[therevverend]

Also, you can look at the purple mottling on the pot, the green leaves mixed with purple, it looks natural. The way pot should look. The crystals are the right color. If it was adulterated it would look weird. Adulterated pot usually tricks the inexperienced, people that aren't sure how pot should look. If it was dyed it would look unnaturally purple. Now I'm curious, might have to get some grape juice, green buds, and do some tests..

[Beanzy]

My buddy moves weight and always chuckles at a certain demographic that is always demanding asking for purple even though it doesn't necessarily make it 'better' their are legends of it and people like to showcase it the same way I was proud of rope choking gold Colombian in mid 70s.
Some people just equate colors to exotics, I myself enjoy the terpenes smell and taste and it has been proven that certain terpenes compliment the thc and thcv for rapidity of onset to duration of buzz. Mango is perfect example.

[shithawk420]

I heard from a good source that mango haze is the best thing around

[Beanzy]

Originally Posted by shithawk420

I heard from a good source that mango haze is the best thing around

I just read 2 books of substance one by DJ short and the other one by Ed Rosenthal which is the cannabis bible but he spoke of eating a mango before smoking will get you higher because the terpenes of mango do something to the receptor barrier in cannabanoud receptors that add umph to the buzz.
Sorry for getting off topic but I love to share these gems.

[Capt.Ahab]

Cinnamon and honey supposedly do the same.

[Gr33nSanta]

is it possible that if people used avid it makes the anthocyanin more soluble hence will make the hash and water hash more purple and also more likely to leach onto the paper like your photo

[Capt.Ahab]

My photo?
I'd chop and burn my plants before I used anything like avid.

[Raho]

Anthocyanin water soluble? Sure.
But so is chlorophyll.

Making water/ice hash with green weed makes the water green.
Purple weed, purple water.

The color should NOT leach out of dried buds in gentle contact with a wet paper towel.

[JustSumTomatoes]

I remember when there was some purple going around town. Picked some up for the average price range but once word got out about it everyone was freaking out and paying $75 an eighth! Was nothing special really, just looked different than the usual. Packaging and bag appeal sure can work wonders on some people...

[theJointedOne]

Originally Posted by Rjay

This is my first post ever on the forum, I've been searching around for a while for some answers but can't seem to find any. I recently came across some purple bud, purple do-si-do it was pitched as, not from the usual source but seemed very solid. Look, smell, taste - passed the usual tests.

However, I started to reading online about purple and lots of people saying there is fake purple around. One post suggested taking a bud and holding it between a wet paper towel - I did this and it did indeed leave a purple / pinky mark on the paper. Of course this made me panic and think it must be dyed, however, one poster suggested that Anthocyanin - the compound that causes bud to go purple - would indeed rub off on wet paper.

I'm just wondering if anyone can confirm this test using some true purple? See if the same thing happens or if I really have just picked something up that's been dyed.

The strangest thing is - I wasn't charged more for it, the one hit I had seemed to work as expected, it looks and smells great - just this strange colouring on the towel.

Anyone with knowledge or access to true purple strain able to help me?

I definitely would not smoke that.

Iv'e handled literally tons of pounds of cannabis. Lots of purple. Purple from weather and purple from genes.

There is no way, that a dry bud like that would leech out purple stain onto a paper towel...its just not gonna happen.

So..how much of this shit did you buy? Might as well just toss it and find a better source.

Also, what made you think the color might be fake. It definitely isnt right, thats for sure.