says Don Morse, the head of the Oregon Cannabis Business Council. And the tent — which has a strong piney, somewhat skunky smell — features nine prize-winning marijuana plants. They're the first live pot plants that have ever been shown at a state fair.
The judges used a number of criteria, says Morse: spatial noding, leaf structure and aroma. To be clear, the judges at the fair in Salem, Ore., didn't actually sample the finished product. And the health and appearance of the plants don't necessarily translate to their potency, or how much of the psychoactive compounds are in the end result. But still, there's some glory to be had, says Mandy Seybert, one of the competitors.
"We've never shown anything at a state fair — it would be like my husband's dream to be able to show some of our cattle or his pigs or stuff," she says. "So it's a pretty big deal for us." Grower Seybert's livestock is back at the farm, but her cannabis plant took second place for the Indica variety. She's been fielding questions in the tent all day.
Also at Vice. The nine plants shown at the Oregon State Fair were the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in the Sativa, Indica, and Hybrid categories at the Oregon Cannabis Growers' Fair earlier in August.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:27PM
So they judge the plant on how it looks, but not actually how it works? That's like a chili contest that judges the chili solely by the list of ingredients going into it and the equipment used to cook it.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:31PM
Kind of like a wet t-shirt contest without water or bodies.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:33PM
I expect that if all this went fully mainstream, more categories would appear with less reluctance to "test" the substances. Ready to vape bud, oil, "baked goods". Judging the plant by its appearance? That's not so bad. They judge watermelons by weight/volume and not taste, right?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:34PM
I don't think you got the concept of the story. The concept is State Fair - Weed Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:43PM
The concept at work here is "Weed is Politically Correct Now" to preempt attempts to criminalize it again.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @05:33PM
It truly frightens me the kind of authoritarian, dictatorial, jackboot hellhole of a society the alt-right want. You oppose things for the sake of opposition. The Party of "No" cranked to 11. You are a counter-culture that embraces and revels in all of the worst traits of humanity.
Please select a few states you people want to call home and secede. You are not worthy of living in my beloved country.
For the first time in my life, I will likely be voting Democrat this year.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:35PM
Maybe, maybe not. If it's cattle or pigs, do they cook up some steaks and bacon? It seems like it's in line with the nature of similar contests.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:40PM
Softwares judged by the coding and does it run linux? You think tech nerds have any moral high ground on the issue of superficial prejudice?
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Wednesday August 31 2016, @09:44PM
It might be pretty hard in a contest setting to test how well the plant works, I guess. Once you're high--You're high. Then there's tolerance issue, and you really couldn't be sure which plant(s) you sampled might be doing exactly what. This is kind of like a blind wet t-shirt contest where we're hearing how well they sing and judging how good they look in their wet t-shirt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @10:15PM
So they judge the plant on how it looks, but not actually how it works? That's like a chili contest that judges the chili solely by the list of ingredients going into it and the equipment used to cook it.
Or judging the largest zucchini, pumpkin, or whatever grown irrespective of how it tastes. I'll note that that's a fairly common contest.
In fact, outside of cooking, competitions where they perform destructive tests are fairly rare now that I think about it.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday August 31 2016, @11:13PM
It's like a chili contest where the judges don't wait for the chili to fully digest.
It's like a wine contest where the judges don't swallow.