[pokernaut]

aside from my bias of chemicals affecting taste (don't grow near train trackes either unless you want weed that tastes like oil! i just think that nature knows best.

think of foods YOU eat... which tastes better...
frozen foods or foods made fresh with good ingredients?
imitation flavoring or the real thing (artificial sugar is downright NASTY!)
a box of chocolate chip cookies with preservatives etc. or home made ones?

if you don't like eating chemicals, then why would you want to smoke them?

i like the idea of giving plants the best quality organic ingredients to make them happy along with lots of love.

i worked with a guy that had that philosophy that did his own grows with off the shelf hyponex potting soil and his very own nutrient rich food compost.

not counting the few strains i've smoked that had specific flavors like the yummy red pepper flavor of kali mist, it was some of the tastiest weed i ever had. it just tasted so clean and fresh.

i actually think that THAT'S why dogs can track people by their odors. they aren't smelling anything genetically related, they're just smelling the chemicals from all of the different things one person ate that another didn't.

i know from personal experience that i quit liking beef in the 80s when all of a sudden it had a livery iron taste only to find out a few years later that farmers were feeding leftover cow meat back to them (that's where mad cow disease comes from BTW... it's the cow version of guru laughing sickness) and a buddy i used to work with from kansas city used to rave how much better their local corn fed beef tastes than what the rest of the country is used to. one movie also has a brief scene mentioning how delicious japanese soy fed beef is too.

you really are what you eat.