2022 Oil Day Buyers Guide: Celebrate 710 Day

Leave it to stoners to invent an entire vacation around dabbing.

Most contemporary cannabis users are familiar with 420, the universal time and date that weed smokers recognize as the sacred hour of consumption, where even the lonely stoner can feel part of the larger cannabis community. But what is 710 Day – or Oil Day – and why is it discussed in the same breath as 420?

Origins of 710

In arguably the most frivolous use of a calendar holiday since Sneak Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day, Oil Day, or Dab Day, is a companion holiday to 420, where its celebrations revolve mostly around pharmacy stores and getting really, really high.

The origin of Oil Day is so benign that you might have trouble believing it’s a real “thing” unless you were already a stoner. Oil Day is celebrated every July 10th for the simple reason that if you turn the date 7/10 upside down, it says “OIL”.

That’s it. That’s the whole base and origin story.

On the surface, this day encourages the most intoxicating form of consumption, but dig a little deeper and you might discover that the 7/10 is truly a celebration of cannabis ingenuity in a new era of acceptance.

While extracts and concentrates have always existed, e-rigs, slim pens, and pocket vapes have changed the consumption game, allowing smoke-averse consumers to deliver high doses with minimal fanfare, and high-tolerance consumers the intense, hyper-specific effects individual tribes. In that regard, Dab Day is all about the oils, but it also quietly celebrates a fuller cannabis experience for all enthusiasts.

6 concentrates to celebrate Oil Day

Whether you’re an established die-hard dabber, a casual dabbler, or a dab dabbler this Oil Day, consider adding any – or all – of these different types of dabbable extracts to your dab day rotation.

Humboldt Terp Council: Cherry Gas Live Resin

Living resin is a concentrate obtained from fresh and uncured cannabis flowers using a solvent. Many extracts start with Live Resin; From this form, the extracts can be further processed to make badders, budders, waxes and crumbles.

Humboldt Terp Council’s Cherry Gas Live Resin is a cross between Triple OG, Gelato and Cherry Frosting, but its products are heavily seasonal, so check the current offerings to discover some of the brand’s other high-quality live resin extracts.

STIIIZY: GMO Cake Live Rosin Jam

Not to be confused with live resin, live rosin is a solvent-free extract made using only heat and pressure on fresh or fresh-frozen bud. Living rosin is valued for its robust profiles that are manufactured without the use of solvents, eliminating the problem of residual chemicals.

STIIIZY’s GMO Cake is a balanced hybrid of GMO and Wedding Cake, so expect a nuanced high with potentially calming and energizing properties.

Friends: Chocolate Mint Crumble

Crumble is an extract that has been whipped to create a firmer end product than the oil from which it was made. Sprinkles can look like hard wax, honeycomb, pie crust, or cold butter, and the texture largely depends on the environment in which they’re kept. Crumbles are cheap because they’re easy to manipulate with a small dabbing tool, they’re far more manageable than live resin, oily diamonds, or fragile shards.

Buddies’ Chocolate Mint Crumble is said to be a sweetly calming, physically relaxing strain that’s best used for late-day indulgence; However, your experience may vary.

Rove: Pink Runtz Live Diamonds

Diamonds, the most opulent of all concentrates, are purified isolates that have formed crystalline solids. These require quite a bit of post-processing, and price points usually reflect that extra effort. Diamonds are often wrapped in a living resin “sauce” that serves to round out an otherwise one-dimensional isolate high. Bonus, slathered on or not, they look amazing glistening off the end of a fancy dabbing tool.

Rove’s Pink Runtz is a balanced cross between Zkittlez and Gelato that has personal experience as capable of delivering measured euphoria and a lively body high.

Single Origin: Sativa Oil Distillate

Distillates are highly processed oils that completely isolate cannabinoids like THC and CBD. These oils typically have the consistency of simple syrup and are packaged in small, potentially disconcerting squirts. The syringes, like those from Single Origin, make for super easy dosing and are reportedly appreciated by medicinal dabbers with limited mobility and/or dexterity.

Single Origin’s sativa distillate is a pure, unadulterated syringe packed with activated THC, ready to be dripped onto the nail of an e-rig or drizzled over a flower.

Korova: Peach Sherbert Shatter

Shatter is made by “purifying” extracted cannabis oil until it forms an ultra-solid, glass-like consistency. Shatter is particularly popular for its stability. While whipped extracts can “sugared” as they respond to atmospheric changes, shatter mostly retains its glassy composition. Pro tip: The shards are easy to dispense once they’ve been made pliable with a heated tool. Otherwise it’s a bit of a shambles.

Korova’s Peach Sherbert is a cool, soothing hybrid that consumers have reported delivering super-smooth, mood-boosting effects perfect for ending a long day.