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Could very much be dependent on how it was dried. All the curing in the world won't fix improperly dried cannabis.
I've been commercially cultivating cannabis for 3 years now; I have never worked for a farm, or even know of a farm, that cures their cannabis. Time is money, and curing makes no difference to the nearly crack-frenzied consumers at the counter demanding their sub-$100 ounces (sorry fellow pot heads, but "cheap weed" comes with a pink elephant in the room.) There's a saying in the commercial industry "you don't have to grow good pot, you just have to grow a lot of pot."
In my experience, very, very few grows are actually drying their cannabis in optimal environments.
First outfit I worked for hung his buds open-air in the same room he ate spaghetti and threw his dirty underwear on the floor in.
Second outfit was a little better, but they just stuck the flower in a make-shift room with a single fan oscillating in it. To keep up the humidity, they would with no exaggeration dump a 5 gallon bucket of water on the porous (non-sealed) concrete and let that raise the humidity. No rhyme or reason to it. The farm had a dedicated trimming crew; some weeks they'd say the weed was too dry, other weeks too wet, sometimes it was on point, etc.
Last grow just stuck the flower in dead-air, extremely hot sealed rooms. They didn't know how to dry pot, and they didn't give two shits either. I actually wrote the owner a very detailed, long write-up on the differences of drying, curing, optimal ranges for both, how the grow could utilize the space they had, etc and it was responded with "so what?"
Commercial grown cannabis is NOT professionally grown cannabis. That's the misnomer. Most commercial cultivation jobs start around $13/hour if you want a realistic look into what kind of "master grower" is putting his hands on your plants.
You just have to have money to grow pot, that's it. Every owner I worked for has never grown a plant before; hell you're lucky if they even toke. $$$. That's it. $$$.
Death to the dispensary!
My experience was actually opposite, you somehow know how to step in the manure lol.
We got stuck with 4000+ pounds of bud, regulators claimed we produced more than the state consumed, over several months that they developed curing totes using injected nitrogen. I can't say the bud was great, mids but it wasn't harsh and they looked amazing growing BUT home grown was still better. The idea was 21 day cure then to market but some of the stuff cured for 3 months before we were allowed to sell it.
Our clone stock was whored out to death and renamed for marketability so I don't even think it was quality beyond bag appeal purposes. Oh, that 22%+ thc hype was definitely a driver in several different facilities all having the same kush or Durban poison cut.
There was a whole HVAC system dedicated to recirculating the air and injecting c02. Sanitation was done frequently and there was PPE from clones to packing with facemask/suits. UV cleaners for the air and ozone for the water but the bud I smoked never blew my mind. I smoke blunts but three prerolls of our grow and I'm ready to go home and smoke my stuff.
