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There are high-end weed products out there. High quality wax, concentrates, and edibles for discerning customers exists. Certain dispensaries also specialize in higher quality product. I enjoy many of these myself as legal weed in my area is still much cheaper than alcohol and I prefer the product. Wine has had a stable market for centuries with products aimed at many customer segments, high and low quality segments…
>discerning I have serious gripes with the high end market in the dispensary. For example, Stiizy will sell you a gram of distillate in a cartridge for $60. It's the exact same product as the one being sold in that same dispensary for $20 from a brand with less instagram presence. Distillate is pretty much commoditized. Also the entire $60 1/8th market is absurd to me, it seemingly exists for people who assume price…
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2022/12/08/698377...
This brings questions up about contaminants for me
Raw garden too has been sued in a class action suit over terpenes misrep.
I agree be the wizard and make your own potions.
One of the things I've noticed living in both CA and MA is that a lot of retail marijuana shops appear to be run by first-time business owners. In many cases, these businesses just don't appear to have the kind of discipline to be sustainable. They have weird marketing, oddball names, and unprofessional customer service. I once went to a cannibas "church" in San Jose, CA, where they told me I could smoke up in their…
alcohol and weed are not directly comparable.
(i would also posit that many servers and bartenders do in fact enjoy the devil's juice on the clock)
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Looks like moral panic bullshit to me.
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Smoke is smoke, but vapor is not vapor. You can taste a lot more when you stop burning the plant and I think that's where the industry needs to go if it wants to develop that way
There's not a great vaporizer product for dry herb unfortunately that doesn't cost hundreds, plus they are mostly "session style" vaporizers where you preheat an oven and are expected to vape it all or else a lot is wasted. There's the vapecap and copies that are more "on demand" like a normal pipe, where you use a butane torch to heat up the device each hit, but they don't work well for people with a higher toleranc…
The problem with these types of vaporizers is that they can inadvertantly introduce contaminents to the body. This is largely fungal and bacterial matter that can infect the lungs as it is not destroyed fully in the heating process.
Be careful even with tested weed.
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> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same? Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice,…
Being a pedo is not a sexual orientation. It’s something went really wrong with you territory.
Regardless of what you think, society has already decided that one can't help who they are attracted to.
We, collectively, have already decided that a person cannot choose who they are attracted to.
The cannabis boom seems to have been predicated largely on the assumption that it would resemble the high-end wine market, with expensive vintages, "budtenders", etc that can support lots of boutique farms and retailers. But it looks more like the future will resemble the tobacco industry, with slim profit margins and a handful of conglomerates controlling production. And in reality, for wine as well, LVMH owns many…
Great observation. I think people without a ton of experience with weed fail to appreciate just how different it is compared to alcohol. Back when weed was illegal I used to have a joke I would make with dealers. I would ask them what the strain of the weed I was buying, and usually they would tell me it was some Sour Diesel Purple Hurple Haze Hybrid or whatever (they were making it up on the spot most of the time, I…
Sure, back in the day lots of stuff was made up. But now I genuinely do get a different taste and high depending on the strain and I can usually tell the difference between certain kinds. Also, for very popular buds like Sour D I can ID by the smell alone. In the end it is just different terps, I know. And while I prefer Indica (“in-da-couch”) I do recognize some of the different effects could simply be psychological and not physical. Alas, I am big fan of medical grade sensi and the sincere peace it brings to my life (it is a boon for treating seizures). Anywho, just my two cents, have a good one!