What is actually inside your product is probably not what you think
Most consumers are misled by gimmicks and marketing.
The reality of oils
Half the products on all dispensary shelves are the same thing. If you are buying a vape pen or a gummy or an oil, it is 95% identical to every other oil based product on the shelf. There might be fractional amounts of other substances added, which will certainly be used for marketing, but the percentage is small. Most of these products will claim to be “infused” or “enhanced,” which is basically telling the buyer it has been sprinkled with a filler to increase lab numbers. In exchange, you will be paying 1.5x to 2x for that fractional addition.
Why?
To sell their products at a higher price point. The only thing different between all oils are 5-10% and most companies know that, so they need everything they can do to separate themselves and get your money. They do that with packaging and marketing.
What to buy
The consumer ultimately needs to decide what their subjective desire is. There is no sativa vs indica preference with concentrated oil. Everything was distilled away in laboratory equipment. A Grape flavored vape and a Gelato flavored vape are both fully artificial with flavor added back to the initial 95% THC vape oil. The Gelato might have originally been derived from a Gelato strain, but everything was stripped away and then a flavor resembling its original scent was added back.
How often have you wondered whether one company’s milk or eggs was different from the next? It is a Coke vs Pepsi debate over $45 vs $100.
Choosing the best Flower
The only products that are really special are uncut flower, pre-rolls and full-spectrum oils. These items have a mix of hundreds of compounds that interact to create unique effects.
If you see an “infused” flower product with a 30% + THC percentage, it probably was an inferior product that wasn’t going to sell on its own. In order to maximize the price, concentrates with 95% THC were thrown on top of it with a bunch of great smelling terpenes to mask it and increase it’s lab numbers.
What is the best flower product
Unlike the oil debate, it is much harder to objectively determine the best bang for your buck on flower products. Every grow is different. The indoor plant will only produce certain compounds under indoor lighting and resemble a completely different plant out in the sun. The indoor product will be more consistent; the sunlight product might have more total compounds.
The full spectrum nature causes every person to interact differently with the compounds inside. So there is no knowing.
You can lean to an Indica vs Sativa narrative, but it is not any more predicable than going by the strain name.
Ask the budtender if they tried it and what it felt like.
Try one and then try another until you find what you like.
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