Quality has really taken a plunge!

[cologrower420]

Nice post releaf.

lampost, thehempcenter in littleton has some sourdiesel that is as good a product as I've seen in months, it's worth the trip.

cologrower420 Reviewed by cologrower420 on 09-17-2010. Quality has really taken a plunge! Man, I've stopped in a couple joints lately and quality is really poor... these are reputable places that have sticky posts above... I've been out of state since June and things were good before I left, however, the recent situation leaves plenty to be desired. I might have to hike it up to Ned and see what's up with this Giving Tree place, although my red card is in storage... so I can't go anywhere new til I get that out. Kinda bummed. The herb lately SUCKS!! Rating: 5

[ThaiBuddhaMan]

ReLeaf,
Your post is what I thought would happen, but hopefully it's just a temporary situation. No 1 MMC is going to have the wide variety of great product that they were able to carry a few months ago. I'm sorry but no 1 grower is knowledgeable enough to grow 45+ strains! I figured at first places would have about 1-2 top strains and about 6-8 mids - adds up to be about 10 strains per place. If MMCs would work together, they could each swap their mids, bringing the number of strains they carry to about 15. Personally I don't need a place that carries more than that! After smelling 3 or 4, they start to all smell the same! Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't need to choose from 45+ strains.

How much better does your top sell compared to mids. I'm guessing mids out sell your top & low. It's human nature. Check out the book, Predictably Irrational

Might change the way you present your product....
It definitely makes one a more educated consumer!

[5280and420]

Releaf - I'm sure you've heard this before, but you've got my vote. I'll be heading to you for my meds next time I'm buying. Honesty, open disclosure, and high-quality is important to me. I'm new to this world and have had 'okay' experiences at a few dispensaries. But I don't feel I can trust any of what they tell me.

[TheReleafCenter]

Top shelf makes up about 85% of our total sales. We sell more hash than we do low or mid, but since we don't stock a lot of those we're probably not the place patients go to for them.

I'll definitely check that book out, thanks for the recommendation. :thumbsup:

[TheReleafCenter]

Releaf - I'm sure you've heard this before, but you've got my vote. I'll be heading to you for my meds next time I'm buying. Honesty, open disclosure, and high-quality is important to me. I'm new to this world and have had 'okay' experiences at a few dispensaries. But I don't feel I can trust any of what they tell me.

Some of them just don't know. We figured out early on to worry about what we do and not anyone else. Now we have to work hand in hand with other MMC's and weeding out the bad ones is most of the work.

[wkhey4]

Releaf - I'm sure you've heard this before, but you've got my vote. I'll be heading to you for my meds next time I'm buying. Honesty, open disclosure, and high-quality is important to me. I'm new to this world and have had 'okay' experiences at a few dispensaries. But I don't feel I can trust any of what they tell me.

I'll second that emotion.When I went to check them out a week or so ago I passed a few places on Fed. Blvd. that I wouldn't even think about going into. These types of places have that fly by night appearence and I think as things get weeded out (ouch)things will get better. I'm new to this sceen so this is just my take on things.
This site, the feedback from members and the discourse from the MMC's has opened my eyes to the current climate now-a-days.
When my 35 days are up I'll be in.

[lampost]

Yeah ReLeaf has always been kind of an under-rated dispensary. I think I posted the first review for them several months ago.

[HarvestHouse]

in my humble opinion the reason that the quality of pot in dispensaries has gone down hill is that summer has just ended and no matter what anyone tells you pot grown too hot sucks. That is why cannabis grown at altitude even indoors has a much greater chance to "be kind" Even at my altitudes I chose to run 1/4 less lights this last round........ guess what? I have nice summertime weed....... but not enough of it.

[ThaiBuddhaMan]

...summer has just ended and ...pot grown too hot sucks.....

Agreed! This past summer took a toll on a lot of growers who usually are able to grow some great product. Way to hot this summer! Even indoor grows were having trouble trying to keep the heat down.

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

I hesitate to engage you because I've been banned for 'wishing a bust on others' when discussing legal vs illegal in one of the brighton bust threads (I think it was that thread), but I'm really curious about this subject. Oh well if I get the ban hammer again. Here goes. *fingers crossed*

Are caregivers who keep growing for their 5 patients increasing plant count? Are they running massive undercurrent or other hydroponic systems? Are they still doing business as usual? It seems like you have experience with this industry prior to A20, are things back to that environment with caregivers/growing/etc? With all of this tracking of medicine 'from seed to sale', isn't it going to be difficult for MMC's to obtain medicine illegally? Am I missing something? Are you suggesting that MMC's are either going through caregiver product or illegally obtaining their inventory? Just some? I don't have MMC experience like you say you do, how is that possible after 1284/109?

Feel free to ignore this post, it's pretty apparent you despise patients/new growers like myself. I don't mind being ignored or banned or whatever. I come to this site because it has great information, especially local stuff. It's still easy enough to access either way. I can't say enough that I'm not trying to piss off the mods or other posters here, I'm just trying to have an open discussion.

i saw job listings for mmj auditors and the like at helpwanted.com. trust me they are coming and when obama is gone so are a lot of dispensaries. underground is just waiting. as of late i have not found anything comparable to my own. so i expect things to get better as they get worse. underground will achieve balance and large dispensaries will be attacked by feds, small dispensaries will struggle to sell their mediocre wares, politicians will gloat with glee claiming how they saved the world...vote for me, police forces will get more funding and put more people in prisons, rich idiots will get richer from prison stocks, poor people will pay street prices again and what do you know
everything is just like it was before obama said he would not target dispensaries. they dont want dispensaries they want black market because thats where their money comes from....DUH.

meded is a hell of a drug