Good lord there is a lot of bad advice in this thread.
1. If you are newish to weed, don't smoke fucking chemicals and don't eat it. Get a glass bowl, get whatever weed smells best to you (look in the low end of the price range, because you don't *want* 30+% THC!), and smoke a little bit of it.
Advising new users to try smoking fucking 80% extracts or overdosing on edibles is some kind of cruel RL troll job.
2. Somehow legalizing it made weed culture actually *worse*. I used to keep my pot use secret because it was the law. Now I do it because I don't want to be associated with these idiots.
Talking to these idiots in the store is like getting your news from NPR. "Well, are you looking for an uplifting, creative, full-body high or more of a cerebral, energetic, euphoric high?" "This one's a nice 40/60 hybrid with notes of pineapple and cardamom"
Try to exchange as few words as possible with the gauge-eared skinny jeans wearing fuck behind the counter. I think of it like an interaction with the police; a wise man says as little as possible and gets out as soon as he can.