Mass is a giant pay to play state. The bud isn’t great, even can be moldy or have pesticides majority of dispensaries are owned by multi state operations that cut corners on providing staff safe working environments. They have more “testing” however a lot of them are made up numbers that they pay the lab so they can sell their product. Maine is more craft focused as it’s easier entry and smaller operations. If you think of it like beer Mass is just a bunch of Budweisers breweries were as Maine is generally craft and the growers have actually been growing for some time. Not that Budweiser is bad however they price it at a ridiculous price for said quality (Mass dispos). Even the bostontrees subreddit sells sales subscriptions too get their product recognized by a bunch of fake accounts they use.