How do you know if a cannabis price is fair?
We’re relaunching Cannabox soon, and I’d love feedback from the Product Hunt community before we go live.
Cannabox started as a cannabis delivery marketplace in Thailand. After talking to users and dispensaries, we found a bigger problem: price transparency.
Cannabis prices in Thailand can vary a lot from shop to shop. A buyer might see one strain listed at 300 THB/g in one place and 800 THB/g somewhere else, with very little context on whether either price is fair.
So we’re rebuilding Cannabox as a community-powered cannabis price index.
The basic loop is:
1. A user visits a dispensary
2. They submit a real price from a receipt, menu, shelf tag, product label, or photo
3. Cannabox verifies and organizes the submission
4. Other users can compare prices by city, shop, and product type
5. More buyers and shops contribute, making the index more useful over time
The goal is not to tell people what to buy. The goal is to make local cannabis pricing easier to understand.
A few questions we’re thinking through:
- What kind of proof would make a submitted price trustworthy?
- Should verified prices expire after 7, 14, or 30 days?
- Should dispensaries be able to claim their shop and update prices directly?
- How would you prevent spam or fake low prices?
- Would you trust community-submitted pricing more if every submission included a photo?
- What would make this useful for tourists, locals, and medical patients?
We’re especially interested in how other founders think about crowdsourced data products.
When the product depends on users contributing useful data, trust becomes the whole product.
What signals would make you trust a community-powered price index?
Replies
For me, a fair cannabis price depends on more than the number on the label. I consider the strain's reputation, freshness, potency, and local availability.
@simran_kumar I've learned that the lowest price isn't always the best deal. I compare quality, lab testing, and customer feedback. If everything lines up with the asking price, it feels fair to me.
Cannabox
A little more context:
The flywheel we’re trying to build is:
Better price submissions → better local price data → more useful comparisons → more users → more submissions → better market transparency.
The hard part is making the first version useful before the dataset is huge.
Right now we’re thinking about starting with:
- Bangkok first
- Flower prices first
- Proof-backed submissions only
- A visible “last verified” date
- Shop pages that show price history over time
Would love feedback on what the minimum trustworthy version should include.