Infused pre-rolls have gone from novelty to one of the busiest sections of the menu in a couple of years. They look like regular pre-rolls, but they behave differently enough that it’s worth knowing what you’re picking up.
What “infused” means
A standard pre-roll is ground flower in a paper. An infused pre-roll adds a concentrate – distillate, live resin, diamonds, kief or rosin – mixed into the flower, coated on the paper, or both. The result is significantly higher potency: regular pre-rolls often test in the high teens to twenties of THC percent, while infused ones commonly test in the 30s and 40s.
How the formats differ
- Distillate-infused – the most common and usually the most affordable; potency up, flavour mostly from the flower.
- Live resin or rosin-infused – adds back the aromatic terpene character of the fresh plant along with the strength.
- Diamond or kief-coated – concentrate applied to the outside; often the strongest of the bunch.
How to approach one
Treat an infused pre-roll as roughly double a regular one and pace accordingly: a few puffs and put it out is a completely normal way to use one, and most are designed to relight well. New to them? Pick a smaller format – many come as half-gram or multi-pack minis – rather than committing to a full gram of 40% THC on a Tuesday.
Storage
The concentrate makes them stickier and more sensitive to heat. Keep them in their tube, upright, somewhere cool – not the glovebox.
The menu marks infused pre-rolls as their own category, with THC numbers on every listing. Ask us at the Keswick counter to point out a gentle starting point – there are some genuinely approachable ones.