I was relatively gleeful about having the actual option to purchase cannabis legally when our state passed a constitutional amendment for medical marijuana.
Having no experience whatsoever in other states with existing marijuana industries, I didn’t truly know what to expect.
I had no idea in the least that our state would take steps to ensure that only corporate cannabis would be able to survive. Studying that should have been my initial idea that things weren’t going to be the way I was actually expecting. While a single or 2 of the first cannabis stores in this state were interested in offering quality products, the rest had no interest in making their buyers entirely cheerful. They will grow cannabis as poorly as possible while still putting a product on the shelves that their buyers will choose to get. I have learned which cannabis stores care about this and I avoid them at all costs. People on social media post about mold in cannabis flower products from some of these brutal cannabis stores, and I’m simply beside myself when I have a look at the photos. How can a medical cannabis dispensary get away with selling moldy weed to patients? That answer is not too challenging—the sample that passes lab testing is produced in a jiffy after the flower buds cure. Because of poor packaging and storing practices, the mold develops during this stage of storage. If the contaminated batches of marijuana flower products happen to be resting for weeks or months at a time, the mold can grow so much that it becomes completely visible to the naked eye. Otherwise your only way of knowing it is there is by being able to smell the mold. You can taste it, or check the marijuana buds with a microscope too.