Distillate carts
TL;DR - I don't know whether I'm still too much of a canna-newbie, or if I'm less of a canna-newbie than I think. Are underlabeled botanical carts becoming more ubiquitous from dispos, or have I by some fluke just managed to avoid distillate carts all this time?
Hi y'all, first-time poster here. I searched briefly and didn't see any posts on the conversation, so I wanted to share a recent concern for folks like me who feel pushed back to the dispos now that our options are more limited. I'm still a canna-newbie in many ways. I don't know what I don't know sometimes... but I have always thought Ohio's dispensary menus were at *least* clear enough to help me feel confident about whether I was getting a botanical cart or not. I appreciated that there were products clearly labeled as botanicals, especially as a newbie trying to learn terpene profiles from one strain to the next.
While I understand that "you get what you pay for" applies here on SO MANY levels... I've noticed that either unlabeled or under-labeled (IMO) botanical products are becoming more ubiquitous in dispensaries. My cynical assumption is that all that forfeited, yet otherwise perfectly good, THC-A product had to become a profit somewhere... but I digress.
So that I can be accurate and concise... which feels like a challenge in the Ohio market... according to the FRX dispensary label, the cartridge I'm enjoying right now and using as an example is a "1g Distillate Cartridge" and the strain is "Vapen - PCH RNGS." I won't review the strain, because that's not the point right now, but I *will* clarify that I'm not voicing a concern about the quality of the flavor, experience, cartridge, oil... whatever. I'm not complaining... But I am concerned.
I don't know whether I'm too much of a canna-newbie or less of a canna-newbie than I think. But my gut is somewhere in the middle. At this point in my journey, I think I at least know the difference between a terpene profile with notes of peach and one with added botanicals to flavor the oil. Until recently, I thought the product label would be enough to help me make my purchasing choices, since I'd seen products specifically labeled as "botanical cartridges." The "PCH RNGS" cart that I'm not kidding when I say I'm enjoying right now has only one place in all its labeling and marketing that I can find that helps serve as an indicator to me that my suspicions may be correct: the ingredients list. "Raw Distillate and Naturally Derived Terpenes."
I don't have any complaints about this cart, this strain, my experience with it... I actually enjoy it quite a bit. But I'm very concerned that if Ohio's system is to be consistent, this cart should have been labeled a "botanical cartridge" under whatever classification system the Ohio Cannabis Control Board uses. Have I somehow managed to avoid the distillate carts so far, and if so, was ignorance just bliss? Or am I correct in raising a heads-up that underlabeled botanical carts should be a growing concern in our community? This cart tastes too "on the nose" of candy peach rings to NOT have botanical terpenes added, but I'm humble enough to take a gut check from folks who are more experienced in this community.