Counter-point: Most consumers aren't educated and experienced enough to gain useful purchase information from smelling the weed. To the point that consumers would select specific terpine profiles that are blithely accepted as bonafides like super skunky ultra hybrids as being quality indicators.
In fact, with prices what they are, why not purchase a gram of several varieties and see what growers products resonate with you and make a list for both growers and strains you like?
I don't know why it falls on me, a daily toker, to inform ya'll on being better consumers.
You can't smell the wine before you buy a bottle either. What consumables can you handle in the store?
I've never been to a Washington pot store but does this rule noticeably cut down on external odor? Some weed smells good, some bad, but good lord some of the stores in SF can stink up the block as much as a McDonalds. Always felt for the people that live above them.
@6 well I think that's his point -- it doesn't do much good to review a particular grower's strain if the gram you get has been grown differently or stored badly.
@1 I don't understand why "weed flights" aren't a thing yet. Try this rainbow of seven different half-gram tastes.
I could not agree more, I rely on my nose to tell me if it's good or not, but here I have no choice but to find a shop where the staff knows the product from personal experience. In short, we have to rely on second hand experience from people who may or may not like what we like.
There's a shop here in Lacey that hires pretty girls to say "Well people seem to like this", and I fell for it twice and it was poor quality product both times, I knew it as soon as I opened the packages.
I'm also not a fan of the restrictions against growing it ourselves but that's a topic for a different discussion.
They don't want to keep a jar of each type of weed for people to smell because it soon gets stale and doesn't smell anymore. So they want it to be legal to open every package and smell it?
Are you going to buy the weed that other people opened and smelled? Once its opened, you cant even be sure it weighs correctly.
In fact, with prices what they are, why not purchase a gram of several varieties and see what growers products resonate with you and make a list for both growers and strains you like?
I don't know why it falls on me, a daily toker, to inform ya'll on being better consumers.
deal. recycle the plastic bag.
As I take a long draw off my pipe.
I've never been to a Washington pot store but does this rule noticeably cut down on external odor? Some weed smells good, some bad, but good lord some of the stores in SF can stink up the block as much as a McDonalds. Always felt for the people that live above them.
The noticeable odor comes from consumers who can't restrain themselves for even 90 seconds after leaving the shop.
And come on, Lester. If you really want to help consumers, start writing reviews of the stuff instead of bitching about regulations.
@1 I don't understand why "weed flights" aren't a thing yet. Try this rainbow of seven different half-gram tastes.
I ❤️ WEED!
There's a shop here in Lacey that hires pretty girls to say "Well people seem to like this", and I fell for it twice and it was poor quality product both times, I knew it as soon as I opened the packages.
I'm also not a fan of the restrictions against growing it ourselves but that's a topic for a different discussion.
Are you going to buy the weed that other people opened and smelled? Once its opened, you cant even be sure it weighs correctly.