How we score
Five numbers out of ten, averaged into one. The method is published so you can disagree with it precisely rather than in general.
A single score out of ten tells you almost nothing on its own. An eight because it tasted extraordinary and an eight because it was cheap and adequate are not the same eight, and a reader who cannot tell them apart has been given a number instead of an opinion. So every review here carries five, and the overall is simply their average.
The average is computed, never typed. There is no way for a review on this site to carry an overall score that disagrees with the five numbers underneath it, because the overall does not exist as a stored value at all.
The five
What the bands mean
The colour on a score is not decoration. It is a band, and the bands are fixed:
| Score | Band | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| 9.2/10 | 8.5 and up | Genuinely excellent. Worth going out of your way for and worth paying over the odds for. |
| 7.6/10 | 7.0 to 8.4 | Solid. No complaints. What a good shelf should look like most of the time. |
| 6.0/10 | 5.0 to 6.9 | Middling. It smokes, it does the job, nothing about it is memorable. |
| 3.4/10 | Under 5.0 | Skip it. Something is actually wrong: the cure, the smell, the price, or the honesty of the label. |
Value is scored against price, not instead of it
The value score asks one question: was this worth what it cost? A thirty dollar eighth and a sixty-five dollar eighth are not competing on the same terms, and a scoring system that ignores price ends up recommending only the most expensive thing on every menu. A cheap jar that punches above its price can score higher on value than a superb one that is priced like a superb one.
This is also why the overall score is not a ranking of absolute quality. The best flower on this site is not necessarily the highest scoring. Read the terps and high numbers if that is what you want.
THC percentage is not a score
It is recorded on every review because it is on the label and people look for it, and it is deliberately not one of the five. Potency is the least informative number on a jar. A nineteen per cent flower with a loud terpene profile beats a flat twenty-eight per cent one on almost every axis that matters, and the industry's fixation on that one figure is the single biggest reason there is so much boring, high-testing flower on shelves.
What we will not do
- No sponsored reviews. Not marked ones, not unmarked ones. There is no rate card.
- Nothing free. Everything reviewed is bought at the going rate, like anyone else's.
- No pay-to-list. A delivery service appears in the directory because it holds a licence, not because it asked.
- No deleting bad scores. A low review stays up. If a later batch is better, it gets its own review and both stand.
- No affiliate links. Nothing on this site earns a commission on anything you buy.
Where the numbers can be wrong
Every review is one jar, on one day, from one batch. Cannabis is an agricultural product and the same name from the same grower can be genuinely different two months later. A score here is a report on a specific purchase, not a permanent judgment on a brand.
The reviews also come from one palate. If you consistently disagree with the terps scores, you are probably not wrong, you just have different taste. That is a good reason to read the description rather than the number.
Now go and read some.
Every review on the site, scored the way this page describes.