It's possible. But a dispensary would have to allow it. I've never seen that happen.
The grower AND the variety can be branded, much like wine. Many vinyards grow chardonnay grapes and make chardonnay wine. But not all are equal. A wine connoisseur may want to know about where the grapes were grown, what kind of soil, etc.
The wine industry is largely run by professionals. Some of them are 4th generation wine producing families who've been trained since birth to make excellent wine. Dispensaries are run by some dude sitting in a room taking dabs all day who a couple years ago was some random street dealer but now finds himself with a legit business.
The reality is that if you go into any dispensary you buy that dispensary's brand of buds. If you grow really good buds the dispensary is going to want to take the credit for it, not give the grower credit.
Dan Kones Olde Timey pipe weed company may grow original santa cruz blue dream, but so does Phishtanks' Pompous Pipeweed Company. Not to mention any in house proprietary crosses that the Popous Pipeweed company might have.
Nice idea, but reality doesn't work that way. As I said, the dispensary will want to take credit for the buds, not give it to someone else. If they give the grower credit then they are dependant on the grower. They must pay that grower properly. Anonymous bud growers are expendable. They like it that way.
I'm thinking that the future of cannabis culture is in our hands, right now.
Incorrect. It's in the hands of a bunch of man-children using dispensaries as their personal ATM machinces.
The second we get real full nation wide legalization these dispensaries will all be put out of business by real businessmen. All of them.
We have to change the culture, and encourage more high end connoisseur smoking/activity. I think we especially need to shed the image of the cheech and chong stoner and the rapper gangster stoner. Just my opinion though, your mileage may vary
A nice thought, doesn't seem likely to happen though.
