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i'm concluding that dispensary thc gummies are a serious waste of money

foodcrisis

foodcrisis

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i'm not trying to convince people not to get them if they are convenient and they have the money, but if you want to save some cash, just make your own edibles... honestly cooking like a half gram of average weed in butter which is a great deal cheaper will be more potent than like 50mgs of thc edibles... my dispensaries charge so much for the gummies compared to flower... it's just not right.. i ate 40mgs of gummies. 30 was my usual dose and 40 is like barely noticable and i only do edibles once every couple weeks.

i was hoping the extra 10mgs would hit me... i dunno... i'm more into smoking than edibles. i haven't been cooking my own cause i have to move to federal housing and cooking weed is considered drug manufactuing at this point. would be nice if weed became federally legal so i could cook some weed... i dunno. i'll probably only buy gummies like a couple times a year when i have to move to smoke free housing... when i can't go out to smoke i'll just vape even though smoking is better... idk.

just something for people that haven't learned to cook weed that might be in a state where stuff is becoming legal.. i'll have to post this on reddit. i assume most people here already know that cooking your own stuff is gonna be cheaper... honestly though, the carts have gotten so much cheaper. edible prices really aren't dropping. with how much flower they use to extract the live resin they have, it has to be about the same amount of weed. only one dispensary has decent carts for a good price though. i'm pretty lucky to have that dispensary. they pushing the deals in my state but keeping decent quality.

i've already definitely posted about edibles before. made an RSO thread i could've posted this in, but if any body not on this site that is new to smoking wants to save some cash and has a place they can cook weed, it's a fun hobby.
 
if you buy dispensary edibles, you can feel good that are you giving the dispensary the maximum cash they are gonna get for a product i'm pretty sure, if my wording makes sense.
 
Yes that's why eating it works the same , costs much less. Good idea is to eat cannabis first, then a meal to mask the taste , even though it tastes good. Some people won't and they have to buy edible chocolates , which is fine if they have the budget, but many of them are in debt, broke, and are unintelligent with money, resources and it makes me sad, that they have no hope or knowing that financial freedom will never be there's
 
foodcrisis said:
if you buy dispensary edibles, you can feel good that are you giving the dispensary the maximum cash they are gonna get for a product i'm pretty sure, if my wording makes sense.
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They put the same markup on every product, so the dispensary doesn't really care what product you buy. The processor could theoretically make more money off it since they're getting money per mg of THC. But it also requires more processing and employee time than just selling it as distillate or RSO, so I'm not sure how much more profitable it really is. But plenty of people demand that level of convenience and have no interest in buying pure concentrate and dosing it themselves. When you're uncomfortable with cannabis in general and you want a dose of 2.5 or 5mg and only take it a couple times a week then it makes sense to just buy the product you want.

You could make the same argument that buying Sour Patch Kids is a terrible financial decision compared to buying bags of sugar and making your own.

I'd agree with you that they're a waste of money if you're eating a bag every day. Cause then you could just buy concentrate or make your own, but that's not really representative of the average edible buyer. Buying a well made product is part of the draw--plenty of these people are old enough to remember poorly dosed brownies. sold by randoms.
 
Felonious Monk said:
They put the same markup on every product, so the dispensary doesn't really care what product you buy. The processor could theoretically make more money off it since they're getting money per mg of THC. But it also requires more processing and employee time than just selling it as distillate or RSO, so I'm not sure how much more profitable it really is. But plenty of people demand that level of convenience and have no interest in buying pure concentrate and dosing it themselves. When you're uncomfortable with cannabis in general and you want a dose of 2.5 or 5mg and only take it a couple times a week then it makes sense to just buy the product you want.

You could make the same argument that buying Sour Patch Kids is a terrible financial decision compared to buying bags of sugar and making your own.

I'd agree with you that they're a waste of money if you're eating a bag every day. Cause then you could just buy concentrate or make your own, but that's not really representative of the average edible buyer. Buying a well made product is part of the draw--plenty of these people are old enough to remember poorly dosed brownies. sold by randoms.
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i don't believe that they have the same mark up on edibles v.s. buying straight up flower... i was hearing people on reddit claiming that 100mgs of thc is not even a gram of flower.. i dunno if they want prices. i don't thnk it'd matter if it were legal, but flower is so much cheaper.. you are paying so much for edibles... the vapes get me way higher for the price too. opposed to edibles. i'd rather get flower.. i know they are gonna be different types of highs, but baking edibles with flower will get a person farther in terms of being high with the prices from my state.
 
foodcrisis said:
i don't believe that they have the same mark up on edibles v.s. buying straight up flower... i was hearing people on reddit claiming that 100mgs of thc is not even a gram of flower.. i dunno if they want prices. i don't thnk it'd matter if it were legal, but flower is so much cheaper.. you are paying so much for edibles... the vapes get me way higher for the price too. opposed to edibles. i'd rather get flower.. i know they are gonna be different types of highs, but baking edibles with flower will get a person farther in terms of being high with the prices from my state.
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It depends on the dispo. If they're doing deli style flower they might have a lower markup on that, but if it's packaged 8ths there's no reason for it to be a different standard markup. An average gram of flower does have more than 100mg of thc, that's simple math. It's not 300mg (30% though), lab inflation of thc is a very real thing. Just because you like one thing does not mean you're representative of the market. Many people who buy edibles are only interested in consumables.
 
what's good that you can make with out straining out the cannabis with the taste is spaghetti sauce. i thought adding butter to tomato would be weird, but it tastes good. i've heard some people even do that for non herb. my mother puts butter and peanut butter on toast (not cannabis) and i always thought that was weird.

my friend even doesn't strain the cannabis out of the brownies when he does them. they taste fine... all the you tube tutorials strain the flower out of the butter... i always felt like there'd be traces of butter left in all the flower, and that'd be a waste. i don't know if flower is hard to digest. i never had a problem with it.
 
Strongly agree. Cheaper to get a "bucket" 14g of concentrate for like 9 hamburgers a piece and get about .8 (800 mgs) thc/g to consume. It is 5-10 hamburgers for 100-200 mg of premade edible.

I order off the dollar menu.
 
foodcrisis said:
i'm not trying to convince people not to get them if they are convenient and they have the money, but if you want to save some cash, just make your own edibles... honestly cooking like a half gram of average weed in butter which is a great deal cheaper will be more potent than like 50mgs of thc edibles... my dispensaries charge so much for the gummies compared to flower... it's just not right.. i ate 40mgs of gummies. 30 was my usual dose and 40 is like barely noticable and i only do edibles once every couple weeks.

i was hoping the extra 10mgs would hit me... i dunno... i'm more into smoking than edibles. i haven't been cooking my own cause i have to move to federal housing and cooking weed is considered drug manufactuing at this point. would be nice if weed became federally legal so i could cook some weed... i dunno. i'll probably only buy gummies like a couple times a year when i have to move to smoke free housing... when i can't go out to smoke i'll just vape even though smoking is better... idk.

just something for people that haven't learned to cook weed that might be in a state where stuff is becoming legal.. i'll have to post this on reddit. i assume most people here already know that cooking your own stuff is gonna be cheaper... honestly though, the carts have gotten so much cheaper. edible prices really aren't dropping. with how much flower they use to extract the live resin they have, it has to be about the same amount of weed. only one dispensary has decent carts for a good price though. i'm pretty lucky to have that dispensary. they pushing the deals in my state but keeping decent quality.

i've already definitely posted about edibles before. made an RSO thread i could've posted this in, but if any body not on this site that is new to smoking wants to save some cash and has a place they can cook weed, it's a fun hobby.
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I get mine from a weed shack from a native reserve. 25mg a pop, 1$ each, buy multiple 20 packs and it gets cheaper the more you buy. Like 4 packs will cost you 65$ and it does the job pretty fucking well.
 
I get my gummies from a dispensary that doesn't add surcharges or taxes, so I save a bit of money. Unfortunately, they don't deliver so I have to drive up there.

Making my own gummies won't happen, I'm far too paranoid to even try. Absolutely sure it would be a disaster if I did. I'd probably eat ONE and end up in a permanent psychosis. Science is not my friend. lol
 
Illyria99 said:
I get my gummies from a dispensary that doesn't add surcharges or taxes, so I save a bit of money. Unfortunately, they don't deliver so I have to drive up there.

Making my own gummies won't happen, I'm far too paranoid to even try. Absolutely sure it would be a disaster if I did. I'd probably eat ONE and end up in a permanent psychosis. Science is not my friend. lol
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If you can get tested dispensary weed and you know the thca percentage you can calculate the THC percentage after decarb, its like 73% iirc

Sous vide decarb is nice because the weed is in a sealed container so there's no smell and you won't lose things to evaporation

Say you have 10g of weed at 27.4% THCa which would be about 20% THC after fully decarbing if my 73% is correct. That means in that 10g of weed, 20% of that is THC

20% of 10g is 2g or 2000mg

Sous vide decarb can even be an infusion so say you could add 2g of coconut oil per 10mg THC

Then we do 2000/10=200 so that's 200 10mg doses each in 2g coconut oil

So 200x2=400g coconut oil. That means that 10g of 27.4% THCa cannabis and 400g coconut oil in a sous vide bath for about 3-4 hours at ~200F would give edibles of 10mg strength in each 2g of coconut oil
 
someguyontheinternet said:
If you can get tested dispensary weed and you know the thca percentage you can calculate the THC percentage after decarb, its like 73% iirc

Sous vide decarb is nice because the weed is in a sealed container so there's no smell and you won't lose things to evaporation

Say you have 10g of weed at 27.4% THCa which would be about 20% THC after fully decarbing if my 73% is correct. That means in that 10g of weed, 20% of that is THC

20% of 10g is 2g or 2000mg

Sous vide decarb can even be an infusion so say you could add 2g of coconut oil per 10mg THC

Then we do 2000/10=200 so that's 200 10mg doses each in 2g coconut oil

So 200x2=400g coconut oil. That means that 10g of 27.4% THCa cannabis and 400g coconut oil in a sous vide bath for about 3-4 hours at ~200F would give edibles of 10mg strength in each 2g of coconut oil
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All good, just that the percentage rate for a fully efficient decarb is 87% or 0.877 of the raw thc-a amount. 👍

That said, knowing how lab result inflation is indeed a very real thing, when making my own edibles I simply assume a raw thc-a percentage of 20% and go from there. Sure, totally arbitrary, but I figure I'm still yielding more realistic numbers than what is usually on the jar lol. Like I got this Fiestaz flower right now that's allegedly 41.9% thca. Like really???? It's great flower to be sure, but at least throw a number on there that DOESN'T say you think I'm a complete idiot lol.
 
someguyontheinternet said:
If you can get tested dispensary weed and you know the thca percentage you can calculate the THC percentage after decarb, its like 73% iirc

Sous vide decarb is nice because the weed is in a sealed container so there's no smell and you won't lose things to evaporation

Say you have 10g of weed at 27.4% THCa which would be about 20% THC after fully decarbing if my 73% is correct. That means in that 10g of weed, 20% of that is THC

20% of 10g is 2g or 2000mg

Sous vide decarb can even be an infusion so say you could add 2g of coconut oil per 10mg THC

Then we do 2000/10=200 so that's 200 10mg doses each in 2g coconut oil

So 200x2=400g coconut oil. That means that 10g of 27.4% THCa cannabis and 400g coconut oil in a sous vide bath for about 3-4 hours at ~200F would give edibles of 10mg strength in each 2g of coconut oil
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Now I'm SURE that I'll stick to buying my gummies. All of that looks far too complicated and I have a very short attention span.
Psychlone Jack said:
All good, just that the percentage rate for a fully efficient decarb is 87% or 0.877 of the raw thc-a amount. 👍

That said, knowing how lab result inflation is indeed a very real thing, when making my own edibles I simply assume a raw thc-a percentage of 20% and go from there. Sure, totally arbitrary, but I figure I'm still yielding more realistic numbers than what is usually on the jar lol. Like I got this Fiestaz flower right now that's allegedly 41.9% thca. Like really???? It's great flower to be sure, but at least throw a number on there that DOESN'T say you think I'm a complete idiot lol.
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I sware it is not if you are in a legal state and can start with hash at least. 1 gram of thc in = .75-.8 decarbed. Put gram of hash (around 9 cheeseburgers) in oven at 240 for about 40 minutes, check on it when it stops bubbling you are good. (pretty much like popcorn)

You now have 800 mg of thc to eat for what I assume to be cheaper than the edibles. (I suggest peanut butter and olive oil but I am very lazy)
 
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