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Edibles? Why does no one know that it takes an hour for the THC to travel through the digestive track? One brownie should be one high. One candy bar should be one high. What is it with 10 doses in a single candy bar? That is not good observing of how people consume. The state never consulted with real pot users? A pot candy bad doesn't need to be wrapped to look like a butterfinger candy bar. The customers don't care at all. It should all be generic and wrapped in grey with a green leaf and a child's Mr. Yuck sticker on it. Double wrapped so one has to use a scissors to open it.
I swear the LCB was high on meth when they made the MJ rules.
One can only hope that the medical dispensaries get on board with an appropriate level of standardization for their customers sake.
It sounds like the dispensary where you worked was less than above board. It shows a certain cynicism to simply assume that your shady experiences are the rule, rather than an exception. In my experience this sort of dishonesty is fortunately rare. And shame on you for playing along.
Let me add that as a medical cannabis patient, damn near everything I receive is lab tested as well (90% of the time through Analytical360) even though it's not mandatory. On the rare occasion that I receive something that isn't, I know the growers personally, the methods used and/or have seen and sampled enough from them directly (and seen previous testing results on other products from them) that I know what I'm getting. While medical is different from recreational, I don't feel recreational should feel obligated to spend more than 3x what most medical patients do for a product that I wouldn't give away to someone I care about.
In reference to the 'murderous intrastate cartel', Washington State has one of the lowest presence of marijuana drug cartels in the country. A fact that can be easily googled by the average person. It is apparent that The Stranger has traded journalistic integrity with ignorant prose and biased opinions.
Proprietary strains, consistent tested quality, clear packaging and information - all these things will help inform the consumer and lead to a more mature legal market.
Now all "they" need to do is get the price down to a competitive level and expand the number and locations of legal pot stores, and MAYBE this experiment will succeed.
2) The comments from maryjane44, pupuguru, etc. tend toward the vitriolic, but they're right: there's no fucking way anyone can assure the name/strain of a weed in the pot shops or dispensaries. Never mind the label. Strains have become so fractionated and backcrossed using b-phenotypes, that names denoting certain breeds and crosses from east coast, Vancouver seed farms, and SF/central California are three totally distinct types with three different actions and table values. Your admission of making up the names really helped all of us genuine growers who knew our strains from first smuggling out of California, through the organic growing to individual, one-on-one trimming and curing. Some of the elite strains don't even HAVE males, hence, no seeds. You must actually obtain a clone from a grower. ALL these people claiming to have a certain strain simply CANNOT be correct.
3) Until we get some kind of fair-trade thing for pot, marijuana in dispensaries and retail places will continue to be shit. I routinely grow weed that beats the crap outta shop weed, which is why people still buy from me. The prelegal price for pot used to be $4000/lb.. atrocious, I know, but it enabled us to grow a premium marijuana product. Today, that price is $1500/lb. The customer still pays the same, it's just now the shop takes that extra $. So, now there's a new crew of growers passing off shit weed grown as fast as it can get out the door, and wouldn't know Fulvic acid if it flavored their drink.
I see this all going through the same throes as alcohol prohibition, only at a vastly accelerated rate... These days no one balks at Budweiser being $4.50 a six pack & a decent microbrew @ 9-10 bucks, so.. this will prolly work out in the end, but.. til then, Mr Holden, the POV of, admittedly, a street-level dealer into the workings of the pot GROWING business should have given you pause.
I actually encourage people to still stop by their old grower friends. We worked hard, for a product we loved. We're on hard times now, but we'll survive, because we can STILL grow better weed than you find in the stores - THAT won't change.
Just Sayin'.