I can dig your situation man. I was there only 3 years ago. If you don't have the setup to grow your own and don't have a regular connect (I didn't) your options become very limited. And to be fair the options I dog at the michigan dispensaries are still better than the trash compacted mexican ditch weed that we were all smoking 20 years ago. As long as you beat 'em up on sales you're saving money and probably paying a fair price. That I can really dig.
Kinda tells you what they think of their customers eh?
The one I go to personally in town is greenstoneretail.com if you want to gander the menu. As for tax. I have my med 215You smokers in california have the good life when it comes to variety and quality of the products. Not to mention prices are much better than states just starting out with mainstream marijuana sales. More growers increases competition so there's much less price gouging. What does an ounce of good pot go for at a dispensary in california? Is it still worthwhile to get a medical card to avoid the recreational taxation?
The best pot I ever smoked was from california. My brother use to have a friend that made the west coast run from missouri every other month. The bags were all nicely labeled and packaged. I still don't think I've ever run into better quality pot in my life. It was truly special and all of the strains were of the same quality. In california I would definitely visit a dispensary to see what the mad scientists are growing. Up here in michigan it's mostly just boof unless you're getting it from a caregiver that isn't mass producing machine trimmed junk. I moved here from missouri and I'm impressed with the level of low standards michigander's have when it comes to pretty much anything. Food, entertainment, and quality of life are all exponentially worse in michigan. Roads suck, gas stations are tiny and more expensive, and there's essentially zero police presence on the highways. That sounds good for not getting hassled about a speeding ticket, but I've never witnessed more dangerous ignoramus drivers in my life. When I told folks where the wife and I moved from every single person asked us why we would move to michigan. 12 years ago I didn't understand what the hell they were talking about. I absolutely get it now. It's just different than other places. And not in a good way. However, it's cooler in the summer than that armpit of a sweat box otherwise known as missouri. For that reason alone I will never move a single mile further south. Global warming is a real bitch these days. Gotta see california sometime. I hear the food is great, and I know your pot is outstanding
Funny story. Kind of sort of, but not really.
Florida's so called top shelf is 60 bucks an 1/8th. I'm cheap as they come, and haven't bought any of their flower. But I do like having a vape pen around for when you can't smoke. The small carts are usually three for a hundred bucks.
Cash and political connections...in a nut shellNo shops selling weed here in Australia. Just curious, to become a "bud tender" do you have to do a course, get a certificate? And how does one decide what strains etc are best for their particular "illness?" Advice from a medical professional, or the "bud tender?". Professional advice is never cheap.
On the surface, legality looks like a no brainer, win win, but underneath all that wooppee, there are a lot of people getting screwed.
Take it easy on people. For a “friend” you have some not-so-nice things to say about him.There's an interesting phenomenon that happens when someone enters a dispensary. It's like a shock and awe effect, but in a desirable way. Much like the gym some people just like to go for the experience. To feel important as a bud tender serves them. To browse around the shop and absorb the many selections that make your eyeballs drip with desire. I've fallen victim to the same shock and awe effect. I've dropped a lot of money at dispensaries when I had no other hookups. These days though most regular tokers have at least 1 reliable hookup on good dope without going to a dispensary and paying out that wazoo yet these same people will still occasionally walk into a dispensary and pay twice as much as they should for the shock and awe effect. It's really mind blowing.
With all that having been said my idiot friend called me to tell me how excited he was that he got a $200 tip. He says he can't wait to go to the dispensary. He has access to $150 ounces of amazing tasting fire bud and mind crippling edibles. I straight up asked him what the hell are you thinking? He tells me, "man they got this mandarin cookies and this rose' I really wanna try." Without seeing it, smelling it, or smoking it this fuck tard has his mouth watering with excitement to pay $55 for an 1/8 of pot. Mind blowing dude. Just mind blowing. I realized how stupid consumers of pot are. Even experienced consumers. They literally buy based on the name of the strain without knowing a thing about it other than what the dispensary is calling it. Pure stupidity. Nothing more. Yet people do it. I like to call this one of the many stupid human tricks one can observe in others that make no sense, but people do it anyways. Long story short this dipshit paid $200 for 3 eighth's of bud and a bag of weak ass gummies. My mistake in the title. As I added up the 1/8's he bought I realized it wasn't even a fucking half ounce. I just shook my head.
Since I'm one of those stupid humans like everyone else and I love to indulge in stupid human tricks I got a little excited as he unloaded his packages of boutique dispensary bud with these exotic names. I'll admit - the packaging was very cool. It was all downhill from there. He asks me what I wanna try first. I chose the most expensive which was rose'. It looked great, but had absolutely no aroma at all. Fired up a bowl and while it didn't taste like complete asshole I most certainly wasn't interested in packing another bowl of it. $440/ounce and that's the smoke report. I felt so bad for him I didn't even have the heart to rip him up over it. Then we tried his $35/eight berry something bullshit. Awful flavor tasting of chemicals. Burned to a black ash. Epic fail. I was so turned off by those 2 I didn't even take a hit when he fired up his chem dog.
Sampling those 2 strains basically reminds me of my dispensary experiences. Most folks aren't heavy smokers but those that are know and prefer quality and will accept nothing less. Casual smokers are far less critical. They simply have less experience. Kinda like when we were in junior high, right? Would you ever buy that bullshit as an adult? Absolutely not. You have higher standards these days because you have experience
I can remember only 1 occasion where my mind was blown by the bud I bought. And it was $350/ounce. What a deal eh? Sorry for the rant, but I had to vent. This shit is something I see over and over again. I almost think people enjoy saying, "yeah man so I was at the dispensary yesterday. Oh yeah man, me too. Which one you go to?" It's like a social thing for idiots. Stupid human tricks man. All you can do is sit back, burn one down, and enjoy the shit show.
Bud tenders are only as good as the establishment that employs them. Most are junk. They don't know their products because they aren't allowed to sample them for free. They basically just rattle off the bullshit they think you want to hear to get your ass out the door. Rarely will you get someone that knows their inventory well. Corporate weed with corporate operations and corporate, you're just a number, type of employees. In the past when I had to visit dispensaries it always bent my ear sideways when some fuck tard bud tender describes their inventory to another customer. This is good for pain, this is good for hunger, etc. and so forth. Total bullshit. Can you just fucking tell me which strains taste good and fuck ya up? I hate hearing their foo foo bullshit strain descriptions. Let's just cut through the bs and point me in the direction of stock that's worth a shit. Save me the drivel. But often they can't effectively do this because there are 25 mediocre strains in stock the owner certainly isn't about to let the employees sample. So if they haven't bought and smoked it themselves they really have no dam clue about the quality of 90% of their inventory. It is what it is.No shops selling weed here in Australia. Just curious, to become a "bud tender" do you have to do a course, get a certificate? And how does one decide what strains etc are best for their particular "illness?" Advice from a medical professional, or the "bud tender?". Professional advice is never cheap.
On the surface, legality looks like a no brainer, win win, but underneath all that wooppee, there are a lot of people getting screwed.
He does have better options. I did point him in the right direction. And he's a fucking idiot because he still wound up at a dispensary overpaying for mediocre pot. Just because he's a friend doesn't mean I'm not gonna rip him to pieces for doing stupid shit. For fuck's sake what the hell are friends for? Somebody has to tell you when you're doing stupid shit. I do so out of love sir
Probably his friend wont buy his schwag thats why
Like totally dude
Was refering to you lol
I can totally dig that. Very kewl
Talk about swag
