Weight tiers are unit sizes, not quality grades
Flower is sold in fractions of an ounce, and the name on a menu line describes how much is in the container. The Cannabis Compliance Board publishes the conversion it uses for transaction limits: one eighth of an ounce is 3.54 grams, a quarter is 7.09 grams, a half is 14.18 grams, and a full ounce is 28.35 grams. The price per gram usually falls as the unit size rises, because the fixed cost of packaging and handling a batch is spread across more product. That is arithmetic, not a promotion. Two containers carrying the same product name can be priced differently if they came from different harvests, and a heavier container of one cultivar can cost less than a lighter container of another. The tier tells you the quantity. It tells you nothing about what is inside.
- One ounce
- 28.35 grams
- One eighth of an ounce
- 3.54 grams
- One quarter of an ounce
- 7.09 grams
- One half of an ounce
- 14.18 grams
Not every menu line is quoted in the same unit
Nevada law does not treat all cannabis as one category. The Cannabis Compliance Board states that per Senate Bill No. 277, effective January 1, 2024, the transaction and possession limit increased to two and one-half ounces of usable cannabis and one-fourth of an ounce of concentrated cannabis, which the Board describes as the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from cannabis. Its equivalency chart sets out, for a given amount of flower, how much THC in other products stays within limits, and it lists two and one-half ounces of usable cannabis as 70.88 grams. So the two categories interact at the register even where their pricing does not, and a per gram figure on one menu line and a per gram figure on another are not always the same purchase. Comparison only works inside one product form and one unit size.
- Transaction and possession limit
- 2.5 ounces of usable cannabis, effective January 1, 2024
- Concentrated cannabis limit
- one-fourth of an ounce
The half ounce, specifically
A half ounce is 14 grams. It sits between a quarter at 7 grams and a full ounce at 28, and in Nevada it is the tier people ask about most by a wide margin. The reason is arithmetic rather than fashion: it is usually the smallest amount at which per-gram pricing starts to look meaningfully different from buying eighths, while still sitting well inside the single-transaction limit for adult-use flower. If you are used to buying an eighth at a time, a half ounce is four of them. That is the whole comparison, and it is worth doing in grams rather than in tier names, because tier names hide the ratio.
- Half ounce
- 14 grams
- In eighths
- Four eighths, 4 x 3.5g
- Next tier down
- Quarter, 7 grams
- Next tier up
- Ounce, 28 grams
Why larger tiers usually cost less per gram, and when they do not
Bigger weights are generally priced lower per gram, because packaging, labeling and handling cost per unit falls as the unit gets bigger. That is a tendency, not a rule, and it breaks in both directions. A cultivar in short supply can price a half ounce close to the per-gram cost of an eighth. A batch a store is clearing can put an ounce below what the arithmetic would predict. The only way to know which situation you are in is to divide the current menu price by the grams in each tier, on the day. Take the shelf price, divide by 3.5 for an eighth, by 14 for a half ounce, by 28 for an ounce, and compare the three numbers. It takes ten seconds and it is the single most useful thing on this page.
- Per-gram check
- Menu price divided by grams in the tier
- Eighth
- Divide by 3.5
- Half ounce
- Divide by 14
- Ounce
- Divide by 28
About the ounce deals people search for
A lot of Las Vegas searching happens at a specific number: an ounce at some advertised price. Those offers are real in this market and they move constantly, which is exactly why no number appears on this page. Any figure written into a page is wrong the week after it is written, and a stale price is worse than no price, because it sends someone across town for something that is not there. Deal pricing at Vegas Treehouse lives on the live menu, which is generated from the same system the register runs on. If you are shopping to a budget rather than to a particular cultivar, open the menu, sort by the tier you want, and work from what is actually in the case tonight.




