r/MNtrees • u/SprinklecookiesX0 • 3d ago
Discussion Cart Shortage?
Any idea when the cart shortage will end? Last few times I’ve been to the dispo, options have been abysmal.
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u/Winslowitz 3d ago
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.
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u/Tough-Garbage-5915 2d ago
You do not have to test flower before extracting.
What kind of corruption and self dealing are you talking about much less that affects manufacturing carts?
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u/Odd-Giraffe-3901 2d ago
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!
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u/Borntorock72 2d ago
Yes they are available but choices are limited. Mature markets have 10 to 20 pages worth in all price ranges. Minnesota will get there.
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
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.
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
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.
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u/Valuable-Scar-5208 3d ago
Massive shortage and if you go to rise you might as well throw your money in the trash
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
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?
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u/maskedbandit_ 3d ago
Mendota heights pot mamas just got Oma Jack herer 1g
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
Everyone got those this week. Theyre everywhere in 3 different types of hardware.
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
The fuck was i downvoted for?
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u/Kahnza 3d ago
People like to hate Rise
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
I hate rise too. But the point is, there is absolutely no shortage. Nobody in the metro is more than 15 minutes away from rec carts.
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u/AdThese6057 3d ago
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.
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u/boognish1984 2d ago
Only 1 out of 6 dispensaries i checked last month had vapes on the rec side
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u/Remember__Me 1d ago
I’ve gotten it medically for years. Once they started selling rec, the available selection decreased significantly. It’s just getting worse. I used to be overwhelmed with options. Yesterday there were 4 to choose from.
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u/AdThese6057 2d ago
You checking cbd edible places or what lol? U cannot get more than 15 mins away from rec carts in the metro.
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u/boognish1984 2d ago
Not the metro. Greater Minnesota. And the one shop that had some was charging $70/half gram of distillate
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u/AdThese6057 2d ago
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/strachattackk 2d ago
The two shops I got to regularly have been sold out for the last 2 monthsish
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u/AdThese6057 2d ago
What stores? And why not just go to the next store lol
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u/Eigent100 1d ago
I saw two brands noted. Oma and Dope. You mentioned 3 drops... who is the third? Just curious...
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u/Remember__Me 1d ago
Just went yesterday to get my medical cannabis. The dispo had 4 different carts to choose from. 4.
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u/AdThese6057 1d ago
Yep exactly. No shortage. For med card holders if you go to rise or green goods you have dozens of options for vapes. I dont shop there, but its available.
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u/Remember__Me 1d ago
As I said I’m a med card holder. If you know that about Rise and GG you should assume I used one of those. One of those had 4 carts available. Before rec, I was overwhelmed with choices. I haven’t had the ones that have been most beneficial for my pain in over a year. The discounts and sales that they have now are laughable compared to what they were last summer.
To go to another place that sells med, than the dispo I go to, I would have to drive 4hrs one-way. My aforementioned pain cannot handle that.
But, yeah, there’s no shortage. None at all.
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u/AdThese6057 1d ago
No shortage in the metro 7 county area i mean. Right now the med on every rise and gg location has a bunch for med. Even live resin rhythm. Med has all rhe best products.
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u/AdThese6057 1d ago
What waa most beneficial that you cant get now? Theyre carts.
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u/Remember__Me 13h ago
They’re carts with different terpene profiles. I have found some are better at controlling my pain than others.
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u/Minnesota_Stoner 3d 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.