BudAbout is a cannabis product-review brand for New York City. We take a close visual look at products available around the city and pair what we see with honest, structured customer ratings, so you can compare before you choose. We're for adults 21 and older.

21 or older. BudAbout is for adults 21+ only — there's an age check before you can browse, and everything on the site assumes an adult audience.

Yes. Browsing the directory, reading our checks, and comparing ratings is free, and you don't need an account just to look around.

No. BudAbout reviews products — we inspect and rate, we don't sell or deliver. Any regulated sales are handled by separate licensed operators who hold the appropriate New York licenses.

We focus on New York City and build it out neighborhood by neighborhood across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, so what you see reflects what's actually around your area.

A dispensary menu is a list of what one shop is selling. BudAbout sits one step back: we independently look the product over, describe what we saw, and attach structured customer ratings so you can compare across the city instead of trusting a single menu photo.

Checked means we got hands on that product and gave it a close visual once-over — usually on camera — and wrote up what we saw. It's a note that a real person inspected the appearance, not a quality guarantee, a potency claim, or a stamp of safety. Producer-reported figures and customer ratings sit alongside it.

Each page pairs a few things: our visual notes on appearance (what the flower, packaging, or label actually looked like), any producer-reported THC or CBD figures clearly marked as the producer's, aroma-and-flavor terpene notes, and structured customer ratings. Read them together — no single number tells the whole story.

Yes — we'd love that. Use the contact page to point us at a product or a neighborhood you'd like covered. We can't promise we'll get to everything, but suggestions genuinely help us decide what to check next.

A range of what's sold around the city — flower, pre-rolls, vapes, edibles, and more. For each we focus on what's actually observable: the look of the product where we can see it, plus the packaging and label. What we can inspect varies by format, and we say so on each page.

No. We're an independent review brand — not a government body, regulator, or dispensary. Anything we say about rules or licensing is general information, and any regulated sales are handled by separate licensed operators.

BudAbout is a New York City cannabis product-review site for adults 21 and over that does hands-on visual inspections and collects structured customer ratings. We are not a lab, and we do not sell or deliver products. Licensed operators handle all sales and delivery.

No. BudAbout is a review site only, and we do not sell, stock, or deliver any cannabis products. All purchasing and delivery is handled by licensed New York operators. Our job is simply to check how products look and to gather honest customer ratings.

No, we are not a lab and do not perform any chemical testing. We do hands-on visual inspections, describing appearance and aroma, and we collect structured customer ratings. Potency and contaminant testing is done by the labs that licensed operators are required to use.

A compliant NY label generally identifies the licensed producer, the product and batch, producer-reported cannabinoid content, net weight or piece count, the New York cannabis symbol, and required warnings. It's how you confirm a product came through the legal market. BudAbout reads these labels but doesn't create or certify them.

It's a standardized mark required on legal NY cannabis products to signal that an item is regulated cannabis. Seeing it is one quick sign a product came through the licensed market rather than an unlicensed seller. We can note whether it appears on packaging, but the symbol itself is set by the state, not by us.

NY labels carry required warnings, including that the product contains cannabis, is for adults 21 and over, and should be kept away from children, among others set by regulators. These are mandated, not optional marketing text. We can observe whether they're present, but the exact required wording is defined by the state.

Net weight is how much product is in the package by weight, used for flower, concentrates, and topicals, while count is the number of pieces, used for things like pre-roll packs or gummies. It tells you quantity, not strength. We report what the label states for weight or count.

Treat it as a label claim from the producer based on their testing, not a guarantee or anything BudAbout measured. It's a useful reference point, but real products can vary and we don't verify the number. Use it as the producer's stated figure rather than a promise of a specific experience.

No. All cannabinoid figures, including THC and CBD, are producer-reported and we never test, measure, or independently verify them. We do visual inspection and ratings, not lab work. When you see a potency number on BudAbout, it's the producer's claim, passed along as-is.

A COA is a lab document a producer obtains showing test results for a batch, such as cannabinoid content and screenings for certain contaminants. It's generated by a testing lab, not by sellers or by us. BudAbout doesn't produce COAs, and we don't verify them either.

A COA usually lists the producer and batch, the lab and test date, cannabinoid amounts, and pass or fail results for the screenings the lab ran. Match the batch number on the COA to the one on your package so they correspond. We can explain the general layout, but we don't generate or validate these documents.

No. We don't create certificates of analysis and we don't verify the ones producers provide. A COA comes from a testing lab and is the producer's documentation, not ours. If a COA matters to you, confirm it through the producer or retailer, since it's outside what our visual checks cover.

A batch number identifies the specific production run a product came from, which is how labels and COAs are tied together. Matching the batch on your package to the batch on a COA confirms the document refers to that run. We can read the batch number off a label, but we don't audit what it links to.