Millennials who grew up in the United States have witnessed a rapid change in society’s accessibility and perception of dry herb. Millennials witnessed the transition of recreational dry herb becoming legal in some states and continuing, and they are more accepting of it. As teenagers, most Millennials understood dry herb as a luxury that they could only buy in small quantities from people who either cultivated or resold it illegally. The price would change depending on many factors, including the relationship with the dealer. But because purchasing dry herb was considered a black market transaction, the price of the product could vary quite a bit.
The Plug
Many young Millennials considered themselves lucky if they wanted to smoke dry herb and knew someone from whom they could purchase it. If you didn’t have a “plug” to buy dry herb from, you simply went without it. That’s a stark contrast from the current dry herb market in over half the states in the U.S., where dry herb is either wholly legal or in the process of becoming legalized. Currently, 16 states in the U.S. have fully legalized dry herb, and a bounty of other states already have dry herb shops with a variety of products. Millennials have witnessed the dry herb market go from an underhanded transaction on a street corner to sophisticated shops that are essentially on every corner in densely populated areas.
Medical dry herb dispensaries
If a millennial was lucky enough to live in a state where medical dry herb use was legal, chances are that person had a medical herb card. Now that recreational use is becoming legalized in many places, if you’re over 21 and have ID, dry herb can be purchased in these shops for only a couple of dollars. In some areas where dry herb production is flooding the market, one can buy a pack of ten prerolls for about $10. The accessibility and cheap prices for dry herb in these legalized states would have left Millennials speechless in 2010.
Big Supporters of Dry Herb
Millennials have also been consistently more supportive of dry herb legalization than older generations. As the millennial generation obtained more voting power, the push for legalizing medicinal and recreational dry herb increased. Ever since legalization for medicinal use opened up around the year 2000, research about dry herb has exploded, and many young adults in the millennial generation are well-informed. This flood of information quickly shifted public perception of the drug. The stark contrast between the medicinal research of dry herb and the many laws in place around the country deeming recreational use a felony felt ironic, to say the least. Some folks were treating epileptic children with dry herb, while others were thrown in jail.
Millennials Prefer Legalization
With The War on Drugs being a concept only realized in history books, the harsh laws surrounding dry herbs have quickly gone out of style. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Millennials have surpassed baby boomers, becoming the largest segment of the U.S. population. With this much voting power, changes are happening in strides as Millennials continue pushing for legalization around the country and voting for dry herb tax laws that fund education. Dry herb brings a definite economic boost to legalized areas, and its tax revenue now pours into literary programs, school construction, grants, and K-12 education.
Overall, millennials remain supportive of dry herb. And this support even crosses political beliefs, with both liberal and conservative millennials maintaining a pro-dry herb majority. Whether an individual uses dry herbs themselves or not doesn’t matter. Put simply, freedom of choice is what remains essential to millennials around the nation.
The Flavor Generation
The young adults in America today who are part of the Millennial generation are huge fans of flavored vaping products such as cartridges with terpenes. This generation also demands new and better dry herb products too. The once-popular Flavored rolling papers have been replaced by filter tips that release real terpenes upon squeezing them for a better flavorful experience. Try one of King Palm's all-natural organic filter tips that have a bead inside them prefilled with infused oil with terpenes.
