I've never bought any type of dispensary weed, preferring my circle of older folks who have been growing since the 60s by some members. I have said a zillion times that the plants today are very different from the older plants, but the older growers grew for themselves and not for anyone with cash... (Fat Freddie once made a comment about pot and cash. Lets see if you even know who Fat Freddie was and what he said!). The buds are much stronger but don't have the same effects as the old strains, for some reason or another. Maybe stronger strains = more tolerance?
FWIW, back in the days before the internet and computers and the cocaine wars, Miami, in Florida, was one of the worst places to score any type of weed. All of the square groupers that were dropped either got snatched up and sent north or divided up between friends... but I never found a decent bud connection in Florida until much later. It always struck me as odd that a state that grows tons of crops didn't seem to have a thriving pot market. Cocaine wiped out the pot smuggling, but even before then it was impossible to score! Even 2 years ago I visited a very well versed friend and it took him a few days to find anything. Strange!