Just like the gas. If you live close to the line it's a no-brainer.

I live very out of state now. What's the general price difference?

RI is a bit higher than MA. Meanwhile Michigan is like 80% less than either, if you don't mind crossing a few state lines.

SK represent. Looking forward to a South County dispensary to open soon.

Indeed. I don't partake but its interesting to watch the prices buck the supply/demand trend. Makes me wonder when the northeast's dispensaries will prices correct after a period of time.

> A little humor.

Emphasis on "little"

lol I kid, I kid.

I was hoping rec weed in RI would have drove down the prices in MA because of competition

Fuck the dispensary.

I have my homie

This will also impact the $.10 recyclable deposit math.

Bring on the price wars!!!

Neither can beat the street connect

The shops I checked out in RI was much nicer than the MA ones I’ve been too and the prices for vape carts were almost the same.

In Washington state, $40 for an 1/8 will get you top shelf bud. And that’s after tax.

I'm not sure the conversion to edibles, but I walked into a Michigan shop with $300 to stock up, ordered a bunch of stuff, and it was $60.

It's already coming down in MA, so RI legalization could mean our prices stagnate while RI dispos bring their prices down to match. Meanwhile, MA dispos will lower the prices to compete. Wash, rinse, repeat. We'll all be smoking cheaper bud. It's coming, but it's going to take a while for the RI market to have that effect though.

Yeah but the flower is better in R.I.

That's expensive as hell. In MA you can get an 1/8 of top shelf bud 30%+ thc for $25 after taxes and all

Consumers always benefit from competition in the market, it's great!

I don't know dispensaries in MA beat my dealer on price and quality

Seriously, I couldn’t find something below medical grade if I wanted to, but as far as pricing goes I guess it is about who you know

Lol where?

The prices should drop soon. Nova farms so far I think has the cheapest options. They actually had a free show at the strand with bad fish playing. To drum up more interest. Medical is still the way to go I get cheaper better bud closer to home

Did you mean to say Maine? Never heard of people from here driving to Michigan when some of the best weed in the country is 2 hours away in Maine.

This

Imagine how many more they would get if they honored RI mmj licenses, for me with the mass tax it always end up being more expensive

Maine is a lot closer

It kind of depends if you have your RI license for it cause it comes out cheaper to buy in RI if you have the license cause no taxes also some dispensaries give extra discount if your on medicaid and or disability

That's pretty high honestly, RI is already there.

1/8's in Maine are $20-$25.

They will, and have been. Maine is already insanely cheap, and prices in MA are starting to go down as well. RI will follow suit.

Nova Farms often carries $20 1/8ths. After taxes, the final price is close to $25.

Is RI testing for heavy metals and mold at the same standard as MA? Genuine question. From what I have been told, they do not & I have been buying from MA for that reason. The shit from the Slater has also gotten people sick from a pesticide they use. So I am very weary of RI's cannabis cultivation. Gonna stick with MA til I know for sure they do shit right.

I've been watching local MA prices for a few months, and they seem to be very slowly sliding downwards. I think it's going to take a fair bit of time for this region's prices to find a stable "low" point.

Nova farms and Zahara in Attleboro and North East alternatives in Fallriver

Lmao off at the downvotes 🤣😂

Everything is more expensive past the tower.

RI changed their testing standards and require testing for heavy metals and mold. I recommend going to Mother Earth for your weed stuff.

For edibles with a med card, Greenleaf is cheaper than the edibles available in MA. I think the price difference there is due to MA mandating everything be organic. MA stuff definitely is better-tested. That said, all the edibles at Greenleaf are delicious and have never made me sick, and their topicals are unbeatable for pain relief.

They’ll realize this and prices will follow suit . They kind of fucked up their pricing model out the gate. They could have converted so many first time customers if prices were equitable . Driving another 15 mins to save $ (in this economy) is essential for many folks. More than they realize l.

They’re both ridiculously overpriced, you can’t beat the black market! Homegrown quality is way better too.

Why does Maine have such cheap, good quality weed and we dont?

They allowed a lot of dispensaries and caregivers to get licenses. We limited both here, and only had 3 stores for the longest time (up until 5 days ago). In Maine I drive past 6 stores to get to the one I want. There was no competition here, they can sell us crap weed for premium prices because a lot of people don't have access to anything else.

Grow your own if you can.

Makes sense

Bro gray market in Rochester has some very low prices

Mass flower is so much worse than RI flower. I’d rather pay more for better quality flower

MA is around there, sometimes cheaper. You can get 1/2 of shake for $65, or $100 for bud. Some strains fetch more, but after a point, 25% THC is 25% THC no matter the flavor.

Same. I gave my on my guy because he couldn't compete and he'd have a mountain of whatever type of stuff that would take weeks to go through and sometimes it was just blah and you have no choice. I like knowing what I'm getting and the TCH content. Mixing and matching strains are nice. And now, in MA, they're cheaper than the black market now.

Are RI dispensaries seriously more expensive??

Why the hell would they do that? Its obvious what the people will do.

Competition is healthy for the market.

It is really the pesticides and heavy metals that RI bud tested positive for that is making me question buying here.

Imagine what was happening for years with untested medical bud.

Bruh it’s expensive as fuck imo, I don’t know how you guys live like this. I’m from California and out here for a few weeks longer than expected so needed to re-up today.

What I’m used to is $70 for 1 oz., $20 for a 1g vaporizer cartridge, and $16 for 1g of concentrate

Here at best I could find 1/8ths for $40, 1/2g cartridges for $50, and 1g concentrate for $70

I looked at all the dispensaries in RI and MA. RISE in Warwick had a $30 popcorn 1/8th that was new today that I was going to get until I had to go to the MA border for something else and found one dispensary with $8 grams (no 1/8ths, 1/2s, or much less full ounces) that after tax came out to $40.

More expensive than I’m used to but closer to Nevada prices that I’m originally used to so I pulled the trigger. But god damn, it’s weird seeing y’all go through the process we went through years ago.

For a few years dealers will stay in business and only old rich people will go to dispensaries. Then they’ll drop the prices of flower first, little by little until they’re same price as the dealers. Then the vapes and dabs will go down in price too eventually and it will make little sense to deal with having to go to some guys apartment who twenty minutes after arriving will let you know he’s “totally gonna be down in 5 bro”

I can only hope

Where have you been in RI so far? Planning on checking out some stores this week

RI currently has some of the strictest testing regulations in the US. Our limits for triggering a failure are much lower than other states.

Also, RI requires on site testing; meaning that a lab agent is required to come into your facility to collect representative samples of an entire batch of product (concentrates, edibles, prerolls, flower), to then bring back to the lab to run all compliance tests. In Mass, someone who works for the grow/processor/dispensary selects a ‘representative sample to bring to a lab for testing. This is somewhat controversial, as it allows the possibility of the sample being altered/not being a truly representative sample of the entire whole (taking only top buds out of a bag to send in for testing to get a higher THC%, or even using a previously tested product that has high THC%, and sending it in as a different, untested product).

Rhode Island also only reports back THC% on their products; THC% = THCa * .0877 + Delta 9. Mass reports TAC (total active cannabinoids), so TAC= THCV + CBGN + CBGA + delta 9 + (THCa * .0877). There are more cannabinoids on the test that get added into the TAC equation. But that’s also why Mass %’s seem higher than RI. Some list 104% or higher in Mass because of TAC

Edit: extra words: While we have some of the strictest testing regs, we only started implementing them 2 years ago, and each test became regulation at different points within those 2 years

Saskatchewan?

Thank you!

Ah ok thanks!

I live on aquidneck island and northeastern is way cheaper that the on island alternative “green leaf” plus the line is not 4 hours long lol

*Third party tested and safe.

Which shops have the Medicaid /disability discount

If you’re willing to drive, there was a place in Uxbridge that had $10 8ths like 2 weeks ago.

Yeah but not top shelf lol

I drive to Ma for concentrates, just got 5 grams for $150 +tax.

If the stores act like the ones I’m used to is bet that deal is either sold out or no longer on sale at this point. Thank you though

Yeah I lived in CA for 10 years, moved back to RI 12 years ago, and yes watching the state act like there was no blueprint was entertaining also, plus we can only grow 6 plants, in MA it’s 12, in CA it’s 12, but RI got there heads up there but.

Better than NV in terms of growing plants. In Nevada they passed a law that you can grow one plant if you live more than 25 miles from the nearest dispensary

I don’t know if you know Nevada, but it’s a desert state with lowest population density in the country. Two counties and one independent city hold 98% of the population because those are the only places with consistent water sources

There’s only a few towns in Nevada and they all have dispensaries. The rest of the state isn’t rural like the empty parts of New England are, it is EMPTY, like areas with zero people larger than Southern New England.

Long story short, less than 1% of the population is within more than 25 miles from a dispensary making it de facto illegal to grow any plants

I’ve been to dispensaries there but never looked up the laws, that does suck.

I go to Nova in S Attleboro. $20 1/8ths but the tax is still like 25%. I still think its way better than getting your goods from a guy who knows a guy who can get you "good shit". I'm loving being able to find strains that actually work for me in the way I want them to rather than the lottery the dealers (all the one's I've ever dealt with) are peddling.

That’s pretty good, I looked at that dispensary two days ago but didn’t see that deal though. Ended up going to CommCan in Rehoboth, definitely didn’t expect to be driving into farmland that reminds me more of Vermont than Greater Boston. Was pretty cool.

Some of the dispensaries around here try to do their own menu layouts instead of using the universal Dutchie one and can be hard to navigate so I don’t doubt it was there but I couldn’t find it.

Their inventory changes daily so it's better to peek in and stock up when you can. Sometimes 20 packs of 5mg gummies go on sale for $8 a bag. The $20 1/8ths are typically from Nova or Southie Adams.

Edit: Just checked their site and they have like 6 strains for $20.

That’s one thing that’s weird about dispensaries that seem to be universal around the country…

You can never count on a good price still being there the next day. I get it, they don’t drive off younger tech savvy more budget focused customers by offering something on sale every day, but they also keep making bank from older rich people who haven’t smoked since the 80s and don’t really know what prices should be

Well the gummy thing is a once a week occurrence whereas they almost always have a selection of $20 1/8ths. I don't smoke like crazy so it's not bad to me. Again, I just like knowing that what I'm getting is clean, properly measured, and what I actually want. I'd gladly pay a little extra for that.

What I usually equate it to is like going into a liquor store for vodka, but all they have is bottom shelf sambuca. That's what my 15 year experience buying from dealers has been like.

I’d rather buy in RI so the taxes go towards making things better for us, instead of some other state.

Yeah... sounds good but the fact is the markup is out of this world for the northeast.

You're only lining the wallets of the owners until the market corrects.

Idk about all of them but the Slater Compassion center in providence does they also give you points every time you spend a certain amount of money and you can put them toward free prerolls and stuff

Awesome thanks so much for the info

No problems

Thank you. I was going off of info that was 4 plus years old. Havent looked into since then, really. My cousin used to protest the lack of oversight / quality testing in medical marijuana cultivation at the state house, and I didn't know if they had made improvements. Great to know, and I'm glad they have!

It definitely has been a problem in the past. We’ve had our medical program 10+ years, and just 2 years ago started requiring testing of products. But compared to Mass and CT regulations, RI’s are much stricter. Especially the count that triggers a microbial failure. Just a heads up, the State does allow dispensaries to remediate and/or extract failed product. So if something previously failed for mold/yeast/bacterial growth; it can get put in a remediation machine and sold to consumers. Or it can get used for extraction.

Are you sure there are no taxes, or just LESS taxes? I haven’t bought ri medical in years but I did recall paying a tax.

Oh im sorry yeah i put that wrong you do pay tax buts its just the normal 7% instead the i think its 27% without medical card

Yeah which is weird since mass medical has no tax at all.

Yeah i would shop mass if they honored other states licenses but they dont want to it sucks, but for me with the discounts cover a little more than the tax so if your on disability or social security and have your license it ends up not being to bad

I also think RI has far better quality than mass, so that is a factor to consider too.

Yes i have to agree with that especially if you want flower, or vapes