California Dispensaries Forced To Give Humungous Discounts On All Their Weed Because The State Says It's Too Dirty To Smoke
Source – Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed.
Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after Saturday meet strict quality standards, so retailers unloading untested inventory are offering blowout prices.
At Firehaus, a shop along an LA freeway, a fire sale of sorts unfolded this month with a 50 percent off “summer blowout” sale advertised on a popular marijuana app and texted and emailed to regular customers.
The change in rules was part of the state’s decision to allow the industry in its legal infancy to get a running start at the beginning of the year. Shops were given six months to burn through supplies of grass grown and cookies and other products made without strict testing requirements.
Before the legalization of recreational marijuana, testing of pot sold for medical purposes was largely done for marketing. Growers could promote the potency of their product or the fact that it was free of contaminants.
Some shops prepared for the new regulations by gradually replacing pot they sold with products that pass the tests.
What do you think the chances are that advocates for the legalization of marijuana in California thought this was going happen? My guess is zero. I bet they thought it was going to be a crunchy farm to table operation from start to finish. That they’d be able to run their cash heavy businesses with no quality control or interference from the government so long as they kicked a few bucks to Uncle Sam once a quarter. Turns out that’s not the case at all. I guess that’s what happens when you make a boat load of money off a product that may or may not be pumped full of carcinogenic pesticides. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care one way or another because I don’t really smoke pot. Even the people who do smoke pot don’t seem to care.
“I smoked pot for 40 years that wasn’t tested, from dealers on the street, and it smelled like anything from gasoline to perfume,” said Catherine Lanzarotta, who stocked up on “Blue Dream.” ?So I’ve never had that concern.”
It’s just funny to think now they have to start from scratch when they thought they were in the clear. I don’t know why, but I get enjoyment out of it. Maybe it’s because people who buy their weed at dispensaries are the fucking worst. They are to marijuana what beer snobs are to beer. They pretend to care about all the particulars when in reality they just want to get fucked up.
The funniest part of it all is that the new weed is going to be wayyyy stronger than the stuff they had on the shelves in the first place. But at least it’ll be cleaner! At the end of the day it’s a win for the pot smokers of California. They get the old stuff at a massive discount and by the time they run out of it the new, more potent product will be in stores. Job well done.