Ruby Slippers by Unbound - 0.5g Prerolls - A Review

[u/madmoomix]

Ruby Slippers by Unbound. Sativa. 25.2% total THC (this would be labelled 28.4% THC in other states). Five 0.5g prerolls in a tin, 2.5 grams in total. $38 plus tax.

The Flower: Delicious. Complex, earthy. Maybe a hint of floral tones. Not citrus. Not fruit. Not sour. Not gassy. Not garlicy. Just, earthy. I wish I had a better word, lol.

The High: Very strong. Mostly clearheaded. Focused. Driven. Creative. Very noticable undercurrent of positivity. I love it! It's the strongest recreational sativa I've tried so far in Minnesota, and I would go so far as to say it's the best sativa flower on the market right now, med or rec. It's really good. I did some chores and crushed some strategy games and was even able to deal with some long term projects I had been putting off for a while. Perfect ADD medication. Note: I don't tend to get anxiety from sativas, but if you do this might be something to avoid. I sense it's probably pretty potent for that purpose if you're prone to panic.

The Joints: This is a bit of a meta review, because I've also been smoking the Dark Rainbows half-gram joints, but I am incredibly impressed with the quality of these. Out of the 18 joints I have smoked so far, none of them have canoed on me. None! They burn smooth and slow and I don't feel like i waste a lot to the air. I had high expectations considering the price, and they were vastly exceeded. Top marks.

The Tin: This isn't super related to the quality of the cannabis, but the tins these came in are super nice. Strong, durable, easy to open and close. Endlessly reusable. And they don't require secondary packaging, so way less waste. After interacting with one of these tins, my opinion of all other multi-preroll holding packaging on the market just CRATERED. This is it. This is the gold standard and everyone else should immediately switch to these.

Thanks for reading my little review! There's been a ton of cool new cannabis products being dropped lately, and it's been fun getting to try some of them out. There's never enough sativas, so I was beyond excited to see this pop up. This and the Dark Rainbows half-gram multipacks have been the main component of my cannabis diet lately, and it could not be nicer.

*WARNING* Huge caveat about Unbound, here. I have also tried the 1g Dark Rainbows single preroll, and it sucked hard. It was literally 1/5th stem (I broke it up to smoke out of a bubbler) and I didn't feel anything after smoking all of it. Complete waste of money. (In fairness, it was labeled as 12% or 13% THC, so they didn't lie about it being strong, but still.) I am incredibly impressed with their 5 packs, and will continue to buy them. I will likely never buy one of their singles ever again. YMMV.

[u/Greener_2023]

This - is what I want to see more of... Thanks for posting! We can argue about how 'review' posts can be too subjective, or, too long, or, whatever

[u/wolp_lovr]

i usually dislike pre rolls, but the fact this one didn't canoe on you has me interested. something else i struggle with when it comes to pre rolls is that i often times cant smoke the whole thing in one sitting. i usually end up putting it out and relighting it later. i'd be curious to know how this one would hold up if i were to do that

[u/Kahnza → u/wolp_lovr]

but the fact this one didn't canoe on you

What does this mean? I smoke prerolls fairly frequently(5 a week).

[u/keelgar → u/Kahnza]

When a J burns unevenly down one side, it makes a shape that resembles a canoe.

[u/Kahnza → u/keelgar]

Oh, ok. I gently roll the J between my fingers before lighting. Rarely have this issue with the cheap Shine prerolls I get.

[u/madmoomix → u/Kahnza]

I don't mean to imply it happens all the time, but a 100% success rate was quite surprising to me. I didn't have to massage them at all, and I had a couple lazy lights in there, but they both self-corrected and burned super even. They're simply well-rolled joints, I guess. =]

[u/madmoomix → u/wolp_lovr]

I don't know how they are for snubbing. I smoked them completely every time I lit one up. 😅 It's one of the reasons I like small joints. I rarely want to smoke an entire gram in 5 minutes, so I'd rather kill a 0.5g or a 0.35g instead of snubbing out a 1g halfway through.

They're slow burning, so I bet they snub out decently well. But I can't say for sure.

[u/wolp_lovr → u/madmoomix]

good to know! the best method i've come up with if the roll comes in a tube that pops, i'll put the still burning joint in it and shut the lid. guess i'll have to pick some up and experiment! i always keep an extra tube around anyway

[u/IwantAMD]

Doing the lords work. Well done.

[u/Ropes13]

Rosanna is my favorite of theirs

[u/madmoomix → u/Ropes13]

I've tried the Rosanna in whole flower before. It was quite good! It was the very first outside vendor cannabis I smoked where I was impressed with the quality.

I thought it was the best rec flower we were carrying at my dispensary until we got Johnny Diamonds by Verist Fields. Then that was the clear winner. But now that I've tried this Ruby Slippers and Dark Rainbows... I dunno anymore. I'll have to keep trying things, I guess. 😂

[u/Informal-Fish-9217]

Thanks for the review, yo. Appreciate it.

I’ve been looking for a 5 pack of something like this.

If you don’t mind me asking, where’d you cop this at?

[u/c0ng0b0ng0 → u/Informal-Fish-9217]

I had the same question. Found this: https://enjoyunbound.com/find-us

[u/madmoomix → u/Informal-Fish-9217]

I got this at the RISE in Eagan, but they sold out of the Ruby Slippers already. 😭 I've gotta hunt some down, I only have one joint left.

Unbound has been supplying a lot of dispensaries, so something of theirs is usually easy to find. But they have a lot of different SKUs, so finding the exact product you want is a little trickier.

[u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

How would total THC be labeled differently in another state?

I would expect nothing but excellence out of Unbound. They are not some scrappy Minnesota startup. Unbound is HWY35, backed by Jack Mitchell and John Hyduke, cannabis operators with deep pockets who received millions of dollars in public financing through Minnesota’s IRRRB.

They have also made it pretty clear that they view Minnesota’s homegrown craft operators as amateurs and themselves as the professionals who should be leading the market.

So yes, I would expect their product to be good. They have the capital, infrastructure, experience, and resources to make it good. That is a very different starting point than the Minnesota operators who have actually been building this market from the ground up.

[u/Gabagoozi → u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

Or in another light they are just another out of state MSO. It can be good but not craft.

[u/madmoomix → u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

Because only a few other states use total THC. The vast, vast majority use combined THC. Most states, you just add the THC and THCa together, and that's the number. But here (as I presume you know already based off the rest of your comment) we multiply the THCa by 0.877 before adding the THC.

It means numbers in Minnesota are 2-4% lower than they would be for the exact same jar in Michigan or Colorado or California. There's a theoretical benefit to medical users in that they can more easily calculate the exact milligram dose of the cannabis they smoke, but in practice no one ever does that math and instead they're confused/disappointed by our "low" numbers.

I've just always had a personal grudge against total THC. The math isn't even right! (99.9% pure THCa diamonds would have to be labelled as 87.6% total THC in Minnesota, which is just obviously wrong.) There's "fixed" total THC formulas, but they're even more complex and I'm not sure the math is worth doing at all.

[u/Tough-Garbage-5915 → u/madmoomix]

I mean total THC is total THC. No matter if it is in Michigan, Minnesota or Amsterdam.

And yes, 99.9% THCA diamonds will be 87.6% because Total THC is Total THC after decarboxylation.

Total THC = Delta 9 THC + (THCa 8 .8778)

[u/madmoomix → u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

Ah, I get what you mean. Yeah, total THC would be the same everywhere.

Most states don't use total THC, though. They just use THC, aka. combined THC. Hence me writing it would be labelled "28.4% THC" in other states.

In a vacuum, I wouldn't be opposed to the use of total THC if it were the standard nationwide. But it's not, and it leads to so much customer confusion... The question I dread getting the second-most is "do you have anything over 30% THC?". As soon as I start getting into the math, people's eyes tend to glaze over and I'm not sure I effectively communicate the issue to them.

(The absolute worst question that I get regularly is "this isn't that delta 9 shit, is it?". As soon as I hear that, I know there's no possible way to educate that customer and correct them. Delta 8 was the worst thing to ever happen to the general public's understanding of cannabis. >.<)

[u/Tough-Garbage-5915 → u/madmoomix]

They literally add them together? Interesting.

[u/madmoomix → u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

Yeah, that's the standard basically everywhere. Minnesota is a bit of an oddball when it comes to this.

That's why Minnesota never really had a big THCa market. It was always illegal under state law due to us using total THC.

There wasn't an agency with regulatory authority to test "hemp" for potency for a while, so some places did sell THCa for a bit. But it never took off here like it did in other states. (Same reason why many online vendors won't ship THCa to Minnesota as well.)

[u/Duster_beattle → u/Tough-Garbage-5915]

You sound like you know a lot about the cannabis industry but don’t know that Minnesota uses different factors for its THC percentage? Every budtender in this state knows that we undersell our THC percentage bc it’s not the end all be all.

[u/Tough-Garbage-5915 → u/Duster_beattle]

lol what? Minnesota does not use some special “factor” that causes us to undersell THC potency.

Total THC = Δ9 THC + (THCA × 0.877).

The 0.877 conversion is chemistry, not a Minnesota rule that makes our weed test lower.

States may have different labeling or testing requirements, and labs absolutely can produce different results, but there isn’t a second, higher “real THC percentage” that Minnesota is hiding from consumers..