I have no experience with these new things you are speaking of, as not available (that I know of) in the legal shops in Colorado. I do know of blond Lebanese hash and the varieties I mentioned in another post, and those would stand up well or better in the Pepsi challenge to the best flower from the legal shops.
I like the legal shops, and the product is uniformly fairly good. I don't mind the tax, as the product quality is reasonably (and I stress reasonably) good, though price far higher than back in the day.
That said, you don't have to worry of getting ripped off or having to demand your money back from some asshole who didn't know who he was Fcking with. Back in the day, you could pretty well tell the difference just sticking your nose in the baggy and looking at the leaf and bud before buying and really good quality was usually available if a connoisseur, and you were willing to pay the difference. In the modern day, legal pot shops pretty well rule out the $15 dollar rip off, and you don't have to worry, you are getting something treated with Paraquat by the government to kill it in the first place (that somebody harvested anyway) and giving in a brownish tinge like mid to low grade Mexican, but could do permanent damage to your lungs. If they legalized it here, I would keep some around the house, just for nights when I might like to indulge. Afterall, I would prefer to be treated like a free man adult, able to make my own choices, as I report to nobody, anymore, but prefer to remain within the law.