I was relatively excited about having the opportunity to purchase cannabis legally when my state finally decided to pass a constitutional amendment for medical marijuana products.
Having no prior experience in other states with existing marijuana industries, I didn’t know for certain what to expect.
I had no idea whatsoever that my state would take steps to make certain that only corporate cannabis would survive. Studying that should have been my initial clue that things weren’t going as I wished. While some of the first cannabis companies in this state were interested in offering quality products, the rest had no interest in making their clients gleeful. They will grow cannabis in a poor manner while still putting a product on the shelves that their clients will go for. I have learned which pot shops are like this and I avoid them all the time. People on social media post about mold in cannabis flower products from some of these excruciating pot shops, and I’m shocked when I see the photos. How can a medical pot shop get away with selling moldy weed to patients? That answer is not so difficult—the sample that passes lab testing is produced hastily after the flower buds are cured. Because of the most horrible packaging and storing practices, the mold develops while in this phase of storage. If the contaminated batches of marijuana flower products remain sitting for weeks or months at a time, the mold can grow to a degree that it becomes visible to the naked eye. Aside from that, your only way of knowing it is there is by smelling it, tasting it, or looking at the marijuana buds with a genuine microscope.