I’ve never shopped in a CT dispensary but I’ve perused their menus online a few times when I was spending a few days in New Haven. Their prices are high, they use weird meaningless names for flower varieties, there don’t seem to be that many dispensaries and they aren’t conveniently located. Mass has gotten pretty cheap due to competition among all of the dispos (regularly offering some $100 ounces but they have sales some days that knock it down to $90, I picked up two eights in September/early October for $36 including the 20% tax).
Personally I don’t talk to the budtenders beyond niceties, but having to make all your purchases before actually talking to someone would be really weird. I know a lot of newer consumers want that interaction.
Vermont is still expensive and also has dumb caps on THC in flower and solid concentrates. Depending on the dispo they can be quite personable.
lol this article reads like an lobbying piece from Fine fettle to the polyticks. The reality is that the product available is poisonous, mold/yeast ridden product that has been so overfertilized you’d have a tough time detoxing the heavy metal exposure you’ll be receiving.
It mostly has to do with quality or the lack of it, and Ofcourse price is a consideration.
Makes sense given that most people are looking to get high. CBD made itself sound cool, but the lack of psychoactivity is a bummer if that’s what a person was hoping for.
I don’t know what pricing looks like on the processed hemp psychoactive products but I presume it’s lower than THC bearing products because the manufacturers don’t need to pay for licensing/testing/etc? I wonder if that’s a factor in NYS (along with the slow roll out of licensed dispensaries).
We’re talking about Corrupticut here, so take everything with some smelling salts
Yes, they are a state that requires some testing.
Yes, they’re also a state that permits remediation tek that gets-around the problem of toxicity testing positive in a batch, and does not require reporting on which batches utilize this technique.
When medical marijuana was legalized in Connecticut in 2012, the acceptable standard was less than 10,000 CFU/g. But, in 2021, the state Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) approved a request from one of the state’s testing facilities, AltaSci Laboratories, to increase the threshold to 1 million CFU/g.
After some outrage it looks like they brought it down to 100,000…. Only a ten fold increase instead of the original x100 LOL
