Dispensary weed is disappointing

Budzbuddha

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Alaska retail is disappointing as hell. Dry as a popcorn fart. Little to no odor or flavor. I have had maybe 3 decent offerings. Everyone focusing on the highest THC content. Never a terpene profile available.
It’s funny you said that ..... My wife has her card , I don’t need that shit , cuz I grow , but she stopped
at a dispensary and picked a FTP “ Special “ ( first time patient) and when she brought it home , I looked at it ...... it LITERALLY was labeled “ popcorn “ .... it fucking said it written in pen.

She didn’t get it that it was larf shit .... pea size.
Needless to say I just pulled out my own cone from my OWN JAR.
Fuck that.
 

hotrodharley

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I smoke maybe twice a week and even with the high thc levels it’s still not that exciting. Quite honestly I believe a 1:1 ratio of thc to CBD is going to give you a better high than a 24% thc and no cbd.
It’s funny you said that ..... My wife has her card , I don’t need that shit , cuz I grow , but she stopped
at a dispensary and picked a FTP “ Special “ ( first time patient) and when she brought it home , I looked at it ...... it LITERALLY was labeled “ popcorn “ .... it fucking said it written in pen.

She didn’t get it that it was larf shit .... pea size.
Needless to say I just pulled out my own cone from my OWN JAR.
Fuck that.
A friend bought some "Electric Lemon Haze". It looked like shit and didn't have any taste. In little letters on the label "For use in consumables". Popcorn would have been an improvement. Another older grower here said there's few deli style stores because sorry growers don't want you trying to smell their shit.
 

WingAK

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If your dispensary bud tastes like nothing, consider yourself lucky. The last dispensary bud I tried vaping left a greasy salty non cannabis taste on my lips overnight, and kept filling my nostrils with crusty unnatural boogers, had my nose whistling every hour trying to purge the fungicides from my lungs. They spray their crops with so much garbage. BT, beauveria bassiana, milk, coriander garlic rosemary canola baking soda, you name it,as long as the lab don't test for it they'll spray it. And if it's got fruit or sweet in the name you best believe its been fed some artificial aroma bullshit also, grape scraps, lemon peel squeezins, etc Absolutely useless product. You cant even make edibles worth taking.

I literally do not understand why people buy the legal garbage. Dont know if it's the contaminants or the fact the shit is pulled early and grown by soulless idiots, but it doesn't get you high. Arizona, Colorado and Socal all have NASTY bud. And it's spreading. Seen some nasty artificially scented shit in the bay even. Should be obvious when every strain smells like hay, but the fruit themed strains smell like single note fruit scents.

Im old and crippled. I dont even want to grow. But there's no other option. Everyone has went insane since weed was legalized; confusing unflushed bud for "gas" and sesame oiled bud for skunk. Showing entire 40 strain menus that all smell like dairy products. Everyone I used to deal with only grows personal, or grows that tainted commercial bullshit now. Or only sells by the 10 pack, and I don't sell anymore.

Honestly I use the Internet specifically to vent these frustrations. Felt like I was in an alternate dimension when I moved to Az. People there think there's something wrong with my bud, because it has smells any smoker should recognize and gets you high, while they are smoking stuff that 100% does not smell anything like any Cannabis variety whatsoever, and has the effect of being poisoned or choked out. People are in deep denial that the dispo shit is dirty garbage. I'm sorry but I'm not a pot snob for wanting Cannabis that doesn't smell like fungicidal treatments or obvious, bitter fruit rind extracts. I'll smoke trim all day i dont give a shit. But some garbage smelling like "made in China" plastic and Blueberry Tasty Puff? Yeah, that ain't what AK47 smells like. Dispensaries and the influx of dispensary cult members who obviously don't have taste buds or gag reflexes are ruining the weed scene.
Man I am so sorry
 

IvcusLongDankus

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If your dispensary bud tastes like nothing, consider yourself lucky. The last dispensary bud I tried vaping left a greasy salty non cannabis taste on my lips overnight, and kept filling my nostrils with crusty unnatural boogers, had my nose whistling every hour trying to purge the fungicides from my lungs. They spray their crops with so much garbage. BT, beauveria bassiana, milk, coriander garlic rosemary canola baking soda, you name it,as long as the lab don't test for it they'll spray it. And if it's got fruit or sweet in the name you best believe its been fed some artificial aroma bullshit also, grape scraps, lemon peel squeezins, etc Absolutely useless product. You cant even make edibles worth taking.

I literally do not understand why people buy the legal garbage. Dont know if it's the contaminants or the fact the shit is pulled early and grown by soulless idiots, but it doesn't get you high. Arizona, Colorado and Socal all have NASTY bud. And it's spreading. Seen some nasty artificially scented shit in the bay even. Should be obvious when every strain smells like hay, but the fruit themed strains smell like single note fruit scents.

Im old and crippled. I dont even want to grow. But there's no other option. Everyone has went insane since weed was legalized; confusing unflushed bud for "gas" and sesame oiled bud for skunk. Showing entire 40 strain menus that all smell like dairy products. Everyone I used to deal with only grows personal, or grows that tainted commercial bullshit now. Or only sells by the 10 pack, and I don't sell anymore.

Honestly I use the Internet specifically to vent these frustrations. Felt like I was in an alternate dimension when I moved to Az. People there think there's something wrong with my bud, because it has smells any smoker should recognize and gets you high, while they are smoking stuff that 100% does not smell anything like any Cannabis variety whatsoever, and has the effect of being poisoned or choked out. People are in deep denial that the dispo shit is dirty garbage. I'm sorry but I'm not a pot snob for wanting Cannabis that doesn't smell like fungicidal treatments or obvious, bitter fruit rind extracts. I'll smoke trim all day i dont give a shit. But some garbage smelling like "made in China" plastic and Blueberry Tasty Puff? Yeah, that ain't what AK47 smells like. Dispensaries and the influx of dispensary cult members who obviously don't have taste buds or gag reflexes are ruining the weed scene.
I'm in AZ as well and I couldn't agree more. Alot of the cannabis being grown and sold to dispensaries by 3rd parties is a complete disappointment. No terpenes, just a high THC. Not even a trace of CBD. I'm glad they're trying to put more CBD buds but they usually end up smelling like hay. I've smoked hemp with a better terpene profile than the stuff in shops. Sure, there's some buds that have somewhat impressed me. But not of recent.
 

WingAK

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I'm in AZ as well and I couldn't agree more. Alot of the cannabis being grown and sold to dispensaries by 3rd parties is a complete disappointment. No terpenes, just a high THC. Not even a trace of CBD. I'm glad they're trying to put more CBD buds but they usually end up smelling like hay. I've smoked hemp with a better terpene profile than the stuff in shops. Sure, there's some buds that have somewhat impressed me. But not of recent.
It’s all a bunch of garbage. Can we all agree that we should call dispensary weed the bud light of weed
 

purpaterp

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So the last few days I’ve been trying a few strains that I pick up at my local dispensary because I’ve run out of home grown. My feelings on dispensary weed are not very good and that’s my personal opinion and it could just be my neck of the woods. The flower looks good a little dry for my liking and when I smoke diffrent strains they all taste the same. After smoking it’s usually the same from dispensary weed I’m high for like 30 minutes then want to eat the house. My home grown weed gets me high for at least 2 hours and I never get the munchies to much usually dry throat and that’s it. I feel like the testing they do is very inaccurate or maybe the weed is harvested to early but all in all it’s a disappointment.
Had some stuff here that tasted like hay, completely unsmokable. I might have done it back in the day but I’d rather not smoke than smoke crap.
 

Go go n chill

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The current generation only looks at the THC content because that's all they've known. They were not around back when weed had lower THC levels and many need the higher levels just to get high because they have built up tolerances. So it makes sense that growers supplying dispensaries grow what the market wants. People like me are in the minority these days and that's just fine. I don't buy from dispensaries and am free to grow the landrace strains that I want. They might not have the highest THC levels but they have flavors you just can't find today in all these hybrids.

I have friends that prefer some of the weed I grow over the high THC strains. Nothing better than rolling a joint of a South American Sativa, kicking back, and listening to some Alan Parsons I Robot with friends while drinking a rum and coke. Nobody is dazed out of their mind and everyone is involved in conversation enjoying each others company while high but still sociable.
I had a young man ask me for the strongest stuff I had...... I told him he was missing the point
 

Azubaz

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Nevada seems to be decent. Expensive but decent buds. I grow my own but haven't got it dialed it to where i always have some head stash. So when i do visit a dispensary i do see popcorn buds and buds taken down early all the time. I guess i learned you need to find the right people growing it. With so many cultivars growing it's hard to choose. I did get an eighth of some Dosi Face popcorn buds the other day by Bohemian Brothers that blew me away. Mainly always buy Tahoe Hydro products. Just because it comes out a shop it's not always trash. I have had great bud from a dispensary.
 

xtsho

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There is still some decent bud to be found at dispensaries. Most is not very good but I've seen some fire from time to time. If I didn't grow myself I'd risk the dispensary weed before many of the people that I know and the weed they grow. Despite my best attempts they seem set in their ways of over a dozen bottles of garbage. They always ask me how I grow such great weed but still never listen to me and continue to dump all kinds of crap on their plants.
 

Budzbuddha

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Most of the “ deals “ for delivery or on Weedmaps is usually the FIRE OG strain ... or “ private reserve “ 8 grams for like $50. I pulled the trigger ... wtf.

Overdried , little taste “ house weed “ more like it. As mentioned before there are some fire to be had but usually I just grab the 3 heavy hitters carts for $100. .

You be better with any edibles , syringes, concentrates. Never grabbed the shatter , wax so don’t know about those to comment on.
 

HydroRed

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I was not impressed at all when I made a trip to Colorado and hit a dispensary called Green Solution?? right off the exit ramp from I-70 in a seemingly industrial area. I asked the tender if he smokes and they replied yes. I said "give me the most pleasurable smoke you got" and I was given a top shelf that was this n that blah blah...... I was not impressed. Dont remember the strain but it was honestly mids back here in MI. I didnt know anyone there since I was just passing through so I had to smoke at one of those lame ass rec smoke spots or whatever the hell they are called. You know, that place that was someones house converted into a designated area that smells like weed and farts. You know...that place thats 104 degrees indoors and they charge you $10 to smoke there and $5 for a pack of zigzags lol. I sat down at one of the tables, burned a joint and gave the rest of the couple grams I got along with the papers etc. to some guy who was too involved in his phone to even say thanks. I couldnt wait to get back home.
 

Aussieaceae

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If your dispensary bud tastes like nothing, consider yourself lucky. The last dispensary bud I tried vaping left a greasy salty non cannabis taste on my lips overnight, and kept filling my nostrils with crusty unnatural boogers, had my nose whistling every hour trying to purge the fungicides from my lungs. They spray their crops with so much garbage. BT, beauveria bassiana, milk, coriander garlic rosemary canola baking soda, you name it,as long as the lab don't test for it they'll spray it. And if it's got fruit or sweet in the name you best believe its been fed some artificial aroma bullshit also, grape scraps, lemon peel squeezins, etc Absolutely useless product. You cant even make edibles worth taking.
Man, that sucks, makes me wonder if they sprayed the shit out of it with neem. Regardless, whatever it was, that sucks.
 
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Nizza

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just like cigarettes, weed is now the government mandated, inspected, and regulated market..
so go figure something u can grow without the BS is the best. BUT
if you grew 100 lbs and wanted to sell it in a batch to a dispensary as a licensed state grower and they tested any part and found any sign of any mildew, fungicide, or pesticide that is regulated then your whole batch can be rejected. If the dispensary accepts this batch and the state can prove any of these things are in that weed they will close the dispensary. This is why you should help improve the local community in organic safe growing methods without the need of commercial cut-corner growers. trust is a must and i believe eventually there will be a private market cash only like it was and much better than the government market BS
 

Nizza

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oh and not to rant but check out what cannabis hypermesis syndrome is and its link to residual fungicides being smoked. this isnt proven yet but i did some reading and i believe it was neem that was studied to have this issue in testings just google it there are plenty of people talking about it
 

ANC

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just like cigarettes, weed is now the government mandated, inspected, and regulated market..
so go figure something u can grow without the BS is the best. BUT
if you grew 100 lbs and wanted to sell it in a batch to a dispensary as a licensed state grower and they tested any part and found any sign of any mildew, fungicide, or pesticide that is regulated then your whole batch can be rejected. If the dispensary accepts this batch and the state can prove any of these things are in that weed they will close the dispensary. This is why you should help improve the local community in organic safe growing methods without the need of commercial cut-corner growers. trust is a must and i believe eventually there will be a private market cash only like it was and much better than the government market BS
I wish it was this good.. last I heard they were toying with accepting up to 25% visual contamination on a batch.
 

Nizza

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they as in the dispensary or they as in the government? I could see dispensarys getting away with it but they risk losing the license. But i agree you never know no matter what but if you know someone personally and locally it is a little better than going through these establishments except for the good ones depending where you live. I have been let down with the dispensary shit ive got it is worse than stuff i grow which i would hope they could at least grow some stuff that had taste. the content is there but the stone isnt, its now all about max THC and not the other shit. i got one strain that was the lowest once and it was on sale and it turned out to be the best bud i got from a dispensary so far
 
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