But buy from the government-approved weed shop and you know it's real!
And before any dickhead says "hurr durr, you can tell the difference". No. You can't. There are a million version of "weed" now that are not weed, but look and smell EXACTLY like weed. If you don't get that, you probably aren't even smoking the real shit because you're clearly behind the game.
This was done on purpose to destroy the street market.
Destroy the street market and everyone needs to buy it from the government.
One of the many "totally normal coincidences" that just happens to completely benefit the people in power. Shocked face.
Bro, I've been smoking longer than most of you have been alive.
The fake weed people sold back in the day was an utter joke.
It's now IMPOSSIBLE to tell the difference at glance, feel or smell.
Stay in denial if you want but the entire game is now changed.
This will drive people into the government's shops. Period.
You probably haven't been smoking weed as long as I've been alive, but even if, a lot of people have been sucking at things for longer than I've been alive...
It is nowhere near impossible to tell the difference, especially for someone as experienced as you, with the 'I've been smoking for so long I pay $400/oz' experience. Bet it took decades to find that connection.
I'm not saying that blackmarket sketchiness won't drive people to the legal market, I'm saying that the theory you posted on why D8, HHC, etc exists is wrong. If people were selling fake weed 50 years ago, why wouldn't people be selling fake weed now? There isn't any government plot necessary.
I don't agree with this for weed, but CARTS ABSOLUTELY! I don't smoke carts unless they came from the Dispensary. I have a buddy who gets them for me with a card. Who could even speculate what that shit is in BM carts? Lots of times it's backdoored for profit, but lots of other times, it's as you said about pot, filled with gnarly shit that you don't want to consume. I agree that it's a sketchy game that really shouldn't be, but we went through this with alcohol as I recall, and everyone knows who the winner was there, same as now.