A dispensary menu is just a sorted list of legal cannabis with the facts printed right on it. Once you know where to look, you can read any menu in under a minute. The five things that matter most: category (what kind of product it is), potency (how strong, usually a THC percentage or a milligram number), the strain or cultivar name, the lab test, and the price tier. Everything else is detail.
At The Highline, our full menu lives on Dutchie at /order. It shows live inventory for our shop at 45 Main Street in Hastings-on-Hudson, so what you see is what is actually on the shelf. You can browse by category, filter by effect or brand, sort by price, and read the lab numbers before you ever walk in or schedule same-day delivery to the Rivertowns. Below is how to make sense of all of it.
Start with the category
Every menu groups products by what they are. Knowing the categories tells you how a product is used and roughly how fast it works. These are the ones you will see most often.
- Flower: the dried bud, sold loose or as pre-rolls. Smoked or vaporized. Effects come on in minutes.
- Vapes: oil in a disposable pen or a 510 cartridge. Also fast-acting.
- Concentrates: rosin, live resin, hash, and similar. Potent and usually for experienced consumers.
- Edibles and beverages: gummies, chocolates, drinks. Slow to start, often 30–90 minutes, and longer-lasting.
- Tinctures and topicals: dropper bottles and balms for a non-smoking route.
What do the numbers on a dispensary menu mean?
For flower and vapes, the big number is usually THC by percentage, often 15–30%. For edibles and tinctures it is milligrams of THC per serving and per package. In New York, edibles are capped at 10 mg THC per serving and 100 mg per package, so the math is consistent everywhere.
Read the potency, not just the percentage
Potency is listed two ways depending on the product. Flower and vape oil show a percentage. A higher percentage means more THC by weight, but it does not guarantee a better experience. Many people find that aroma, terpenes, and the specific cultivar shape the feel more than a couple of points of THC. Edibles and tinctures show milligrams, which is the more precise way to think about a dose. A common starting point is 2.5–5 mg of THC, then waiting before more.
That tolerance number is worth knowing. In New York, an adult-use product must test within 85 to 115 percent of its labeled THC, so a gummy marked 10 mg is genuinely close to 10 mg. That is the value of a regulated dispensary over an unlicensed shop. Effects may vary. Please consume responsibly.
Decode the price tiers
Flower is almost always sorted into price tiers, sometimes labeled value, mid, and top-shelf. The tier reflects scarcity, the grower, and the growing method, not safety. Everything on a licensed New York menu passed the same lab testing. Top-shelf often means limited genetics or hand-trimmed small-batch craft from independent growers, which is most of what we carry from upstate. Value flower is just as legal and tested, simply more available.
Watch the weight. Flower is sold by the gram (1g), eighth (3.5g), quarter (7g), and so on. The honest way to compare two products is price per gram. A larger size almost always lowers the per-gram cost, so do the simple division before you decide a deal is a deal.
How much cannabis can I buy at once in New York?
Adults 21+ can buy up to 3 ounces of flower or 24 grams of concentrate per day from a licensed dispensary, and you cannot max out both in one trip. The limit is tracked statewide per customer and resets daily. Most first-time visitors buy far less than this.
Use the filters and check the lab test
On Dutchie you can filter by indica, sativa, hybrid, or CBD-forward, sort by price, and search a brand or cultivar by name. Use short search terms, like "OG" or "cake," rather than a full strain name. Many products also link a Certificate of Analysis, the third-party lab report showing cannabinoid content and that it passed contaminant testing. If you like detail, that COA is the source of truth behind every number on the tile.
A higher THC percentage is not the same as a better experience. The cultivar, the terpenes, and the dose do more of the work.
Once you can scan category, potency, tier, and lab test, the menu stops being a wall of options and becomes a quick filter for what you actually want. Browse the live menu at /order, sort by price or effect, and if anything is unclear, ask a budtender in person or text us about same-day delivery to Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and northern Yonkers.