Colorado Dispensary Reviews
Review:
Pikes Peak Alternative Health and Wellness
1605 South Tejon St Ste 101
Colorado Springs CO 80905
Price: $350 for an ounce, $12.50 for a gram. We paid 23 something after tax for a half an 8th (1.75g)
Caregiver Policy: You must sign over your caregiver rights for service. (We told the guy we were new patients and trying to buy a gram or two from each dispensary to find out which one we liked best he made an exception for us for that one time.)
Quality of Product: The half 8th we got had about 6 seeds in it. The seeds were not visible on the outside of the buds and didn't appear until we began breaking up the bud. It wasn't riddled with them but once every two bowls or so you'd get one. There were also no seeds in the bottom of the jar, which leads me to a mild suspicion that the people who work there remove the loose seeds on a regular basis to make the product more presentable. Obviously the potency could have been better, but on the bright side we did get some free seeds with decent genes.
Atmosphere: Professional and comfortable. Seemed like you were in the office of a holistic personal trainer. In fact, I think they might also function as a personal trainer services as well. You do not feel like you're doing anything uncooth or dangerous when you're shopping there. It's a very safe feeling environment.
Staff Knowledge: There are apparently two people who work there and we only met one of them. He was not very knowledgable. He didn't medicate, and when we asked him about the percentage Indica/sativa of some of his strains he had to look each one up individually on the computer in order to tell us.
Staff Friendliness/helpfulness: Was plenty friendly. We arrived when he was closing up and he let us in anyway and brought all his stuff back out. Even though it was obvious he was not the top boss he bent the company's caregiver policy for us so we could as least sample the product before asking us to sign over our caregiver rights. As far as helpfulness, he was as helpful as he could be given the company's caregiver policy and his limited knowledge of the products.
Strain/Product Variety: About 12-15 different strains available for purchase, mix of indicas, indica dominants, sativa dominants and 50/50 hybrids. Also had medicated lozenges. They also had brownies with roughly 3 grams of medication in each.
Grow their own: No
Sell plants/clones: No
Would I go again: If their caregiver policy were different I might go there sometimes for the convenience of a cheap gram, or when I didn't mind sacrificing a bit of potency for some free seeds from a good strain. Unfortunately I don't know how comfortable I feel changing my caregiver every five minutes to whatever business happens to want to sell me something today, so I probably will not return until/unless their caregiver policy becomes less restrictive. A dispensary/grower should have their own certification; they should not be relying on the patient's certification to cover their own butts, and bullying patients into signing away their caregiver rights every time they want to shop at a new store. Some dispensaries just make a copy of your card or doctor's recommendation and your ID and then allow you to shop there, and that's all that's legally needed from the patient.
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
Review:
Colorado Cannabis Center
5953 Omaha Blvd
Colorado Springs 80915
Price: $20/g
Caregiver Policy: Will not serve caregivers who do not have paperwork. The State of Colorado no longer issues paperwork for caregivers. Lots of pressure to sign over your caregiver rights. It is unclear whether they would have sold to us if we had been interested in buying anything and refused to fill out a change of caregiver form.
Quality of Product: Did not sample it, but it was not visually appealing enough for us to waste our money.
Atmosphere: Sketchy. Feels like you're making a drug deal, and like you have to be careful not to be taken advantage of. There is a lot of pressure to do things exactly their way and the whole time you're there you know in the forefront of your consciousness that they're in it for the money, and that they're paranoid about getting busted. The room that they bring you back into to do business in is smaller than the lounge, which is very small itself.
Staff Knowledge: Seemed to know a lot about the legal side of things, but not so much about the medicine. They weren't clueless about the medicine, but they weren't especially generous with product information. It's difficult to tell whether they don't know a lot about the products or whether they just don't want to share that information with the patient because of the poor quality and high prices.
Staff Friendliness/Helpfulness: Very low score. The staff is there to sell you your drugs and send you on your way before the cops show up and they have to take the fall for the owner. That's what it feels like anyway. That's the vibe. To their credit when we asked them where we could find some other dispensaries to look around for they told us where to find the green pages at a 7-11 down the road.
Strain/Product Variety: About ten strains and glass for sale. Didn't notice any edibles. It wasn't an atmosphere conducive to getting a lot of specific information or asking a lot of your own questions.
Sell Plants/Clones: No
Grow Their Own: Don't know. Honestly, we didn't care for the reasons listed throughout the rest of these categories.
Will I go Again? No.
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
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Originally Posted by NatureLover
Palerider, you can do what you like, whatever works for you. For those who are finding it easier to find dispensaries than it is to find a grower or caregiver's co-operative I would suggest they just go to MMJ Community events, like the cannabis health fair in Boulder tomorrow. Having trouble finding access to affordable products of competitive quality, that might be a good place to go. Otherwise there are lots of patient advocacy meetings in boulder, denver, colorado springs, pueblo and probably just about everywhere else. If you need help finding one in your area let me know and I'll help you out. The people who run patient advocacy groups are very good at getting patients their medicine as though it is medicine and not a luxury.
I won't say anything more about John's shop until I visit it. I go to dispensaries and review them as an act of patient advocacy and will continue to do so. I have actually just over the past few days been developing a ten point checklist for things I look for in a dispensary to review, so from now on when I review a dispensary there will be a formula and it will offer a lot of information, and will be easily comparable to other dispensaries I've reviewed. I'll give you an example in an upcoming post, when I get back to reviewing the dispensaries.
that sounds good i did'nt know there was such.i myself am a caregiver and i don't charge but 275 to 300.and ofcorse if someone was very sick i would go lower.but you have to understand the most dispensaries bug people like me to give to them instead of a patient.so if i was to give to them for the 275/300 range u know they will jack it up.im with you on the caregiver/patient thing as the patient will get much better care and price for there meds or atleast should.and they are treated with more respect or should. i think thats the problem tho is most don't know where to go to meet one another. and no i have never been to a dispensary but i have heard mixed things and the subpar meds they sometimes sell at crazy prices.thats why i said either grow your own or find a caregiver that u would be much more happy with and sometimes safer.i don't know what there meds look like but here's sum of my work.
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
Review:
Rockbrook, Inc.
Colorado Ave, just past Yale coming from I-25.
Denver, Colorado
Price: $50/8th all the way up. We paid $25 for a half an 8th
Caregiver Policy: After the introductions on our first visit we were asked us "Are you guys looking for a caregiver or are you doing your own thing?" When we said "We're doing our own thing" the subject was immediately and permanently dropped. They made a copy of our card and ID, returned them both to us and that was that. A+ caregiver policy.
Quality of Product: Excellent. It was even visually stimulating enough that we decided several strains were worth $25 for a half 8th sample. We were very pleased with two of the three we purchased.
Atmosphere: Very professional, upbeat. Feels like you're there for healing, feels like a legitimate environment and like you're being treated well.
Staff Knowledge: We've met both Adam and Calvin during different visits. Both are very knowledgable about both the product and how it can be used as medicine. Adam seems to have an especially lot of information about the strains and their backgrounds and plant growth and care, and Calvin seems to be very knowledgable in the potential application of the medicine.
Staff Friendliness/Helpfulness: Very friendly, willing to answer questions. Good personalities, they're good at creating a relaxing atmosphere to do business in and they're free flowing with their knowledge and resources (well, except pricewise with the medicine).
Strain/product variety: They had about 5 different strains each of the two times we've been there. They had edibles and bubble hash and they either had or were working on some salves and tinctures. Their bubble hash is actually separated out and separately labeled strain specific as well as triche-size specific. Unfortunately, as far as bud goes they had been running out of the stuff they grew themselves and are talking about buying inventory from outsiders to hold them over for the next three weeks until their next harvest is done drying and curing, but they assured me that the problem was fixed and they have 11 strains in cultivation right now and that supply won't be a problem again.
Sell Plants/clones: Yes, but you have to call ahead the day before so they can bring it in for you. They don't have the capacity to keep them alive indefinitely at the store.
Grow Their Own: Yes
Will I go Again: Yes, I'm sure that I will spend $25 on a half 8th from time to time when I'm in Denver and looking for quick convenient access to a small amount of medicine. It is good quality medicine, but with no price breaks all the way up they are not capable of meeting my needs as a primary source.
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
. A dispensary/grower should have their own certification; they should not be relying on the patient's certification to cover their own butts, and bullying patients into signing away their caregiver rights every time they want to shop at a new store. Some dispensaries just make a copy of your card or doctor's recommendation and your ID and then allow you to shop there, and that's all that's legally needed from the patient.[/QUOTE]
but don't they need all those patients so they can legally have so much on hand at any givin time? without the patients they would have very lil to offer unless im missing something here?i thought we were all the same as far as whats legal to carry have on hand?
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
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Originally Posted by palerider7777
that sounds good i did'nt know there was such.i myself am a caregiver and i don't charge but 275 to 300.and ofcorse if someone was very sick i would go lower.but you have to understand the most dispensaries bug people like me to give to them instead of a patient.so if i was to give to them for the 275/300 range u know they will jack it up.im with you on the caregiver/patient thing as the patient will get much better care and price for there meds or atleast should.and they are treated with more respect or should. i think thats the problem tho is most don't know where to go to meet one another. and no i have never been to a dispensary but i have heard mixed things and the subpar meds they sometimes sell at crazy prices.thats why i said either grow your own or find a caregiver that u would be much more happy with and sometimes safer.i don't know what there meds look like but here's sum of my work.
I totally agree with everything you're saying here and those are some nice lookin' buds. Keep up the good work and the decent prices!
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
Review:
Cannabis Therapeutics
907 E. Fillmore St
Colorado Springs, CO
Prices: $3-$400/oz
Caregiver Policy: Patient must sign over his/her caregiver rights for service.
Quality of Product: Did not try the products. See caregiver policy above. Some of the products looked good and some looked okay.
Atmosphere: Unpleasant. The first thing that happens when the door opens is you're greeted by this big macho intimidating bouncer with an intimidating presence. He lets you into the lobby where he checks your ids and stuff, and leads you on any tour/information gathering you might want to do before you sign over your caregiver rights. He brought us into the back room where they have all their displays and do their business and they happened to be trimming in that display room at the time of our visit. It was difficult to really get a good look at the stuff they had and much information about it in that kind of environment.
Staff Knowledge: Seemed like the bouncer had a lot of info memorized that he spouted off and stuff, mostly about the way their dispensary worked rather than about the medicine. He was the only one we got to talk to.
Staff Friendliness/Helpfulness: We were looking at the jars in the display cases maybe about a minute and a half after entering the display room (where they were trimming product right there in the middle of the floor onto a tarp that we had to walk around) when the phone rang and the bouncer immediately picked it up and waved his hands in front of our faces and motioned us out like "it's time to go now." Nobody but the bouncer even acknowledged our presence at all. I don't know if they would have been friendlier if they hadn't been trimming in the middle of the floor in the display area of their store, but our experience was you don't get to talk to or meet anybody but the bouncer until you've signed over your caregiver rights.
Strain/product variety: There looked to be about a dozen strains there. They had a refrigerator of edibles and capsules, hard candy, tinctures, bubble hash, glasswork. We didn't really get a chance to see it all on our brief tour.
Sell plants/clones: Yes
Grow their own: Yes
Will I go again: No
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
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Originally Posted by palerider7777
. A dispensary/grower should have their own certification; they should not be relying on the patient's certification to cover their own butts, and bullying patients into signing away their caregiver rights every time they want to shop at a new store. Some dispensaries just make a copy of your card or doctor's recommendation and your ID and then allow you to shop there, and that's all that's legally needed from the patient.
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but don't they need all those patients so they can legally have so much on hand at any givin time? without the patients they would have very lil to offer unless im missing something here?i thought we were all the same as far as whats legal to carry have on hand?
As long as they are at least one person's caregiver and they keep the plant count within legal limits (which a recent course case in Boulder set a precedent for the legal limits on plants and weights to be at the patient's and doctor's discretion), they can sell their excess when they crop out to other patients and caregivers.
Think about it this way - when these places ask you to sign up with them, they have product to sell you right away right? They're not asking you to sign your caregiver rights over so they can start growing your plants. They already have enough medicine to serve you now, and it's legal for them to sell it to you. Patients and caregivers can buy/sell surplus amongst each other legally. There's no reason they need it and if there was then every dispensary would do it. Making you sign over your caregiver rights in order to get medicine is just plain bullying, it's only a legitimate if they actually won't be able to provide you with medicine for a few months while it's grown especially for you. If they're bullying you by withholding medicine and promising you immediate medicine as soon as you sign up then their caregiver policy is a scam. At least in my understanding. There are plenty of dispensaries that won't force you to fill out a change of caregiver form in order to obtain access to their medicine. Call around. I reviewed one. There are several that I talked to on the phone today who don't do it but haven't visited yet.
I think it's also a case in some dispensaries that if you don't seem concerned about who your caregiver is they'll tell you you have to fill out a change of caregiver form, but if you do ask about that or if you call ahead and ask that question some dispensaries will say "Oh no, we don't do that," and then before they let you off the phone they make sure to get your name. I don't know for sure but I would imagine that they're writing down your name so they know that you called ahead and asked specifically about their caregiver policy before coming in, so that they remember not to jerk you around. I don't know that for sure, like I said, I'm just guessing.
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
Had a few visits to green mountain care already. Check out the review:
http://thestrainman.blogspot.com/200...iew-green.html
Colorado Dispensary Reviews
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Originally Posted by NatureLover
As long as they are at least one person's caregiver and they keep the plant count within legal limits (which a recent course case in Boulder set a precedent for the legal limits on plants and weights to be at the patient's and doctor's discretion), they can sell their excess when they crop out to other patients and caregivers.
Think about it this way - when these places ask you to sign up with them, they have product to sell you right away right? They're not asking you to sign your caregiver rights over so they can start growing your plants. They already have enough medicine to serve you now, and it's legal for them to sell it to you. Patients and caregivers can buy/sell surplus amongst each other legally. There's no reason they need it and if there was then every dispensary would do it. Making you sign over your caregiver rights in order to get medicine is just plain bullying, it's only a legitimate if they actually won't be able to provide you with medicine for a few months while it's grown especially for you. If they're bullying you by withholding medicine and promising you immediate medicine as soon as you sign up then their caregiver policy is a scam. At least in my understanding. There are plenty of dispensaries that won't force you to fill out a change of caregiver form in order to obtain access to their medicine. Call around. I reviewed one. There are several that I talked to on the phone today who don't do it but haven't visited yet.
I think it's also a case in some dispensaries that if you don't seem concerned about who your caregiver is they'll tell you you have to fill out a change of caregiver form, but if you do ask about that or if you call ahead and ask that question some dispensaries will say "Oh no, we don't do that," and then before they let you off the phone they make sure to get your name. I don't know for sure but I would imagine that they're writing down your name so they know that you called ahead and asked specifically about their caregiver policy before coming in, so that they remember not to jerk you around. I don't know that for sure, like I said, I'm just guessing.
thats 1 of the ? that i could never get an answer to.how can they have so much on hand at any giving time when the limit is only 2 oz dry per person?i just fig'd they had that many patients?and if they can get away with having that much without the patient count then why can't we?
