Overgrowing Big Marijuana

So, if there's one thing that I hate, its shitty weed, and so you can imagine how I feel about the tidal wave of shittily grown marijuana that has currently flooded my great home state since the legalization of medical marijuana.  Up until recently, commercial, Walmart grade cannabis was not the norm in this state; quite to the contrary, Colorado has generally had much of the best cannabis in the country.  This much was made obvious to me any time I would travel outside of Colorado, by the astonishment and wonder that pulling out a bag of Colorado kind bud would usually garner.  However, with legalization came the 'wonders' of American socialism, complete with handing over the regulation of an industry to the most prominent and established members of that industry.

  Consequently, we quickly acquired a set of laws designed to thwart small businesses and to force people into buying from the mega-dispensary chains that control the legislation.  One of the most important things that the growers of shitty weed did to maintain their supremacy in the industry was to eliminate smoking inside dispensaries, once customers were no longer allowed to sample the quality of the product, many dispensaries stopped performing once-mandatory stages of cannabis production, including no longer flushing their product, and abandoning all pretense of a slow-dry/cure process in their production.  Never in my life have I smoked herb from a private source that tasted half as bad as what passes for 'medicine' in dispensaries today, and the fact that many of their customers have serious medical issues that they are treating with substantially sub-par and even borderline harmfully unflushed cannabis. 
 So what's a poor smoker to do?  Grow your own, or find someone who does!  Stop patronizing the broken dispensary system until they are willing to provide the medicine their patients deserve.  If you can't grow your own because of space requirements, consider talking to your friends about establishing a grow collective.  Growing (well) is very expensive, and is much easier taken on as a group responsibility.  The biggest problem with Colorado cannabis is that it is currently under the control of a predatory industry, one that is essentially using Colorado's laws to hold their customers hostage.  With the new regulation prohibiting newcomers to the recreational marijuana field, it is going to get worse before it gets better, but the only way to make it better is by providing the dispensaries with competition; and while they may think that they are safe from that because of their faithful government watchdogs, the truth of the matter is that anyone willing to put in both the time and effort can grow substantially better herb than is available in dispensaries with less cost and greater enjoyment.