The genesis for this review was a fun little Sunday jaunt up to Vancouver (WA) for a stoney stroll downtown. Equipped with some cash, IDs, and supreme comfy Teva sandals, we swung by High End Market Place dispensary to kick off an amateur foot tour of the commercial areas between High End and the river.
Before slicing into the meat of this short preroll review, I wanted to give a sincere shout-out to the /portlandtrees subreddit for showing some sisterly love coming in clutch with a great recommendation on High End Market Place.
The homie at High End asked appropriate questions that quickly got us to our destination of getting two .5g and one .7g infused prerolls and an eighth of some tempting OG Maui Wowie.
| Farm | Constellation Cannabis |
| Strain | Pineapple Tart #24 |
| Quantity | Two 0.5g Infused Pre-rolls Pack |
| THC | 33.81% |
| CBD | 0.08% |
This specific write-up is specific to the Pineapple Tart strain served up via twin .5-gram little spitfires from women-owned and operated Constellation Cannabis.
I’ve smoked a bunch of Pineapple strains and a bunch, even some “tarts,” I’m pretty sure, but never together. Exciting stuff!
Getting into this stuff, we can’t skip the packaging factor, which, as much as I try to be ecoconscious-Erik, can’t help but be applauded. Shit looks like a promotional lipstick from some fancy NYC post-fashion show party gift bag. This is very much a compliment, btw.
The marble swirled snakes on the white with the darker solid marble inner tube, and the fact that it’s cardboard and not nasty plastic gets two thumbs up from me. The snakes are a nice tie-in with the brand’s identity being tied to the Sepenes constellation and the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius.
Seriously, I hope the graphic designer behind this is well-compensated because this is real standout stuff and shows a type of care put into the brand that is all too lacking in the industry today, IMO.
Alright, enough with the superficialities; let’s hit the secret smoke spot for a little more investigation, shall we?
The Effect: Concord Thust
Pineapple Tart, this one being #24, is a really great exploration strain. The take-off is VERY gradual, easing you continually yet comfortably upwards with a thrust unique to infused prerolls which is what makes them such a treat, in my opinion.
Imagine plush faded baby blue velour-quilted Cadillac seats from the 80’s fastened into and Concord jet from 1969. Essentially I imagine this is what Drake travels around the world in.
In terms of smell, I can’t comment too much; it’s hard to get much with prerolls because the paper really seals in any terpenes present, and the items sold at dispensaries are often times made with some of the oldest flour.
I’m not saying that is Constellation Cannabis because their cannabis is craft, and their ice water hash is award-winning. Quality matters, especially in a market full of cheap distillate sprayed prerolls that lack the depth and complexity of products grown with care and more delicate extraction methods.
In terms of flavor, this is yet another strain where the name is actually a pretty good descriptor of the flavor and smoking experience.
The smoke is thick and leads with pineapple but not like candy pineapple but like freshly sliced, more citrusy pineapple. Maybe a little green mango in there. If you’ve lived in a tropical climate, you know what I’m talking about here with the freshly sliced fruits. It’s like zest vs. lemon juice—a pleasant citrus twANG.
The creme is there from the Ice Cream Cake, and Pineapple Sorbet parents, of which Pineapple Sorbet in particular has a VERY interesting lineage, and well, Ice Cream Cake speaks for itself for all my double dolce doobie bros out there, WHUWHUDOOBIEDOO!
Ice Cream Cake itself is a cross of Gelato #33 and Wedding Cake, which is why it’s a creme monster, and Pineapple Sorbet is a rather complex cross of Pineapple Thai and In The Pines with Zkittlez and Magnum Opus. Honestly, I’d love to get my hands on some straight Pineapple Sorbet flower one day as well.
Infused Intensity That’s Fuzzy & Friendly
Pineapple Tart #24 was a good guide on our stroll around town, and it was made even easier by Vancouver being a super neat little town with some very subtly attractive architecture, of which you’ve seen a few posted throughout this review.
Overall the high is pretty rad; I liked it. The infused-ness means it’s a little extra dolce of an experience, pushing you with greater thrust into higher cruising altitudes until you’re comfortably breaking the sound barrier at a healthy Mach 2.04.
In terms of expressing this smoke in auditory means, the song that resounded with me most while I sat and typed this out high as a Concorde was Just A Gents Remix of ‘Kiss The Devil’ by Bel Heir. It’s complex. It’s nuanced. It’s punchy.
These are definitely infused prerolls, so I wouldn’t recommend this smoke to a complete amateur. It may be a bit intense for those with underdeveloped tolerances.
That said, when it comes to some real monsters out there in the infused preroll market, this one was pretty friendly, like Sully from Monsters Inc kind of.
This is another example of how THC % really isn’t that helpful when describing bud because this one is listed almost deceptively low for an infused preroll; some of them are in the X%, for Pete’s sake!
It’s a smooth criminal. It’ll get you significantly high but without ever becoming downright scary, which makes it great for taking a weekend trip over to explore a nearby town you haven’t been to in a long time, or in our case, ever!
Two thumbs up all around, for High End for the solid recommendation, for Constellation Cannabis for the solid product, and for Vancouver being a dope ass town to enjoy it all in.
