Love how legalization just has resulted in yet another field for capitalists to lie about their products…
I don’t remember a weed dealer not lying about how strong their weed is though, I’d say business as usual
The cannabis industry, legal or otherwise, has always been full of lies and pseudoscience. If it’s not the big business capitalists, it was the small time dealer capitalists.
When asking for suggestions, budtenders still ask me if I want Indica or Sativa. I always answer, “it doesn’t matter.” They should know it doesn’t matter and not be pushing decades-old debunked info.
We, black market edible producers, categorize our caramels by what they are used for. Our customers then name them. Our big ones right now are Nite Nites and Laffy Taffy. I call them sleepy caramels and party caramels. I ask how much people weigh and how experienced they are and tell them how much I weigh and how much I take then suggest a starting dose and tell them how adjust the dose until they find the right amount for them.
I worked as a budtender and once I learned the truth I tried to share it with customers, but they don’t care. For some reason, ‘sativa v indica’ is easier than “How much thc will get me high”. Instead I inquired to their tastes and offered… local first 😎 fuck the Californian goons.
I was also only allowed to share my mind at this one place I worked because they don’t give a shit to a different extent. I worked at another company called Inspired and they actively wanted me to peddle product customers didn’t want 🤷 only sales numbers mattered.
Cannabis industry sucks. Not to mention minimum wage, so don’t actually expect much from them.
Wait differences in effects between those two strains has been debunked? I had no idea. Time to look up research on it
Nah its more mismanaged, an ‘indica’ strain might not be indica at all.
Its like a bunch of stoners trying to guess what breed a dog is without knowing what a dog is tbh
Well, when the government fails to adequately regulate, leaving it up to industry to self-report, this is the only foreseeable outcome - for pretty much any industry.
Greed is a massively corrupting influence.
I know that the producers don’t self-report. They’re supposed to contract with testing labs, but when there’s a lack of standardized procedures and oversight, the producers lab-shop until they find a lab that has tweaked their processes in such a way that reports favorably on even substandard goods.
In that way, the labs become facilitators of a flawed regulatory process.
The only real fix is more and better oversight (including verification of results from testing laboratories) and standardization of testing procedures.
Having worked at two Licensed Producers of cannabis, I can tell you that for the entire crop they only need to take one sample, that sample represents the THC level of the entire harvested batch. So of course they cherry pick the best looking samples to send out.
Its a huge problem here in the US. My friend works in a lab that does tests on samples from all over. Their lab is close to shutting down because they dont inflate numbers like the other labs in the state. So the other dispensaries are passing over their lab for other ones that do inflate numbers. Its terrible. Also as someone who grows their own, you can just tell the home grown has way more potency than the highest stuff they sell at a dispensary.
I’ve always said, when you grow it yourself, you put time and money to grow the best crop you can. When you grow to make money you go for the fastest and cheapest grow.
True that. I even use autoflowers most of the time so the grow is significantly shorter and the product is no different from a photoperiod plant. But the mass production for dispensaries are just gross and overpriced. Plus all my friends get to enjoy some potent home grown of their choosing!
MMJ is an absolute fucking mess. It’s great that we can begin to get past the human rights abuses of the war on drugs, but there’s so much work to be done to make it a safe and effective medicine. So much research is lacking. So much documentation is lacking. So much credentialing lacking. CBD potency is plummeting and it’s painful. Dispensaries are run by young kids that just think its fun, and they keep recommending me strains that are fucking hell on my anxiety. Give me a damn pharmacist!
Think this problem stems from it being only medical in most places. I have a script in Florida but it’s in no way a medical need like it is for your anxiety. So you have this large mix of people just looking to get high legally and also those there for legit pain/anxiety medication.
We need to separate these and give doctors more power to do what’s right.
