Just depends who you know I think, and what head grower works for what dispensary. When I hear people say dispensary weed sucks it’s just one more BS example of online confirmation bias and usually said in an echo chamber with likeminded ppl who just say, “oh yeah I agree, 100%”
I’ve tried weed from dispensaries that crushes homegrown weed (my own included). You can definitely get shitty/ mediocre weed from dispensaries, but you can also get shitty/ mediocre weed from homegrowers. I’ll use the jungle boys as an example - those guys have so many haters that talk shit online. I know some of the haters personally, and it cracks me up because their weed absolutely blows compared to what JB produces (and they’re only growing a few plants whereas JB are growing tens of thousands/ more). That’s not to say I think jungle boys are the best growers or that home-growers can’t be better, I’m just trying to make the point that so many ppl talk so much shit like their weed is so good...or that dispensaries are so bad... and it’s just not reality. Saying dispensaries suck compared to personal grows is a very narrow minded viewpoint IMO.
Yep only difference is I know what is in the stuff I grow so it's my preference, but Oregon is pretty tight on what they allow to be used far as chemicals go and strict testing required for anything that goes into a Dispensary. I buy from Dispensary when I see a Strain I want to try or just need different things (as I like a variety and change it up every day or two to a different strain, and usually I only grow a couple strains at a time as they all have different nutrient likes/dislikes (and even same Strain can be different likes/dislikes between two different plants) so I rarely have more than three different strains on-hand of my own stuff). Such competition and all sides of the coin on opinions have to take things with a grain of salt to a point ie: hydro/soil better than soil/hydro, organic/non organic, micro grow/macro grow, HPS/LED, etc..etc...