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Permanent Chimera

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Episode description

What if cannabis wasn’t just something you consumed… but something that revealed you? In this episode of Cannabis School, Jesse and Brandon light up a conversation that cuts deeper than THC percentages or sativa/indica labels.


We explore the permanent chimera effect — that feeling when cannabis doesn’t just alter your state, it reflects it. From unexpected emotional shifts to a deeper awareness of self, this episode unpacks how cannabis can shape, distort, or clarify who we think we are.


Because sometimes… the high isn’t what changes. You are.



Terpenes


  • Myrcene – Calming, couch-lock potential; slows the mind

  • Limonene – Uplifting, bright; fuels introspection with a citrusy twist

  • Caryophyllene – Grounding, spicy; may help stabilize emotional responses


Cannabinoids


  • THC – Prominent; responsible for the introspective “mirror effect”

  • CBD – Present in low amounts; may buffer THC intensity

  • CBG (trace) – May support focus and emotional clarity


Effects


  • Deep introspection

  • Shifting emotional states

  • Mental duality: peace and anxiety, depending on your mindset

  • Strong body-mind connection

  • Occasional moments of “ego peeling” or self-revelation


Flavors & Smells


  • Citrus-pepper with earthy base notes

  • Slight herbal bitterness on the exhale

  • Smells like your brain might get rearranged (in a good way)


Common Uses


  • Creative breakthroughs

  • Meditation or self-reflection

  • Processing emotions or past events

  • Evening solo sessions

  • Philosophical debates you’ll half-forget but fully enjoy



Why It Matters:

This isn’t just about getting high. It’s about understanding why we feel the way we do when we consume — and how to navigate that space with intention. Whether you’re a seasoned user or just starting out, this episode invites you to get curious, not just about the plant, but about yourself.


Listen now and discover how cannabis doesn’t just show you the world differently — it might show you yourself.


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🛒 Cannabis Topics Covered: Cannabis education, best cannabis strains, cannabis podcast, cannabis effects, cannabis benefits, cannabis usage, THC vs. CBD, cannabis wellness, cannabis for energy, cannabis and relaxation, cannabis and creativity, hybrid cannabis strains, sativa vs. indica, terpenes explained, cannabis and mood enhancement, cannabis community trends, cannabis and road trips, and cannabis consumption methods.


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Transcript

Welcome to Cannabis School. I'm your host, Jesse Angeles. And I'm Brandon Elder. And we're here to talk to you about everything pertaining to cannabis from. Vape flour. Edibles. Strains. And everything in between. So today we're checking out. It's by ritual. It's called permanent chimera. Permanent chimera. It sounds like a science experiment. Right. It's mixed with a permanent marker, which we just did that strain.

So go check out that and it's combined with chimera #2 We haven't tried Chimera. Yet, no, not at all. And you know, one of the things I really liked about it was the breakdown of terpenes. And the number one you're going to find in here is lemonade. And you know the big reason why

people like lemonade? It's it's uplifting, it's mood enhancing, great for stress, anxiety, energy, often gives you this citrus Zing like I actually looking forward to like when I get a really strong one like lemon Key Lime, Key Lime Pie. Oh, we haven't had that. I still think about that one. Late at night when you're all alone. You'd Brandon's usually touching himself, but. Like, yeah, don't you? And you think about Key Lime Pie? I mean, what else do you do?

Wow. You know, and and it what's really cool, though, no, not only is laminating at the top because that's really good for those who get that tightness in the chest, This is a great way to relieve it. And this one is a supposed to be a really balanced hybrid as far as looking in, but cool. Terpenes and cannabinoids. Right, but the cool 1 is the second one is beta carefully. So we're talking about the pain relieving aspects,

anti-inflammatory. So this is like a really I, I mean, I'm because 5050 hybrids go one of two ways for me, either really chatty or very sedated. Interesting. Very. And it just depends on the, the, the terpene, but linolol, then humaline, then pining. I mean, this sounds like a very strong sativa leaning hybrid based on those terpenes. That's what I would say. Even when it's ground up like it is, it feels a little bit stickier than it did when it

was, you know the nug. The flower is crazy dry on this one. Like it it's. Colorado Dry, Yeah. Colorado dry it literally hang on. Listen to this. That crunch, that crackle. It's like so dry. Yeah, it feels crazy. So I'm excited to see, very curious to see how it burns, how it tastes, what the experience is like. Yeah, oh, permanent chimera #20 that's what this one is. THC is 20. Point. 57. That's what it was, yeah, very. Interesting. So wait a minute.

The package says inhalation of cannabis smoke has been associated with lung injury. Very good to know. Well, that's true, because they do say that it creates bronchial effects over long periods of time. Oh yeah, I mean my voice goes lower the more I smoke out of a bong. I don't I I typically like throughout the week. I'm using a vaporizer. Yeah, I actually pulled out George Jetson yesterday and smoked a bowl from it, which normally I don't.

Normally I am often dabbing or using the vaporizer or something else. Like, it's not often during the week that I pull out the bomb. Definitely tastes stale. Isn't that sad? Like the very first hit is usually the the best flavor, the best like. No citrusy notes whatsoever. Lame. Is that supposed to be the top reported flavor that? You yeah lemonine because when you have lemon in especially that amount of lemon in there which is around from what I. Saw. Oh yeah.

I've got a. Citrusy, fruity, some peachy notes. Supposedly no. Like sour and spicy. Sour, spicy. You tell me. Yeah, that face. Yeah, I got spicy. That's why I started coughing. You know, I don't want to shit on this, but I got to tell you like I mean, the facts is going to be different, but there's something to be said about dry ass weed because when you smoke dry weed, that's usually like oh shit, I found this bag like Brandon found. That's usually why I have dry

weed. Yeah, but you know what? Even that dry weed is still pretty fucking good compared to that. Well, it's surprising because that mystery bud that we did the other week that who knows, probably sat there for six months, probably was about the same consistency of like dryness. Oh yeah, but I mean. This is very peppery notes I don't. For a lemonade high. Or citrusy. Or. Well and beta carefully is the second one so and it's a pretty decent amount as far as dosage goes in there, but.

I wonder if when it was first cured and harvested, if you got more of those notes, but now after time and degradation of quality, if it's lost some of that and so now we're left with the product. Well, and what does that tell me? Like that tells me that this is really old weed. Like this is really old weed. This is like a year, year and a half old weed. I mean, I don't know how does it? I'm not feeling shit really. Nope, I am down the back of my neck. I feel a little.

Badly enough like. And I've been like, I haven't been using much cannabis for the last three days. I mean, now they're just edible form I can. Every time I smoke I just get panicky. Oh yeah, you were saying that because the cake would make you super. That's the thing too. I did notice more lately, the cake, I've gotten a lot more tightness in my chest specifically from that strain. This one's supposed to help with, like anxiety and chronic pain. That's supposed to be one of the

really high reported relief. OK, I'm starting to feel it. It's a. It's not it's not bad. Interesting. Yeah, it's it's real calming, but I don't feel tired. The only negative thing I would think about this and and it's just from my stance right now. I mean, yeah, OK, I know I'm pissed because it's like shitty weed. But when you pay money at a dyspo and you get shitty weed, I mean, I could go to a plug the guy who grows his shit in his fucking backyard and it would

taste 10 times better than that. Yeah. And take that off in a SEC. I just didn't want to keep smoking the dry weed just keeps it rolls. Yeah. Oh, I know. It rolls. It's like a, it's like a forest. Which I love. If I'm passing the bowl and it's just going, that's perfect. But if I'm not and I'm letting it sit like, it's kind of annoying. That's the cool thing that Happy Camper offers. I love that cap. Yeah, that that would be cool on a bowl. It would be I.

Used to like this. When I had bongs where my bowl would be flat sitting versus this one's at an angle, Grandpa gave me these cool stones and they were flat and smooth and I would just cap it with one of those and that was like the perfect bowl cap for my bong. And I just set that on there. Yeah, it was. I paid 55 bucks for that 8th at Yeah, yeah. And I was just man, man, man, who's this? I don't mind the experience so far. The. Experience is OK. When I didn't touch the bud

until I got. Dude this is like $3035 weed. Yeah, at least I would feel. In a dyspo, yeah for sure. The terpenes like that, I do give it, it looks better than a lot of other flower I've seen even through Colorado over the years that the quality might have been better initially. But again. Yeah, the whole. Quality, yeah. Does it have a match date on it potentially or a like a harvest or let me see.

I didn't actually look through there to see, but I'd be very curious what that looks like as far as when the actual harvest was from there. That packaged 11724. OK, yeah, six months. Yeah, checks out. Yeah, I mean, you know, that's another thing too. I mean, if the dispos got it going six months, you know, that shit's dry as fuck. You know, somebody who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about is going to be like, all you got to do is touch that bag. Yeah. Going that.

Was it the second? I touched it and I was like, oh, this is super dry. But I didn't touch it until I got home and opened it and I was like, oh, this is exactly. Fucking weird, dude. Not for I mean, and I mean, hey, I'm not going to shit on you guys. Ritual I I think it's great product. I feel it now. I've only had two hits. I feel it very a lot at the base of my school. I like it. I like the feel. Hey, on on feeling pretty awesome, actually.

Yeah, this is a chill. But here's the problem I have with it. I don't feel like I want to do fucking anything but I'm awake. Like I would doom scroll with this. Oh, I wouldn't feel like being productive. Yeah, that's not great. It's. It might like a Sour Diesel. Or if it's the end of the Express, yeah, perfect end of the day weekend day where you've got nothing of importance get. This dude this is a good fuck it strain like. It's a fuck it. End of the day you're just like

fuck this. It it could be. I wonder if it's chimera. Like I've never tried chimera, but permanent marker was a pretty dopey. Yes. Slow you down a little bit kind of strain. I don't know man, I just, I like it, but it's definitely like one in reserve for me. This would be like, you know, at $35, should I pick this up once a month just as kind of like if I if I was going through a lot of stress, anxiety, like I think this would be a great strain. It's pretty pleasant the more it settles in.

I don't feel any tightness in my chest at all. I like the overall. It's like all over my body. It's supposed to be a pretty happy strain overall. I think they use it for depression fatigue as well. So if you're probably exhausted, Yep, this might be a great strain to, like, put you to bed at the end of the night. If you're just like, oh, man, it's been a rough day. Just kind of need to shut my mind off. This one might be perfect for that.

Yeah. I mean, some of the stuff that, you know, kind of like was playing around with, I'm like, what would this pair well with? And I mean, the effects to expect are euphoria, but not overwhelming pain relief with clarity. Great for afternoon creativity or evening relaxation. Potentially good with anxiety Lenolol and CBD touch so you know when do you it totally. So after work wind down creative sessions, social evening without couch lock, low stress focused test.

So I'm already feeling like I'm going slower. Yeah, my, my eyes, the lights feel like bright but like muted and it's very interesting. It's a very. A pleasant I I do actually really like the feeling of this strain. Again, it's not it's the it's not a daytime one. It's not a no, I got shit to do. But if you've got some pain, maybe you're hurting. I slept like shit and I woke up in weird positions. So like, and my back hurts. I don't know why I'm duct tape

like this. Like why is my butt in the air? And, you know, I just, yeah, I don't know. That sounds like that just totally triggered old Robin Williams skit. He used did a lot of stand up comedian right? He did and he uses like he he takes a drink of his butt to go have a little sip of Perrier here. Had to had to quit drinking because I kept waking up on the hood of my car with my keys in my ass. People come by going. Can we help you, Sir? No, it's OK.

It's just flooded. It was so funny, dude. Oh man, he's hilarious. You know, it's interesting. The flavor seems better further. Yeah, like, I don't have as strong. They're still peppering. Dude, it's fucking strong. It is. I only had one. One hit, yeah. Yeah, fuck. So I'm going. In even though it's dry and we like the shit all over that because dry buds. Not our favorite, honestly. Do we spoil? I mean, Dragonfly produces some of the best. Tasty.

Fucking just delicious. The only thing that beats is is all the stuff from California and Oregon, and no, all the good stuff from California and Oregon. I'm sure there's lots of other great strains too. Yeah, but for me, pardon. For me, it's the full experience, but I'm a bit of a legacy user, so I'm I'm more concerned on the flavor. Yeah, a can of snob. We've had more products, experience and ability to go, hey, this was not my favorite experience.

I actually didn't like that. Now if I was at a social gathering, someone had this in a joint, still tastes the same, I wouldn't give a shit because I'm at a social gathering and this is, you know, as much as people don't like it, it is a fact. It's embedded into us, is like almost our DNA, but it's tribal. Because senior donor. Yeah, because when you're when you're when you're around others and you're passing it around, you're passing that energy around.

And if you've got one person in there who's kind of fucking up the vibe, either they got to join the circle or they going to get the fuck out. Yeah, because it's going to fuck everybody's vibe up. And then what is every? It breaks the circle and then everybody leaves. You notice that like you get a bunch of good people around, one person fucks it up because of their bad attitude. But like, they're just like, hey, you got to go like. Yeah, you say hey, you know, like.

Penny, shut your face. You're adopted. But the idea that, you know, that you would turn something away, like, yeah, I'd shit all over because it's dry. Look, if you pay 55 fucking dollars, you should be able to get $55 worth. And if it means that it's an A year on the shelf, you're not going to move it. I mean it's a great experience, but it tastes like shit. Yeah, but not, not every grower, not every strain is really the best flavor profile if it really does what I'm looking for and if

it's a good experience overall. Like, yeah, I'm really disappointed that it's dry, but I know. I'm just disappointed with the price. Yeah. Oh, that too if. It was $10 cheaper. It'd still be worth it. For Utah, yeah, I feel like Utah flower pricing, 45 bucks an eighth is not my favorite. It would be probably subpar. Like it's not the best quality, but it's not the worst. And so I think that would be a fine one. But it was just, it was the dryness with the price.

It was that combination together of like, I feel like I overpaid for that just because of the market and how much I know, like I've spent on flour everywhere. And then I look at it. But I I do Love Actually the feeling like it is a pretty thorough like it's throughout my entire. Body. Oh yeah, dude, there is no doubt. It's strong as fuck. Like I feel it throughout my body, dude, It's, it's on my it feel it right here on my forearms, my finger.

And and you know what I'm I don't know, you're right. I am a bit of a can of snob now, which is hilarious because before I would suck down pens and I'm like, this is embarrassing, right? And then now I'm just like, is that a dirty dusty? Yeah, that's not touching my mouth. I was like when I went and actually got this and I was talking to the bud tender and I was like, So what have you been puffing on? Like what's been what's been good for you?

And she was like, oh, I've been doing this one. I'm like, what is that? She's like, oh, it's in a cart. And I'm like, so it's a a dusty. She's like, yeah, yeah, it's a dusty. And I'm like, oh, OK. But I mean, that's OK, you know, they just don't know. But here's the thing. I just had an idea.

Like, you know what? Purely, if you go in there and they've got this like fucking color chalk board thingy with the markers and stuff, and they write up all the specials, but they just write the flower and then how many ounces and the price. Yeah, but it'd be better if they could spread it out a little bit more and say here's the effects. Well, but that's not chair Leaf because Cure Leaf is AMSO and they are a wreck. Product. Oh, I know, I know. I'm just saying.

You know. No to move it though. That's what I'm saying. Like as a. Consumer. I would love that. I come in and says calm, happy, euphoric, going to be like, that's exactly what I want. Because if I come in and I'm brand new, I'm in Utah, I get a medical card and I go there and I don't know what the fuck to do. And I get this guy behind the counter who may or may not know what the fuck he's talking about. And the guy's like, Oh yeah, dude, I love those two grim

cards. I'll go through them in a week. It's pretty rough, dude. I mean, unless you're like heavily addicted, Like, I understand. Like I heard about this guy who's been on kratom for 18 years. Wow. Yeah, it's like you can't get off of it. And the guy used kratom to get off of opioids and he's like, I can't get off of it. And I've heard a lot of people. Super addicting. Sick. Yeah, in the it's like a a mild high buzz. OK. Yeah, but it's for pain

apparently. But people get addicted to that shit. I've not really tried kratom I've there was a buddy of mine who had me try kabi and I did that a little bit and it was fine. It wasn't nothing to write, hum about or go. I mean, but if you don't know anything, like, yeah, I mean, it changes your perception of reality. Yeah, you're going to go, whoa. It's like the first time you ever get a pain Med, You're like, whoa, like, first time I ever had morphine. Oh my.

Gosh. Yeah, it was a love story right there. It's a good thing I never got it again because I would have been addicted to morphine, dude. Like, it felt amazing when they put into my body. I became warm and extremely. Happy. Oh yeah. And I'm just like fuck, this is amazing. Yeah, I went from like crazy body time. I I don't even know what happened. I was sick and I wasn't I wasn't

even a little bit at home. I was like grown up and I went to my parents and my ex-wife at the time was like, oh, you should go to the doctor. I'm like, why? I just feel sick. And we were sitting there at the doctor 'cause my parents are friendly, like, no, you need to go. Like they all drove me down to

the doctor. And I'm sitting there getting checked in and my body starts like tensing up and like I and I, I like, I can't move all of a sudden and they take me and they stick me like morphine, put me with all these fluids in that. And it was like this crazy floaty, such a happy you've worked. But yeah, you can't live like that. No, but it's, it's, it feels like bliss. And and that's that's where a lot of people even get problems with with Canada, like like a

strain like this. I could not do anything. No, I. I'm not even excited to play video games or watch it. I could. You know what, this would be great for Fishing. Oh yeah, fuck shit going camping. I wanted sitting out in the mountains just. Fish, I mean, early in the morning, just fucking putting all that poison on me so the mosquitoes stay off me, yeah. I fucking hate mosquitoes. And just, I would be so content with a bag of this. We smoked the whole fucking

thing. Oh yeah, we'd be there for 6-7 hours, just maybe catch 2 fish. I was like, you think we'll catch? 2 fish maybe but dude it's like. Our poles aren't even in the water, we're just sitting here holding. Them. What I love about this is it makes the most mundane tasks seem entertaining. If you could do the task. Yeah, dude. But I mean, I love this idea where I'm like, no, it's got to be simple task. That'd be boring task. Like if somebody's like, hey, do

you want to paint this room? You get me a A. Compressor. I actually don't mind painting. I don't either, that's what I'm saying. Like like I even smoke this and then just go. Wait, I don't know. I was going to say even not high, but then I realized I don't know the last time that I've painted without having cannabis in my system. So I truly. Wouldn't know anyway. I have no idea because every time I do it I can even do rollers. See, I love rolling.

Just simple mundane tasks. I couldn't do complicated things like I couldn't get involved in a Nolan movie right now. I. Don't know what that. Is Christopher Nolan Interstellar the Batman movie? I can't get into a movie like that. Be like, no, no, I couldn't have. Told you what? He directed. I couldn't even get into a funny but I could watch a documentary on it. Oh, I could watch Interstellar because this one would like calm my mind enough, the music.

And I could just be like so drawn into it because my problem. And I was thinking about this the other day as I was sitting there and I'm like, what do I do right now? I've already got this done. I've got this done, I've got this done. What do I do? And my brain's like, well, you could do this, you could do this, you could do this. And I realized my problem isn't that I have so many options. My problem is my brain's afraid of choosing the wrong option.

So instead of going hey, just do this. It's like, what if I do this and that's not what I want to do? What if I should have done this instead? Shut the fuck up, sit down and just chill. Just do it. Well, it's hard. It's hard, man. It's not, it's not an easy thing, but it's great that you noticed that. So this would be good for that because it would just go, don't worry about it, just do it. Just just do it.

Yeah, just do it. I like the the fact that it's super calming that I haven't used. So it's good even in decent doses. I mean I've only had two two ribs. I mean 2 full chambers. Yeah that's not bad. I just. For a sharing I don't. Know I think and I was really harsh at first I apologize

ritual oops. But the thing that I'm I'm thinking about here is if your weeds this old and dry, just it, this is just a QA thing, like maybe somebody could go through and go and yeah, when I squeeze it, it's crunchy. Maybe discount it then and go oh this is old shitty weed let's let's sell it for 3540 bucks. Yeah, I mean before you have to fucking dispose of it. You know, however, the thing that. They just take it and turn it into distillates, don't they? Often the thing that I was

wishing that we did. I wish that I had tried that six months ago, because for how pleasant this strain is, how like decent the experience is, I wonder what it would have been like when it was like newly harvested and properly cured instead of dry as fuck. Way too long. Long stage. I like the packaging. Yeah. I don't like that It's clear right there though. No. And my only concern was that, yeah, is the light. That's probably what dried it out.

Is just well that would change and degrade like the THC over time. So you get air oxidization and the air, the light will actually change and degrade like THC and that's where you get more of like your CBNTHCV basically less potent in. Yeah, but they're selling this at like a premium cost for like dragonflyweed. Yeah, Betty, pricing. Betty Price. Oh yeah, no, that Dragonfly is more expensive than that.

But yeah, I mean even Betty pricing because we know the Betty quality typically now I have had Betty that's dry as fuck too. Same. So I won't always say that they're lows it, but it's just on today. Yeah. And I get it, They don't pay attention to most of others products when they're expiring other than if they scan it going, oh, we can't sell that. There's got to be like a cut off time. Yeah. Well, there's got to be a queue, a shelf.

Life, yeah. I wonder what the shelf life for Utah products is currently, If you guys know, what is your shelf life for your products in your state? Obviously flour might be different than edibles, might be different than concentrates, might be different than cartridges, but do you guys know what that is as far as your products go? We'll look into that for ours and maybe we'll hook that up next week. Yeah, and if you got any questions, feel free to e-mail

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