Wussup Big Perm? I mean, Big Worm?

Yep. The Chicken Deluxe. Om nom nom.

The question is not how far the distance is, but how far are you really willing to go for THE BEST!?

Which is very easy to get to from Providence, 146->99 or 146 all the way, and then another 10 mins off the highway!

Not wanting to drive more than 15 minutes for "the best" is peak /r/RhodeIsland.

Chapel Grille. Surprised nobody mentioned it here

There are brands and people doing it right.

Unfortunately, just like in Mass, we have "money people" owners in charge of some of our dispensaries and these people don't really understand cannabis.

I'm working to educate some of them now.

Interests include Bob Dylan, UPS, and discussing his curved penis.

It might not be RI'ers that are the problem, pal.

lol -- meat's back on the menu, boys!

Their cannabis certainly doesn't belong in a comparison against ours. Jesus. I've never seen so much terrible weed in my life.

Just getting started! This is the year of RI cannabis.

RI's agriculture and farming community is small and fairly tight-knit.

We actually care and treat each other with respect and try to help others and share knowledge.

You wouldn't survive very long in this state being a dickhead to everyone. Word of mouth prevails here.

Slater Center, Mother Earth Wellness, Aura Central Falls, in order of proximity to Providence (varies depending on where you're located exactly).

I have never been impressed with MSO flower. Nobody wants to admit they're smoking mids.

I had taken a long break from cannabis and then started back up while in Mass a couple years ago. Seeing the difference now between what's going on in Mass and RI's scene is astounding.

The average flower in Mass is old, mold remediated, flavorless, and lacking in aroma.

The average RI flower is smooth to smoke, has flavor, has aroma. We have tons of flower on our shelves from November or newer. December and January is the norm right now for harvest dates.

Our companies share harvest date information over the phone. Mass dispensaries hardly ever do. They insist on answering with testing date rather than harvest date at best. At worst, they make you drive there to check.

I wouldn't try the RI MSO brands because I would suspect more of what's going on in Mass quality-wise.

All the small local craft flower I buy around here comes from Aura Central Falls, Mother Earth Wellness, and Slater Center. I just avoid Slater's in-house flower brand.

You can meet RI growers every week on Fridays 2-6 at Aura.

Pretty much every dispensary I encounter has smell jars*. Some places you may just have to ask for them, which is normal.

Ever since we went rec we've had fresh drops every 1-3 weeks spread across multiple dispos and it's 80-90% fire on our market. Beats the shit out of the moldy old boofpacks on Mass shelves.

Mass really overgrew for demand that never happened last year and anyone buying their old shit this year and thinking it's good is fooling themselves. A lot of it will end up recalled from shelves and remade into edibles and vapes as places are forced to make their money back.

Some of our micro cultivation licenses only allow 2.5 LBs stored so they literally can't hold onto material. Try finding that in Mass! lol

Some of us work too hard for our money to be caught dead advocating for MSOs (Multi-State Operators) but thanks for playing. Fuck Sweetspot, Fuck RISE, and fuck anyone who puts MSO crap on our shelves like Rythm and all this other boof.

That stuff is TRASH. Support local cultivators and dispensaries that don't put Rythm and other crap on their shelves.

Do your research people. Stop giving your dollars to these booflords. If you absolutely have to for whatever reason, then at least buy local brands, not their shit.

edit: Downvote if you want but compare prices to Mother Earth/Aura/Slater and see how you're getting screwed over sometimes for local brands. Their own products undercut ours. This is an intentional strategy that MSOs do to ruin small craft. I seriously wouldn't shop at either RISE or Sweetspot and if you care about buying local, you shouldn't either.