August 9, 2024 • 40 mins
In this episode of Mitten Marijuana, Joe and Chloe dive into a special weed review that stretches far beyond the Mitten State. Joe recently took a trip to Alaska and decided to put the state's cannabis claims to the test. Is Alaskan weed really better than Michigan's? Join us as we compare strains, prices, and the overall cannabis culture in Alaska versus Michigan. From jaw-dropping prices to surprising similarities, this episode covers it all, including the sticker shock of $200 ounces and the curious quirks of Alaskan dispensaries.
Timestamps:
- 00:00-04:08 - Intro: A Field Trip to Alaska
- 04:09-11:00 - First Impressions: Alaskan Dispensaries vs. Michigan's
- 11:01-15:17 - Breaking Down the Strains: What Was Smoked in Alaska
- 15:18-19:00 - Price Differences: Why Alaskan Weed Costs So Much
- 19:01-25:10 - Comparing Pot Shop Experiences: Small Shops and Friendly Staff
- 25:11-31:00 - Legal Limits and Regulations: Differences in Cannabis Laws
- 31:01-36:08 - The Verdict: Is Alaskan Weed Worth It?
- 36:09-39:11 - Wrap Up: Reflecting on the Alaskan Cannabis Adventure
Tune in to hear if Michigan’s cannabis really stands up against the hype of Alaskan weed and find out if Joe will ever consider making another trip for a different kind of high!
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Welcome back to Mitten Marijuana the podcast where we talk about good stuff. I'm Joe and I'm Chloe
They we have a fun
episode
The answer to think we'd ever really get around to doing I figured eventually but certainly not this
Soon after the creation of the podcast
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But today I went on a field trip all of last week
to Alaska and while I was there I
Was comparing and contrasting
Michigan weed to Alaskan weed
Alaskans had weed legal longer than us
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So I had high hopes and we also had a friend that lived in Alaska
That said
Alaskan weed is way better. Yeah
They swore I had to put that to my up and down that Alaskan weed was the best weed
No other state could compare
Now to be fair I do obviously have
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Bit of a bias I have a dog in the fight being Michigan
Is Michigan is called Mitten Marijuana after all mm-hmm, but so
So I say I went in like there's no way
But I didn't want to I did my best to be as impartial as I could
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As far as the flavor of the weed I was impartial as hell
The flavor was the same
Yeah, we taste the same. Yeah weeds weed. I
tried not to like
Get wild strains that I've ever had
Wild strains that I've never heard of
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Just for like that for the flavor comparison, but I did smoke quite a few different strains
I have a picture
Of all of the ones not all the ones but of most of them I
Did get a bunch different joints throughout the week. I was there
I
Didn't smoke every day, but I smoked almost every day
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So I knew that kind of normally I smoked almost every day you were there for
Seven days. Yeah, I saw almost all seven. I think I like five
Five
Yeah, probably five I might have missed two days
I
Yeah, maybe even only one but you know
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And how many times during those days did you smoke just once or was it like?
Once or twice okay, sometimes twice sometimes once
But well, yeah, that's what once or twice means
Right. I'm aware of what it means. I know
Well, I'm still I'm trying to think back and be like how often
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Like did I smoke twice every day and no I I would like to say I probably smoked twice
four
Of the five
Of the five days. I definitely smoked I think I smoked six days definitely twice
I'll say that's already three days
Three days. I definitely did twice. I did two days
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not necessarily once in the morning once at night, but there's mild ambiguity, but there's
Baselines. Yeah, I didn't smoke. I wouldn't say I smoked more than I normally smoke
And did you smoke different strains when you did smoke multiple times? Uh, not necessarily
I smoked Mosley's Tiva because that's what I typically smoke
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Yeah, but I'm saying like did you smoke like oh, they like an og cushion the morning and then like I usually
Different strains most of time. Okay
Good I want kind of a bigger variety
That was so that's where a lot of this is gonna come into play
Right
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Some of the flavors. Okay, some of the strains flavors. Well, listen to me. So silly
Some of the ones I got the first day
chimney fire
Thank you was Matt and new ska thunder fuck
The northern lights
So
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MTF and chimney fire or Steve's northern lights is an indica. I
Don't think I took photos of any of the other ones I smoked but I do remember I
Guess the only other two that I really smoked were
green crack and
Jack hair
And we've smoked green crack before
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Have we I don't yeah, we didn't review it though. It was just one that we just smoked like just so happened to smoke
I do not recall. Yeah
Everyone really hypes it up. That's what that one girl said
She smoked that tiktok you sent me I know I was just about to bring it up actually. Yeah, that's what she smoked and I
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I guess if there was an earthquake happening while I smoked it you probably would freak me out
But I don't say it was that crazy. But then again, I do have a higher higher tolerance
Then I guess the average smoker
Then mine must be astronomical yeah, you have a pretty high tolerance. I really do
but um
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For context I saw this tiktok of this girl talking about how she went to a dispensary in California and got
green crack as
weed
To smoke as refer like as recommended by her bud tender who said that it was the strongest shit. He'd never smoked
She completely forgot about that comment smoked the whole joint and then
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Thought that she was having like a severe panic attack because her whole body and like her whole apartment was shaking
She went on Facebook hours later to find out that there had been an earthquake and that was the first time she had ever
Experienced an earthquake since living in California in like three years
pretty funny
so
Pretty really funny on us
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Yeah, she even she admitted that it was really funny
But she thought she was having a panic attack because she overdid it and then
Come to find out it was just an earthquake
So yeah, I would be freaked out too if I was high and experiencing an earthquake unknowingly
Yeah, so I am right now taking a bit of a tolerance break
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you too, so
After after not getting super stoned in Alaska. I definitely got stoned a few times
So I wouldn't say the weed so bad. I definitely
I wouldn't say the weed so bad. I didn't get high I got high
but at what cost and
I'm glad you asked because oh my god
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It's so expensive up there dude on average. I don't know if I wrote down the averages, but it was like eight bucks
on average for weed
For a pre-roll and the pre-rolls are only half grammars. They're not full grams
I
(07:18):
Asked them why?
Or I asked them why they don't have whole gram pre-rolls and I said well we do but they're not as popular as the half grams and
I asked how yeah because they're like 30
I asked how much a gram roll is and she said 15 bucks. I'm like, oh, well, that's fucking why dude. Holy shit
And a few other differences they have
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They have a one ounce limit daily limit. You can only get an ounce
Which sounds like very little weed but for Alaskan prices
You have Bill fucking gates to be limiting out
So I guess yeah, I just thought about that because I'm like really only an ounce that's what I said to the guy
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I don't think
So I also at one of the stores at Honey Pot specifically, which is a great little shop
I liked it all the shots were kind of smaller. They weren't like giant stores like we got
Mmm, and there was another big difference
Yeah, they don't need to accommodate a lot of people because you have to be again Bill Gates to buy they don't check people in
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You don't give someone at the desk your card and they put you in the system and they send you back when there's an opening
They don't have the limited to
customers per bud tender they do call them bud tenders I
Felt like a moron trying to ask them what the job title was without like saying bud tender because I don't want to put that
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You know, I wanted to see what they yeah in case I was derogative
That's that's what we calm I didn't want to say
What do you guys what would you call yourself? What would you call bud tenders? I don't want to go
Tenders you fucking idiot
You know, I don't want to sound stupid but I felt like I sound stupid asking them. So what is your job title?
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mmm
Tender
I got a podcast like okay, that's the density even pressed by the podcast
See in any time that we bring it up here like to our bud tenders. They get so hype about it
Yeah, or they they brush it off, but I feel like they get more excited about it
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But I never say to get people excited. I just say as the reason why I'm holding a journal and taking notes in your store
I don't think notes in Michigan stores because
They're not all the same but they're all similar
Yeah, they're same enough to where you've gone to one you've gone to enough of them, you know
How the rest they are they're pretty different. Yeah
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but so between
Alaska stores and Michigan stores, they don't check you in they don't have a limit of customers to bud tenders
But you can really just walk in as long as you're 21 or up you can walk around look at stuff
Yeah, you compared it to like a liquor store. Yeah, it's like a liquor store
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But they sometimes they card at the door sometimes they card on
Purchase but all the weeds like behind the desk. So that's not different. That's the same
A lot of the stores sold merch. Oh
Yeah, which was I think a little different. I don't recall our stores really selling merch
Some of them do but it's very limited like I do know that bud brothers does against their one farther wall
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Do they have bud
Brothers merch specifically bud brothers or is it just like merchandise?
That's what I mean is these stores will sell store specific merchandise like
Because I know like smoke society sells like backpack boys, yeah merch like backpacks hoodies
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Yeah
Store I've never seen a place I'll store
Merch yeah badger buds, which is the first shop I went to up there had some of the coolest looking merch
Not in my fucking size
upsetting I would have bought but not my size one one
Badger buds are such a cool name for pot shop. Yeah, so I went to three different pot shops
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I went to badger buds pipe and leaf and honey pot. I like honey pot
Honey pot was my favorite looks wise pipe and leaf was a very like
upscale
Look store, but it wasn't honey pot was more expensive for sure
see I would think almost like the opposite of like I would expect honey pot to be like more upscale and then like
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Pipe and leaf to be more like almost old-timey bookstore not old and decrepit but like, you know, I know you mean
it was um
More Sherlock Holmes
It was it was very very professional. It gave me kind of like a smoke society
Like a smaller smoke society
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It was really really nice. It was calm
There's only one budtender at all these stores only one person working. They don't have security. They don't security doors
Oh, which is very jarring. This is huge culture shocks. Like what the fuck's going on?
I know you feel like you miss a step. Yeah, am I supposed to be back here when I first got there?
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I went to badger buds
I went into the first door and I stood there and I wait for her to come up to the front to take my car
So you just come back. Oh
Okay, I felt dumb
But that is very different. That's a huge difference
So if you're planning to go to Alaska, you can don't stand awkwardly at the door, I guess you can just go in
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It's not a big deal. What the fuck this no, oh
I wrote a word, but I can't read it
Can I read your handwriting better than you? Oh, never mind. I see what it says. Okay, so
Badger buds a small shop friendly staff all all the shops I went to had really friendly staff super nice people
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Pipe and leaf the guy talked to me for the longest and I asked him a shit ton of questions. Oh jeez
They all sold pretty much the same stuff edibles flower pre rolls
Vapes
That was a big difference to is the vapes were very expensive. It was like the cheapest cart was 50 bucks
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whole oh
my god
No, of course. I wasn't shopping around for vapes because I at the time I didn't have a checked bag. So I didn't plan to fly one back
Yeah, then after I did have a check bag. I only went to honey pot and they said 50 bucks was their cheapest
So I said fuck that I'm not buying a $50 cart and then a battery
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Yeah, I'm like no, that's all right. I'm good for comparison for anyone listening that is in Alaska
Our average cart price is like eight bucks
Yeah, eight to ten dollars like that is average for like a good quality cart like platinum
Yeah, and which granted those have been shit lately, but like my play cart was five bucks
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I think I've got no I think it was ten
I'm aware. We got a it was it's not cart. It's the whole vape. It's the size of a cart. Oh
Yeah bucks. I
Haven't smoked it yet. So I don't know if it's uh, I
Can't speak on the quality of it, but it's 15 bucks
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Also, while we're talking about the difference we talked about the difference between Michigan and Alaska, but never said what Michigan
Limit is so it's one ounce in Alaska in Michigan. It's two and a half ounces a day
So yeah, what you can get two and a half ounces. I feel like probably for half the price of the ounce
Honestly, I mean our dips which is one of my favorite which is kind of a mid-tier ounce maybe a lower price ounce
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Is 79 bucks?
Mm-hmm for an ounce the cheapest ounce at honey pot 200 bucks. Oh
So put that in your pipe and smoke it oh
Going to death. Oh my god
it was in
saying I
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Could never
their highest
THC joint
that they found that that the guy had a
The guy had seen at pipe and Lee was 34% THC
Which isn't?
It's not tiny
But it's that's that's the highest
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That he's ever said they've that he's seen and I've seen and we have a joint right now
a whole gram joint that is
40% not infused
just pure bud
flower
40%
And I think the highest I've seen on like an infused is like 42 or 43%
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We have a 44% infused. Do we? Yeah. I don't remember seeing it, but I
distinctly remember seeing 42 so that's why that was you know, that was the only one I knew for certain I think that
That might be what the
what the
Flower the just flowers, but I know for sure
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You know, it's insane we have at least a four that's like an average like that's a lot
That's like an average infused. Yeah, that's even sometimes higher than most infused. I guess average pretty apt
Yeah, average in that's the
THC content of an average infused joint here and mind you that is going off of as well
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dragonfly and free infused which are which are
225 each gram pre-roll
$2.25 not $225 and you find a $2 pre-roll
Literally anywhere in Alaska or at least you can the three stores. I've gone to I can't speak on the entire you can sniff the jar
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for 225
It was
disappointing to see the least
It wasn't very strong weed
It wasn't any better tasting
the price was justified to me because he said all of the equipment and all of the
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all the things you need to grow weed like the lights the
Fertilizers the chemicals in their climate all of that and they can only grow indoors
All of that they have to ship in from the lower 48 so they have much higher shipping costs on that stuff
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So their weed is just higher
which is
Unfortunate for sure
Yeah, you know I
I still I didn't think it was based off of what you've said I I
Could not believe that
Alaskan weed is superior. Yeah, I any other state. I would say it's not superior to Michigan for sure
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I can't speak on
California or Colorado and now I do want to go to California, Colorado
Just well these
Yeah, we got some remember we might be going to well probably be going to California in December
I can't wait to fly another four hour time difference. I'm still getting over the last one
I know with your experience with that. I'm definitely gonna take an extra day off of work
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I don't care if it's paid or not literally just to acclimate. Yeah, honestly
We'll see yeah, that's a later this year
All right. So another thing that I've asked about so in Michigan
When stores open celebs will show up to stores
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Mm-hmm, like Snoop Dogg has opened a few stores not like his own personal stores, but he's gone to
Openings. Yeah. Yeah, I know snoops been to openings here and then I
Went to the house of dang Christmas party last year and that was chock full of celebrities
That was really cool. I was working and I wasn't I didn't have an invite. Maybe this year. I was a dang
(19:59):
Maybe next year. Maybe if the podcast blows up we'll get invited. That'd be cool
Mm-hmm. I mean they had they had content creators there. So it's not unheard of but I asked them about celebrities
They said the guy piping leaf said he's never heard of celebrities showing up
Dang well, I guess it is way out of the way so it would be crazy for celebrities to go to I guess
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Yeah, because especially like I was also only at Fairbanks
So maybe in Anchorage, yeah, I asked about
Chains because in Michigan we have huge chains
Like really big chain stores pot shops, which is wild and they said that's rare
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There's a few like smaller chains, but for the most part, they're all more mom and poppy
Mm-hmm. That's kind of me. We have like the first one that comes to mind for me is Dispo
Yeah, Dispo is a chain. Uh, Smoke Study is not. Elite's a chain. Is House of Dank a chain? House of Dank's a chain
Yeah, there's one in Saginaw. There's like three in Detroit. Yeah. I mean there's a lot a lot of chains around here. Pinkana
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Is that a chain? I'm pretty sure they are. I always said Pinkana, but maybe it's Pinkana
Because and I didn't think it would be a chain. I would say Pinkana because of Pinkana. Yeah, that's why and I mean I say Pinkana because
Cannabis. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know another thing that was different
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were
You can advertise on the radio and then print
There were I saw print ads for the cannabis chains and I heard radio
ads for
Pot shops. See I don't listen to the radio or look at any newspapers. I do listen to the radio at work
Never once heard a pot shop advertise
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Yeah, but it makes sense. I don't know if they can't
Or they don't
I have to believe that they can't
It could also be that I just listen to the wrong radio station
But we're listening to similar radio station because I don't pick the radio station when I'm not driving
Mm-hmm, so I'm not one of those idiots. Yeah, so the music that you listen to at work is very similar to what you were listening to up there
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So as you would expect the same or similar
Yeah
Okay, so
The price difference is kind of enormous
Their half grand pre rolls are more expensive than our whole grand pre rolls
They are
The same or worse than thc content
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They're
I mean weed tastes like weed. So can't really say much on that
Which I guess is a good thing in this regard. At least it's not trash
Right, and I didn't really look at any flour so I can't speak on the quality of buds
Um, because I wasn't gonna I didn't have a grinder or a bowl or papers and I didn't feel like rolling joints
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While I was on vacation. Yeah, so I only got
Pre rolls
Which were expensive as I said they were on average like
Fucking god
Uh, yeah on average they were eight bucks
The cheapest ones I found were like five bucks
And that was that pipe and leaf
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So they had some of the better prices i've seen
Looking at the cameras see what they're barking at
Who would have thought literally nothing
So that's crazy
Thanks dogs
Yeah, um
I took quite a few notes packaging on the weed
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same
I thought they asked you if you want a bag
They don't just put it in a bag
Yeah, here you can't leave without a bag. Yeah, it has to be
I think in a secure bag. I don't think it has to be secure bag
I think it has to be in a bag because there's some stores that give you plastic bags. Yeah, elite's new
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Reusable bag that used to get you a free pre-roll and was an amazing bag now just gets you a whole punch for a free bag
Which is still pretty cool. Oh, hey, but now you have to visit 10 times right for an eighth. Oh, well
If you go off and I mean I go bud brothers often enough. I get my 10 punches quick
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Too quick. They don't do a punch card. They have punch card bud brothers. Oh, they've never given me one. Oh, you should ask
I've got one. I got two now
I got one
I always forget to bring it in. Um
That's how you offer okay
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Okay, so
Yeah packaging very similar
Their pre-roll can take the canisters are still one gram pre-roll canisters, but there's only half gram joint in it
That kind of pissed me off because I was kind of unaware
It was only a half gram, especially at first because I didn't I didn't think i'd have to ask
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I assumed
Yeah, because here you don't get really half grams unless it's like a five pack of like roses or jeter
Yeah, they said eight bucks. I'm like fucking crazy. I guess eight bucks for a gram joint
And then it's eight bucks for a half gram. I'm like what the fuck for half the cost
I can't believe you kept smoking that for half the cost
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I would have told you to not I would have said can't afford it for a quarter of the cost of the half gram alaskan joint
I could buy a one gram infused joint. Yeah in michigan, so
If i'm ever moved to alaska, I would grow
And you can't grow outside because
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The fucking day night cycles are awful and the weather's terrible for growing because
So if anyone in alaska is looking to move
Move to michigan. It's gonna save you a lot of fucking money michigan did
out do
California and sales by volume if i'm not mistaken what we set up one podcast
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So something like that, you know, we're going we're going places with our pot game
We're certainly one of the better ones
Um, yep
200 dollar ounce
cheapest
insanity
Um, they they all have pretty good, uh, like lists. They did a good job of having a
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Honeypot had like a little booklet you could flip through see what they had for pre-rolls and flour
That's pretty good. That's nice, especially considering that it's all like behind the counter and really nice considering. It's so fucking expensive
Yeah, yeah, so I I could not smoke up there the way I smoke down here
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Not because the wheat's stronger because the wheat's fucking wildly expensive. I'd have to have a dealer that
Gave it to you for michigan prices
Which literally they couldn't do apparently not we we could go up there right now and have the nastiest fucking girl operation
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And we could be raking in money, like it cost us
I can't imagine cost us all that did you ever ask like how much you're allowed to have?
like in your
Hall of Famer
Oh, I did but the person I asked didn't know
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Dang, so what is it here? I can't remember. I know you have six plants per person
Of age up to 12 plants total
So you're gonna we can have 12 plants
And they have to be hidden from public view
Which for us wouldn't really be an issue, right?
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Alaska
Rules
I want to say a lot of google. Okay
Any household with at least one adult 21 and older is allowed 12 plants
Oh, that's michigan. I don't know. I don't know
There's a lot of 12 plants. Oh, that's michigan. What the fuck?
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Okay, so we can have 12
I said alaska
Okay
It probably went off your current location. I said alaska home grow weed rules
I know but if you heard what I just heard what you said, why the fuck would it give me michigan?
Why would it because of your current location?
Yeah, but it still doesn't make any sense. I'm on a private browser
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It shouldn't be using my current location
Apple safari what the fuck
I'm gonna give you permission
Uh in the private residences adults 21 or older are allowed up to six plants
Where no more than three are mature and flowering
Holy shit
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So you can only you can really only have three
Uh mature even worse alaska. What the fuck are you doing? What the fuck's the point?
Change your legislation. So in michigan, you can have 12
Mature plants, I think it's 12 plants total but but they can all be mature. Yeah, they don't specify how many you can have
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You can only have fucking three mature plants and six total plants and I think that was per household so
So
What the fuck that's insane. Yeah, you have to smoke in private, but you have to do that in michigan, too
Um can't smoke and drive same here
um
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Yeah
Nothing's really that different. I mean, I mean that's pretty fucking different though, you know
You can only have three mature at a time. Yeah, and you got six so
So they're it's accounting on you to be an uber grower and no
mature rates
To make sure they're never mature at the same time
So as soon as three mature you gotta harvest those fuckers quick
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But you can only grow indoors. So i'm not confident how you'd be busted
on these laws
I'm not saying test it but I mean how the fuck would they know?
I have no idea. Yeah, like
Well, where they can knock on your door
It doesn't say if they register your plants michigan you don't
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Though I know in michigan, they'll fly over sometimes with uh thermal drones
or thermal vision
helicopters and planes and they'll look
To see if they have too many heat signatures
But that only applies to outdoor plants
Yeah
And you can't have outdoor plants in alaska?
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Period not by law by weather by mother nature. It's like you can have them outside, but it's gonna fucking die
It's gonna be worthless. Yeah, you're not gonna get anywhere with it. Yeah, you're not gonna have six months of fucking sunlight
so
Yeah, I don't know
That's so weird. Yeah a bunch of weird laws
a bunch of weird weed
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a bunch of expensive weed
I made a video while I was up there
Uh, it didn't turn out very well. So that probably won't go anywhere
maybe i'll cut it and do it but
I don't know man. I don't know how the weed industry is doing at all good up there
With those prices that's outrageous
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Yeah, that's just really insane
That kind of includes
My review of alaskan weed wouldn't recommend
It's too expensive
Yeah, not for me. Yeah, it doesn't sound worth it at all. Yeah, I think next time I visit
If it's not free i'm not smoking
Yeah, no can't afford it. It's so much cheaper to just get drunk. It's one thing if you're gonna get like I have to assume
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That alaskan income on average is higher as well
I don't think so
If it is then it doesn't matter. But if it's not
That's so stupid
Like that's where I would get
From like a parent's standpoint of like you can just be more financially responsible than smoking weed
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Okay, it is it's uh about six thousand dollars more a year than michigan
Okay, so that's not that's that doesn't translate in the weed price
The weed price is still outrageous. But I mean my brother's got a job where he'd make enough to afford it, but he doesn't smoke
because of his job
(33:17):
Would have catch 22
But uh his roommate does smoke it and he's got a job that also pays him
To afford it but barely
the job he had before
He was spending I think they said like
Okay, you better fuck off
I think they said like uh
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At least 20 of his uh income
Was weed alone
That's disgusting. But that's not because he's buying a ton of weed. That's because he's buying like a joint a day
It's out fucking rages how expensive that shit is up there. Yeah
Especially after he just wasn't getting paid enough for before we left
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Yeah
Bud brothers had a deal one ounce for 17
Yeah, and then I go to that fucking place and it's 200 bucks for the cheapest ounce I can get
That's
Insane dude. Yeah, they smoke an ounce. That's dis quite literally disgusting
I'd probably smoke at least seven grams a day or not. That'd be gnarly
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About seven grams a week
Yeah, about one one gram a day. Yeah, not right now. I'm sick because i'm on a break
My tolerance break
Yeah, we both desperately need it right now. Yeah, I think i'd be all right, but
Might as well take a little break
I haven't had it helps keep it even cheaper
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Yeah
I need a break after seeing my fucking finances get drained by alaska to kush
Yeah, that was supposed to be so much better
Really? It's not almost a tolerance break. It's more rebuilding the finance loss
Break me if these we need we need to do better numbers. We need more ad revenue
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I can't afford I can't afford a trip to alaska off this
I'd like to try going to colorado. I'd imagine they'd have cheaper weed
Maybe or at least comparable price. Yeah, at least closer than uh
What fucking alaska has?
Holy shit, it's in the lower 48. So they can't pull the we got to ship shit in from the lower 48
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I know that was like alaska's like saving grace of like don't worry
it's like
Right, but for
183
More dollars
Maybe if you factor in the
the shipping in
Material, I guess what you call it because they're not shipping in weed
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You can't ship weed
Or I mean
You're not opposed to
They they all said that their grows are in alaska. So i'd buy it
I believe them
But they're like the stuff to grow the fertilizers and shit
are from
us the lower 48
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That factored in
with um
The six extra six grand watch this is the episode that someone from like the uk is listening to and it's very confused about what the lower
48 is
Oh, uh, it's the lower 48 states
Yeah, because alaska's not
Alaska's not attached to so why is also not attached to us
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Yeah, but we own that shit anyway
Okay, kind of like the uk tried owning the majority of the world
How'd that go?
I know
What was it every single day?
There's a country that celebrates its independence from the uk. Yep every day of the year
Damn there is a country in the world that is celebrating its independence from
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Uh, the british empire what a fall off
The british empire or whatever it is. Ours is july 4th. What's yours in the comments?
You can see me about psyching them out
Jesus christ, I was trying to get him to jump
I like to imagine some guy in the uk did jump on me
When I did that
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He didn't he didn't see me but he flinched he's like fuck I flinched for it. Oh
No, all right. Well, I mean there's my uh review of alaska weed
I don't know. Yeah, I'm very glad it was you and not me because
Yeah, your review was stopped after the first pit stop bought one joint like i'm not buying any fucking more
Yeah, no, I wouldn't have wasted my money. I was doing very thorough research. I didn't buy from every shop. I went to
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I bought from two of the three shops. I went to so
Maybe I did buy from every shop
I think I think I got a joint from uh, oh, yeah, because there's only five bucks only five bucks
Yeah, I mean all the other ones fucking eight bucks
It sucks to say only five
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Their cheapest joints still like twice our infused joints and it's half the size and not infused
Just outrageous outlandish i'm over it. Yeah, i'm not moving to alaska on that point alone
I'm not addicted but by god, I like weed a little bit more
than like
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Spending 20 of my paycheck on it. Yeah, that's insane
outrageous
It explains why every time I'd go to a store there was at most two people
compared to here where
There's at least two bud tenders
There's like two bud tenders and then someone working the door. Yep. There's three people typically working
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In michigan shops, I know the one time I went to bud brothers
It was literally so slow that they did end up having like the door propped open when I got there
Yeah, but that's because the
Lady working the counter was labeling dragonfly
Labeling dragonfly, uh pre-roll canisters because they're all crinkled and shitty
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Yeah
Um, but hey, I told her i'm like if it's gotta be something to make these things as cost-effective as they are
I guess i'll take it in the packaging as opposed to the quality of the product
So the quality has been diminishing but we'll talk about that in a future episode. We've got a few reviews we have to do
Yeah, and dragonfly. Come on, man
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Come on, man. You're better than that
What happened you better do for 225? I mean i'll go back to pay i'll go to pay in like 375 full bucks
Fucking them up
Yeah, i'll go back to goddamn jeter and roses pal. You better check yourself dragonfly. You're not that I get that you're getting cheap
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But yeah, come on
It's showing it's really showing. Yeah
And we'll go over all that
in a future episode
Jinx
All right. Well, i'll see you next week you guys. All right. Bye. Bye
Welcome back to Mitten Marijuana the podcast where we talk about good stuff. I'm Joe and I'm Chloe
They we have a fun
episode
The answer to think we'd ever really get around to doing I figured eventually but certainly not this
Soon after the creation of the podcast
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But today I went on a field trip all of last week
to Alaska and while I was there I
Was comparing and contrasting
Michigan weed to Alaskan weed
Alaskans had weed legal longer than us
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So I had high hopes and we also had a friend that lived in Alaska
That said
Alaskan weed is way better. Yeah
They swore I had to put that to my up and down that Alaskan weed was the best weed
No other state could compare
Now to be fair I do obviously have
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Bit of a bias I have a dog in the fight being Michigan
Is Michigan is called Mitten Marijuana after all mm-hmm, but so
So I say I went in like there's no way
But I didn't want to I did my best to be as impartial as I could
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As far as the flavor of the weed I was impartial as hell
The flavor was the same
Yeah, we taste the same. Yeah weeds weed. I
tried not to like
Get wild strains that I've ever had
Wild strains that I've never heard of
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Just for like that for the flavor comparison, but I did smoke quite a few different strains
I have a picture
Of all of the ones not all the ones but of most of them I
Did get a bunch different joints throughout the week. I was there
I
Didn't smoke every day, but I smoked almost every day
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So I knew that kind of normally I smoked almost every day you were there for
Seven days. Yeah, I saw almost all seven. I think I like five
Five
Yeah, probably five I might have missed two days
I
Yeah, maybe even only one but you know
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And how many times during those days did you smoke just once or was it like?
Once or twice okay, sometimes twice sometimes once
But well, yeah, that's what once or twice means
Right. I'm aware of what it means. I know
Well, I'm still I'm trying to think back and be like how often
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Like did I smoke twice every day and no I I would like to say I probably smoked twice
four
Of the five
Of the five days. I definitely smoked I think I smoked six days definitely twice
I'll say that's already three days
Three days. I definitely did twice. I did two days
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not necessarily once in the morning once at night, but there's mild ambiguity, but there's
Baselines. Yeah, I didn't smoke. I wouldn't say I smoked more than I normally smoke
And did you smoke different strains when you did smoke multiple times? Uh, not necessarily
I smoked Mosley's Tiva because that's what I typically smoke
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Yeah, but I'm saying like did you smoke like oh, they like an og cushion the morning and then like I usually
Different strains most of time. Okay
Good I want kind of a bigger variety
That was so that's where a lot of this is gonna come into play
Right
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Some of the flavors. Okay, some of the strains flavors. Well, listen to me. So silly
Some of the ones I got the first day
chimney fire
Thank you was Matt and new ska thunder fuck
The northern lights
So
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MTF and chimney fire or Steve's northern lights is an indica. I
Don't think I took photos of any of the other ones I smoked but I do remember I
Guess the only other two that I really smoked were
green crack and
Jack hair
And we've smoked green crack before
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Have we I don't yeah, we didn't review it though. It was just one that we just smoked like just so happened to smoke
I do not recall. Yeah
Everyone really hypes it up. That's what that one girl said
She smoked that tiktok you sent me I know I was just about to bring it up actually. Yeah, that's what she smoked and I
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I guess if there was an earthquake happening while I smoked it you probably would freak me out
But I don't say it was that crazy. But then again, I do have a higher higher tolerance
Then I guess the average smoker
Then mine must be astronomical yeah, you have a pretty high tolerance. I really do
but um
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For context I saw this tiktok of this girl talking about how she went to a dispensary in California and got
green crack as
weed
To smoke as refer like as recommended by her bud tender who said that it was the strongest shit. He'd never smoked
She completely forgot about that comment smoked the whole joint and then
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Thought that she was having like a severe panic attack because her whole body and like her whole apartment was shaking
She went on Facebook hours later to find out that there had been an earthquake and that was the first time she had ever
Experienced an earthquake since living in California in like three years
pretty funny
so
Pretty really funny on us
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Yeah, she even she admitted that it was really funny
But she thought she was having a panic attack because she overdid it and then
Come to find out it was just an earthquake
So yeah, I would be freaked out too if I was high and experiencing an earthquake unknowingly
Yeah, so I am right now taking a bit of a tolerance break
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you too, so
After after not getting super stoned in Alaska. I definitely got stoned a few times
So I wouldn't say the weed so bad. I definitely
I wouldn't say the weed so bad. I didn't get high I got high
but at what cost and
I'm glad you asked because oh my god
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It's so expensive up there dude on average. I don't know if I wrote down the averages, but it was like eight bucks
on average for weed
For a pre-roll and the pre-rolls are only half grammars. They're not full grams
I
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Asked them why?
Or I asked them why they don't have whole gram pre-rolls and I said well we do but they're not as popular as the half grams and
I asked how yeah because they're like 30
I asked how much a gram roll is and she said 15 bucks. I'm like, oh, well, that's fucking why dude. Holy shit
And a few other differences they have
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They have a one ounce limit daily limit. You can only get an ounce
Which sounds like very little weed but for Alaskan prices
You have Bill fucking gates to be limiting out
So I guess yeah, I just thought about that because I'm like really only an ounce that's what I said to the guy
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I don't think
So I also at one of the stores at Honey Pot specifically, which is a great little shop
I liked it all the shots were kind of smaller. They weren't like giant stores like we got
Mmm, and there was another big difference
Yeah, they don't need to accommodate a lot of people because you have to be again Bill Gates to buy they don't check people in
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You don't give someone at the desk your card and they put you in the system and they send you back when there's an opening
They don't have the limited to
customers per bud tender they do call them bud tenders I
Felt like a moron trying to ask them what the job title was without like saying bud tender because I don't want to put that
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You know, I wanted to see what they yeah in case I was derogative
That's that's what we calm I didn't want to say
What do you guys what would you call yourself? What would you call bud tenders? I don't want to go
Tenders you fucking idiot
You know, I don't want to sound stupid but I felt like I sound stupid asking them. So what is your job title?
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mmm
Tender
I got a podcast like okay, that's the density even pressed by the podcast
See in any time that we bring it up here like to our bud tenders. They get so hype about it
Yeah, or they they brush it off, but I feel like they get more excited about it
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But I never say to get people excited. I just say as the reason why I'm holding a journal and taking notes in your store
I don't think notes in Michigan stores because
They're not all the same but they're all similar
Yeah, they're same enough to where you've gone to one you've gone to enough of them, you know
How the rest they are they're pretty different. Yeah
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but so between
Alaska stores and Michigan stores, they don't check you in they don't have a limit of customers to bud tenders
But you can really just walk in as long as you're 21 or up you can walk around look at stuff
Yeah, you compared it to like a liquor store. Yeah, it's like a liquor store
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But they sometimes they card at the door sometimes they card on
Purchase but all the weeds like behind the desk. So that's not different. That's the same
A lot of the stores sold merch. Oh
Yeah, which was I think a little different. I don't recall our stores really selling merch
Some of them do but it's very limited like I do know that bud brothers does against their one farther wall
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Do they have bud
Brothers merch specifically bud brothers or is it just like merchandise?
That's what I mean is these stores will sell store specific merchandise like
Because I know like smoke society sells like backpack boys, yeah merch like backpacks hoodies
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Yeah
Store I've never seen a place I'll store
Merch yeah badger buds, which is the first shop I went to up there had some of the coolest looking merch
Not in my fucking size
upsetting I would have bought but not my size one one
Badger buds are such a cool name for pot shop. Yeah, so I went to three different pot shops
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I went to badger buds pipe and leaf and honey pot. I like honey pot
Honey pot was my favorite looks wise pipe and leaf was a very like
upscale
Look store, but it wasn't honey pot was more expensive for sure
see I would think almost like the opposite of like I would expect honey pot to be like more upscale and then like
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Pipe and leaf to be more like almost old-timey bookstore not old and decrepit but like, you know, I know you mean
it was um
More Sherlock Holmes
It was it was very very professional. It gave me kind of like a smoke society
Like a smaller smoke society
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It was really really nice. It was calm
There's only one budtender at all these stores only one person working. They don't have security. They don't security doors
Oh, which is very jarring. This is huge culture shocks. Like what the fuck's going on?
I know you feel like you miss a step. Yeah, am I supposed to be back here when I first got there?
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I went to badger buds
I went into the first door and I stood there and I wait for her to come up to the front to take my car
So you just come back. Oh
Okay, I felt dumb
But that is very different. That's a huge difference
So if you're planning to go to Alaska, you can don't stand awkwardly at the door, I guess you can just go in
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It's not a big deal. What the fuck this no, oh
I wrote a word, but I can't read it
Can I read your handwriting better than you? Oh, never mind. I see what it says. Okay, so
Badger buds a small shop friendly staff all all the shops I went to had really friendly staff super nice people
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Pipe and leaf the guy talked to me for the longest and I asked him a shit ton of questions. Oh jeez
They all sold pretty much the same stuff edibles flower pre rolls
Vapes
That was a big difference to is the vapes were very expensive. It was like the cheapest cart was 50 bucks
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whole oh
my god
No, of course. I wasn't shopping around for vapes because I at the time I didn't have a checked bag. So I didn't plan to fly one back
Yeah, then after I did have a check bag. I only went to honey pot and they said 50 bucks was their cheapest
So I said fuck that I'm not buying a $50 cart and then a battery
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Yeah, I'm like no, that's all right. I'm good for comparison for anyone listening that is in Alaska
Our average cart price is like eight bucks
Yeah, eight to ten dollars like that is average for like a good quality cart like platinum
Yeah, and which granted those have been shit lately, but like my play cart was five bucks
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I think I've got no I think it was ten
I'm aware. We got a it was it's not cart. It's the whole vape. It's the size of a cart. Oh
Yeah bucks. I
Haven't smoked it yet. So I don't know if it's uh, I
Can't speak on the quality of it, but it's 15 bucks
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Also, while we're talking about the difference we talked about the difference between Michigan and Alaska, but never said what Michigan
Limit is so it's one ounce in Alaska in Michigan. It's two and a half ounces a day
So yeah, what you can get two and a half ounces. I feel like probably for half the price of the ounce
Honestly, I mean our dips which is one of my favorite which is kind of a mid-tier ounce maybe a lower price ounce
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Is 79 bucks?
Mm-hmm for an ounce the cheapest ounce at honey pot 200 bucks. Oh
So put that in your pipe and smoke it oh
Going to death. Oh my god
it was in
saying I
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Could never
their highest
THC joint
that they found that that the guy had a
The guy had seen at pipe and Lee was 34% THC
Which isn't?
It's not tiny
But it's that's that's the highest
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That he's ever said they've that he's seen and I've seen and we have a joint right now
a whole gram joint that is
40% not infused
just pure bud
flower
40%
And I think the highest I've seen on like an infused is like 42 or 43%
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We have a 44% infused. Do we? Yeah. I don't remember seeing it, but I
distinctly remember seeing 42 so that's why that was you know, that was the only one I knew for certain I think that
That might be what the
what the
Flower the just flowers, but I know for sure
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You know, it's insane we have at least a four that's like an average like that's a lot
That's like an average infused. Yeah, that's even sometimes higher than most infused. I guess average pretty apt
Yeah, average in that's the
THC content of an average infused joint here and mind you that is going off of as well
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dragonfly and free infused which are which are
225 each gram pre-roll
$2.25 not $225 and you find a $2 pre-roll
Literally anywhere in Alaska or at least you can the three stores. I've gone to I can't speak on the entire you can sniff the jar
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for 225
It was
disappointing to see the least
It wasn't very strong weed
It wasn't any better tasting
the price was justified to me because he said all of the equipment and all of the
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all the things you need to grow weed like the lights the
Fertilizers the chemicals in their climate all of that and they can only grow indoors
All of that they have to ship in from the lower 48 so they have much higher shipping costs on that stuff
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So their weed is just higher
which is
Unfortunate for sure
Yeah, you know I
I still I didn't think it was based off of what you've said I I
Could not believe that
Alaskan weed is superior. Yeah, I any other state. I would say it's not superior to Michigan for sure
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I can't speak on
California or Colorado and now I do want to go to California, Colorado
Just well these
Yeah, we got some remember we might be going to well probably be going to California in December
I can't wait to fly another four hour time difference. I'm still getting over the last one
I know with your experience with that. I'm definitely gonna take an extra day off of work
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I don't care if it's paid or not literally just to acclimate. Yeah, honestly
We'll see yeah, that's a later this year
All right. So another thing that I've asked about so in Michigan
When stores open celebs will show up to stores
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Mm-hmm, like Snoop Dogg has opened a few stores not like his own personal stores, but he's gone to
Openings. Yeah. Yeah, I know snoops been to openings here and then I
Went to the house of dang Christmas party last year and that was chock full of celebrities
That was really cool. I was working and I wasn't I didn't have an invite. Maybe this year. I was a dang
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Maybe next year. Maybe if the podcast blows up we'll get invited. That'd be cool
Mm-hmm. I mean they had they had content creators there. So it's not unheard of but I asked them about celebrities
They said the guy piping leaf said he's never heard of celebrities showing up
Dang well, I guess it is way out of the way so it would be crazy for celebrities to go to I guess
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Yeah, because especially like I was also only at Fairbanks
So maybe in Anchorage, yeah, I asked about
Chains because in Michigan we have huge chains
Like really big chain stores pot shops, which is wild and they said that's rare
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There's a few like smaller chains, but for the most part, they're all more mom and poppy
Mm-hmm. That's kind of me. We have like the first one that comes to mind for me is Dispo
Yeah, Dispo is a chain. Uh, Smoke Study is not. Elite's a chain. Is House of Dank a chain? House of Dank's a chain
Yeah, there's one in Saginaw. There's like three in Detroit. Yeah. I mean there's a lot a lot of chains around here. Pinkana
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Is that a chain? I'm pretty sure they are. I always said Pinkana, but maybe it's Pinkana
Because and I didn't think it would be a chain. I would say Pinkana because of Pinkana. Yeah, that's why and I mean I say Pinkana because
Cannabis. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know another thing that was different
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were
You can advertise on the radio and then print
There were I saw print ads for the cannabis chains and I heard radio
ads for
Pot shops. See I don't listen to the radio or look at any newspapers. I do listen to the radio at work
Never once heard a pot shop advertise
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Yeah, but it makes sense. I don't know if they can't
Or they don't
I have to believe that they can't
It could also be that I just listen to the wrong radio station
But we're listening to similar radio station because I don't pick the radio station when I'm not driving
Mm-hmm, so I'm not one of those idiots. Yeah, so the music that you listen to at work is very similar to what you were listening to up there
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So as you would expect the same or similar
Yeah
Okay, so
The price difference is kind of enormous
Their half grand pre rolls are more expensive than our whole grand pre rolls
They are
The same or worse than thc content
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They're
I mean weed tastes like weed. So can't really say much on that
Which I guess is a good thing in this regard. At least it's not trash
Right, and I didn't really look at any flour so I can't speak on the quality of buds
Um, because I wasn't gonna I didn't have a grinder or a bowl or papers and I didn't feel like rolling joints
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While I was on vacation. Yeah, so I only got
Pre rolls
Which were expensive as I said they were on average like
Fucking god
Uh, yeah on average they were eight bucks
The cheapest ones I found were like five bucks
And that was that pipe and leaf
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So they had some of the better prices i've seen
Looking at the cameras see what they're barking at
Who would have thought literally nothing
So that's crazy
Thanks dogs
Yeah, um
I took quite a few notes packaging on the weed
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same
I thought they asked you if you want a bag
They don't just put it in a bag
Yeah, here you can't leave without a bag. Yeah, it has to be
I think in a secure bag. I don't think it has to be secure bag
I think it has to be in a bag because there's some stores that give you plastic bags. Yeah, elite's new
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Reusable bag that used to get you a free pre-roll and was an amazing bag now just gets you a whole punch for a free bag
Which is still pretty cool. Oh, hey, but now you have to visit 10 times right for an eighth. Oh, well
If you go off and I mean I go bud brothers often enough. I get my 10 punches quick
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Too quick. They don't do a punch card. They have punch card bud brothers. Oh, they've never given me one. Oh, you should ask
I've got one. I got two now
I got one
I always forget to bring it in. Um
That's how you offer okay
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Okay, so
Yeah packaging very similar
Their pre-roll can take the canisters are still one gram pre-roll canisters, but there's only half gram joint in it
That kind of pissed me off because I was kind of unaware
It was only a half gram, especially at first because I didn't I didn't think i'd have to ask
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I assumed
Yeah, because here you don't get really half grams unless it's like a five pack of like roses or jeter
Yeah, they said eight bucks. I'm like fucking crazy. I guess eight bucks for a gram joint
And then it's eight bucks for a half gram. I'm like what the fuck for half the cost
I can't believe you kept smoking that for half the cost
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I would have told you to not I would have said can't afford it for a quarter of the cost of the half gram alaskan joint
I could buy a one gram infused joint. Yeah in michigan, so
If i'm ever moved to alaska, I would grow
And you can't grow outside because
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The fucking day night cycles are awful and the weather's terrible for growing because
So if anyone in alaska is looking to move
Move to michigan. It's gonna save you a lot of fucking money michigan did
out do
California and sales by volume if i'm not mistaken what we set up one podcast
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So something like that, you know, we're going we're going places with our pot game
We're certainly one of the better ones
Um, yep
200 dollar ounce
cheapest
insanity
Um, they they all have pretty good, uh, like lists. They did a good job of having a
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Honeypot had like a little booklet you could flip through see what they had for pre-rolls and flour
That's pretty good. That's nice, especially considering that it's all like behind the counter and really nice considering. It's so fucking expensive
Yeah, yeah, so I I could not smoke up there the way I smoke down here
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Not because the wheat's stronger because the wheat's fucking wildly expensive. I'd have to have a dealer that
Gave it to you for michigan prices
Which literally they couldn't do apparently not we we could go up there right now and have the nastiest fucking girl operation
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And we could be raking in money, like it cost us
I can't imagine cost us all that did you ever ask like how much you're allowed to have?
like in your
Hall of Famer
Oh, I did but the person I asked didn't know
(27:51):
Dang, so what is it here? I can't remember. I know you have six plants per person
Of age up to 12 plants total
So you're gonna we can have 12 plants
And they have to be hidden from public view
Which for us wouldn't really be an issue, right?
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Alaska
Rules
I want to say a lot of google. Okay
Any household with at least one adult 21 and older is allowed 12 plants
Oh, that's michigan. I don't know. I don't know
There's a lot of 12 plants. Oh, that's michigan. What the fuck?
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Okay, so we can have 12
I said alaska
Okay
It probably went off your current location. I said alaska home grow weed rules
I know but if you heard what I just heard what you said, why the fuck would it give me michigan?
Why would it because of your current location?
Yeah, but it still doesn't make any sense. I'm on a private browser
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It shouldn't be using my current location
Apple safari what the fuck
I'm gonna give you permission
Uh in the private residences adults 21 or older are allowed up to six plants
Where no more than three are mature and flowering
Holy shit
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So you can only you can really only have three
Uh mature even worse alaska. What the fuck are you doing? What the fuck's the point?
Change your legislation. So in michigan, you can have 12
Mature plants, I think it's 12 plants total but but they can all be mature. Yeah, they don't specify how many you can have
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You can only have fucking three mature plants and six total plants and I think that was per household so
So
What the fuck that's insane. Yeah, you have to smoke in private, but you have to do that in michigan, too
Um can't smoke and drive same here
um
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Yeah
Nothing's really that different. I mean, I mean that's pretty fucking different though, you know
You can only have three mature at a time. Yeah, and you got six so
So they're it's accounting on you to be an uber grower and no
mature rates
To make sure they're never mature at the same time
So as soon as three mature you gotta harvest those fuckers quick
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But you can only grow indoors. So i'm not confident how you'd be busted
on these laws
I'm not saying test it but I mean how the fuck would they know?
I have no idea. Yeah, like
Well, where they can knock on your door
It doesn't say if they register your plants michigan you don't
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Though I know in michigan, they'll fly over sometimes with uh thermal drones
or thermal vision
helicopters and planes and they'll look
To see if they have too many heat signatures
But that only applies to outdoor plants
Yeah
And you can't have outdoor plants in alaska?
(31:20):
Period not by law by weather by mother nature. It's like you can have them outside, but it's gonna fucking die
It's gonna be worthless. Yeah, you're not gonna get anywhere with it. Yeah, you're not gonna have six months of fucking sunlight
so
Yeah, I don't know
That's so weird. Yeah a bunch of weird laws
a bunch of weird weed
(31:42):
a bunch of expensive weed
I made a video while I was up there
Uh, it didn't turn out very well. So that probably won't go anywhere
maybe i'll cut it and do it but
I don't know man. I don't know how the weed industry is doing at all good up there
With those prices that's outrageous
(32:05):
Yeah, that's just really insane
That kind of includes
My review of alaskan weed wouldn't recommend
It's too expensive
Yeah, not for me. Yeah, it doesn't sound worth it at all. Yeah, I think next time I visit
If it's not free i'm not smoking
Yeah, no can't afford it. It's so much cheaper to just get drunk. It's one thing if you're gonna get like I have to assume
(32:32):
That alaskan income on average is higher as well
I don't think so
If it is then it doesn't matter. But if it's not
That's so stupid
Like that's where I would get
From like a parent's standpoint of like you can just be more financially responsible than smoking weed
(32:56):
Okay, it is it's uh about six thousand dollars more a year than michigan
Okay, so that's not that's that doesn't translate in the weed price
The weed price is still outrageous. But I mean my brother's got a job where he'd make enough to afford it, but he doesn't smoke
because of his job
(33:17):
Would have catch 22
But uh his roommate does smoke it and he's got a job that also pays him
To afford it but barely
the job he had before
He was spending I think they said like
Okay, you better fuck off
I think they said like uh
(33:40):
At least 20 of his uh income
Was weed alone
That's disgusting. But that's not because he's buying a ton of weed. That's because he's buying like a joint a day
It's out fucking rages how expensive that shit is up there. Yeah
Especially after he just wasn't getting paid enough for before we left
(34:00):
Yeah
Bud brothers had a deal one ounce for 17
Yeah, and then I go to that fucking place and it's 200 bucks for the cheapest ounce I can get
That's
Insane dude. Yeah, they smoke an ounce. That's dis quite literally disgusting
I'd probably smoke at least seven grams a day or not. That'd be gnarly
(34:27):
About seven grams a week
Yeah, about one one gram a day. Yeah, not right now. I'm sick because i'm on a break
My tolerance break
Yeah, we both desperately need it right now. Yeah, I think i'd be all right, but
Might as well take a little break
I haven't had it helps keep it even cheaper
(34:49):
Yeah
I need a break after seeing my fucking finances get drained by alaska to kush
Yeah, that was supposed to be so much better
Really? It's not almost a tolerance break. It's more rebuilding the finance loss
Break me if these we need we need to do better numbers. We need more ad revenue
(35:11):
I can't afford I can't afford a trip to alaska off this
I'd like to try going to colorado. I'd imagine they'd have cheaper weed
Maybe or at least comparable price. Yeah, at least closer than uh
What fucking alaska has?
Holy shit, it's in the lower 48. So they can't pull the we got to ship shit in from the lower 48
(35:34):
I know that was like alaska's like saving grace of like don't worry
it's like
Right, but for
183
More dollars
Maybe if you factor in the
the shipping in
Material, I guess what you call it because they're not shipping in weed
(35:57):
You can't ship weed
Or I mean
You're not opposed to
They they all said that their grows are in alaska. So i'd buy it
I believe them
But they're like the stuff to grow the fertilizers and shit
are from
us the lower 48
(36:19):
That factored in
with um
The six extra six grand watch this is the episode that someone from like the uk is listening to and it's very confused about what the lower
48 is
Oh, uh, it's the lower 48 states
Yeah, because alaska's not
Alaska's not attached to so why is also not attached to us
(36:41):
Yeah, but we own that shit anyway
Okay, kind of like the uk tried owning the majority of the world
How'd that go?
I know
What was it every single day?
There's a country that celebrates its independence from the uk. Yep every day of the year
Damn there is a country in the world that is celebrating its independence from
(37:04):
Uh, the british empire what a fall off
The british empire or whatever it is. Ours is july 4th. What's yours in the comments?
You can see me about psyching them out
Jesus christ, I was trying to get him to jump
I like to imagine some guy in the uk did jump on me
When I did that
(37:26):
He didn't he didn't see me but he flinched he's like fuck I flinched for it. Oh
No, all right. Well, I mean there's my uh review of alaska weed
I don't know. Yeah, I'm very glad it was you and not me because
Yeah, your review was stopped after the first pit stop bought one joint like i'm not buying any fucking more
Yeah, no, I wouldn't have wasted my money. I was doing very thorough research. I didn't buy from every shop. I went to
(37:52):
I bought from two of the three shops. I went to so
Maybe I did buy from every shop
I think I think I got a joint from uh, oh, yeah, because there's only five bucks only five bucks
Yeah, I mean all the other ones fucking eight bucks
It sucks to say only five
(38:14):
Their cheapest joints still like twice our infused joints and it's half the size and not infused
Just outrageous outlandish i'm over it. Yeah, i'm not moving to alaska on that point alone
I'm not addicted but by god, I like weed a little bit more
than like
(38:35):
Spending 20 of my paycheck on it. Yeah, that's insane
outrageous
It explains why every time I'd go to a store there was at most two people
compared to here where
There's at least two bud tenders
There's like two bud tenders and then someone working the door. Yep. There's three people typically working
(39:01):
In michigan shops, I know the one time I went to bud brothers
It was literally so slow that they did end up having like the door propped open when I got there
Yeah, but that's because the
Lady working the counter was labeling dragonfly
Labeling dragonfly, uh pre-roll canisters because they're all crinkled and shitty
(39:21):
Yeah
Um, but hey, I told her i'm like if it's gotta be something to make these things as cost-effective as they are
I guess i'll take it in the packaging as opposed to the quality of the product
So the quality has been diminishing but we'll talk about that in a future episode. We've got a few reviews we have to do
Yeah, and dragonfly. Come on, man
(39:43):
Come on, man. You're better than that
What happened you better do for 225? I mean i'll go back to pay i'll go to pay in like 375 full bucks
Fucking them up
Yeah, i'll go back to goddamn jeter and roses pal. You better check yourself dragonfly. You're not that I get that you're getting cheap
(40:04):
But yeah, come on
It's showing it's really showing. Yeah
And we'll go over all that
in a future episode
Jinx
All right. Well, i'll see you next week you guys. All right. Bye. Bye
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