Canadian Marijuana Market

[tropicannayeah]

thisis what happens in unregualted, unethical models

tumbled then blasted bud, resold as the regions best haha

med-man

I believe there are plenty of unscrupulous growers or dealers out there that would tumble buds before selling, but come on, tumbling then blasting it with butane, really??

It's more likely that the bud is grown with $ in mind, mauled and mangled when harvested, dried, trimmed and packed..that alone will remove most of the external trichomes and many of the internal trichomes, then the bud are squashed into plastic bags which makes any of the remaining external trichomes adhere to the inside of the bag, then weighed again, resold, re-weighed, re-bagged, often several times, each time loses more trichomes..and that's why most commercial bud has a weak high......I find it hard to believe that butane blasted bud is sold as it wouldn't be stronger than fan leaves and brittle as Pringles(not that I've ever smoked butane blasted bud..but still).

 

[sourpuss]

Nope. You gotta see it to believe it. And like you said weaker than shake and dryer than pringles is a spot on description.... buyer beware a little finger action and walk away...

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

if you have a hand scope you could see if the trikes were mostly stripped or not too. thats what i would bring in if i bought stuff from dispensaries.

 

[blastfrompast]

The blasting thing would surprise me...Seems selling shit like that would put you out of biz eventually....Rep has to count for something..

Consistency is all over the map tho...when it comes to the bud. And in the event of a dispute, it isn't like you can call the BBB...

 

[sourpuss]

Not gonna trash em all. Just sayin approx 10 percent of the buds has been blasted looking buds from this one place. One time only did I see a full quarter of blasted buds usually its a mix. They will get you the first few times.... like I said its hard to tell sometimes...

 

[Pangea]

100g of tobacco in a pack of smokes that retails for 15bucks.... 90% of that is tax, and big tobbacco is still making good $$$$.

That leads me to believe that $2000 a lb is too much, that being said, I know some people's legal RX bill is in the thousands every month...so who knows.

Bottle of Rye costs $25 is another product we could use to compare it too...

Honestly the price has been dropping steadily even if the street price isn't....Gotta love inflation.

I wish I could buy a lb for $500, I would be happy to take a year off or 2 from growing if I could get great prices like that.

Hard to compare a product in which the proof of production and sale carries a minimum sentence for those sowing the seeds.

Field production or even decent sized greenhouse production is not feasible at this point, when it is you will get your inexpensive pounds.

In the mean time you can get your weed from the legal producers who include current and former federal politicians, former RCMP chiefs, former and present provincial politicians including mayors and health ministers, and of course your regular old unscrupulous corporate pig wigs.

Are there any dispensaries or collectives(not LP's) that are operating with good and honorable practices?

 

[diffusing]

in Ontario, I would say HELL NO. Dispensaries all have access to the same commercial product. Mark it up 400%, and keep the quads for themselves. the patients have never even seen those quads. Where do they go if the dispensary buys them, but they never make it to the patients? its all pitiful.

MPN, regardless of their sources, and future LP ambitions, have blown the pants off any Ontario dispensary I've have ever seen. And their pricing is pretty decent for a lot of the items they sell considering the options. can probably get a z of AA from MPN for 100$, and you would be lucky to get 8$/g from any dispensary here for the same or worse shit.

in my experience anyway.

at this point, legality and safety aside, you are better off on the street, regardless if your options are LP or dispensary. But of the options, I would take MPN over any LP any day of the week, and I would take the street above MPN assuming the selection/quality is there. I'm sure there are other options equal or better than MPN for price/quality, but I've yet to see them.

 

[billy_big_bud!]

nothing i have seen from an lp or dispensery is even worth rolling. it is reggies at best. i buy commercial but it is definitely AAAA level.

 

[blastfrompast]

Hard to compare a product in which the proof of production and sale carries a minimum sentence for those sowing the seeds.

Field production or even decent sized greenhouse production is not feasible at this point, when it is you will get your inexpensive pounds.

In the mean time you can get your weed from the legal producers who include current and former federal politicians, former RCMP chiefs, former and present provincial politicians including mayors and health ministers, and of course your regular old unscrupulous corporate pig wigs.

Are there any dispensaries or collectives(not LP's) that are operating with good and honorable practices?

Agree with you, my point being as a crop, it should be able to be grown and sold for a similar price point IF IT were a legal crop.

Since it is illegal it is worth more now of course due to the risk...

 

[chinakush]

i dont kno about u guys, but i have seen bud from mettrum , tilray , bedrocan , tweed , and they are all decent not to hate but pricey up to 10 bucks a gram , im from toronto and the only competition is mark from toronto420 he charges 150 a oz flat rate on all the strains he carries and 40-50/g for oils depending on patient , he has alot of variety too.

 

[diffusing]

i dont kno about u guys, but i have seen bud from mettrum , tilray , bedrocan , tweed , and they are all decent not to hate but pricey up to 10 bucks a gram , im from toronto and the only competition is mark from toronto420 he charges 150 a oz flat rate on all the strains he carries and 40-50/g for oils depending on patient , he has alot of variety too.

holy crap dude. Mark had the worst bud i've ever seen. Friend got 2 z's, one of the mtrl chemo, and the other, i dont recall, maybe aliendawg, but it was by far the shittiest bud i've seen since ... uhh.. maybe ever. It was unsmokable and ended up being all thrown out couldn't even give the crap away. There were no seeds, so i guess that was a plus? Id take seeded jamaican over it any day of the week. Its possible he is growing with something bigger than a florescent now though. But I doubt it.

AND the fuckers clones were all infested with mites, AND fungus gnats. Other than that.. Umm.. actually I have nothing positive to say about that guy.

glad your experience was better.

 

[Ras Mason]

HRM is why the shit was unsmokeable. Before the abuse the grower put it through.
no doubt.
«mtl chemo is my baby, and she IS the bomb.
peace
jf

 

[billy_big_bud!]

haha i found the same from toronto420 total nonsense and i would take seeded jamaican weed over it too. lol. only places i was even satisfied with was calm and even then it was only one strain. romulan. pretty sad medicinal options....

 

[teemu shalanie]

There hasn't been good herb at dispensarys for years, When they first open they bring in the kill , but once they got clientele , ol bait n switch , haven't seen a bud with intact trichs EVER ,....

TS

 

[mack 10]

Looking from the outside, (ie, not a Canadian.)
It seems as if most of these new "producers" have never even smoked any weed, ever!
how can they make a good product when they don't know what they are looking for?
I thought the quality would be higher but on a commercial level.
still it's better than what's happening in the UK, which is nothing.
Where still completely illegal with no medical anything.

 

[billy_big_bud!]

i noticed all the buds from toronto420 were void of crystals too. my theory was that they run it all through a kief machine before forwarding to the customer. how else can all their products not have trics on it?

 

[leaffan]

Anyone try London Compassion Society? I've heard good reviews about them.

 

[sourpuss]

London... I heard its 7 bucks a g plus tax.... could b bs.... hear the product is good... 7 bucks good... prob not.

Oh and the bs part was referring to the price I was told...

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

i noticed all the buds from toronto420 were void of crystals too. my theory was that they run it all through a kief machine before forwarding to the customer. how else can all their products not have trics on it?

also possible, as he sells oil, is he makes oil out of it and sells the same bud after.

 

[bigbag]

a lot of phospholoaded type hardened buds have little resin, right off the vine...