Honestly with the ability to grow and create, and the serious lack of trust and morals I have in others the law may have just saved your life in my make lemon aide out of lemons view.
A high schooler was just narcanned up here in NY after falling out.
They were exposed to fentanyl using a THC vape pen.
There are dispensaries on every corner here now like you wouldn't believe.
There is abosolutely no way they are being properly regulated.
I still have never been in a dispensary.
I hope I never need to go in one for more reasons than offering a corrupt state more tax money than I already have to pay them.
Basically there's credited and uncredited and this is where Texas and Oklahoma are getting it so wrong.
Uncredited is black market but uses a brick and mortar business front and also serves to launder money for organized crime.
These stores are all over the Southern US and are disguised as gas stations and head shops. The gas stations have pumps that don't work and the only thing you can really buy inside and is vape shit, K2, weird energy drinks you've never heard of, and cold medicine, usually counterfeit, to make meth. Head shops the same way. Maybe some old dusty glass on a shelf but the big seller is the weird synthetic drugs.
These stores are a serious infestation and they're allowed to operate in the open.
You take THCa from them today, tomorrow they're selling that same cart as a nicotine brand. They really never were selling THC but were selling fenty and saying it was THCa.
As the law moves the goal posts so do they and TBH, it seems like the law looks away unless it absolutely has to get involved.
Even then it just results in a shut down for a few days and reopening under a new name.
Kids go to them because they know id is never checked.
Credited is licensed and certified just like other food & drugs. Lab reports are available and it's adults only with an ID check every visit. This is an industry of thousands of legal and legit jobs and people who genuinely are trying to do the right thing getting people access.
By outlawing and criminalizing all forms and amounts of THC, the laws target the credited and ignore the uncredited and in fact awards the uncredited by eliminating competition.
It's Whack-A-Mole politics really.
Las Vegas has a similar issue with fake dispos preying on tourists but at least there they have the sense to not cast such a broad net and shut down everybody. In Texas and Oklahoma they cast the big net and are so stupid about it, they miss all the bad fish when they do it.