Yes here will always be fools who spend huge amounts of extra money for "luxury" packaging. Personally I care about the quality of the cannabis FAR more than the expensiveness of the packaging the cannabis came in. Yes we do need to gt rid of the stoner stereotype but PLEASE lets not replace it with a fru fru hipster stereotype.
I agree. I think the High End cannabis product are seen more like fine wines, it seems to be a good idea thus far. I suspect that it appeals to a much larger group than doinks and dug outs. Like booze, you have Rock-Gut vodka, Tito's and then Grey Goose, all 3 categories do well in the market place, just to different buyers.
add to this a limited amount of retail licenses and extreme barriers to entry you end up with a situation where the shops can control the price. getting top dollar from the customers and only giving enough to the growers to grow commercial using pgrs and all the nasty other garbage. the current laws have cut the small growers who developed the original strains and provided the culture for the last 50 years off from the market
I agree for sure. Vaping in general (thc, nicotine, whatever) is becoming this huge dumb fashion statement. I smoked cigarettes for a LONG ASS TIME, and when vapes finally became reliable, i was absolutely stoked to get away from smelling like cigarettes all the time. I vape because i'm addicted to nicotine, and its the least harmful way to get that nicotine into my body.... But now, we have thousands of hipsters running around blowing HUGE FUCKING CLOUDS in everybody's faces - using vape juice with ZERO nicotine, just so they can perform the act of blowing out clouds. Now, because of all these hipster idiots blowing clouds everywhere, it makes it hard ALL OVER AGAIN for me to get my nicotine fix. When I pull my vape out, everybody just thinks 'oh heres another dumb kid blowing clouds' when in reality i'm just trying to get my nicotine and move on with my day.
On a side note, I WILL vape marijuana in dry plant form, but i've stopped using the wax/oil vapes for no other reason than tolerance. I get to do a LOT of my work from home, so its safe to say i smoke my weed on and off all day. HOWEVER, when I decide to switch over to using the thc oil/wax vapes, I end up using it JUST ABOUT as much, which makes my tolerance shoot through the roof. If i spend 1 entire day puffing on a THC wax pen, its impossible to get any feeling at all from regular weed plant matter for like 4 or 5 days until my tolerance goes out. If I use wax every single day like i do weed, i dont think theres anything thc related on this planet that can get me high at that point.
Can I make a plea for those who are serving time behind bars at this very moment for this very same thing. A weed tax that goes towards the freedom of those who are "non-violent" criminals doing time with violent criminals. We have to save these stoners and growers. It's not fair!
I completely agree that it’s not fair, but cannabis consumers paying extra to the government so that the government can free people they themselves wrongly imprisoned is also unfair. If anything, it is the government’s responsibility to bring light to the societal paradox of weed, and transition our potential budtenders out of prisons and into jobs, perhaps even as budtenders working for one of the companies mentioned in this video.
It's all good, but people should still be allowed to grow their own legally. There's nothing like smoking your own weed. Dispensary pot is often grown with PGRs, pesticides & other icky shit. Weed that's grown on a commercial scale will never be as good as plants grown with love on small farms. It's like Wal-Mart vs. Tom Ford.
I've been going to dispensaries in California since 2008. Quality has gone way down hill. All dispensaries are required to pre-package all their bud, which usually means it sits in individual containers for a long time, which causes trichomes to dry out much quicker. I only buy top shelf, and even then when you look at the trichomes with a microscope you can see that most heads are broken off. Broken trichomes results in keefy bud with degraded cannabinoids. Most of the THC is found at the point between the head and stem of the trichome, so when the head falls off the trichome dries out and you lose quality. Many growers are drying their bud too fast, sometimes only 2 to 3 weeks. Arjan Roskam from Greenhouse Seed Co, also known as the king of cannabis, has breed many famous strains and won many competitions. For competition, he cures his plants in cardboard boxes over a period of 4 to 5 months, which results in sticky bud with high terps and undamaged trichomes. Another problem I have noticed in California is that true Sativa strains have become harder and harder to find, growers are taking the easy quick rout and grow mostly indica strains. Many of the most well known dispensaries in my area only will have one or two sativas if any, and the quality is usually not that great, but they will still tell you its amazing euphoric and uplifting. Some of these places are charging $90 for an 1/8th. Even after a 2 week tolerance break the effects are minimal. I'm bummed, after 10 years as a consistent customer all over the SF Bay Area I am considering giving it up all together. Im not sure if it's because of recent changes in regulations that is causing the quality dropped, but one interesting thing is I found some old ground up bud that I had In a box for a year, took one tiny puff and I was ripped, almost felt like a psychedelic.Way stronger than any top shelf bud that I've tried over the past 6 months or so. Most people I talk to have also noticed the quality go down and prices go up. I cannot support these businesses anymore.
a lot of the people jumping into the business are trying to overprice their grow by calling it luxury and fancy names. it can't all be number one and it's a lot more likely to be hype than fact.
I do smoke indica since that's all people know how to grow around me. I personally think there's nothing special about Indica, sometimes I like Hybrids, but to me nothing beats a well grown Sativa, especially the ones where the high creeps up and gets stronger and stronger then fades away with no mental fog, or when I can't stop smiling even when i really try, or when I go out and think everybody knows I'm high, or when my eyes are burning red and I go in a liquor store to get eye drops and cant stop laughing when I get to the counter. When I hike to the top of a mountain I like a good sativa before i run back down. Snowboarding, biking, sports in general I enjoy more with sativa. Well grown sativa makes my mind think in new ways, more creative. Indica just relaxes me and slows my mind down, I don't see any fun in that. Most people don't know how to grow sativa. Sativa should not be light and fluffy, the buds should be filled out, sticky, and smelly with healthy trichomes. I know it effects everybody differently. Sativa allows me to be more free thinking and have fun being active, Indica makes me feel relaxed and blank minded. There are times for each.
kinda pisses me off honestly. feel like these people were never really into the cannabis culture or involved with it , and just jumped on the train for money
I agree zant I don't like this at all. let the flowers and oils speak for themselves. I don't give a fuck if it in a sandwich bag as long as the product smokes like a champion. advertising and consumerism is going to ruin this indudtry and douchebags like these folks as well as dumbass customers will be responsible.
Yes it pisses me off too when I was 18 in 2005 I was sent to prison for selling weed 1to5 years . I still have a felony for it can't own a firearm I'm a machinist a family and it's holding me back from working at aerospace companies and Firearms manufacturers and these idiots just make all the money no problems
Cannabis commercialization = Babylonian greed. I wouldn't trust that fancy packaged stuff, I grow my own under the glorious California sun. Pure and potent. Peace.
Who cares, go and grow your own stuff if you wish. Not everyone has time, space or equipment to care for multiple plants, trimming, drying and curing the buds etc. If someone wants nice looks on their stuff, be it cannabis, alcohol, clothes or anything else, let them have it. The market will verify if it's needed, and if not - the business will fall. This ad actually made me consider opening similar business once legalization hits my country - considering the rest of the civilised world is slowly acknowledging marijuana for what it really is, this will happen sooner or later. And want to be a part of that.
I'm a Washington resident and legalization has been a trip, even after years of the happening. It's like walking in a candy store, truly a sweet environment wherever you purchase.
People are actuallly breeding for lower THC% or a mix of THC and CBD. My folks come to visit, and if they try anything I'm into it knocks 'em out. They were only used to that 80s brick weed, lol
@growtacoma; I guess as a medical patient im not using it for fun and rec. Im using it to avoid hundreds of dollars a month worth of prescription pain pills. So this low THC movement is a real drag to see, for us patients that fought so hard for the last 20 years with jail time, money and voting to watch it go this direction. If I could take my vote back on Colorado rec and have the state go back to the 2008 model I would in a heart beat. But if you arent a patient, enjoy your coors light of bud, id have to smoke a oz of that to get out of bed and function. And at 180 bucks thats just not going to happen.
@thedudlydude; I guess they are not educated enough in the different effects various strains and genetics have on a person. You can have a high THC strain 29 percent and function perfect if its a sativa.. Maybe the Budtenders should do a better job on the REC side and help their customers find what genetics work for them to function...
rhode island- will likely be the second to last new england state to legalize (second to new hampshire), will still have cheaper glass, cheaper and better bud
budster mcgreen Been there. Jefferson grew some in Charlottesville. Washington grew some in Mount Vernon. But who put foreign Bankers in charge of USA economy (British Crown & Bank of England? Woodrow Wilson c1913). VA colonial history trumped trampled by the (Fascist) Rothschild/ been F**ked ever since, IMHO! PEACE
It's alright, those of you who have medicated for years, under the judgemental eye of those around you, saying its illegal, alochol is better, smoking pot makes you lazy, now get to watch as everyone hops onboard, and invites us to cannabis bars on saturday nights.
Nope, the studies are air tight, police actively target and incarcerate black americans for minor offences inordinately . Also nigeria and SA, canada, Zimbabwe have thriving black middle classes (arguably more succesful than in the US). Cheers and go fuck yourself.
Look I'm not too happy about the way the game has gone either I'm white and when I was 18 years old I went to prison for selling marijuana in 2005 I got a 1 to 5 year sentence. I Still can't own a firearm I'm a Machinist with a family my felony hold me back from getting jobs at aerospace companies or firearm manufacturers and now if you have enough money to become a dispensary owner you can legally sell weed. It's just so annoying you got rich people buying up warehouses and turn them into farms. But if you try to grow your own you can still be prosecuted in a lot of places it's just sickening.
Spent the last holiday with those "be-boe "top end" kinda folks getting wasted like teenagers while my friend sits in Texas for another 6 years for cultivation.
You want to know something real, these people don't know jack about cannabis or the industry, they just have lots of money and are opportunists looking to score big.
i'd rather get my shit in ziploc bags honestly. i don't need all this fancy packaging, branding, and marketing that does nothing but increase the price of the product
This isn't for you- this is aimed at the buyer who had friends who smoked weed in high school but they were too afraid to try it themselves who now are trying to be relevant. Those people need the packaging and branding that reassures them they are not the loser their friends were when they bought plain nugs from a stranger. It's silly, but these idiots will push the legalization forward faster than anyone. The boring majority steers this ship.
Before you read this: I'd just like to say I'm from Australia and have no knowledge of the legislation behind the legality of cannabis, its cultivation, its sale and its consumption. I think this video shows the best way to introduce cannabis to a society of mixed race, age and gender. Marketing pot in this way will remove a lot of the negative stigmas associated with the plant. It can also create new jobs as there will inevitably be an increase in demand for plantations, factories, retail and what not. It will definitely make the product safer, and provides easier access to your preferred strains. Does it really matter whether you're into the 'cannabis culture' or not? If you enjoy cultivation there's now a safe legal way to do it. If you're into business, making a living selling these products opens pathways to meeting new people. Regardless, I think in 20 years cannabis is going to be just as easy to access as alcohol. Private sellers like any product or service will always be shadowed by the monopolies. Private sellers however will still be able to gain customers and there will probably be circumstances where niche communities chose a private seller over the big companies. The way I see it and I'm sure many others do, its awesome that new people are testing the waters. I'm open to others opinions and would like to hear your thoughts.
Great video with some awesome Information. The commercialization is unfortunate but is a must to help the movement of federal legalization. But this is exactly what I grow my own and teach others to do the same. Much thanks and respects 👊🏻✌🏻
Honestly, branding is great and small farms inviting regular folk over is another experience. We like experiences as well and local stuff. I want to be able to go to San Francisco and then Humboldt and try their locals best.. that's what I think we should be moving towards. Canada legalizing would also be a cool experience to go over and try their stuff or have these brands make a deal to work together for exporting their cannabis and vice versa.
Cannabis is not a luxury it’s a necessity! Hemp sequesters carbon and helps the soil it’s grown in, cannabis has a history of over 12,000 years of cultivation by humans
Come on all they really are doing is Taking Top Shelf Dank and Charging Idiots Outrageous amounts of Cash for it.. it's all about the $$$$$ now and not about the Cannabis Culture and as a Ganja Farmer who grows for the Love of the plant its SAD!!!!
Rasta Love most people who smoke weed WAKE UP to the fact that all that luxury shit is just SHIT. Doesn’t mean anything to most of us. These people are pure business, and make me sick. Scum of the earth.
theres a smaller real luxury market that is gate kept by the industry leaders, its called headstash fam. like 2% of all well known extractors would fit in this catagory. usually this ggine flipth multiple packs a day of bho but only smokes solventless.
@@BeeBopGaming It's all so new, it seems like there is a market for this, and probably will be for a long time. I'm a chef, and where I work we charge three times as much as the guy down the street, and there food is better, but we still fill the dining room. The marijuana culture has a lot of maturing to do, this stuff is, like what you said, pure business, and total shit. I would like to see more responsible breeding, so all these nice "land race" strains aren't gone forever. I love kush, but it doesn't have to bred into everything.
My homie and I cop from carlitec20 on snap or whatsapp:+1(424)226-8122 and was equally impress with the quality of their services they are legit and reliable.
I smoked for years now I can't cud I need to find a new job and it's legal in Massachusetts but still have to worrie about drug testing why do i have to stress out still
Exactly the same as every other product in America. $400 sunglasses do not help you see better, or protect your eyes better than $100 sunglasses, but they are way cooler. The $8 pint of coconut oil in the grocery isle is really good for your skin, just like the $25 half pint in the beauty isle. A box of Quaker Oats cost more than the bulk oats in a plastic bag. No matter how cool, hip, organic, peace love dope, we might claim to be, the people that buy stuff in stores like fancy packaging.
The packaging for the first company featured is beautiful, but I can't help but notice how low the THC content is. 17%?? I can get 28% in a plastic container
Are you kidding? The state has been so mismanaged for decades that there is a current exodus of wealthy and productive people out of Cali, i.e., Joe Rogan and friends. Homeless cities on the streets and parks, feces in the street all over San Fran...no legal substance is worth moving there now. Wait until the fires cleanse it.
Not just CA. This has been going on here in other legal states for years. Seattle is lit up and they've got Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, tons of construction, etc. Only thing is sometimes you feel like an old fogey for smoking flower instead of vaping terp sauce or whatever is hot that week, lol
Ever think we will see tree farms where you go and pick out the plant you want, and it gets processed, and delivered shortly after? Same kind of excitement as getting an x-mas tree...
Sitting around all day, unemployed and smoking weed all day is true. That's because most the old smokers are now retired. They are fighting all the ailments causing by the toxins they have unknowingly consumed.
Don't fool yourselfers, or government will figure out a way to spend more money then they will bring in. It won't take long for them to demand more tax dollars from we the people while they drive off in their high dollar cars to their high dollar homes.
John Mckinley I tend to agree with you. Most elected officials are lawyers by training. We should demand that our elected officials be trained in accounting.
I am sooooooo god damn envious of those American brothers and sisters man, I live in the UK so I can't just walk to the dispensary and pick my strain or snag some edibles or grab me some moonrocks or dabs, I do it the old fashioned way.....grow it or buy it and of late it's been the latter. We get some superb weed here in the UK, a lot of good Haze, Lemon Haze is a regular. A lot of Star Dawg and Purple Star Dawg, Icecream Cake, GSC, Wedding Cake, those types of strains where I am from. I have smoked weed more than half my life, from 13 years old to 45 I've been a long time connoisseur and advocate for weed. Weed has many uses from cosmetics to food, but my personal favourite is to smoke it or eat it. Why shouldn't we enjoy the fruits of the earth? I hope that the UK follows suit one day, there's some sweet growers just waiting for it to happen.
These guys will be the Monsantos of the cannabis world. It is a new culture? - Slick packaging, high dollar ads, advertising videos, lots of mechanized processing, high prices, and the money goes to big businesses, rather than some small grower. Once the product lines are established, the farmers share will drop, just like food production. This is just pulling the cannabis money into the pocket of big business. Consumer in mind? A few plants in the back yard and smoking good stuff for free is progress. The pot culture shown here is just updated Reefer Madness.
I will never let brand become a factor in my cannabis life. Strains rule, quality counts, take your brand and logo and shove them some place other than my face.
I don't want it to happen here in Brazil. Weed is to be grown inside homes inhabited by general people, not produced by big companies in farms owned by millionaire men. Homes vs Farms Grown vs produced General people vs Millionaire men
I'm rippin a few bong hits of some medical white kush and orange krush, very nice stains i really like berry kush a blueberry and a og kush stain crossed tastes grate! 😊✌🚬
Personally I think that this is essential for weed to be accepted by the mainstream. In the end all I want to see is weed relegalized across-the-board.
It's good and bad all at the same time(more good for sure)... Good for the movement as a whole, but bad for the little guy. Either way. The more open and accepted Cannabis is... The better off we'll all be. Grower's Love from SW Florida
Don't smoke it unless you know where it came from. It's an excellent photoremediation plant for corporate agriculture. It's takes up the heavy metals like cadmium and lead and is then recycled for human use. So are other herbs and teas.
420 comments and I’m about to fuck that up. Sorry everyone. I want to give a shout out to 50 cent for being the music in the background in a segment. My dude! 👍🏻
I haven't bought weed at a store since it was legalized. I had a medical recommendation for years. The taxes are just ridiculously high. Over 30% in some counties. Lower those taxes and I'll become a costumer again. I'm fine with paying a tax. Just not at this rate.
My homie and I cop from carlitec20 on snap or whatsapp:+1(424)226-8122 and was equally impress with the quality of their services they are legit and reliable.
Of course law enforcement wants their cut of the taxes before they talk about non violent weed “offenders” As for change in weed culture, black market quality was way better, you know this
aesthetics doesn't necessarily mean quality id rather blow down something in a zip lock bag with lab grade tested 23% thc versus some apple type packaging with 19% thc
7:12 That weed is DEFINITELY not no 12% THC lol. 12% Bud is mf mid. Top Shelf bud is 20% THC and higher... that bud most definitely was not mid and had atleast 20% THC lol.
As marijuana becomes more readily available in all of California's counties, marijuana will become more and more and more commoditized. Of course, there will always be niche markets within the overall market (ex: 30% THC, high CBD content, and form whether smokeables, candy, teas), more of the cannabis consuming population will start focusing more on getting value with their purchase. That's when the high end packaging approach to the market will be nearly dead.
Yes here will always be fools who spend huge amounts of extra money for "luxury" packaging. Personally I care about the quality of the cannabis FAR more than the expensiveness of the packaging the cannabis came in.
Yes we do need to gt rid of the stoner stereotype but PLEASE lets not replace it with a fru fru hipster stereotype.
I agree. I think the High End cannabis product are seen more like fine wines, it seems to be a good idea thus far. I suspect that it appeals to a much larger group than doinks and dug outs. Like booze, you have Rock-Gut vodka, Tito's and then Grey Goose, all 3 categories do well in the market place, just to different buyers.
add to this a limited amount of retail licenses and extreme barriers to entry you end up with a situation where the shops can control the price. getting top dollar from the customers and only giving enough to the growers to grow commercial using pgrs and all the nasty other garbage. the current laws have cut the small growers who developed the original strains and provided the culture for the last 50 years off from the market
Lol haha yeah this is well hipster aint it.
I agree for sure. Vaping in general (thc, nicotine, whatever) is becoming this huge dumb fashion statement. I smoked cigarettes for a LONG ASS TIME, and when vapes finally became reliable, i was absolutely stoked to get away from smelling like cigarettes all the time. I vape because i'm addicted to nicotine, and its the least harmful way to get that nicotine into my body....
But now, we have thousands of hipsters running around blowing HUGE FUCKING CLOUDS in everybody's faces - using vape juice with ZERO nicotine, just so they can perform the act of blowing out clouds. Now, because of all these hipster idiots blowing clouds everywhere, it makes it hard ALL OVER AGAIN for me to get my nicotine fix. When I pull my vape out, everybody just thinks 'oh heres another dumb kid blowing clouds' when in reality i'm just trying to get my nicotine and move on with my day.
On a side note, I WILL vape marijuana in dry plant form, but i've stopped using the wax/oil vapes for no other reason than tolerance. I get to do a LOT of my work from home, so its safe to say i smoke my weed on and off all day. HOWEVER, when I decide to switch over to using the thc oil/wax vapes, I end up using it JUST ABOUT as much, which makes my tolerance shoot through the roof. If i spend 1 entire day puffing on a THC wax pen, its impossible to get any feeling at all from regular weed plant matter for like 4 or 5 days until my tolerance goes out. If I use wax every single day like i do weed, i dont think theres anything thc related on this planet that can get me high at that point.
Can I make a plea for those who are serving time behind bars at this very moment for this very same thing. A weed tax that goes towards the freedom of those who are "non-violent" criminals doing time with violent criminals. We have to save these stoners and growers. It's not fair!
Mickey The maltipoo yaaas!
I completely agree that it’s not fair, but cannabis consumers paying extra to the government so that the government can free people they themselves wrongly imprisoned is also unfair. If anything, it is the government’s responsibility to bring light to the societal paradox of weed, and transition our potential budtenders out of prisons and into jobs, perhaps even as budtenders working for one of the companies mentioned in this video.
Amen.
Mickey The maltipoo just tax more tax that cannot be the answer
We don't need just a tax, we need a weed lobby. Now!
thats a long ass commercial.
It's all good, but people should still be allowed to grow their own legally. There's nothing like smoking your own weed. Dispensary pot is often grown with PGRs, pesticides & other icky shit. Weed that's grown on a commercial scale will never be as good as plants grown with love on small farms. It's like Wal-Mart vs. Tom Ford.
MsNooneinparticular facts I’m growing rn and loving every second of it
Not only that, but the feeling of success you get after a good cropping.
Wal-Mart. Tom Ford.
Marijuana isn't addictive, but growing it is!
people grow legally all over
I've been going to dispensaries in California since 2008. Quality has gone way down hill. All dispensaries are required to pre-package all their bud, which usually means it sits in individual containers for a long time, which causes trichomes to dry out much quicker. I only buy top shelf, and even then when you look at the trichomes with a microscope you can see that most heads are broken off. Broken trichomes results in keefy bud with degraded cannabinoids. Most of the THC is found at the point between the head and stem of the trichome, so when the head falls off the trichome dries out and you lose quality. Many growers are drying their bud too fast, sometimes only 2 to 3 weeks. Arjan Roskam from Greenhouse Seed Co, also known as the king of cannabis, has breed many famous strains and won many competitions. For competition, he cures his plants in cardboard boxes over a period of 4 to 5 months, which results in sticky bud with high terps and undamaged trichomes. Another problem I have noticed in California is that true Sativa strains have become harder and harder to find, growers are taking the easy quick rout and grow mostly indica strains. Many of the most well known dispensaries in my area only will have one or two sativas if any, and the quality is usually not that great, but they will still tell you its amazing euphoric and uplifting. Some of these places are charging $90 for an 1/8th. Even after a 2 week tolerance break the effects are minimal. I'm bummed, after 10 years as a consistent customer all over the SF Bay Area I am considering giving it up all together. Im not sure if it's because of recent changes in regulations that is causing the quality dropped, but one interesting thing is I found some old ground up bud that I had In a box for a year, took one tiny puff and I was ripped, almost felt like a psychedelic.Way stronger than any top shelf bud that I've tried over the past 6 months or so. Most people I talk to have also noticed the quality go down and prices go up. I cannot support these businesses anymore.
a lot of the people jumping into the business are trying to overprice their grow by calling it luxury and fancy names. it can't all be number one and it's a lot more likely to be hype than fact.
Jesus fuck 90$ for an eighth? I can get close to half an oz for that!
ShrooMusic you need to stop smoking Sativa..indica only..
Ryan Evans half oz of Reggie ..you Sativa guys kill me with these numbers..you get what you pay for
I do smoke indica since that's all people know how to grow around me. I personally think there's nothing special about Indica, sometimes I like Hybrids, but to me nothing beats a well grown Sativa, especially the ones where the high creeps up and gets stronger and stronger then fades away with no mental fog, or when I can't stop smiling even when i really try, or when I go out and think everybody knows I'm high, or when my eyes are burning red and I go in a liquor store to get eye drops and cant stop laughing when I get to the counter. When I hike to the top of a mountain I like a good sativa before i run back down. Snowboarding, biking, sports in general I enjoy more with sativa. Well grown sativa makes my mind think in new ways, more creative. Indica just relaxes me and slows my mind down, I don't see any fun in that. Most people don't know how to grow sativa. Sativa should not be light and fluffy, the buds should be filled out, sticky, and smelly with healthy trichomes. I know it effects everybody differently. Sativa allows me to be more free thinking and have fun being active, Indica makes me feel relaxed and blank minded. There are times for each.
kinda pisses me off honestly. feel like these people were never really into the cannabis culture or involved with it , and just jumped on the train for money
That's how wypipo work.
Why does this piss you off? They are leading the way now. Cannabis is a consumable, not a badge of courage.
I agree zant I don't like this at all. let the flowers and oils speak for themselves. I don't give a fuck if it in a sandwich bag as long as the product smokes like a champion. advertising and consumerism is going to ruin this indudtry and douchebags like these folks as well as dumbass customers will be responsible.
The cartels are making the real money. They don’t even smoke....
Yes it pisses me off too when I was 18 in 2005 I was sent to prison for selling weed 1to5 years . I still have a felony for it can't own a firearm I'm a machinist a family and it's holding me back from working at aerospace companies and Firearms manufacturers and these idiots just make all the money no problems
Cannabis commercialization = Babylonian greed.
I wouldn't trust that fancy packaged stuff, I grow my own under the glorious California sun. Pure and potent. Peace.
the same thing will happen that happened with ciggarettes and booze, how the fuck would anything else be possibly with people being naturally greedy
sad tho because people that use cannabis medically will face prejudice from everyone including doctors
Same, this is just an ad basically.
Who cares, go and grow your own stuff if you wish. Not everyone has time, space or equipment to care for multiple plants, trimming, drying and curing the buds etc. If someone wants nice looks on their stuff, be it cannabis, alcohol, clothes or anything else, let them have it. The market will verify if it's needed, and if not - the business will fall. This ad actually made me consider opening similar business once legalization hits my country - considering the rest of the civilised world is slowly acknowledging marijuana for what it really is, this will happen sooner or later. And want to be a part of that.
Sell me some of that
I'm a Washington resident and legalization has been a trip, even after years of the happening. It's like walking in a candy store, truly a sweet environment wherever you purchase.
ugh i’m so jealous of this !
Yawn...its just weed. I dont care how its packaged or what u call it...its weed..and i can grow it myself without all the hype
@really dude Man, SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Nitrogen packaging means you're buying 3-5 year old grow. The oils and vapes mean they sell poor grows as a refined product.
All that nitogen packed weed tastes overdried and flavorless
It needs to be legal for all adults and they need to legalize it at federal level like beer and tobbaco
Jerry Maxie
Exactly!!
To each their own. Definitely not hurting anyone. Look at the facts.
@@shadetrizzle I am living fact I have smoke for 35 Years
Come to Canada then, in 3 days marijuana is legal to smoke, grow (up to 4 plants), carry 30 g in public, however you need a license to sell.
and here we are in Croatia where a man with multiple sclerosis goes to jail for trying to make himself feel better....
pita nje Move out
pita nje Pretty sure you can easily move to the Netherlands where weed is legalized (because of the EU freedom of movement laws).
@@pj5295 not that easy for some, family, money, memories
Same from Brazil...
Thanks to lord, recently Brazil legalize some medicaments, who the base is cannabis. But still hard, and very expansive...
12 percent THC for their preroll... Cannabis is going the way of commercial tobacco farming.. SAD.
There was some 20% GG4 most companies will have lower THC options.....
Eh it's like the after work beer equivalent for weed. Some people purchase lower THC strains on purpose because they don't want to get stupid.
People are actuallly breeding for lower THC% or a mix of THC and CBD. My folks come to visit, and if they try anything I'm into it knocks 'em out. They were only used to that 80s brick weed, lol
@growtacoma; I guess as a medical patient im not using it for fun and rec. Im using it to avoid hundreds of dollars a month worth of prescription pain pills. So this low THC movement is a real drag to see, for us patients that fought so hard for the last 20 years with jail time, money and voting to watch it go this direction. If I could take my vote back on Colorado rec and have the state go back to the 2008 model I would in a heart beat. But if you arent a patient, enjoy your coors light of bud, id have to smoke a oz of that to get out of bed and function. And at 180 bucks thats just not going to happen.
@thedudlydude; I guess they are not educated enough in the different effects various strains and genetics have on a person. You can have a high THC strain 29 percent and function perfect if its a sativa.. Maybe the Budtenders should do a better job on the REC side and help their customers find what genetics work for them to function...
Luxury consumer?? I'll stick to my own ...still behind enemy lines in VA! ✌
rhode island- will likely be the second to last new england state to legalize (second to new hampshire), will still have cheaper glass, cheaper and better bud
budster mcgreen
Been there. Jefferson grew some in Charlottesville. Washington grew some in Mount Vernon. But who put
foreign Bankers in charge of
USA economy (British Crown & Bank of England? Woodrow Wilson c1913). VA colonial
history trumped trampled by
the (Fascist) Rothschild/ been
F**ked ever since, IMHO! PEACE
Ys dont ever go to dc pop ups Instagram it my dude I'm with ya bro enemy lines wv
It's alright, those of you who have medicated for years, under the judgemental eye of those around you, saying its illegal, alochol is better, smoking pot makes you lazy, now get to watch as everyone hops onboard, and invites us to cannabis bars on saturday nights.
Luxury product AKA fancy Packaging 😂😂😂
My favourite part is 23:46 where they talk about mass-incarceration and how african americans were highly criminalised for the same business .
😂🤣😆😂
Nope, the studies are air tight, police actively target and incarcerate black americans for minor offences inordinately . Also nigeria and SA, canada, Zimbabwe have thriving black middle classes (arguably more succesful than in the US). Cheers and go fuck yourself.
Look I'm not too happy about the way the game has gone either I'm white and when I was 18 years old I went to prison for selling marijuana in 2005 I got a 1 to 5 year sentence. I Still can't own a firearm I'm a Machinist with a family my felony hold me back from getting jobs at aerospace companies or firearm manufacturers and now if you have enough money to become a dispensary owner you can legally sell weed. It's just so annoying you got rich people buying up warehouses and turn them into farms. But if you try to grow your own you can still be prosecuted in a lot of places it's just sickening.
good, hope you all get locked up so we don't hear your dumbasses making noise in the movie theatre
@@caob1876 Citation needed.
Spent the last holiday with those "be-boe "top end" kinda folks getting wasted like teenagers while my friend sits in Texas for another 6 years for cultivation.
KM Merry vote.
To this day none of those “high quality brands” have wowed me with their trees
You want to know something real, these people don't know jack about cannabis or the industry, they just have lots of money and are opportunists looking to score big.
no different than the shit I grow in my back yard , difference is they have fancy packaging.
And you can probably get higher TCH yields, as well. 12% seems light unless it's CBD dominant.
Homegrown beats commercial grown all the time
@@philipargo I havevnt seen a 12% THC strain here yet...
i'd rather get my shit in ziploc bags honestly. i don't need all this fancy packaging, branding, and marketing that does nothing but increase the price of the product
WoWplayer527 the effect of it becomin legal tho
This isn't for you- this is aimed at the buyer who had friends who smoked weed in high school but they were too afraid to try it themselves who now are trying to be relevant. Those people need the packaging and branding that reassures them they are not the loser their friends were when they bought plain nugs from a stranger. It's silly, but these idiots will push the legalization forward faster than anyone. The boring majority steers this ship.
If I’m being honest, I don’t like how professional these guys are 😂 they seem so boring
Yeah they were pretty boring to listen to.. couldn’t finish more than 5 mins..
as a stoner in an illegal whos only ever had regular access to bud, i'm drooling over all these fancy processed products.
Before you read this: I'd just like to say I'm from Australia and have no knowledge of the legislation behind the legality of cannabis, its cultivation, its sale and its consumption.
I think this video shows the best way to introduce cannabis to a society of mixed race, age and gender. Marketing pot in this way will remove a lot of the negative stigmas associated with the plant.
It can also create new jobs as there will inevitably be an increase in demand for plantations, factories, retail and what not.
It will definitely make the product safer, and provides easier access to your preferred strains.
Does it really matter whether you're into the 'cannabis culture' or not? If you enjoy cultivation there's now a safe legal way to do it. If you're into business, making a living selling these products opens pathways to meeting new people.
Regardless, I think in 20 years cannabis is going to be just as easy to access as alcohol. Private sellers like any product or service will always be shadowed by the monopolies.
Private sellers however will still be able to gain customers and there will probably be circumstances where niche communities chose a private seller over the big companies.
The way I see it and I'm sure many others do, its awesome that new people are testing the waters. I'm open to others opinions and would like to hear your thoughts.
Your channel really has stepped it up, great job guys!
thanks for the love.
Smoke your weed, love others and be happy, I just fixed the world😃
Thanks for doing this documentary it is very helpful
Great video with some awesome
Information. The commercialization is unfortunate but is a must to help the movement of federal legalization.
But this is exactly what I grow my own and teach others to do the same. Much thanks and respects 👊🏻✌🏻
Honestly, branding is great and small farms inviting regular folk over is another experience. We like experiences as well and local stuff. I want to be able to go to San Francisco and then Humboldt and try their locals best.. that's what I think we should be moving towards. Canada legalizing would also be a cool experience to go over and try their stuff or have these brands make a deal to work together for exporting their cannabis and vice versa.
Cannabis is not a luxury it’s a necessity! Hemp sequesters carbon and helps the soil it’s grown in, cannabis has a history of over 12,000 years of cultivation by humans
Come on all they really are doing is Taking Top Shelf Dank and Charging Idiots Outrageous amounts of Cash for it.. it's all about the $$$$$ now and not about the Cannabis Culture and as a Ganja Farmer who grows for the Love of the plant its SAD!!!!
100 %
I think this luxury shit is the part of the industry that will fall off.
Rasta Love most people who smoke weed WAKE UP to the fact that all that luxury shit is just SHIT. Doesn’t mean anything to most of us. These people are pure business, and make me sick. Scum of the earth.
theres a smaller real luxury market that is gate kept by the industry leaders, its called headstash fam. like 2% of all well known extractors would fit in this catagory. usually this ggine flipth multiple packs a day of bho but only smokes solventless.
@@BeeBopGaming It's all so new, it seems like there is a market for this, and probably will be for a long time. I'm a chef, and where I work we charge three times as much as the guy down the street, and there food is better, but we still fill the dining room. The marijuana culture has a lot of maturing to do, this stuff is, like what you said, pure business, and total shit. I would like to see more responsible breeding, so all these nice "land race" strains aren't gone forever. I love kush, but it doesn't have to bred into everything.
"There's no instance of a country having benefited from a prolonged war. Let your great object be victory not lengthy campaigns." - Sun Tzu art of war
1:19 really hit home for me
Amazing documentary!
U messed up that one ad in the beginning the kid says "You dad, I got it from you..."
The east coast is too Guerrilla we don't have nothing over here.
My homie and I cop from carlitec20 on snap or whatsapp:+1(424)226-8122 and was equally impress with the quality of their services they are legit and reliable.
@@marklord4498 I'm good thank you
And the Academy Awards of the best intro in cinema history goes to......never laughed so hard in my life :)
I smoked for years now I can't cud I need to find a new job and it's legal in Massachusetts but still have to worrie about drug testing why do i have to stress out still
Promotional video: Marketing at its best -with all the accoutrements outlined.
Exactly the same as every other product in America. $400 sunglasses do not help you see better, or protect your eyes better than $100 sunglasses, but they are way cooler. The $8 pint of coconut oil in the grocery isle is really good for your skin, just like the $25 half pint in the beauty isle. A box of Quaker Oats cost more than the bulk oats in a plastic bag. No matter how cool, hip, organic, peace love dope, we might claim to be, the people that buy stuff in stores like fancy packaging.
watching this just makes me rethink why I am even living in the UK...
I think more people should grow their own weed and start expecting for themselves
Consumers don't know that they are stripping the trichs off the flowers to make oils. Its best to inspect your product with a loup or grow your own
"Let's blasta joint" loooooool
1:20 lol when your high as fuq and get analyzed down to the souls of your shoes😂
You have sentient shoes?
yes.
The packaging for the first company featured is beautiful, but I can't help but notice how low the THC content is. 17%?? I can get 28% in a plastic container
H.I-G.H-snobiety
We see what you did there.
Highsnobiety EYYYYYY
Highsnobiety EYYYYYY
I wish I lived in cali 😭😍
Then move
Out of Colorado please
No you don't. Unless you have a shitload of money and a huge tolerance for asshole douchebags who overcharge for everything. I want out!
Are you kidding? The state has been so mismanaged for decades that there is a current exodus of wealthy and productive people out of Cali, i.e., Joe Rogan and friends. Homeless cities on the streets and parks, feces in the street all over San Fran...no legal substance is worth moving there now. Wait until the fires cleanse it.
Not just CA. This has been going on here in other legal states for years. Seattle is lit up and they've got Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, tons of construction, etc. Only thing is sometimes you feel like an old fogey for smoking flower instead of vaping terp sauce or whatever is hot that week, lol
The best tree I’ve smoked was grown by one guy in the forest of Mendocino County
Completely off topic but wow that logo / intro was smooth
Correlation doesn't imply causation. This is more about California culture than cannabis culture.
Ever think we will see tree farms where you go and pick out the plant you want, and it gets processed, and delivered shortly after? Same kind of excitement as getting an x-mas tree...
"the grasshoppers" 😂😂😂😂 I'm using that one lol
Sitting around all day, unemployed and smoking weed all day is true. That's because most the old smokers are now retired. They are fighting all the ailments causing by the toxins they have unknowingly consumed.
California is what a beautiful place to be with all palms.
0:40 the dad keeps asking him where he got it and then interrupts him every time he says something
that tn bong is amazing
great sharing!
I trust my local grower way more than some corporate money grabbing dispensery
Don't fool yourselfers, or government will figure out a way to spend more money then they will bring in. It won't take long for them to demand more tax dollars from we the people while they drive off in their high dollar cars to their high dollar homes.
John Mckinley I tend to agree with you. Most elected officials are lawyers by training. We should demand that our elected officials be trained in accounting.
I am sooooooo god damn envious of those American brothers and sisters man, I live in the UK so I can't just walk to the dispensary and pick my strain or snag some edibles or grab me some moonrocks or dabs, I do it the old fashioned way.....grow it or buy it and of late it's been the latter. We get some superb weed here in the UK, a lot of good Haze, Lemon Haze is a regular. A lot of Star Dawg and Purple Star Dawg, Icecream Cake, GSC, Wedding Cake, those types of strains where I am from. I have smoked weed more than half my life, from 13 years old to 45 I've been a long time connoisseur and advocate for weed. Weed has many uses from cosmetics to food, but my personal favourite is to smoke it or eat it. Why shouldn't we enjoy the fruits of the earth? I hope that the UK follows suit one day, there's some sweet growers just waiting for it to happen.
7:00 love the classy stuff
These guys will be the Monsantos of the cannabis world. It is a new culture? - Slick packaging, high dollar ads, advertising videos, lots of mechanized processing, high prices, and the money goes to big businesses, rather than some small grower. Once the product lines are established, the farmers share will drop, just like food production. This is just pulling the cannabis money into the pocket of big business. Consumer in mind? A few plants in the back yard and smoking good stuff for free is progress. The pot culture shown here is just updated Reefer Madness.
I will never let brand become a factor in my cannabis life. Strains rule, quality counts, take your brand and logo and shove them some place other than my face.
Lol, anyone else notice this was posted on 4/20?? haha
MedicalCannabis has been legal in California since 1996 we’re not jumping on any train because we’re the ones driving lol
i used to dream of a scenario like this!!!
14:16 *chugs the whole fucking bottle*
the music is too loud. What are they saying??????
I don't want it to happen here in Brazil. Weed is to be grown inside homes inhabited by general people, not produced by big companies in farms owned by millionaire men.
Homes vs Farms
Grown vs produced
General people vs Millionaire men
To relieve anxiety for dogs...
This makes me sad I live in Australia.
Besides myself? Who's having a bowl while they are watching this..? ha!
No I am waiting for a piece of spacecake I eaten to kick in.
I'm rippin a few bong hits of some medical white kush and orange krush, very nice stains i really like berry kush a blueberry and a og kush stain crossed tastes grate! 😊✌🚬
MOAR FLIGHTS!
Personally I think that this is essential for weed to be accepted by the mainstream. In the end all I want to see is weed relegalized across-the-board.
Marketing Nation !!!!
pls release those sick beats in the background
It's good and bad all at the same time(more good for sure)... Good for the movement as a whole, but bad for the little guy. Either way. The more open and accepted Cannabis is... The better off we'll all be. Grower's Love from SW Florida
😤💨👍🙏
Don't smoke it unless you know where it came from. It's an excellent photoremediation plant for corporate agriculture. It's takes up the heavy metals like cadmium and lead and is then recycled for human use. So are other herbs and teas.
420 comments and I’m about to fuck that up. Sorry everyone. I want to give a shout out to 50 cent for being the music in the background in a segment. My dude! 👍🏻
as long as the person is over 25 it's harmless otherwise they risk psychosis especially in young teens as the brain is still growing.
I really like the store which had the cameo of the Bliss vapes... but man did I notice until now -- those vapes look like LUXURIOUS tampons.
12% thc i almost fainted 👀
I haven't bought weed at a store since it was legalized. I had a medical recommendation for years. The taxes are just ridiculously high. Over 30% in some counties. Lower those taxes and I'll become a costumer again. I'm fine with paying a tax. Just not at this rate.
How can send on the post to england
My homie and I cop from carlitec20 on snap or whatsapp:+1(424)226-8122 and was equally impress with the quality of their services they are legit and reliable.
Of course law enforcement wants their cut of the taxes before they talk about non violent weed “offenders”
As for change in weed culture, black market quality was way better, you know this
This seems like a long ass ad
Completely legal In Washington. Love it
I DO like the lab testing and labeling with percentages of THC, CBD, etc. Accurate, we hope.
Say "Luxury" instead of "smoke this shit here that will get you high as fuck bro!"
Why they didn’t put Estrohaze in the Special Thanks Column? 😒
aesthetics doesn't necessarily mean quality id rather blow down something in a zip lock bag with lab grade tested 23% thc versus some apple type packaging with 19% thc
Innocent of a new and “deadly” menace weed isn’t deady
song/sound name please & thank you?
This was interesting
The Fashion Archive Bruh I see u everywhere lol and I agree this was interesting
Daniel etc haha clearly I watch a lot of videos
7:12 That weed is DEFINITELY not no 12% THC lol. 12% Bud is mf mid. Top Shelf bud is 20% THC and higher... that bud most definitely was not mid and had atleast 20% THC lol.
yes, i be seein em trichomes man!
As marijuana becomes more readily available in all of California's counties, marijuana will become more and more and more commoditized. Of course, there will always be niche markets within the overall market (ex: 30% THC, high CBD content, and form whether smokeables, candy, teas), more of the cannabis consuming population will start focusing more on getting value with their purchase. That's when the high end packaging approach to the market will be nearly dead.