I was absolutely gleeful about having the chance to purchase cannabis entirely legally when my state chose to pass a constitutional amendment for medical marijuana.
Having no prior experience in other states with existing marijuana industries, I didn’t entirely know for certain what to expect.
I had no clue in the slightest that my state would take steps to be certain that only corporate cannabis would be successful, & learning that should have been my first clue that things weren’t going to be entirely the way I expected. While a few of the first weed stores in this state were completely interested in offering quality products, the rest had no clue at all in making their customers delighted. They will grow cannabis as poorly as possible while still putting a product on the shelves that their customers will choose to invest in. I have come to learn which dispensaries prefer this & I avoid them sort of like the plague now. People on social media post about mold in cannabis flower products from some of these awful weed stores & I’m simply beside myself when I check the photos. How can a medical weed store get away with selling moldy weed? That answer is fairly simple though—the sample that makes its way through lab testing is produced soon after the flower buds cure. Because of exhausting packaging & storing, the mold develops while in this phase of storage. If the contaminated batches of marijuana flower products stand for a few weeks at a time, the mold can grow to the point where it becomes physically visible to the naked eye. Otherwise your only way of knowing it is there is by being able to smell, taste, or look at the marijuana buds with a microscope.