How much is a zip of weed?

A zip in grams, and the two numbers guides get wrong

Zip is slang for an ounce, and the guides that rank for this question agree on that much. The ounce itself is a legal unit, and the NIST weights and measures tables list one avoirdupois ounce as exactly 0.028349523125 kilogram.

One ranking guide calls a zip exactly 28.5 grams. That figure is California's cap on what a licensed retailer may sell one adult-use customer in a day, not the ounce. Another puts a pound at 448 grams, which is 16 ounces rounded down to 28 grams each and lands about 5.6 grams short of a real pound.

• An eighth of a zip is about 3.54 grams.
• A quarter of a zip comes to about 7.09 grams.
• Half a zip comes to about 14.17 grams.
• A whole zip is 28.35 grams, rounded.

Sixteen zips make a pound

A pound is 16 ounces. So a pound holds 16 zips, and it weighs 453.59237 grams by the NIST tables. A pound of flower is far past what a licensed retailer may sell one adult-use customer in a day.

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What one zip means for a day's order in California

California caps what a licensed retailer may sell one adult-use customer at 28.5 grams of non-concentrated cannabis and 8 grams of concentrate per day, under section 15409 of the state cannabis regulations. A zip of flower takes 28.35 of those 28.5 grams and leaves about 0.15 grams.

In practice, an order with a zip of flower has no room for another eighth of flower that day, though concentrate has its own 8 gram allowance and does not compete with the zip. Medicinal patients are treated differently. A retailer may sell a medicinal patient up to 8 ounces of dried flower in a day, or the amount a valid physician's recommendation documents, and adult-use and medicinal limits cannot be added together.

The weight that counts is the one on your paperwork. Every licensed delivery receipt has to describe every item by its weight, volume or another accurate measure, along with the total paid.

Ordering flower by the zip from Nexus

Flower is one of the six categories linked from our homepage, alongside edibles, extracts, cartridges, pre-rolls and pods. The flower shelf of the live menu shows current flower and today's price, so this page prints no price. R., reviewing Nexus on Weedmaps, wrote: "Was able to get a lot more out of my order than other places for the same price".

When you order a zip from us, read the weight your receipt lists: that number, not the slang, is what you bought. Checkout asks for a driver's license, and an eligible recipient must be present with valid government-issued identification when the order arrives.

We deliver to 65 ZIP codes around Sacramento, and the delivery areas page lists every one.

For picking the flower itself, from freshness to label data, read our flower buying guide.