Types of Cannabis Products: A Guide to What’s on the Shelf
The main types of cannabis products are flower, pre-rolls, concentrates, vapes, edibles, tinctures, topicals, beverages and capsules. Each one is used differently, and they don’t all hit at the same speed.
We carry most of them. The table shows how each type is used, how fast it’s felt and what we stock, and the sections after it give our sizes and prices.
Quebec’s public-health guide to cannabis sorts products into four groups: dried cannabis, extracts, edibles and topicals. On our shelf, flower and plain pre-rolls are dried cannabis, and concentrates, vapes, tinctures and oil syringes are extracts. Our gummies count as edibles and our balm as a topical.
Cannabis products at a glance
| Type | How it’s used | How fast you feel it | What we carry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flower | Smoked in a joint, pipe or bong, or vaporized | Seconds to minutes | AAA and AAAA, 7 g to a half pound, from $30 |
| Pre-rolls | Smoked, ready to light | Seconds to minutes | Plain and infused, from $15 |
| Concentrates | Dabbed or added to flower | Seconds to minutes | Shatter, resins, diamonds and more, from $10 a gram |
| Vape carts and disposables | Vaporized with a battery or all-in-one pen | Seconds to minutes | 1 g carts from $20, disposables from $35 |
| Edibles | Eaten | 30 minutes to 2 hours | Gummies in 10 mg and 100 mg pieces, from $12 a bag |
| Tinctures | Under the tongue or added to food and drinks | 30 minutes to 2 hours when swallowed | 30 ml bottles, $30 |
| CBD products | Depends on the form | Depends on the form | Tinctures, gummies and a balm |
| Topicals | Applied to the skin | No time given for skin use | One CBD:THC balm, $65 |
| Beverages | Drunk | 30 minutes to 2 hours | Not carried |
| Capsules | Swallowed | 30 minutes to 2 hours | Not carried |
| Hash and kief | Smoked or vaporized | Seconds to minutes | Not carried |
The times come from Health Canada: smoked, vaporized or dabbed cannabis can be felt within seconds to minutes, and cannabis you eat or drink within 30 minutes to 2 hours. Edibles also peak later and last longer (CMAJ, 2020), so check which group a product is in before you try something new.
Flower
Flower is the dried bud of the cannabis plant, and the most classic product. It’s ground up and smoked, or heated in a dry-herb vaporizer.
On our shelf, flower is graded AAAA, the highest grade we carry, and AAA, one grade below for everyday smoking. The different kinds of weed guide covers indica, sativa and hybrid.
Both grades come in 7 g, 14 g and 28 g, plus quarter and half pounds. A 7 g bag starts at $30 for AAA and $35 for AAAA, and an ounce at $80 and $100.
Pre-rolls
Pre-rolls are joints rolled for you, so you don’t need a grinder or papers. Infused pre-rolls add concentrate for extra strength.
In Health Canada’s 2024 survey, 65% of people who used dried flower bought at least some pre-rolls. We stock AAA indica pre-rolls at 3 x 1 g for $20, and infused pre-rolls at $15 for a 1.5 g single or $25 for a 5-pack.
Concentrates
Concentrates pull the cannabinoids and terpenes out of the plant into a stronger form. They’re usually dabbed, which means vaporized on a hot surface.
Every concentrate is an extract, but not every extract is a concentrate. Tinctures, for example, are extracts dissolved in oil or alcohol.
The main kinds are:
- Shatter: glassy and brittle
- Budder and crumble: soft and creamy, or dry and crumbly
- Cured resin and live resin: made from dried or fresh-frozen plants
- Hash rosin: made with heat and pressure, no solvents
- Diamonds: crystals of THCA, often sold in terpene-rich sauce
- Sauce and distillate: runny, terpene-rich sauce, or refined, mostly flavourless oil
The extracts guides explain each one. New to them? Start with how to dab.
A gram of shatter, cured resin or crumble is $10, diamonds and sauce $15, and live resin $20. Diamonds, crumble and live resin also come in 7 g, 14 g and 28 g jars, and a 1 oz jar of cured resin is $170.
Vape carts and disposables
Vape carts are cartridges of cannabis oil that screw onto a battery. Ours are 1 g, 510-thread. Disposables are all-in-one pens with the battery built in, used until empty.
Our carts cost $20 to $25 and need a 510-thread battery. Disposables are $35 for a 2 g pen, or $60 for a 4 g dual-chamber pen that holds two strains.
Vapes are easy to carry and smell much less than smoke. See disposable vape vs cartridge to choose between them.
Edibles
Edibles are foods and drinks with cannabis in them, like gummies and chocolate. They take longer to feel and last longer than smoking.
All of our edibles are gummies, in two strengths. The 10 mg pieces come 20 for $12 or 100 for $30, and the 100 mg pieces 5 for $16 or 100 for $200. Hash rosin gummies are also 100 mg, at 5 for $25.
A 100 mg piece holds ten times the THC of a 10 mg one, so read is a 10 mg edible a lot? before you try one.
Tinctures
Tinctures are cannabis extracts in oil or alcohol, measured with a dropper. They’re taken under the tongue or added to food or drinks. See what is a tincture?
Ours come in 30 ml dropper bottles at $30: a THC tincture (1,000 mg), a 1:1 CBD:THC tincture (1,000 mg of each) and a CBD isolate tincture (1,000 mg).
CBD products
CBD products focus on CBD, a cannabinoid that doesn’t cause a high the way THC does. THC vs CBD explains the difference.
Our CBD range is the two CBD tinctures above, CBD gummies at 100 x 50 mg for $80, and a CBD:THC balm.
Topicals
Topicals are oils, creams, lotions and balms with cannabinoids in them, made to go on the skin, hair or nails rather than be eaten or inhaled.
We carry one topical, a 3:1 CBD:THC balm with 3,000 mg in a 30 g jar, for $65.
How each type is measured
Each type lists its amount in its own unit, so check the unit before you compare two products.
- Flower: by weight. 7 g is a quarter ounce, 14 g a half ounce and 28 g an ounce. A quarter pound is four ounces.
- Concentrates and vapes: by weight too, from 1 g jars and carts up to 28 g jars, plus 2 g and 4 g disposables.
- Edibles: in milligrams of THC (or CBD), per piece and per bag. A bag of 100 gummies at 10 mg holds 1,000 mg in all.
- Tinctures and oil syringes: in milligrams per bottle or syringe. A 1,000 mg tincture spreads that over 30 ml, about 33 mg per ml. Our RSO and honey oil syringes ($12) put 1,000 mg in 1 ml, about 30 times as concentrated.
- Ratios: 3:1 CBD:THC means three parts CBD to one part THC. Our balm holds 2,250 mg of CBD and 750 mg of THC.
Cannabis products we don’t carry
We don’t carry these types of cannabis products:
- Beverages: sodas, sparkling drinks and teas made with cannabis.
- Capsules and softgels: cannabis oil in a pre-measured capsule that you swallow.
- Oral strips and sprays: extracts made to be taken by mouth, on a thin film or as drops from a spray.
- Cooking oil: cannabis extract diluted in an oil such as olive or coconut oil, for adding to food.
- Hash and kief: kief is the loose powder of trichomes, the resin glands on the bud, and hash is that resin pressed into a solid block.
- Hardware: papers, pipes, bongs, grinders, dab rigs and vape batteries.
Storing cannabis products
Keep flower in an airtight glass jar somewhere cool and dark. Every order with flower comes with a humidity pack for the jar, and does weed expire? covers how long flower lasts and how to spot mould.
For edibles, tinctures and vape carts, check the package for a best-before date. Health Canada advises keeping all cannabis locked away, out of sight and reach of children and pets, and edibles apart from regular food and drinks.
Common questions
What are the four types of cannabis products?
Dried cannabis, extracts, edibles and topicals are the four groups in Quebec’s public-health guide to cannabis. Dried cannabis is the flower, loose or rolled, and extracts include hash, shatter, rosin, vape oil, tinctures and oils. Edibles are foods and drinks made with cannabis, and topicals go on the skin, nails or hair.
What are the most common cannabis products?
In Health Canada’s 2024 Canadian Cannabis Survey, people who had used cannabis in the past year most often named dried flower (63%), edibles (55%) and vape pens or cartridges (37%). Oil taken by mouth (24%), beverages (21%), hash or kief (16%), topicals (13%) and concentrates (13%) came next. Health Canada’s sales data for June 2026 puts the same two first: dried cannabis made up half of all packaged units sold, edibles 26% and extracts 23%, with topicals at 0.3%.
What is the strongest type of cannabis product?
Concentrates usually have the highest THC by weight. Health Canada puts dried flower at around 15% THC on average and solvent-made extracts like shatter and budder at up to 90%. Edibles can feel very strong too, because of how much is in each piece and how long they last.
What’s the best cannabis product for beginners?
A common starting point is a small amount of flower or a pre-roll, because the effects come on quickly and are easier to judge. See smoking weed for the first time.
Which cannabis products don’t smell?
Edibles and tinctures don’t produce smoke. Vapes still smell, but much less than smoke, and the smell fades quickly.
