Cannabis flower at our California dispensaries
Facts checked Sep 2026
Cannabis flower is the dried, cured bud of the plant, sold by weight at every Cannavine store: a gram, an eighth (3.5 g), a quarter (7 g), a half (14 g) or an ounce (28 g). California caps an adult-use purchase at 28.5 grams a day, and every jar on the shelf carries a batch number that ties it to its lab test.
Shop flower on the live menu
Stock, strains and prices differ by store and change through the day; the menu is the only place on this site that says what is on a shelf right now.
Flower is the form most people mean when they say cannabis: the bud itself, trimmed, dried and cured, ready to grind. On our shelves it comes two ways. Jars and bags of whole bud, sold by weight, and smaller formats the grower has already broken down, sold under names like smalls, minis or shake. The plant and the batch are the same; what changes is the size of the pieces and the price per gram.
This page explains how flower is sold and labeled in California and how the daily limit is counted. The live menu for your store, one button below, is where the strains, prices and stock actually are; nothing on this page describes a product, because stock differs by store and changes through the day.
How flower is sold by weight
The weights on a California menu are metric, with old names attached. A gram is the smallest unit most stores sell. An eighth is 3.5 grams, an eighth of an ounce. A quarter is 7 grams, a half is 14 and an ounce is 28. The same batch is usually cheaper per gram in a larger jar, which is why an eighth and a quarter of one strain sit side by side on the menu.
Pre-packaged flower is weighed and sealed by the licensed distributor before it reaches us, and the weight on the label is the net weight of the cannabis, not the jar. If a jar says 3.5 g, that is what is inside.
What the label has to tell you
Every jar of flower sold at a licensed California store carries the state's universal cannabis symbol, a government warning, the batch or lot number, the total THC and CBD figures from the lab test, and the date it was packaged. The potency line reads as a percentage of the flower's weight. Our guide to reading a California cannabis label walks through each line, including why the THC number on the jar is not the whole story.
The batch number is the part worth knowing about. It ties the jar to a certificate of analysis from a state-licensed lab, and the store can show you that certificate at the counter if you ask.
Flower and the daily limit
California allows an adult to buy up to 28.5 grams of non-concentrated cannabis in a day, which is an ounce and a fraction over. Flower counts gram for gram against that figure, and pre-rolls made of flower count the same way. The limit is per person and per day, not per visit, and the register applies it to the basket as a whole. Our purchase-limits guide works through a mixed basket.
Keeping flower once you have it
Flower keeps its smell and strength longest in an airtight glass jar in a cool, dark cupboard. Light, heat and air all dry it out; the refrigerator adds moisture it does not want. The child-resistant bag it left the store in is fine for the drive home and a few days after; a jar is better for anything longer. Storage jars and humidity packs are on the accessories shelf.
Questions people ask
- What are smalls, and are they the same flower?
- Smalls are the smaller buds from the same harvest, sold at a lower price per gram because they are less uniform in size. Same plant, same batch, same lab test; the difference is cosmetic. Shake is the loose material left after trimming, sold by weight for people who grind everything anyway.
- Is an ounce of flower over the daily limit?
- No. An ounce is 28 grams and the adult-use limit is 28.5 grams of non-concentrated cannabis a day, so a full ounce fits with half a gram to spare. Anything else in the basket that is flower counts toward the same figure.
- Can I open a jar before I buy it?
- Not the package you buy: flower for sale stays in its sealed, tamper-evident package until it leaves with you. The state's rules do let a store put some flower in a display container that staff open for you and stay beside while you look, and display flower is never sold. Whether a store keeps display containers is its own choice.
Guides that go deeper
- How to read a California cannabis label · The universal symbol, the warning, total THC on flower, milligrams per serving on products, the batch and the packaging date: what every label must show.
- How much you can buy in one day in California · An adult can buy 28.5 g of flower, 8 g of concentrate and 6 immature plants a day in California. How a basket is counted, with a table of flower weights.
- How to read a dispensary menu · A menu card gives the category, strain type, lab-tested potency, size and price. How to read each part, compare prices by the gram and spot a special.
