I grew up on the East Coast and my earliest weed dealers used to offer only two choices: Take it or leave it.<\/p>\n
I always chose \u201ctake it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nowadays I live in California and the modern marijuana retail experience offers so many strains, concentrates, edibles, topicals and delivery devices that it requires a concerted effort (and consistent product sampling) to keep it all straight \u2014 never mind stoned. So I included a special section on pot shopping in my book, \u201cHow To Smoke Pot (Properly):\u00a0 A Highbrow Guide to Getting High<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether you\u2019re buying recreational weed in Colorado<\/a>, medical marijuana in Michigan<\/a>, or ordering off a coffee-shop menu in Amsterdam, the retail cannabis experience remains both delightful and disorienting to the unaccustomed. So here\u2019s a few tips for keeping your wits about you when faced with all those wonderful choices.<\/p>\n Unless you grow your own, or have some lovely hookup, cannabis is most definitely a luxury item. And while it\u2019s certainly OK to splurge on the herb from time to time, that\u2019s a decision best made in advance, not once you\u2019re faced with a menu of enticing strains, concentrates, and edibles. So decide how much you can afford to spend and how long it\u2019s got to last in advance, and you\u2019ll have a lot of fun weighing your options when the time comes, without stressing out about next month\u2019s rent.<\/p>\n Unless you\u2019re dead set on acquiring some hot new variety that everybody\u2019s talking about on your marijuana message boards, it\u2019s best to let the early adopters pay a premium for the latest craze and keep an eye out for hot deals instead. Retailers discount a product for all manner of reasons, and many also offer special coupons through their website, so there\u2019s no reason to pay top dollar for an all-natural herb that already costs way too much.<\/p>\n That perfect little nugget in the dispensary display jar may look pristine, but it probably came from a warehouse-sized factory farm-style indoor grow room with thousands of plants packed together in artificial, disposable growing mediums, under energy-intensive lights powered by fossil fuels, and fed chemical fertilizers that are used once then thrown away. At one time, such input-heavy indoor growing was an unfortunate necessity of surviving prohibition, but now it\u2019s time to move the herb back out into the sunlight. Something we can all play a role in by sourcing the most ethically produced, environmentally responsible pot possible.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a cannabis consumer, your purchases will directly affect how marijuana is commercially grown, so you have a unique opportunity to encourage and support proper cultivation practices,\u201d an eco-minded outdoor marijuana farmer from the organization Grow It in the Sun once informed me. \u201cCows should have the right to organic, sun-grown grass, and so should you.\u201d<\/p>\n Your olfactory sense is incredibly refined when it comes to predicting what your body does (and doesn\u2019t) want to ingest, so if a bud or concentrate smells particularly alluring to you, go for it. For while cannabinoids like THC and CBD are odorless, the plant\u2019s terpenes<\/a> do provide an effective way to judge both potency and quality by smell. And conversely, definitely \u201cturn up your nose\u201d at any offering that smells funky, moldy, or like chemicals.<\/p>\n Every pre-rolled joint on Earth \u2014 from Amsterdam to Anchorage \u2014 is made by collecting the shake at the bottom of a giant bag of weed and grinding it up with the smallest, least-potent buds, all to make a product you then pay a premium for compared to buying the best buds of the same strain. So if you do know how to roll a joint, there\u2019s no excuse for being so lazy.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re lucky enough to live in (or visit) a place with multiple cannabis retail options, don\u2019t ever settle for an establishment that makes you feel less than welcome, even if you\u2019ve got a million annoying questions about every little thing. Because if they\u2019re not interested in helping you access the best possible information, odds are they\u2019re not interested in acquiring the best cannabis possible either, or serving as a positive example for the industry. So even if you\u2019ve got to go a little farther to get there, find a marijuana retailer that makes you feel safe and accepted, including by answering all your queries with grace and patience.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, did you learn anything from this guide?<\/p>\n The post The Ultimate Pot Shopping Guide From a Cannabis Industry Expert<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I grew up on the East Coast and my earliest weed dealers used to offer only two choices: Take it or leave it. I always chose \u201ctake it.\u201d Nowadays I live in California and the modern marijuana retail experience offers so many strains, concentrates, edibles, topicals and delivery devices thatContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,99,14560,107,4466],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45027,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45026\/revisions\/45027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Make a Budget for Getting Bud<\/b><\/h4>\n
Look for Deals, Not Strains<\/b><\/h4>\n
Go Sun-Grown<\/a><\/b><\/h4>\n
The Smell Test<\/b><\/h4>\n
Never Buy a Pre-Roll<\/b><\/h4>\n
Never Hesitate to Investigate<\/b><\/h4>\n
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