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Comment by markz | Hacker News Reader

How do I find "normal" weed? Is it only medical?

Nowhere in Washington or Colorado is selling recreational weed legally yet (although many businesses are partially through the licensing/application process).

fwiw, Leafly seems a bit easier to use than this site.

I believe there is now one business in CO that has their permits :)

Hmm, it looks like you are right, but I think they can't start actually selling until January 1st. I'm not quite sure there.

In Washington it will still be a few more months, since anything sold recreationaly needs to be grown explicitly for recreational use, and that process cannot start until the permits are issued (I believe they have until the end of this year before they are required by law to start issuing permits to grow (or sell)).

What do you mean? There's no actual difference in the product.

While I understand the facetiousness of your comment, I should take the opportunity to point out that there are medical strains that are bred (optimized) to treat certain specific conditions.

So, the fact that we have medical marijuana does let people create higher-quality (and higher-precision!) products, vis-a-vis available offerings on the black market.

My comment was not intended facetiously in any way. Sure, while certainly the change in legal environment engendered all sorts of new breeding, by and large most medical marijuana is the exact same strains that were (and still are) sold on the illegal market, largely grown by the same people who would be/used to/are growing it for the illegal market.

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