Want to become a weed sommelier? There's a school for that
Red wine goes with steak. White wine is paired with chicken. So what strain of weed goes with fish?
Organizations such as the Trichome Institute are now offering courses to teach people how to answer that and other important weed-paring questions by better understanding the complexities of the marijuana plant. The the institute has trademarked a term for the skill: “interpening,” for interpreting marijuana terpenes, the organic in the plant’s essential oils.
The idea is that every marijuana variety has a unique flower structure and collection of terpenes that produce very specific scents. By learning how to distinguish those scents, people can figure out what effect different strains of the plant will have on the senses when used—and perhaps what foods it might go best with. The Trichome Institute offers two interpening courses for $324 total, according to the institute’s website (there are group discounts).
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