WILLAMETTE WEEK | PACIFIC JUNIPER STRAIN REVIEW | NOV. 2018

Pacific Juniper

Grower: Pruf Cultivar

Cannabinoid content: 20.5% THC

About the grower: Pruf Cultivar is the flower manufacturing arm of canna conglomerate Groundworks Industries, which holds 22 Oregon cannabis licenses, including those for Serra, Electric Lettuce and, as of September, Farma. Helmed by Farma co-founder Jeremy Plumb, Pruf takes its science seriously, employing uncommonly detailed and technically precise nutritional and environmental controls to stabilize its proprietary designer chemotypes. At a time when consumer demand for high-THC flower has homogenized much of the market, Pruf uses cutting-edge science as a crystal ball to see a few cultural shifts into the future, to a time when consumers are better primed to shop for desired outcomes instead of high cannabinoid concentrations.

Aroma and flavor: Though Pacific Juniper smells as evergreen and ginny as its name suggests, the base coats are fairly typical of terpinolene-rich flowers: layers of bubblegum, coconut and pool water, which provide background for wood, spice and pine details.

Potential effects: Coupling an unheard of 4.9 percent terpinolene and potent 2.5 percent beta-caryophyllene with a manageable 20.5 percent THC, Pacific Juniper radiates an uplifted headspace—happy and creative, yet with a decent degree of lucidity even when the weed is doing the thinking. Meanwhile, the caryophyllene's anxiolytic and anti-inflammatory properties ground the experience in a soothing sense of calm. Matt Stangel.

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