Mids Mindset: Why Low-Tier Weed Is Wrecking the Culture

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You can get an ounce for under fifty bucks now. That’s not a typo. Walk into the right dispensary, flash your ID, and you’ll walk out with a sack that would’ve cost you rent money a decade ago.

And it’s not just the price. It’s the attitude. The shrug. The “it’s fine” energy blanketing the entire cannabis landscape like powdered mildew. Legalization gave us quantity, but it came with a side of cultural amnesia. Somewhere along the way, the standards fell out of the bag.

This isn’t about being a snob. It’s about remembering what made good weed good. The funk. The frost. The hit that tasted like the plant had something to say. There was a time when you could smell someone’s weed through a backpack and immediately know it was grown with intention. Now? Now we’re pretending flavorless popcorn buds smothered in fake fruit terps are part of the plan.

They call it “budget flower.” They say things like “great for the price” and “not bad for a daily.” That kind of language only makes sense when you’re talking about socks. Not herb. Not the stuff we used to celebrate, name, elevate, and debate like it meant something.

The worst part is that we know better. Everyone reading this has had that nug. The one that stopped time. The one you didn’t want to grind because it looked too pretty. That used to be the standard. Now it’s a distant memory tucked under a clearance tag.

Mids didn’t start with legalization, but they sure as hell multiplied. When states rushed to open markets, they flooded shelves with flower from massive grows that prioritized volume over vibe. The result? A generation of new smokers who think that acceptable is synonymous with great. And a generation of longtime smokers who stopped fighting for the difference.

This isn’t about gatekeeping. This is about cultural upkeep. Because if we let mids become the default, we lose the narrative. We hand the story over to the same corporations who neutered beer, butchered music, and turned rebellion into a brand campaign.

Want to weigh in on what actually makes weed “good”? Hit the blog and check out The Great Mids Debate. Terps, cure, price, we’re talking about all of it.

You can’t buy culture in bulk. You have to build it. And that means holding the line on what matters. If your weed tastes like drywall but “gets you high,” you didn’t save money; you lowered your standards. Don’t call it top shelf because it’s on the top shelf. Smell it. Break it. Light it. If it doesn’t move you, it isn’t it.

This isn’t nostalgia. It’s accountability. We don’t need everything to be loud, but we do need it to be alive. Because mids might be everywhere, but they don’t have to be everything.

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