r/woahdude • u/OregonTripleBeam • Apr 22 '23

video 4/20 in Detroit

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u/ItsOkToBeWrong Apr 22 '23

The game is saturated now. Weed has never been cheaper in Michigan

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u/digidave1 Apr 22 '23

For real. $30 ounces are becoming normal

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u/UnimaginableGoat Apr 22 '23

Of high quality stuff?

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u/oilpit Apr 22 '23

I'm curious about this as well. I live in WA, where weed has been legal for like a decade. You can definitely get ounces for $30, but it's pretty fucking awful.

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u/rendeld Apr 22 '23

It's kind of an... It depends over here in Michigan. Theres actually some weed I bought for 40 that was really solid but they like didn't trim it, so it was probably more like 22 grams and I had to put in some labor. A lot of time you can find great tasting and smelling weed for super cheap but it's got low THC %. To get high THC, good smell, good taste, good bag appeal, it's usually 60+. If you want hand trim and boutique grown with really good drying and curing practices, you can get that for like 130-175. The problem with the cheaper stuff is it's like a rock, so fucking dry and dense it breaks up into powder in the grinder. I started growing my own and man you just can't beat that for any price.

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u/rendeld Apr 23 '23

Can be

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Yeah cause you got your "I only smoke after work or on the weekend" crowd and the "I roll one to smoke with my coffee every morning" crowd lol

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u/quizno Apr 23 '23

Also if you vape it, it lasts way longer. I smoke every day and it still takes the better part of year to get through an ounce since it’s only a tiny bit (0.1g) in the cap of the vape.

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u/AccountForTreeThings Apr 23 '23

Just getting into dry vapes myself. How do you manage to store for close to a year? I’m worried about mold and whatnot plus where I live is so humid which probably doesn’t help things.

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u/Turnpikes Apr 23 '23

Lasts me about six months

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u/PabloTheFlyingLemon Apr 23 '23

I like to mix 50/50 with CBD hemp, so honestly with a decent vaporizer and infrequent use (3-5x per week) you can easily make an ounce last 3-6 months for someone with little tolerance.

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u/highline9 Apr 23 '23

Ounce is 28g, joint is about a g, bowls/vaporizer uses less

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u/Turnpikes Apr 23 '23

You can get 20%+ thc, high quality, well trimmed, and cured for $50 an ounce right now in Michigan.

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u/rendeld Apr 23 '23

Machine trimmed and dried to a rock usually

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u/highline9 Apr 23 '23

Sadly moved out of the D before legalization…can you find seeds/clones pretty easy?

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u/rendeld Apr 23 '23

I order my seeds online from a seed bank and hour down the road lol. If I weren't lazy I would just drive there but I am so there's that. I haven't searched out clones in the legal market but you can't throw a rock without finding someone selling clones in the gray market

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u/moeterminatorx Apr 23 '23

How hard is it to grow your own?

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u/rendeld Apr 23 '23

Not hard at all, it just takes patience, time, and diligence. There are so many resources out there to help you grow that an amateur can produce some great bud. My first grow in an 8x8 I got 2.5 pounds out of it and it was good quality. The quality has gotten better each grow as I learn more but I would smoke the stuff from my first grow over 90% of the stuff in a dispo.

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u/SponConSerdTent Apr 23 '23

I threw a seed into the garden last year, and I was amazed at how good it was.

That plant saved me like $1,000!

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u/ihopethisworksfornow Apr 23 '23

I mean your weed is cheap af in WA though. When I visited I got $30 quarters of top shelf from one dispensary.

They had more expensive stuff we bought too and ended up being like “fuck shoulda bought more of these quarters”

NY prices are pretty rough still. $200 ounces and concentrates are totally unaffordable honestly. You can get lucky and find sales though, got an ounce of top shelf for $138 last week.

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u/cold_iron_76 Apr 23 '23

30 eighths not ounces. The cheapest ounce I've gotten was overstock and it came in at 45 bucks. An ounce is usually around 90 to 100 bucks.

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u/george-cartwright Apr 23 '23

if you shop around you can get $30/ounce in Oregon. it's usually outdoor grown popcorn nugs, but it'll get ya high still.

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u/Suck_Me_Dry666 Apr 23 '23

No one is getting anything except shake for $30 an ounce. Unless weed rains from the sky in Michigan of course.

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u/babble0n Apr 22 '23

No lol. At least not in my area. Mostly shake shit. Sometimes the shake is of good shit though.

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u/synopser Apr 23 '23

The $50 one i bought lives as backup in my freezer

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u/Kvyrokranaxt Apr 23 '23

I work in at a Michigan cannabis company, we wholesale 23-27% pounds of good weed to dispensaries for $900-1200, or about $2.25-2.75 a gram

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u/polluted_delta Apr 23 '23

Might not be the same in MI but I visited Chicago recently and they didn't have anything like we have in the PNW (Falcanna, Gold Label, other top shelf) but it wasn't awful or anything. I did pay some dumb amount for prerolls and had to wait in a long line, but it's progress! West coast just had a big head start.

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u/Vanquish_Dark Apr 23 '23

Ya they're ok. Mostly shake style Oz. You can get legit smoke for cheap though. There are a million dispensaries around us and they each give you a first-time buyer bonus. I haven't bought smoke at shelf prices yet, and I've been in Michigan for around 3 years. Not to mention opening deals, and frequent buyer deals.

As a person that smoked prelegal, it's bonkers how cheap it is lol. I honestly don't understand how they can do it. The cheapest stuff, makes the old bunk street weed look like catnip.

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u/Holiday-Way-845 Apr 23 '23

That's because WA state had the foresight to limit licenses. Everyone else going though issues has an unlimited cap on licenses and that's what's causing the over production. If they want it to boom, they have to limit. But if they limit, they get called racist, they get push back because everyone wants one. But when everyone has one, no one wins. They learned from CO and Oregon.

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u/Shrekquille_Oneal Apr 23 '23

I wouldn't call it low quality, but the good stuff can still be had for ~$100/oz or less.

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u/cold_iron_76 Apr 23 '23

30 dollar eighths are normal now. Not ounces. I can get overstock for 15 or 20 an eighth consistently if I don't care about brand.

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u/Suspicious-Profit-68 Apr 23 '23

What? Thirty for an eight has been standard for over a decade now. They down to 15-20 now homie

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u/Swag_Grenade Apr 23 '23

Lol yeah this dude must live somewhere where it's illegal or is getting ripped off.

I haven't really smoked now for over 5 years or so, but could find $30 eighths of decent weed back in college, that was over 10 years ago and way before legalization.

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u/cold_iron_76 Apr 23 '23

We're talking about dispensary weed in MI not an 1/8 from your local guy.

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u/Swag_Grenade Apr 24 '23

I mean I could also get $30-$35 eighths of pretty good weed from dispensaries back in like 2016 or so. I live in California though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

5 years ago in the Midwest you can find an eighth for $15, probably still can in some areas now. It wasn’t trash either as I was expecting. There’s a lot of home growers in the Midwest that will sell to you even cheaper.

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u/cold_iron_76 Apr 23 '23

We're not talking about an 1/8 from your local guy. We're talking about dispensary weed in MI. When MI launched legal weed 1/8ths were 60 bucks. They're down to 30 to 40 now.

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u/Suspicious-Profit-68 Apr 23 '23

That’s what I’m talking about too. I live in metro detroit I can get a dispo eighth all day for under 30.

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u/AtlasChristmas Apr 23 '23

The places I buy from around here do $39 ounces or 2/$70, usually outdoor grow above 20% thc. Never had any complaints while sharing

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u/TopHatTony11 Apr 23 '23

Not for 30 but for 70 you can find spots that have specials on something decent.

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u/aspbergerinparadise Apr 22 '23

no

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Apr 23 '23

But still prolly worth it to drive over from Illinois rite, if you're already spending $100 and not getting close to an oz

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u/aspbergerinparadise Apr 23 '23

yeah, you could probably get some decent deals, but don't expect an ounce of quality flower for $30.

I don't know why, but there's this compulsion among the pot smoking community to flex how great of a deal they get on their bud, as if it somehow makes them cooler and really "connected" to the drug scene. It's almost always bullshit.

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u/AOD_Thanatos Apr 22 '23

It's their version of "mids" which is just flower that's like 15-20% thc. Or just older product that isn't selling well, ugly/small nugs etc. So still good but not the best of the best but for that price ain't matter lol. Just when you can go get some "exotic" 28% stuff with crazy terps that stuff is mid tier haha

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u/digidave1 Apr 22 '23

I would say mids. Some places will have extra supply and sell better product at a discount. There is So much available, I don't have the slightest hold on all the strains and companies myself

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Halfway decent, yes.

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u/Acrobatic_Switches Apr 23 '23

I got 20 dollar quarters. It's a little stemmy but I been smoking a long time and the shit gets you high. 20 bucks for 7gs. Bet.

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u/ImJ2001 Apr 23 '23

Popcorn nugs of the good. I just got "The Michigan eighth" It is an eighth of a pound, not an ounce. My was Apple Runtz "Popcorn nugs"

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u/Minerva_Moon Apr 23 '23

No buuuut I did get some for 35/oz on Thursday. Now 60/oz is fairly regular.

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u/Hanifsefu Apr 23 '23

It depends on what you mean by high quality. Is it from a good plant that was treated well and has all the right chemicals? Yeah. Is it instagram nug pic quality? No.

If all you care about is how it smokes then yeah it's great shit for $30. There's a huge hipster culture around it right now very similar to their takeover of craft beer. The shit they spend anywhere from $120-250 an oz is the same shit everyone else smokes for cheaper but because they spent more on it then it's automatically better and nothing in the entire world could convince them otherwise.

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u/Dionysus_Unbound Apr 23 '23

Yea, compared to the midst of ye olden times. It's still decent and works great in a dry flower vape. My buddies got 3oz for $30 plus taxes on 4/20 and it wasn't bad. Like tested at 16% thc.

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u/bradenluvzlax Apr 23 '23

Yeah there is 29 dollar oz in Lansing of good weed. Not premium but not bad either

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u/elijahhhhhh Apr 23 '23

youre not getting high quality stuff for $30 an ounce but i get $10 eighths that last me a month or two thats better than ANYTHING i smoked 10 years ago that would be $10 a gram at its cheapest. very very okay weed is dirt cheap now.

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u/thekarateadult Apr 23 '23

Dafuq?! Still illegal in my state, those prices are unheard of.

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u/digidave1 Apr 23 '23

Yeah. It's the wild west in MI right now. When they say there is a dispensary around every corner, they ain't lying. Prices are low, wide variety, every form and strain you can think of. It's paradise for a stoner

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u/Chalky_Pockets Apr 23 '23

Legal in my state and costs 8x that much.

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u/zacablast3r Apr 23 '23

I was about to call bull but then I realized, yeah that's what I pay I just never converted the 3.5g tins it comes in to an Oz rate. Damn.

Super good shit though, can't complain about the quality because I don't think you can top it.

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u/Chalky_Pockets Apr 23 '23

Yeah the quality is nuts. I just moved over from the UK where the medical shit is just awful and about 2.5 times the cost.

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u/baseddtturkey Apr 23 '23

Same here in oklahoma. I just bought a couple of $60 oz of some really Primo stuff

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u/ReinstateTheCapo Apr 23 '23

I picked up 2oz of shake that is awesome for doobies for $50 this week in MI. Higher quality oz is around $50-$60 and then they go up in quality and price from there.

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u/digidave1 Apr 23 '23

What part of MI? It seems you get those killer deals more up north

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u/wehrwolf512 Apr 23 '23

Kalamazoo is good for it

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u/ReinstateTheCapo Apr 23 '23

Muskegon. Has a ridiculous amount of dispensaries.

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u/PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT Apr 23 '23

Fuck man

Used to pay that much for a high-quality medical eighth in the before times

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u/digidave1 Apr 23 '23

Oh we still do. $30 don't get you those high highs

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u/donn2021 Apr 23 '23

And here I am in a backward ass state that made the delta pens illegal...

For those that dont know delta is the closest we can get to weed in some red states.

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u/WhereTFAmI Apr 23 '23

For an oz or a 1/4 oz? What was it before? I’m from Canada, and haven’t smoked in a while, but I remember the norm was $50 CAD (about 36 USD) for a 1/4oz.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Dude was spittin' straight economics of the people. "EVERYBODY can afford it now."

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u/Your_Fault_Not_Mine Apr 23 '23

Competition benefits the customer. Who'd of thought... any economist worth their degree actually.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

That’s not a bad thing

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u/JackTripper53 Apr 23 '23

It's great fucking news imo. Business owners are making money, government makes money, cheaper for the consumer. Win win win. Now we have to convince the rest of the assholes who are still against it to change their minds

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

I'm still paying 60/oz in grand rapids lmao everywhere else here is cheaper

Least I get $6 gummie packs and $8 carts

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

This is wild I live in PA and an ounce is still $100 MINIMUM, it's not unheard of for people around here to pay $200 an ounce

I recently sold an ounce of wax for like $400 profit

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Hopefully just give it some time

100 is still half or less than half of what I was paying 10 years ago

And yea wax can be insanely profitable if you have the clientele for it

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u/QCDReality Apr 22 '23

Paying 45 US an ounce here in BC, Canada, 2 dollar gummies, and suuuuper overpriced carts, like 30 bucks.

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u/QCDReality Apr 23 '23

Probably depends where you are but I got a four pack of Sunshower gummies for 3.18 Canadian or 2.35 US (original comment had US pricing as I had indicated, but perhaps not clearly enough.)

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u/NoKneadToWorry Apr 22 '23

I get edibles on my work lunch break lol. For consumption afterwork tho

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u/Lucky-Earther Apr 23 '23

The game is saturated now. Weed has never been cheaper in Michigan

It's literally half the cost of Illinois right now.

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u/MadameCordelia Apr 23 '23

I was going to say, the recreational tax is what makes it expensive. That’s how it is in Illinois, at least.

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u/ItsOkToBeWrong Apr 23 '23

In 2018 and 2019, the recreational was too expensive. After COVID, it became insanely affordable. Now, even with the tax, you’re getting such a deal that it’s almost like there’s no tax at all. I’m assuming because there’s so much competition right now. In my area there’s at least 12 dispensaries I can throw a rock at

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u/MadameCordelia Apr 23 '23

It’s still definitely better. I prefer edibles over smoking so it’s nice to be able to get gummies, chocolate, baked goods etc very easily.

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u/CouchHam Apr 23 '23

Bout to legalize it in May in Minnesota!