I agree.
Thai sticks as I have described them are 100% legit. I know this from my own, personal experience with them.
Generally, when Thai sticks are referenced, people realize there is more to them than buds wrapped around a stick just for the fuck of it. It wasn't for looks or for transporting them. They were wrapped around sticks so as to facilitate dipping/drying.
Thai sticks don't smell like weed. They have a sickly sweet, weird, funky smell to them - a la the opium tea. I can't really describe the smell, but once you smell that smell, you'll never forget it. For all intents and purposes, the weed, itself, is just a substrate for the opium.
When people talk about Thai stick, in America, it is the opiated variety they reference -because that is the quality that sets them apart from anything else in the weed-related world....for one,
obvious reason.
Having said that....I have seen things being sold in dispensaries -basically buds wrapped around a stick, rolled in hash oil and wrapped with a red string...They were calling those Thai sticks, too. I assume the hash oil treatment was an attempt to reference the technique of "dipping" the wrapped weed in something...obviously opium-dipped sticks are illegal...so someone got the bright idea for a way to make a "pretend" version for the legal market. I suppose there's nothing to stop someone from misusing a name.
Thus, no one will ever see real Thai stick in the legal marijuana market. So beware the snake oil salesmen and their wild claims.
*If someone walks into a church and announces that he can answer any and all questions about Christianity -
because he is Jesus Christ, then please be skeptical of anything he says after that -no matter what it is...at least until he raises someone up from the dead!