I've only noticed a difference when I copped a Vaporizer since some tasted distinctly different to others, but my weed selection differs heavily from what you Americans get because the quality home grown kush has one distinct flavour that I'm used to and alot of the times the different shyt that gets imported gets labelled and repackaged as whatever else is hot/new out when all it is, really is some Diesel of some sort.
I only really got an actual taste for different shyt that matched the descriptions in Denver and it only got better when I stopped copping from the dispensaries and started buying from a grower.
Also, it depends what you smoke your shyt in and what you add to it. Back when I started out (lol 4 years ago) all I knew was the white Bamboo rolling papers and used to add Funta (Dried Tobacco leaves) to my shyt until I realized that I liked neither product and switched to smoking Raw and just straight up weed.
Blunts/Tobacco overpower the weed in a way where you tasting that Tobacco more than the weed itself and that extra tingle is the nicotine/chest buzz you get from fukking with that brown leaf in the first place.