Flower Scoring Rubric

About how we score.

When you browse our menu, in addition to the terpene bouquet you’ll also see all of our flower products are assigned to one of three tiers: Top, Middle, and Basic.

  • We tier our products based on their total terpene weight and terpene diversity. 

  • Products are scored in each column and assigned a tier: 

    • Top Tier = 7 - 9 points

    • Middle Tier = 4 - 6 points

    • Basic Tier = 1 - 3 points 

* For now we’re only tiering our flower products while we ramp up our store. Don’t worry! We still have concentrates, vapes and edibles available to buy, and we’re developing a scoring rubric that makes sense for those products.

More about our scoring.

  • This is the total amount of terpenes present in the product, displayed as a percentage of the product’s total weight (just like THC and CBD)

  • Most cannabis products will have several different terpenes

    However, some of those terpenes might be less than .05% of the total weight. At such low levels, the terpene will be nearly imperceptible to humans [1]

    A nice, robust product should have plenty of different perceptible terpenes in its bouquet

  • Terpenes are volatile compounds, so a product’s terpene profile will change over time

    That’s why we retest and rescore our products periodically, ensuring you receive more recent data

    We’ll also update the scales in our scoring rubric periodically if our aggregated data recommends it

Sources:

https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/terpenes-the-flavors-of-cannabis-aromatherapy

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b01200

https://thecannabisscientist.com/testing-processing/high-and-too-dry

https://sn.astm.org/?q=features/two-cannabis-standards-you-should-know-about-.html

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