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creepy_sweetie t1_j2b343t wrote

honestly, if the prices can’t compete with what the delis and dealers, i can’t imagine this working out. at least not for a while. i would go just to try the options, but if i can get something similar or better from my guy on the block, idk if i would care to make that transition. the main positive factor about dispensaries rn is that what they sell has more regulations and has way more quality checks. my guy is not going to care if what he sells me is moldy or unsafe, as long as i hit him up next week.

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TanBoot t1_j2b6qf2 wrote

Their prices don’t seem out of line with the dealers who deliver high quality, if you’re ok with smoking whatever terrible weed your bodega guy has then yeah, you prolly won’t find the dispo worth it

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creepy_sweetie t1_j2b738u wrote

hey now! only some of the weed is terrible lol

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TanBoot t1_j2b7j1b wrote

People need to consider the fact your local bodega guy is absolutely slanging bud grown with nutrients that are terrible for your body. I don’t think they’re malicious but that’s the biz

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creepy_sweetie t1_j2b8r6l wrote

half the bodegas in the neighborhood buy from the same guy. he leveled up from selling outside the building to selling to the stores. they don’t know what they’re even buying half the time, just that it sells. and it seems that most people buy it out of convenience and because it’s cheap. deli tried to sell me shrooms once. i can admit to have been tight enough to have to buy bud from them… but shrooms… nah my guy. i ain’t touching that.

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TanBoot t1_j2b90d7 wrote

Sometimes you do what you have to do. No shame in that

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DrewFlan t1_j2b72l0 wrote

No need to be hyperbolic. Most deli's sell perfectly decent weed, not terrible.

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TanBoot t1_j2b78j9 wrote

With all due respect you don’t know you’re talking about

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DrewFlan t1_j2b7h3l wrote

And you do?

The weed at smoke shops is lightyears better than what anyone was smoking 20 years ago. The whole argument that only licensed shops sell good weed is a farce. Somehow they're magically able to grow weed better then anyone else? The weed this legal dispensary is selling from - where'd they get it from? Was none of that same supply being sold anywhere in NY before yesterday? C'mon.

Yes, there is some bullshit weed out there. That's not the average-priced, normal weed at a deli though. That stuff is perfectly fine and adequate for most everyone. The bullshit weed is the stuff that's so cheap it's too. good to be true. That market will still exist whether weed is legal or not and it is very far from the majority of what's out there. Saying only legal dispensaries are safe is fear mongering based on nothing but conjecture.

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TanBoot t1_j2b7yyo wrote

20 years ago I was smoking top shelf valley OG in Los Angeles. Speak for yourself

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DrewFlan t1_j2b847n wrote

And you could find people selling that same weed in NY.

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TheDoct0rx t1_j2b79bu wrote

people said this about every black market dealer in every other city and the dispensaries there are still there. You said it yourself that people (me) wont buy from anywhere other than dispensaries because of regulation and quality checks and that's what keeps them in business.

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creepy_sweetie t1_j2b7v2e wrote

i do have hope that it works out, it’ll hopefully make it more acceptable to smoke in public if the weed store doesn’t have a huge ass stoned looking donald duck in the front. i hate those places so much lol

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TheDoct0rx t1_j2b99pi wrote

lmao that shits ridiculous, i smell weed all the time around the city, pretty sure its widely accepted by at least the younger generation

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creepy_sweetie t1_j2balcj wrote

all these older people that give me dirty looks need to smoke a blunt and chill. let’s gooooo

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tka11486 t1_j2c6415 wrote

When this happens to me I ask them if they want some, their facial expressions are hilarious

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Cobblestone-boner t1_j2c4nr2 wrote

You are ridiculous if you think NYS is going to offer you a better product than what’s coming into the state from Cali and elsewhere

They literally stopped checking for mold bc of how mismanaged the licensing process for dispensaries has gone

https://www.leafly.com/news/health/new-york-cannabis-testing-update

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Intrepid_Virus4967 t1_j2d8ooz wrote

And legal dispensaries in New York can't get any products from other legal states it all has to be from farmers & cannabis brand companies from strictly within the state which is even more whack they can't get fire brands everyone knows and loves

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MisterMaccabee t1_j2bzgci wrote

Well, the risk you take is getting your joint or whatever you buy from guy in bodega or in park laced with K2 or who knows what. A big selling point to the gov't officials who voted to make it legal was that it would take that out of the equation - people getting sick, going to hospitals, or dying from laced weed. Which, as someone who works in a hosp, DOES happen. And it isn't pretty. But people have been getting weed on the streets forever so it won't fully stop. It will also still be cheaper so there's that. But making it safer was a big piece of this and I do like that aspect of it. Question for everyone is - how much is knowing what you're putting into your body actually worth?

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gonzo5622 t1_j2bxpzj wrote

The price seems pretty legit. If these places can get weed that’s California or Las Vegas dispensary quality, it is so worth it.

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bottom t1_j2bruvg wrote

There’s a line around the block. It’s maybe not for you but it’ll work just fine.

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