bumping this thread to rant about something i hate: SHAKE.
"shake" is the trim from bud. if you live in a legal/medical state, your dispensary probably sells "pre-rolls" aka pre-rolled joints, blunts, cones, etc.
they use shake to fill these, then add stuff like distillate, resin/rosin, thc diamonds, kief, etc to make them actually strong enough to get you high. most people just dont care, so they buy them anyway (when the dispensary isnt throwing them at you. all my pre-rolls were free goodies for points/spending money). shake has a very particular 'grassy' taste to it when you smoke it. if you break open some of these pre-rolls theyre basically powder on the inside. old nasty, dried up shake.
i know that marijuana farmers have to use every part of the plant pretty much, but trim would be much better used for making distillate or edibles. smoking it is disgusting. it sort of reminds me of back when i used to smoke cigarettes, and you could always tell a cheap brand by how bad it tasted.
some places do make pre-rolls with actual flower bud but its pretty rare from what ive seen. whenever the shop offers me a free pre-roll now i just tell em to keep it. i dont even want that shyt.
edit: i didnt realize how bad it was out there for some folks. look at this shyt... if my dispensary sold me this, i would burn down their building at 2am