Cannabis, how is it legalized?

[Cottonwe]

In places where it's legal, you’ve got lab-tested products with clear info on potency, strains, and effects. That alone makes a huge difference compared to the mystery mix you often get on the black market. It’s also led to more options beyond just smoking—edibles, tinctures, and THC vapes have made it easier for people to control their experience without dealing with harsh smoke or questionable quality.

 

[Gionnirocket]

In places where it's legal, you’ve got lab-tested products with clear info on potency, strains, and effects. That alone makes a huge difference compared to the mystery mix you often get on the black market.

Why the market gotta be black?

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Why the market gotta be black?

You don’t want to see what the orange market has.

 

[fexixav]

Cannabis? Well, this subject interests me. I live in the UK and it is banned, so it is all black market deals, but it is crap, it is weed and i don't trust it at all, I believe it is contaminated with legal highs, of at the least just what is called skunk, a horrible 'high of high strength wipe you out'. That really is all there is in the UK these days. In the '80s it was only just hash resin, no weed at all, but even this resin was mucked around with, you'd find bits of polythene in it. You never really knew. UNLESS you went to Ansterdam where it was legal. Cafe shops. They had a menu. It was great, good stuff you could rely on. We used to go to a camping site called Camping Zeburrg and everyone was well stoned, real Cheech and Chong. That said, I have never been a big smoker, BUT, that said, at that time in my earlier life it did have some interesting perspectives which I am grateful of.

These days? well I don't bother. There isn't the good stuff around and, well, 'I learnt' from it, which was good, but now I know that, it only would offer me a change from lager.

BUT....if it was legalized here in the UK I would buy some and try it, knowing it would be more likely to be sound stuff, just mild, not mind-blowing. Make a change from lager.

But, I hear about ganga being legalized more and more. I suppose it is really to guarantee the quality, for health reasons. So what is it like in say the US in a state with has legalized it. Is it a shop and/or a 'cafe'? Is there a menu? Do you have choice of hash and weed and different strengths? And how it it going down in society?

Here in the UK it is legal to have seeds but not to grow them wham strain, though you can buy hydroponic set ups for folks to break the law to grow their own.

So, what is the score in a state which has legalized dope, can you buy it cash? How, a shop? Anonymous? Is it better stuff? Is it better in terms of the larger society? Do more people smoke? What's the score?Is it backstreet or open mall?

In legal U.S. states, cannabis is sold openly in licensed dispensaries, kind of like a cross between a pharmacy and a coffee shop. There’s usually a menu with options for flower, hash, edibles, concentrates, and oils, all tested for purity and potency. You can choose strains based on effects—relaxing, uplifting, or balanced—unlike the unpredictable "skunk" you mentioned. Buying is straightforward: walk in, show ID, and pay (usually cash, though some places accept cards). No backstreets involved—just regular storefronts, sometimes even in malls. Legalization hasn’t turned everyone into stoners, but it has shifted the stigma and made access safer.

 

[PCeBiker]

Why the market gotta be black?

Because all I could buy back in the day was black hash. It was easier to smuggle.
There was almost no weed to buy and it was shitty field weed if you could find it.

You don’t want to see what the orange market has.

I like all the colorful weed available today.

My girls get a major sun tan and the stalks turn purple with over 45,000 lumens all beamed up in my closet,..

But orange is my favorite color,..

I managed to grow a four foot tall one pound plant (dry weight) in my 21" X 21" X 8 foot tall closet.

 

[PCeBiker]

—unlike the unpredictable "skunk" you mentioned.

Interestingly, skunk weed does smell like skunk.
I was chatting with a grower from Portugal who asked what skunk weed smells like.
I said "it smells like a skunk"

That didn't help him because their are no skunks in Portugal. (at least none that he had ever seen or smelt)


My neighbours' husband bought some strain of "Cheese" weed that she couldn't stand and made him smoke it outside.
She said it smelled like dirty feet.

I asked a guy what "Deisel" weed tasted like, he said diesel fuel.
I couldn't figure out why he would like that taste?

I wonder if they had "s*it" weed people would buy it and enjoy smoking it?