Credit: PETE GAMLIN

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PETE GAMLIN

Yes, you read that correctly: Aging weed is becoming a thing. A tasty, interesting, and beautiful thing. Just like wine lovers know their preferred grapes and vineyards, weed smokers can now choose between different vintages of pot.

This is still on the cutting edge of the industry. I’ve asked around for years if anyone was aging pot, but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago that I finally found someone intentionally doing so. At the SunCup in downtown Seattle, a competition for Washington’s outdoor farmers, I heard CannaSol was sending two vintages of their Alice in Wonderland strain, one grown in 2017 and one grown in 2016, to Pearl Extracts, where they would be processed into vape cartridges.

Lester Black is a former staff writer for The Stranger, where he wrote about Seattle news, cannabis, and beer. He is sometimes sober.