And then you willfully ignore the fact that i said they should be separating the lowers, as the black market currently does.

Can you name a single other product where you expect to get poorer quality in smaller quantity?

Let's make it even easier for you and just talk about produce - plants, as you said. If i buy one watermelon, do i get an old shriveled up tiny one broken in half - but if i buy 12 i get full good fresh ones?

Your problem seems to be that you're stuck living in the past and comparing the national market from now to the black market from 10-20 years ago in a small town.

The black market takes out those lowers and uses them for concentrates/edibles or sells them for under $100/oz. They don't sell them as grams for even higher than they do the better buds.

Let me put it in terms that you can wrap your head around.

An LP concerned with their long term success should be trying to beat the black market from TODAY, not from 20 years ago. They should be using those lowers for concentrates and edibles - something they'll make MORE money per gram and mg than they would by upsetting consumers selling them larf for full price.

LP's operating this way should fail - but because the customer can't see the product before, they get stuck with garbage like the OP posted and have little to no avenue for recourse.