Is Weed That Is Sold On The Streets Weaker Or Stronger Than Medical Marijuana?

medical is way stronger. hands down.
Ive tried both and i can honestly say your best best is medical

 

here in portland you got medical growers selling to non med people so you can find the same quality on the streets as you would with a mj card.
 
street stuff

 

@[member="davidtokehead"] i agree im in portland too and alot of the street stuff is medical so theres no big difference to me. 

 

Potency depends on the strain and how it is grown.
For all you know the weed you got off the street is from a dispensery.

 

Le problem, I find that the high from street dealers can at times be a little off balance. Seriously go to Amsterdam n smoke there stuff and you could sit an exam and get an A. 

 

Dispensary's will turn down weed that is not good or if it's a good one top-quality. So of course streets will have worse weed, Also the factor of those crappy dealers who only sell brick weed to make huge profit. But, the buds do get around and you can find top-quality on the streets too, just gotta find the right guy/girl.

 

All comes down to the grower, I've gotten some shit that was more potent than anything I've heard of in a dispensary in terms of active cannabinoids. I live in a non med state, and it was 33.5% active. He sent a little in a box to a lab in CA, and got the results back almost a month later. I was pretty surprised.

 

to be its the same eithier indica or sativa

 

In south GA, far from any legal pot store you can get sensimilla that will lay you out. Someone who had not smoked in a while took one large toke, it expanded like hash, and on small toke. They were worried that they mignt need to go to the ER for the first 30 minutes. It sold at 50 bucks for a half OZ. Something called "Loud" on the street, also called skunk or "dank", small fingernail sized round bud, completely blonde... REALLY smelly. Someone had 1/2 joint in a cellophane in their pocketbook, in the back seat. The driver had to ask them to wrap it better because the whole car smelled like it and they were going to a restaurant. The "dank" sold for 170.00 for 1/2 OZ.
This was recent street price and product in rural south GA, about 60 miles north of Tallahassee, FL... very rural, very far away from any legal dispensary... still, it could have come from one but the product was better than good and the price on the sensimilla was an incredible value. Some, me included, wish that there was something to fill the void in the middle between "dirt weed" and sensimilla (which was sold as "mids")... now I am old school. I was smoking in 1970. This sort of smoke was rare. There was some better. True Gainesville Green was better. Vietnamese Black was the best... but dang, at this level I don't see how the quality matters.. only the price because I don't see how the medical weed cold be noticeably better than the street weed, at least in S. GA.
Id like to add... I only encountered Gainesville Green once. It was 1979, my wife and I had driven a friend down the Tallahassee for a "procedure". I was outside sitting on the concrete steps to some medical building on a busy street. Some other guy walked up and sat down and asked if I wanted to smoke some GG. I said "sure". He lit what we used to call a pin joint, maybe a quarter the size of a regular one. About as small as you can get it. I kid you NOT... sitting there on those steps, in the city I was transported to a sandy desert and there was a caravan with merchants on camels going by.. that stuff was badass!!
A friend of a friend brought some Vietnamese Black back from Vietnam. It was about 1972 maybe '73. My cousin got me "radish" of it, corner of a baggie, size of a radish. I had a VW camper van, hippie van, collaged all on the wood, all the stuff. My GF was with me. We smoked.. I don't remember how much, either a small "J" or a bowl. Next thing I knew she was in a fetal position in the floorboard crying... I remember looking back and my van was transformed into a sort of hunting lodge and it was about 30 ft to the back. So.. there has always been the good, the bad, and the ugly. LOL.
I think maybe it is also relative to the smoker. The first time I "got off" I was in charge of holding because I was not yet "getting high".. however that night I did. (It was above grade weed but not like the stuff described from S. GA recently). The last thing I remember is someone saying, "OMG... he lit the other one". Then I remember my head falling back, on to the backseat of the car... the Allman Brother Band had come out recently and only their first album was out, the song Dreams I'll Never See came on as this all happened. It could not have happened better. It was almost like it was orchestrated to perfection. The next day I was driving my van and someone, I forget who, was riding with me. It was the second time I got off. We smoked one and the whole landscape tilted to the right to about a 45 degree angle, I thought we might fall over, but we didn't.
That was the beginning of about 5 to 6 years of daily smoking as often as possible... and yes, it was a long strange trip.
Today's grass is pretty much all good. It is your vantage point, or your point of reference that is lacking and that is not a "put down", it is just that there is no bad weed except for REALLY bad weed these days.
I remember when almost all weed was Mexican bricks and it was all about the same, decent but nothing special. Then there was occasional Jamaican bud,  it was always really speedy and "up", I assume it was a really good sativa. Then we started to get occasional Columbian Gold. It seemed to be more indica, it would make you laugh uncontrollably and make you immobile. We also got Oaxacan, it was a good bit better than the regular Mexican weed, well a lot better. Thai Sticks were good but very rare in GA. We once, in Colorado, in about 1974 got some bud that was supposed Mexican but it was left on branches. You couldn't fit it in a gallon ziplock bag. It was sold, by the OZ, in 15 gallon trash bags because no one wanted to break them because they looked SO cool! It was GOOD too but nothing like street "mids" today, if the street "mids" everywhere are sensimilla and are selling for 90.00 per OZ then I see no reason to ask why.
I couldn't ask for more, in fact I'd REALLY like to see something less potent for everyday recreation or social use.
Things have REALLY changed, people change too. Circumstances change. You appreciate these things more as you age. When you are 20something circumstances don't really matter that much. Once you own a business, have grown children, and grand children things become different. I still have an early 70s drivers license with a "stoned" picture. It is what I wanted and I smoked a BIG fatty on the way to the courthouse.  didn't use any visine because I wanted to be stoned in my DL picture... I would NEVER do that today. I know, I digress but "point of reference" really matters in all of this. With luck and by the grace of God you will live to be over 60. Then you will be able to relate to all the people younger than you, because you have been there and they will all look at you like you're a fool... who knows nothing. That's just the way it is. Still, if street weed was any better than what I've seen.. I wouldn't want it. I also think it is in the interest of dealers to have a less potent product so that people will smoke more and then buy more. Bring in some high grade about every 6 weeks. Other times have a true mid grade product. Of course that isn't going to happen because people want more and stronger for less and someone will provide it. There really needs to be a decent low/mid grade product available. IMO... more choices, more better!
BTW, hello. This is my first post. Semi retired now more flexible with time. , LOL... and it's funny to me that when I was young this t=would never have crossed my mind. I would have been all for stronger... heck, I'd take anything back then. Smoke anything, eat anything. Never a care, never a worry, not a second thought. It's crazy but you shouldn't have to think about "set and setting" just to smoke a bowl... but if you're coming off a long layoff into the street product of today, you absolutely do have think about it. The street dope is cheaper too! Buzz for buzz... street weed is cheaper than it was in 1970. ck then a pound of regular weed was 160 bucks and an OZ was 20 bucks, double your money. Like everything else it started to go up in a few years,30..35... 50 but the grade stayed mostly the same and if you got what they are selling today as "mids" you'd need to get a loan or a second job to buy it.
So... be happy!
 
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Medical marijuanna come from a grower just like any other weed. In two different scenarios you could have two different results

 

medicinal marijuana that is grown for the intended purpose of ending up in a dispensary where it gets top dollar is far more potent then jo bob growing shit in his back yard. why? money. i would never pay top shelf price for mids, nor would most blades. the only way to get those prices is to have the most potent product available. it needs to not only be potent but it must smell the best and taste the best. 
 
that isn't to say that some of the top shelf doesn't end up on the street. hell i am sure it does because some times a grower grows to much or maybe there is to much of that strain around. it could be anything really. the point is that as a grower i would want a dispensary to buy my doobage at a premium vs trying too sell it illegally where the price isn't quite up there. my dealer sells to dispensaries first then to everyone else if there is anything left. he also sells lower quality flower that the dispensaries wont buy to everyone else. 
 
as far as my own experience goes, dispensaries definitely have the market cornered as far as potency goes. not only that but the over all quality of the bud and concentrates is off the hook. just the way it is packaged and handled is far better then jo bob himself and other dealers like him do it. dirty ass hands, palming his balls and then he sticks his hand in the bad and grabs a few nuggs for ya. i am done with that bullshit. the bud being kept in a big ass plastic bag. getting all fucked up, drying out and shit.
 
so yeah, in my humble opinion and experience i would say that dispensaries by a large margin have way better bud and other medicinal marijuana products then street dealers do. 

 

Lol at the people thinking medicinal is any more potent. Here in BC the dispensaries buy from home growers so the quality is the same as street and it's usually awesome stuff.

Sure the dispensaries are going to have more consistent product but by no means more potent.

 

Medical will be much stronger then your average weed off the streets, but if its a good strain that was grown and cured properly its not gonna matter if you buy it from a dispensary or from your dude down the street

 

First, this isn't a blog, it's a forum, second, medical literally doesn't mean anything. I know growers who sell to dispensaries and street dealers. Same weed, is some med and some not? no it's just fucking weed. It's all semantics....if you believe medical means anything, your asking the wrong question

 

Ya, I feel like I've had similar experiences.  I'm not sure what the differences are/were but what I've bought in rec stores in Washington (or bought on the street) recently have paled in comparison to the fresh, spicy, buds of yore.  I only hope that I can replicate that by growing for quality instead of quantity.

 

I've never had medical weed, I can say though there is some bomb as weed on the streets. Here's a pick up that smelled like straight up sour patch kids.




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