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“46%” THC Flower
I Bought Some So You Don’t Have To.
Over the past six months I’ve been working with several labs to try to explore what is going on with THC potency testing in the state of Oregon, and I’ve written a series of articles about it.
Yesterday, on Leafly, I saw some flower advertised as 44% THC that was selling at $5 a gram. I’m sure you know what happened next — I had to buy it.
The fact that flower with such a high percentage is selling for $5 a gram tells me that there’s something wrong with the lab result on it. It also means that the retailer didn’t carefully examine the cannabis or its paperwork on intake, or doesn’t have procedures to do so.
43% is unreal. High testing, high quality kief is around 51%.
And the fact it’s priced so low when THC is supposedly so prized? Says a lot!
Bonus — it’s not even a picture of the cannabis itself — that’s Leafly’s ‘default weed’ picture.
Obviously, when I saw this yesterday, I knew I had to get this flower. Especially when I called the shop and the budtender ‘didn’t know’ who tested it.
I had to know. I had to know for myself who tested it and what I thought of it.
The Label and Package
The label brings more questions than it answers.
What regulatory system wouldn’t trigger an audit on a result like this?
Why is this in Leafly as 43%? It’s listed in METRC as 46%!?
There’s no Harvest Date listed which the rule stipulates there should be, so the dispensary that doesn’t check percentages too well also doesn’t check their labeling. Has this retailer never had their labels checked?
We can derive from the Batch Number that the Harvest Date is 10/29/2021.
But the cannabis wasn’t tested until 3/31/2022.
What kind of a grower would grow a cannabis that they thought would break 30% , but not get it tested until five months later? These growers would have been straining everything to…
