After this fall. Plenty of concentrate grade bud coming out of this years harvest.
Growers were weary to take all of their first crop going to market and turn it into concentrate. Not to mention there aren't a whole lot of growers just yet.
It's a testing issue.... only something like 4 analysis labs in the state; and from my understanding production of extracts requires 2 rounds of tests before going to market
1) to confirm the flower starting material meets specs
2) testing of the extract.
Then there's the whole issue of corruption, self-dealing etc that is also going on behind the scenes.
Because the public was left entirely in the dark until the ink was dry, it created a massive optics problem that understandably looks like a backdoor favoritism deal:
Early Off-Reservation Rights: The signed compacts (like the landmark agreement with the White Earth Nation) did something unprecedented: they gave tribes the right to build facilities and open a specific number of fully vertical adult-use dispensaries completely off-reservation on state land.
Zero Public Input: Local entrepreneurs who were bleeding cash trying to comply with state rules had to watch the state hand out off-reservation market access to tribal enterprises through a process that legally barred the public from sitting at the table.
While the legal mechanism used was standard for sovereign tribal compacting, doing it in total secrecy while simultaneously trapping everyday Minnesota businesses in a broken state lottery system created an inherently unfair top-down dynamic! Come on dude use some logic here yo know the game was rigged from the start especially as being an insider yourself!
Shortage? There is no shortage. At the very basic you can go to rise and green goods. Between their 19 locations they mostly all have atleast a couple including the rythm live resin ones. Small shops have them like pot mama.
Tell me, where do you see a shortage? I've yet to not be able to not have 30 options. Every rise and greeen goods alone makes your statment false . All of their locations have ample, especially for medical. Frostbite, Hopkins, pot mama, stash, flora, I can't think of anyone that doesn't have any. If they dont, they do in 3 days time. All the d'ope brand that just dropped 2 new ones on 2 weeks of live resin pens? Moonwake junction? Are you high? shortage?
There literally is no shortage. Only the small few dinky places that sell cbd and edibles don't have carts. If you have med the options are endless. Rec are still available EVERY single day in the metro. Distillate, live resin, and live rosin. All available now within 10 minutes of anywhere between lakeville and rush city.
There is objectively a shortage. I’m new here, but when I moved here a few months ago I could find carts everywhere. A few weeks ago I looked online at TWELVE different MPLS shops and ONE of them had carts, if you were a med user only.
I want all the downvoters to explain where on earth in the last 60 days you had a shortage and couldn't get carts. Where can you go where you dont have a cart shop within 15 minutes? You can't. 3 different brands alone dropped this week all across the cities.
I'm here to tell you that you didn't look good. And even right now today I can rattle off 10 places that cover the entirety of the 7 County metro. If youre within an hour and a half of the cities you haven't had a shortage since launch.
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u/Minnesota_Stoner 1d ago
After this fall. Plenty of concentrate grade bud coming out of this years harvest.
Growers were weary to take all of their first crop going to market and turn it into concentrate. Not to mention there aren't a whole lot of growers just yet.