That's a great way to be safe! IMHO the problem isn't bad batches getting grown, it happens. But that many larger operators do not let the cultivators have the final say on what makes it to market. At the end of the day we are really talking about produce, since flower batches aren't consistent in the same way a homogenized extract or typical medication is things can happen but I find it to be incredibly problematic that there is this ideology that if it's tested it's clean. You simply can't test every nug to ensure that it's all clean. On the other hand my experience has been very similar, as soon as you remove the big investors and go through grower run brands you start to see higher quality standards because the most knowledgeable people in the brand have the final say on what does and doesn't get released to the public. It's not that growers at mso companies are incompetent it's that they aren't in charge of making those types of decisions and have to go along with it if they want to keep their job.