Pro tip for shopping at the pharmacy: Check the packaging data
The year is 2023. At least 21 states have legalized cannabis for adults. Yet we are seeing some of the oldest and least fresh weeds of our lives. Why? People aren’t shopping by pack date—yet.
Watch this video above for an essential shopping tip for the legalization era: shop by pack date!
“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I see annual weed on the shelves.”
david downs,
Editor-in-Chief, Leafly News
Cannabis is an agricultural product. Its freshness peaks 30 to 90 days after curing. Laws require packaging information such as strain name, weight, and potency. But that information doesn’t matter if the weed has been on store shelves for a year. Watch and learn how to smoke fresh for better terpenes, flavor and stronger effects. Peace.
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Leafly Editor-in-Chief David Downs received a Literary Excellence Award from Oaksterdam University in 2022. He has published three books on cannabis since 2009, including the best-selling book Marijuana Harvest, which spans cannabis plant research. Downs has been a visiting professor at the Journalism Law School at Loyola Marymount University Law School, UC Berkeley Extension, and has contributed to the continuing education of the Bar Association’s Marijuana Law Hub, sponsored by the University of California and the State Bar of California. Downs’ work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Scientific American, Wired, Rolling Stone, The Onion, Columbia Journalism Review, High Times, Billboard, and many others. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from UC Santa Barbara and was a fellow at the Academy of Alternative Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago.
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