Cannabis Product Review: Fun Uncle Cruisers Berry Gelato Full Gram Vape

About fun uncle

Fun Uncle is the newest brand on Caliva’s expansive roster with retro focus on the way weed used to be. With the spirit of the ole’ timers, Fun Uncle’s prices feel like a throwback as well with wildly affordable bargains on their full line of products.  A brightly colored tee in their merch section features a Route 66 style sign that reads “Take the High Road” so buckle up for a slew of Dad jokes and sentences beginning with “Back in my day…”

Fun Uncles’ flower runs the gamut from stalwart classics to more inventive options and they couldn’t help themselves from naming one “California Dreamin'” after The Mamas & The Papas’ pied piper anthem drawing the counter culture to San Francisco in the ’60s. Whatever you call it, these whole 3.5 grams go for $30 ($30!)—a bargain-basement steal in today’s market. Pre-rolls run you $9 which seems like a misprint but are in fact really how serious Uncle is about “the good ole days”.

Fun Uncle’s gram of dab-able live resin is $24 and I literally don’t think I’ve ever seen any wax, crumble, sugar, sauce, or shatter for that low of a price. Similarly, the Cruiser gram vape featured here also comes in an alternative line mixing distillate with live resin for only $12 bucks more. Fun Uncle is like the world’s best yard sale and honors its namesake well with a approachable, welcoming air. 

Highlights

Like your older relatives’ actual storytelling, Fun Uncle repeats the same sentiment again and again across their product descriptions: “Like Uncle Jack used to say ‘There’s nothin’ like ramblin’ roads to destination nowhere.”  Although I full-heartedly agree with Unc on this one, I couldn’t help but wonder who exactly this Jack purported to be. I assumed initially it was a shout to pioneering cannabis activist Jack Herer but I couldn’t find any evidence to back that up. 

Perhaps, more likely, Fun Uncle hopes to extend their nostalgia to what your Aunt, Uncle, Mama, Papa, and Jack Herer himself read as they smoked (what at the time was) the best weed of their lives. Jack Kerouac’s On The Road is widely considered (one of, if not) the definitive work of the Beat movement that preceded and precipitated the counter culture of the American 1960’s. On The Road tells of the Beat Generation’s most notable figures (Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and Kerouac himself) on their scattered journey fueled by sex, drugs, and jazz (The Great American Art Form).

Written in 1951, it was directly and intentionally antithetical to the values of the caustic and regressive politics of the time—no white picket fence, no 2.5 kids, and no 40-hour workweek. This was the first inklings of the counter culture’s psychedelic fueled rally cry to “Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out”. In other words, on a national level, this is when things started to get “far out” for a generation of teenagers who believed things could be different. Now 60 years later what remnants have we of these impassioned cries for Free Love & Peace? Let’s see if Fun Uncle can make us feel like we were there for it.