Mids is slang for middle-quality flower: decent, cheaper than premium, unremarkable in aroma and looks. Calling something "mid" is now general slang for mediocre.
In practice
The tiers are loosely defined and vary by region and decade. Flower usually lands in the mids tier for reasons of growing and handling rather than genetics: harvested early or late, dried too fast, cured badly, stored warm, or handled roughly so trichomes fell off. The same cultivar grown and cured well can be top-shelf.
Mids can also be honest value: plain-looking flower with a good dry and cure often smokes better than flashy flower with a rushed one.
Don't confuse with
- Brick weed: compressed, seeded, usually below mids.
- Shake: loose fragments, a form rather than a grade.
- Larf: small, airy lower buds, often sold as mids.
Bag appeal is how good flower looks in the bag or jar, frost, colour, density and trim, which sells cannabis but does not measure its quality.Holding dried cannabis in sealed containers so its moisture declines slowly and evenly over weeks, improving smoothness and aroma.A hair-like outgrowth of the plant's skin; in cannabis the glandular types make and store the resin holding cannabinoids and terpenes.Top shelf is the highest price tier of flower in a shop, used as slang for any premium-looking cannabis; it reflects pricing and appearance, not verified quality.Brick weed is seeded, lower-grade cannabis pressed into dense blocks for smuggling and cheap sale, historically the bulk of imported cannabis.Zaza is slang for flower marketed as premium or exotic, usually with loud aroma and bright bag appeal; the word signals price and fashion, not tested quality.
