I smoked some of my raspberry cough that has been in cure for almost 4 months now.  It has a completely different and smoother taste than at the 6 week mark.  In my mind its worth the extra time to make that good good!!  I just use the scissors but trim wet and dry, trying to leave some leaves on there to slow the drying process some.  Then when transferring from the drying box to the cure buckets I will give it another trim and typically remove the smaller buds from the main stems.