Just because it’s made with lower grade material doesn’t mean it’s not a great product still. It has very few impurities, and its is super convenient. The best part is, since terps are extracted seperatly and re introduced, we can give patients a consistent product that is exactly the same each time. That’s not possible with flower or any other extraction technique because it depends on quality of product, the terp profile being different on different cuts of the same strain, and many other factors. But you can use material with few terps, or a bad profile. You can use product where the buds didn’t develope right, or the plant got burnt, or it seeded out, or it got bugs or many other problems. You pretty much just need fresh THC. More thc means more distillate.

You could compare it to finding a gold mine, or panning for gold in a stream. The gold mine would be top shelf product, the stream would be a disaster harvest. The gold is the same quality from both, but you get more from the gold mine. Does that make sense? I don’t want to dissuade you from distillate, it’s still a great product, but anyone claiming they use top shelf product for it is usually lying. If they have a great terp profile there is no sense destroying it and re introducing other terps.