This is an actual comment and request from an order yesterday:

“i was just looking online for some jars and your site came up. you guys have some good stuff.
also can you draw a unicorn fighting a dragon on the package?”

We hope the art that adorns your box matches what you were thinking when you asked for this.

Thanks for giving us the chance to make you happy!

This is the average kit. At first glance we see the container, a good one at that. This kit is organized in a WWII  first aid kit steel latching box. This is a tough as nails container that also has an interesting background. Unfortunately the outer shell is really where this kit stops shining. Within is only the minimum needed to make the smoke happen.

Inside there is the stash itself, here shown to our horror in a baggie. Next to the herb we see smoking accessories everyone should have:  a lighter, papers, pipe, bowl for the bong. The silver tin is used to keep duff from vaporizing and roaches, but the lid can become caked with resin and debris over time and eventually becomes a problem to pry open. The all too common Altoids tin is one of the worst choices to keep your green in as it ultimately imparts your smoke with a wintergreen tinge that detracts from the natural flavors and is far from air tight.  420 Science discourages keeping your green in anything that can spoil the pure taste and aroma of the natural buds. We understand the straightened out paper clip but the plastic coated ones can mean nasty fumes if it happens to come into contact with heat and will have resin stuck all over it quickly.   While this kit has many of the essentials it is not near what it could be with the help of a few simple 420 Science fixes.

Now here we have a complete 420 kit makeover. We put the valuable goodies in an air tight, write and erase glass jar like they deserve. We know our nugs are going to be fresh and tasting great every time we break them out of the labeled screw top. The extra small pop top write and erase is what I call a survival or road kit. You can fit one or two big nugs, a small lighter , a one hitter, and still seal the cap on one of these little guys. That is handy as hell when you’re going for a last minute adventure and haven’t planned for fun.  You know that the survival kit is ready to go at the drop of a hat. Next we decided to go with a medium UV jar to keep our roaches and vaped weed. Saving and reusing bits like vape and roaches is a great idea, but they have  reduced THC content and need to be kept from depleting even more.  The UV protected jar is a great place to lock in that last bit of goodness,  keep the smell out, and the freshness in.  The once dirty bowl has been cleaned quickly courtesy of Smoke Soap and the microwave trick.   The paper clip was replaced by a larger all metal clip along with some 420 wipes to clean it and anything else, whenever needed. The original grinder and lighter were replaced by some more vibrantly colored counter parts. When you use your buds it can become hard to keep up with stuff sometimes, so it helps to have things that stand out so you can find them easily. We also added some old school dampness resistant matches for those unexpected situations. To top it all off, we had to put in one of the mini steam rollers from Grav Labs, these things pack a wallop.

Let’s recap what a good 420 kit is and is not. Don’t use baggies or other non air tight containers you find around the house because they impart flavors you don’t want and don’t keep our stash fresh. Don’t just let your kit be a box that you throw all your resiny, dirty pieces in.  Don’t just have the basics if you can have everything you need for any situation. Do make sure that your  stash and all other smokables are stored properly in containers that fit nicely together, and look good while they do their job. Do keep your pieces and accessories clean with handy additions like Smoke Soap and Pipe Wipes so you can feel good about what you smoke out of. If you keep all these things in mind along with the other simple suggestions we have made then, no matter what form your 420 kit takes you can be sure it will look great and have everything you need to fully enjoy your best herbs.

We have forged so far ahead we have forgotten we have a blog.  It is not like we have stopped communicating, but the comforting confines of Facebook have allowed us to engage, share and communicate to our raving fans like never before.  Well, now we need somewhere we can really stretch our content and dive deeper.   We have a lot to say and there is a lot to talk about.  We hope you get to know us some more and perhaps learn something you might share.  Giggity giggity.

We knew that we wanted a design that featured a skunk. I thought a coat of arms style would work for something like this and did my best to explain my vision to Jared. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite that easy. It took a lot of back and forth to get it done, but in the end, it really came together. Being on the other side of the designer/client relationship was definitely a learning experience for me. So after he wrapped up the skunk crest, I asked Jared if he’d be interested in redesigning our green leaf and perhaps something new.

The skunk crest took several weeks to get compete, but the next 2 came together in a matter of days. The new green leaf is a few notches above our old design and I really think that our customers are going to like it. The third design is my favorite though. The smiley face smoking a joint…brilliant. We’ve always had requests for a jar with a smiley face on it, but that’s not really our style, so I think that this will make those people happy. I know it makes us happy. We’re so happy with it that we’re going to make it our mascot. Look out for some t-shirts printed with the lips. I think we need to name him. Any thoughts?

Oh, you can get them here.

FAIL…as of this posting not one person has used their new friend promotion code. I would have thought maybe a few people would have taken advantage of it, but 0% return??? Something isn’t right. Now I wonder what’s my next step? Should I offer a steeper discount? What’s the number that people can’t refuse? How low do we want to go?

I’m not sure if I want to abandon the experiment or keep upping the ante. While it’s not incredibly time consuming, it is repetitive and quite tedious. Not to mention never ending, since we get a dozen requests a day. So begins the struggle of balancing what number of sales are worth this project’s time? How deep of discount will we need to offer in order to get people to respond and is it worth offering the discount to get the sale?

What do you think? How good of deal would you need to act?

I guess I’ll start with some recent news…

We just got back from Las Vegas and the Spring CHAMPS trade show. It was nice seeing old friends and making new ones. Which seemed to be the theme of this show. Though let me start in the beginning with the 21 hour drive from Austin to Las Vegas. Not terrible, but not something I think I want to do again. My boney ass just can’t take it. It did give me and my copilot time to talk about a wide range of topics and that’s something that I think we both enjoyed immensely.

The show itself was great. There wasn’t a lot of doom and gloom about the economy. This only reenforces the fact that our industry is somewhat immune to the recession. I believe this is due to a couple of factors. The most important one being the fact that people turn to their vices even more in times of hardship. I think most cannabis enthusiast will give up going out for dinner and cable before they give up smoking their favorite herb. The other reason I think our industry is doing so well is the fact that cannabis is getting a lot of positive press lately. I truly believe that there is a good chance that we’ll see the legal regulation and taxation of cannabis in the next 5-10 years on a national level. Even sooner at a state level. Change is in the air and it smells like sweet, sweet bud.

So needless to say, we wrote a lot of orders, and we’ll be busy for weeks to come. We also became good friends with some people from the MPP (Marijuana Policy Project) and made a few other contact that good pan out into some new products for us later this year. Yes, it’s top secret.

Now that we’re back from the show production and shipping will go into high gear and I’ll be able to start focusing on other projects. The biggest one being our new website. We’re planning a top down redesign of our entire site. I’m really looking to simplify the interface and make it easier to use. Not that it isn’t pretty good now, but we have some ideas that we’d like to implement that will hopefully result in more jar sales. Or at least make us feel better about ourselves.

“After becoming very upset with all the “Above the Influence” commercials I’ve been seeing lately. So I searched on Google to see if there was an anti above the influence website, and low and behold i came across above the ignorance.org which had some great info and a link to your site right up front! after reading that site for a bit, I took a look at your site, and found myself EXTREMELY jealous of your jobs haha. So I read up on the company, and immediately felt that buying a jar from you, is not only good for me (I get an awesome sealed jar) but is good for all of herb smokers, especially those as productive as you all have been. So thank you very much for setting up this wonderful company, hopefully you guys will continue to expand and have fun while doing so. Have a good day, and thank you once again.”

In addition to having the back cover, we’re also going to be running an ad inside the magazine too. Typically we do one or the other, but being that it’s the trade show issue, we wanted to make sure we had a big presence. This ad represents a new direction for us. We decided to take the space and write a little something about ourselves. We’ve been doing this crazy business for nearly 5 years now and we wanted to take the opportunity to say something directly to our customers and hopefully get some new ones out of it. Both Matt and I really like the blue cloud graphic up at the top. I think that theme will be making it’s way into our new catalogs. Though I guess that’s really where it started. Right now I’m working pretty diligently on finishing our new retail catalog. Hopefully that’ll get done in the next day or 2 and I can showcase it here in the weeks to come.