I've tried every dispensary in the east valley, and several elsewhere. They all suck hardcore. No terps. No flavor. No resin Weak. Fake terps, pm, budrot, unflushed, sprays, 6-7wk no veg, haybale dry. Its like a lottery, they make it as hard as possible to pick a smokable bud.
Az peeps don't really know weed I guess. They need to go learn what neem, eagle20, rotted raw milk, sulfur, Powdery Mildew, chlorophyll, and all the sweeteners and chemicals at the grow shop smell like, because its mostly what I smell. Find something you like, then next week its nasty unflushed premature bammer. All these places sell each other's buds, which is weird because grow rights are so rare and the dispensaries who have them have zero restrictions themselves...
These reviews are all old but Im certain every dispensary has went downhill not up
Trumed: airy leafy flavorless larf og buds, bagseed Sativas with scent additives, or a smell that instantly reminded me of buying brick as a kid. All top shelf high price. And every time I try to get sour diesel it smells like peanuts...
Bloom: Speed dried de-triched meds that look nice but are weak, smell and taste like nothing.
HWC: Bud all smelled/tasted like the same citrus sweetener bullshit.
Oasis: PR was dank in the bad way. Like a dirty res. Top shelf was poorly dried commercially grown but good genetics.
Health4Life: Nasty citrus/berry sweeteners, low end mids at high prices.
Reef: Decent uncured mids at cured prices, low end dirty neem buds at mid prices.
PARC: Good mids, then shitty grape-scented fertilizer bud, then a mix of great bud and brown shwagg, I dunno wtf is going on over their but the good stuff tasted like Cali and the next week its brown OG.
Nature's AZ: Home of haybails, artificially flavored buds, dirty Botanicare and AN buds, and hidden gems mixed in because the employees don't know quality from tainted crap.
Monarch: Probably the best quality I got from a licensed dispensary, but for the $ Ive never been back.
Emerald: Overpriced mids, smell/tastless so not medical grade at all. I dont want thc and plant matter, I want the full Cannabis experience.
Im beginning to realize by this point. Dispensary weed is not what I expected for medical grade. Its much much much worse. Its the stuff I've seen given away and tossed in the trash before..
Kind: Legit buds covered in mold/sprays and mishandled. Took 2 weeks for buds to be smokable. Went back for more and the same exact stuff still took 2-3 weeks.. Like I can dry and cure bud at home, but the dispensaries cant harvest and store their bud right?
Nova: Crappy but potent dust buds at mid price, no smell/flavor/uniqueness. Narcotic in a bad way, on suggested morning Sativas. I think I hate indoor weed. At least bad light spectrums.
Good: Fake cheese buds (mold spray?), and generic saltwater tasting kush buds. Pretty sure its a milk based mold tactic bringing the cheese smell that showed up all over the valley last year or so. Who knows what concoction is bringing the salty taste.Neem and AN nutes probably. It used to be fun to guess. Not anymore.
Metro: each strain had a unique smell with a strong artificial note. Each one burnt the throat and tasted very bad. We call this fake weed where I come from. Its funny because sometimes these dispensaries get lavender and vanilla etc mixed up.
Mint: Nasty plastic tasting bud. I think it's botanicare. Not positive since i dont go to the grow shops. I used to get awesome weed that tasted like edible plastic. This is not that type of plastic. This is smoking a toothpaste tube.
Urban: First time I ever got sick from budrot. Sucks cuz the weed would have been legit if it wasn't burning my eyes with mold.
GrowingTree: Wow, the bloated "old school hydro" buds were some of the weakest Ive ran across. And smelled like nothing Cannabis except for barely detectable notes on the Blowfish. How can buds look so cool, but contain 99.999% AIR?
GreenwayAnalytical: Best buds once, then they started using that bottled sweetener bs that ruins everything Im after, and contaminates the bud with sugar (using those stupid fake sweeteners is no different than spraying with mountain dew, Ive seen and tasted the stuff oozing out of buds after it inflammes them, right before it crystallizes into fake trichs! Those products are for looks fake smells and weight. Not cannabinoids terps and yield, no its Sugar crystals, ester additives adding smell and weight)
Sunflower: Decent commercial buds if they could get away from the PM (and the nasty sprays used to hide it). Oh and they had that nasty fake Thai, Botanicare Sweet Citrus bullshit, NASTY. That stuff coats lungs in burnt shit, even from a vape. Just grow clean meds. and dry them right. No one wants to smoke "enhancer" products!
Desert Rose: Nasty buds top to bottom when they opened.. How can peeps not smell and taste that nasty unflushed fake smell shit! And the chlorophyll, we can't forget about the haybud.
Nature's Wonder: Nasty unflushed buds, poorly cured buds. Again, why is this place selling 4 differ dispensaries bud? Can't they at least label the grower? I got good weed here once but who knows where it was grown. Goddamm this law sucks!
Swell: Plane assed boring hydroponic at bad prices. Bait and switch on some milk weed. Dont you love being shown one nug off a clean top and being sold moldy something else. oh its the same strain name tho! Whiles others are worried about a seed that's going to magically bump their stash down from private reserved to midgrade, Im trying to avoid bud sprayed with lactose! You know, that shit some people are allergic to?
Harvest: Very scraggly buds with identical fake smells (Floralicious? Who knows. Smells like lavender colored plastic, in a bad way) and very neem smells. Most embarrassing dispensary I have walked into.
SWC: Another shocker on quality. Identical nute smell most strains (thats not a terp guys, its bloom booster!) and some poorly cared for dirty tasting $12 bagsees regs sold as ECSD. If you can pass this off as medicine in AZ its no surprise the fakerstates and moldenhuts scattered around have no problem surviving.
LevelUp: Before they changed their name, they sucked. Salty pickle tasting buds. Plastic botanicare buds. And speed dried midgrade on the top shelf. KIND concentrates.. Why is Keef Cola a better product in Colorado?
ArizonaCannabisSociety: Fake lemon buds, they tried to flush it out like you can with molasses but it already stripped the naturals out and put the nasty fake in. Generic fake cheese buds. Like Az bud doesn't have caryophalene or pinene, but it has cheese terps..SURE.. I feel sorry for novices who think they are getting the full Cannabis experience in AZ. Same with the fake tropical smells. No bud around that even matches the smell/taste of good reggie I smoked, but a strong artificial lemon rind smell and bitter taste on half the strains. Yeah ok. Potency good but how can anyone take more than one hit of some Cannabis that doesn't taste like should be going into your body?
Plenty of others but you get the point. The weed in Az dispensaries is BAD on so many levels... First 90s weed wasn't as good as dad's weed..now today's seedbank weed isn't as good as 90s clone weed. Then AZs environment doesn't match popular strains. Then the dispensaries snatched up all the grow rights hire a bunch of kids and grow by far the worst weed Ive ever smoked, and sell it to smokers with zero standards.
And hide all their "non-profits" in management expenses. Meaning the foreign "management firms" essentially make the decision about Cannabis quality in Arizona. Who wrote this law? HMMM...
I feel they are all work in together behind the scenes to keep the standards low, ultimately holding the market for producers like Marlborough to step in with their atrocious production methods. In other words, Medical marijuana in Arizona is essentially the testing grounds and corporate handover of Cannabis happening right before your eyes. Where marketability is no longer based on the quality of a farmers relationship with his soil, but the size of the solvent tank washing mixed batches of trim and infusing an artificial terp blend into the extracted reclaim.
I say Marlborough jokingly, its actually Bayer-Monsanto/MiracleGro/Botanicare/GH/Gavita who is taking the market. Been going on since the sensi trend got pushed by the seed hoarders. Same people who pushed feminized. But that's an entire different story.. Or is it?