Any cannabis retailer and cultivator of craft cannabis in Western Massachusetts needs to be just as concerned with the brand-new or returning cannabis consumer as they are the die-hard flowerhead or stoner of note.

But when a longtime chronicler of cannabis culture in the United States expands its focus beyond it’s known borders around the Western part of the country, and instead zeros in on a little shop in the Berkshires (and the caliber of weed being grown for discerning palates out there), the moment is not an unnoticed one for everyone involved.

Which is another way of saying Skunk Magazine, the women-edited and led West Coast based print and digital magazine covering all things cannabis and hemp and psychedelics and cultivation and music and the arts—and plant life culture at the dead center of it all—dispatched their roving cannabis reviewer and general gourmand, Warren Bobrow, a cannabis journalist, judge, SXSW vet, 6x book author and master mixologist.

Here are thoughts after getting a hold of some Da Funk by Smash Hits Cannabis available at Canna Provisions (find it on the menu right now in LEE or HOLYOKE):

“Freshly turned loam, spun sugar, roadside petrol, hazelnut paste, quince, and brown butter sauteed morels.  Each puff goes on to dissolve into infinite puddles of banana pudding and further dollops of agitated baby skunk. This is my highest level of intellectual and brain clearing, inspiring late summer stone fruits… Truly sopping in their lip-smacking terps and a touch of garlic at the end…As if each hit was danced with English Trifle, but not the sickly sweet dessert, however, I’m calling attention to the richness factor.

Da Funk is the most sophisticated cannabis-and it gets me thinking, what if this Massachusetts-grown cannabis from Chem Dog entered the Emerald Cup and won?”

Check out the whole story online at Skunk’s website here.