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the cali plug story: CBONB🔌 📱 snap trap:
@CaliPlug traces his rise to 2015–2016. on @OfficialFSOTD, he described using Snapchat, cheap LA flower & a wrestling-inspired, larger-than-life persona to draw attention to the traditional market. his claimed “firsts” are not independently established. ✈️ the jets:
he says JetSmarter flights made his operation appear bigger than it was. private-jet footage, charisma & staged spectacle turned the hustle into entertainment, even as he described working from an apartment. 💸 the price wars:
@CaliPlug popularized $5 grams & $100 ounces of indoor flower instead of premium-priced eighths, sometimes taking losses to keep customers loyal. around 2017, he pushed $15 full-gram vapes, $10 half grams, then $10 full grams or less. he dubbed it the “Great American Vape Rush” or “Pendemic” & says he “killed Colorado weed.” 🏠 open 365:
he credits himself with pioneering apartment trap distribution & “basically” creating Stash N Dash. accessible prices, nonstop promotion & an “open 365” identity became his pitch. 📡 paid shout-outs:
he says Snapchat promos began as free favors for friends, then cost $500–$1,000 & eventually as much as $25,000 per placement. he calls this “online trap promo,” selling exposure to other sellers & brands through his growing audience. ⚾ the 2018 billboard:
accounts describe “Official Cali Bud Supplier of the MLB” billboards using @Dodgers /@MLB branding without authorization. a cease-and-desist forced their removal; he says he kept the original paperwork. 🚨 raids & callouts:
a reported LAPD raid at a Hollywood Walk of Fame pop-up drew helicopters & circulating video. he also credits himself with exposing sprayed flower in the tin-can Bubble Gum Cookies controversy, helping end tuna cans & introducing “Bigz” & “Smallz.” 🐶 cheeto the frenchie:
his dog Cheeto became an online character, inspiring other trappers to get French bulldogs, he says. his story also includes a reported kidnapping & return. 🤝 the partners:
@catalyst_ceo, Catalyst’s CEO, has publicly said he once owned 25% of Cali Plug. 🎬 CBONB:
he credits his friend Ether with turning “Cali Plug or no plug” into “Cali Bud Or No Bud.” CBONB & The Sesh movie extended his identity beyond Snapchat. whether or not his claimed firsts hold up, he tied bargain cannabis, online promotion & spectacle into a recognizable trap-era brand - @nuggnotes 🪴

the american hash story 🇺🇸 📜 early american hash: 1854, Bayard Taylor publishes “The Vision of Hasheesh,” an early firsthand American account of hashish. John Greenleaf Whittier’s “The Haschish” follows that year. In 1857, Fitz Hugh Ludlow takes hash literature mainstream W/ The Hasheesh Eater. 🌍 imports & the brotherhood: 1960s travelers bring back red lebanese, afghani black & nepalese temple balls. the brotherhood of eternal love scales imports from afghanistan & nepal to fund its psychedelic mission. 📰 hash enters the spotlight: 1973 senate hearings expose the brotherhood & major smuggling routes. in 1974, high times launches, documenting hash culture, techniques & travel. 🌿 production moves home: by the late 70s & 80s, stronger domestic sinsemilla & tighter borders push hash production home. kenneth morrow begins silk screening trim into kief & hand pressing hash in 1984. 💧 the water hash breakthrough: in 1980s CA, skunkman sam experiments with cold water trichome separation. his 1987 mailer describes stirring cannabis in ice water, letting resin glands sink & filtering away plant matter. kenneth morrow begins making water hash from fresh frozen material by early 1994. in 1997, his water hash tests at 68.6% THC. 🌀 mechanical separation evolves: morrow later shows mila jansen his water hash methods before commercial bag systems spread. mila’s pollinator & ice o lator help formalize mechanical separation, while robert c. clarke’s hashish! connects traditional techniques with trichome science, mesh sizes & micron language. 🔥 the rosin era: in 2006, chadwick basstardo posts about heating hash until oil separates, calling it “cannabis rosin.” nikka t coins “solventless” in 2010. by 2015, soilgrown presses hash with a hair straightener, dabs the sap & helps ignite the modern rosin explosion. ⭐ full melt & refinement: during the 2000s & early 2010s, Matt Rize, Nikka T & Cuban Grower pushed solventless toward cleaner separation, tighter micron selection & dabbable full melt. Oakland’s Bizarre Brothers popularized the 1 to 6 star grading system, while Cuban Grower’s “Cuban Tech” pushed dry sift toward near-pure resin heads. Jenn Doe linked nucleation & THCA crystallization in 6* melt to modern cold cure. 🏛️ 150+ years of evolution: live rosin, full melt & hash rosin sit on more than 150 years of american hash history. from imported bricks to ice water, micron separation & heat and pressure rosin, each generation built on the last. - @Nuggnotes 🪴 Premium rosin press bags, wash bags, parchment & solventless extraction tools. presented by @RosinEvolution.

knottyy: the story of Knotty 📸 the roots: before hash, knottyy was darien chin, a seattle photographer building an online following in the mid 2000s. he shot landscapes, portraits, cars & commercial work, shared lighting breakdowns & released a photography book around 2010. 🌿 medical era: by the early 2010s, his curiosity had moved into washington’s medical cannabis scene. his exact start in extraction remains unclear, but early community members remember him among the BHO educators sharing knowledge through forums & youtube. 📹 2013: knottyy brought people inside the process. his videos covered extraction equipment, vacuum pumps, purging & the reasoning behind his methods. one vacuum pump comparison passed 250,000 views, reaching aspiring hash makers far beyond washington. 🧪 open knowledge: at a time when extraction techniques were closely guarded, knottyy tested equipment, showed results & explained what he learned. as shatter, wax & honeycomb culture grew, his tutorials gave newcomers somewhere to start. 🤝 the pioneers: alongside educators like bret maverick, knottyy helped shape early online hash education. years later, people were still recommending his videos & remembering them as part of how they learned to make concentrates. 🏭 going legal: as washington’s adult-use market developed, knottyy brought his experience into commercial extraction. by the late 2010s, dispensary menus carried wax, diamonds & sauce under listings like “MFused (Knottyy).” 🔬 what’s next: knottyy is now working with his best friend to open REUP Tacoma, a recreational cannabis shop in washington. part of their vision is bringing back the Knottyy shatter line through select collaborations with producers & processors, reconnecting his early roots with a new generation. 🧠 the legacy: knottyy never needed to invent BHO or claim every first to make an impact. before hash education became an industry, he was already testing, documenting & teaching. a generation watched, learned & carried that knowledge forward. now, with plans to bring back his shatter, the hashologist who helped teach the internet is preparing for another chapter. Visit Nuggnotes.com🪴 Sponsored by RosinEvolution.com