Some of y'all honestly are toxic. We have been waiting for the this moment for decades and it's here and instead of excited conversation about products, strains and highs - I am seeing complaints about lines, prices and politics. Please try and enjoy this moment and celebrate the fact that this is history and everyone is stood in line is a part of weed history. I love you and weed - look on the brighter side.

Hi all, 

I've seen a lot of posts about Michigan and their hilariously low prices, and it's true: there's damn good weed up there for great prices. But it's also pretty easy to get ripped off as the Michigan market lacks proper regulation. As such a I thought it would be handy to have a guide to buying weed in the Mitten.

First off, and I mean no shade towards Michigan, a lot of this weed is fucking trash. The market has turned weed into an ultra commodity that people just want to buy for the cheapest possible price, so it might be a little difficult to find top shelf products at good prices. The brand you absolutely must avoid is Livwell. It's legitimately the fucking worst weed. Avoid weed from Common Citizen and Fluresh as well. And as trash as the weed can be it's still better than the product and prices you'll usually get in Chicago.

Now Buchanan or Niles is usually the first place people will go as it's closest to the border. In Buchanan there is 7Engines, Pinnacle Emporium, High Profile, Cannavista, and Zen Leaf. All these places are generally fine except Zen Leaf. High Profile has the best flower, though usually pricier at $250/oz. They give you the option to save by buying 2.5oz. Concentrates are good, carts are mediocre. For concentrate I would go to 7Engines which has $100 10g buckets of live resin. Cannavista has a nice selection of concentrate as well and if you're a fan of Cresco carts they'll have 1 g carts for $50. Most of these places sell pre-pack weed which doesn't automatically mean it's bad but usually it is bad. Some pre-pack brands I've enjoyed are Glacier and Redemption. However if you want to actually smell and see your weed before your buy it you will have to go to High Profile. Also there are two kinds of pre-pack: some dispos will have their employees pack weed into bags when it comes in to streamline the ordering process and cut down on people sniffing and looking at their options. This weed has a decent chance of being good and isn't always an omen of poor weed, but be wary. Check the cultivator and harvest date. The other kind of pre-pack is when a company packs weed into a bag and sends it to the dispo, this is almost always bad.

Speaking of carts you're going to be dealing with a handful of decent brands and a lot of crap: Element is still king of LLR carts, but I've heard their new full gram carts have problems they're in the process of fixing. Cresco, Fresh Coast, and Redemption are all really decent LLR  Fresh Coast has live rosin now, and they're tasty, but try to wait for a sale because they usually charge $35 which is just a bit too much. Good LLR carts are going to, in general, run you about $50 for a full g, $35 if you're lucky. Now if you don't give two flying fucks about LLR and are cool with distillate, you're gonna be in heaven: almost all dispos have some sort of 10 for $100 deals on carts. These are usually Drip band carts, which I hear are fine. (FYI for people going to Cannavista, they have a 10/$100 deal on Common Citizen carts but I hear they suck ass and clog)

Consider doing what many Americans proudly do every day and ignore Buchanan and go north. A trip to Buchanan will generally take you an hour and 45 minutes, give or take ten minutes. That drive also sucks major ass. The further north you go the better prices will get. Kalamazoo is a great visit but it's gonna be three hours which can be a lot for some, but if you wanna make a weekend out of it it's a cool little college town, decent food and drink. Popular kzoo dispensaries are Lake Effect and The Refinery. There's also Cannanamazoo, the only 24 hour dispensary. Never been but heard good things.

Benton Harbor is only ten minutes further from Buchanan and way easier to get to. There are three dispensaries but you'll want to go to Nobody's Home where there is always a 2 oz for $150 of some damn good weed. Decent selection here. The other two are NoBo (FYI NoBo's online order inventory and in person inventory are completely separate, you'll want to go in yourself for the good shit) and Bloc. Both of these are pretty mediocre but NoBo sometimes has good deals if you shop in person, just be prepared to walk out if they don't have anything you want.

Equidistant is Watervliet, where Doja has some great weed and good deals. This is going to be the easiest dispo to get to as it's just a straight shot up 94. Haven't been to Green Door yet. If you're looking for a unique dispensary, try Sun Provisions in Decatur between Watervliet and Kalamazoo, about 2.5 hours from Chicago. Sun is a micro-business or something and all their product comes from that building you're shopping in. Great weed and great prices. Also shout out to Golden Greens in Lawrence.

On the topic of med cards: honestly being a medical user doesn't get you much in a lot of dispensaries in Michigan. There are a handful of medical only places still, like The Refinery in Detroit, but as I understand it there's not a lot of reason for dispos to bother. You won't skip the line, the products they keep in medical are limited and old, and you don't get much of a discount. In fact, a rec only dispensary, High Profile in Buchanan, offers imo the best offer for med card folks with a blanket 15% discount.

In terms of brands or growers to look out for there aren't a lot. Grown Rogue has been fine in my experience, my preferred grower is Cloud Cover and they own High Profile, but honestly there are so so so many growers now it's hard to keep track. Element is a great brand for carts and concentrate. Redemption buys weed from another company and hires the formerly incercerated to either pack or turn into extract. Their LLR carts are cheaper and pretty good, and I've had some good weed from them.

Edit: High Profile has 2.5 oz of MAC Truck going for $375 pre tax and that shit is so fucking good, would recommend

Edit 2: Check everything you buy! Again, no shade but a lot of dispensaries are selling old product, make sure to check!

I personally purchased Verano Super Glue batch at beginning of august. There was herming and a seed I found. Then I see this:

📷b****8Verified purchaseAugust 12, 2020

Litterally so mad its unreal i have been verano'd. The last batch of g purps and this sunshine og have been comprised. They taste terrible and do not deliver in buzz. I have been an avid user of verano products and even sent so many ppl to them saying they were the best. I am officially marking them on my do not buy list for a while.

I've also noticed others saying the same thing right now about more of their strains, and also Cresco Budder's atm. (Red layer, taste of butane, runny consistency)

So, apparently, the marijuana grows by Verano during the Pandemic were on "auto pilot" for a period of time and they screwed at least 3 strains up yet still sell it premium price. Be careful of Verano right now, I warn you.

Watched it live!

It’s true! I feel like this sub is becoming increasingly hostile- just because you can’t be happy, or disagree with what’s going on, doesn’t give you the right to try and bring everyone else’s happiness down!!

I hope you are all enjoying yourselves out there! Whether it’s recreational, medical, or from the black market, stay high as fuck! (and warm!)

I’ve been waiting a long time to make this post. I am a previous employee of W*ke n B*kery and have seen several posts on Reddit about the company but I wanted to add my own perspective. Everything I say here is alleged**

TLDR
-Terrible management/ ownership
-Corporate greed and an obsession with expansion without looking inwards
-History of bad treatment of employees
-Constant use of AI

I was working at wnb for almost 2 years. The first 6 months I LOVED the job. Cheap access to thc products in the city, fun vibe, good coworkers. The woman who trained me was really good at her job and made me feel like I was learning how to be a barista. Then as I began to see more of the behind the scenes/ management I started to resent my job. It began with little things like cutting hours with less than a week notice, and taking away mid shifts. Then I found out that the woman who trained me had 2 strokes on the job while training around 5-10 new employees. Initially management allowed her to work remotely but when it came time for her paycheck she was told there was no remote work allowed at the company and she was fired.

The first time I met the owner was at an employee dinner all expenses paid. I was sitting at a table with a few coworkers and our plus 1s. The owner came up to the table and (in the nastiest tone possible) says “Who at this table works for me?”

Shortly after this, she came into the location I worked at and saw a coworker sitting on her break. She went to another location and complained that my coworkers should’ve gotten up out of her chair and greeted her even if she was on her break. Later that day, morning baristas were cut entirely Monday through Thursday. We were all used to shifts getting shortened about every other week but having this happen tanked morale around the store. She came in another time and expressed how mad she was that the pastries weren’t displayed to her liking. She ordered all the cookies to be lined up next to each other, and when a coworker mentioned that nut pastries are not to be contained directly next to non-nut pastries due to cross contamination, the boss scolded her and made her display them anyway.

There was also a time where wnb offered “organic food,” (which was convenient because none of the boxes were labeled organic) that was packed in an overstuffed drink cooler that wasn’t cooling properly. The cook made inappropriate comments towards female staff several times. He also would snitch on employees to the main boss. Before one of the shifts I worked at that location I ordered a hot dog because it would be $2 with my discount. It took 30 minutes to prepare and gave me the worst food poisoning I’ve ever had in my life. I never ate the cooked food again.

The store I worked at had frequent rats that we would see running around the storage area. Once a rat carved through a container of chocolate syrup and still survived. Not all the rats shared that fate. Several rats died in the store and we could all smell them because they were there for days and the manager refused to call the exterminator. One rat had died behind a sealed part of the sink area and for an entire week I had to stand behind the drink bar smelling dead rat. The manager was never there so she didn’t care that the smell bothered us. She would frequently ignore text messages and then scold us for not telling her what was happening in the store.

Last summer there was an issue in the kitchen with pastry dosages. (If you had one of them around that time you KNOW what I’m talking about) People were ordering 3 mg cheesecakes that were infused with well over 100 mg. Several coworkers had to call off work because they were improperly dosed and had become ill. When management was notified about it they denied any issue with dosages and said we were not allowed to tell customers that there was any issue. Instead of recalling the product, they let people buy pastries that were making them sick so they could scrounge up a few more bucks.

And speaking of scrounging up bucks, the entire time I worked there we were told that the company was losing money. My initial team of 13 people at one store had so many shifts, but when the team started to dwindle, (eventually getting down to just 6 people) the shifts they promised would return, didn’t. Through the POS system we were able to tell how much the store had made over the course of the year. I will not reveal the number, but the ONE store I worked at with SIX employees made 7 figures. We were told every day how little money we were making, but from what we could tell we were making them bank. I had to laugh when one day I was working and the tax commission for the location in North Carolina called our store and mentioned that wnb was not paying their local taxes.

And while we were told they weren’t making any money the owner was posting Tik Toks from her vacation that went from Paris to Dubai first class for an entire month.

The manager is just as rotten as the owner. They make her manage every single store and she is completely exhausted. She would complain that she couldn’t get tipped because she was salaried (making almost $100k while we made $20-40k), she admitted they were listening to us using the microphones in the cameras, and she would complain about us to other stores who would then tell us what she said.

The work environment felt actively hostile. Meanwhile, customers would come in filming us on their phones, ask the dumbest questions because they were already high as fuck, and then spend $250 without tipping a cent. We asked management for gratuity on orders over $200, that was denied. I would be treated like shit and be expected to say thank you and kiss at the feet of the owners, who show zero respect to their employees.

Come to find out, several years before I started there was an issue where the team noticed their tips not looking right compared to the numbers in the system. When they went on strike because their wages were being stolen, they were all fired.

If you’re interested, there is a lawsuit on trellis between wnb and the high crowd cafe, where wnb allegedly lured hcc into a fraudulent franchise agreement and then made them pay tens of thousands of dollars to be part of said agreement. One of the owners of wnb then allegedly used the Gmail of the hcc account he still had access to to change their store hours to say permanently closed and responding to google reviews saying they didn’t serve thc product.

Around and before the time I quit, the company was openly and proudly using AI to create social media content and the drink menus (I’m sure the AI drink menus are still up, spelling errors and all). When asked to stop using AI and use the creative talent on a team full of creative stoners, the owners said that we had “no place to make political or personal statements.” Which is funny considering there are some long lost (but still on their twitter page) tweets sharing sentiments like “Elon Musk we love you save us Elon musk.”

There are SO many more stories and instances of mistreatment by the management of wnb. If you know anyone who used to work there just ask them. Most will go out of their way to suggest you don’t support wnb as a business.

Again I must state that this is all alleged. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them retaliate for someone saying how terrible it was and because they are petty.

Hello All,

Rep. Mary Edly-Allen has introduced bill HB5201. See here:

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=108&GA=101&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=5201&GAID=15&LegID=125620&SpecSess=&Session=

This bill will create a state police data base where every legal, dispensary transaction will be recorded and stored (with your personal info) and maintained by the IL state police. This is over-reaching and unconstitutional.

While not stated, I believe the intent is to help revoke FOID/CC cards in IL, and discretely be used against the public in traffic stops, searches etc. If this were to pass, there is no telling how this could be used against legal, law abiding citizens who like to enjoy cannabis. Cops randomly scan license plates all day as they drive around... what if they just happened to be following a car owned by someone who legally purchased cannabis a week prior driving down the road at 11:30pm? What if you were stopped, they found cannabis on you but you weren't in their data base? Would they try to charge you with purchasing illegal cannabis? The possibilities behind this bill are endless.

Alcohol, and prescription psychiatric drugs are not reported to the state cops, why should this be?

This bill is absurd. If it were to pass, I would completely stop buying from dispensaries.

Please, contact your representatives. Tell your friends/family to do the same. Contact Rep. Mary Edly-Allen and tell her that this has nothing to do with serving the public, and is just another corrupt Illinois policy that will drive the market back underground.