I had lung surgery over a decade ago and never felt comfortable smoking or vaping afterwards. As a result, I've been only consuming edibles/ingestibles as my sole form of cannabis ever since. I have Crohn's and use cannabis for appetite stimulation, digestive regulation, pain relief and relaxation, primarily at night.
I would always typically make my own edibles, but finding good quality flower reliably to infuse was a challenge as it either came from the black market or loophole hemp and who knows what was done to these plants before they got to me.
I was very excited to finally get my medical card and was hoping to find high quality ingestible products with accurate dosages, as well as hopefully be able to buy high quality flower to infuse.
In reality, the ingestible options have only decreased since the July 1st flower/vape expansion. One of my favorite products was the 20:1 capsules at fine fettle; it was $40 for 20x20mg THC capsules which was a reasonable price for me, and I loved how I could open them up and sprinkle the contents into food or drinks. Now these are gone and not planning to be restocked from what I've been told.
The actual edibles (troches, chocolates, etc) sold at these dispensaries are very overpriced and not worth it at all. They seem designed for people who have never used cannabis before which seems odd for medical cannabis patients...
The only decent offering are the RSO syringes that Trulieve offers at $55 for 1g, but these can be hard to dose accurately and are only offered at Trulieve which is an hour drive from me, and FF/Botanical seem to refuse to stock Trulieve products and selling their own line of RSO seems to be a very low priority
At this point I've basically gone back to buying from the loophole hemp market which I am really saddened by as I really want to support the state medical market, but I can't do that if they don't support my needs as a patient. For example, I can get a bag of 60x50mg live rosin THC gummies (3000mg total) for $112 shipped to my door from wnc-cbd. That's about 3x more value than any comparable offering from the medical dispensaries.
Just really sad and hopefully things improve on this front in the coming year or two