Colorado Dispensary Reviews

[LegalizeItNow]

I know I'm new here, but I have to disagree with OP on Pain Management of Colorado. Admittedly I am not a patient myself; I don't have a qualifying condition and I try to keep on the right side of the law so that I can be an effective political advocate for legalization. But with the caveat that as a non-patient I haven't actually tried their product, I think PMoC has a lot going for them.

For one thing, they have medical marijuana dispensaries in Boulder, Denver, Vail, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Aspen, and they're opening more. Convenient if you have to get your medicine while traveling. The people involved seem to me to be very passionate about medical marijuana advocacy and helping patients. I know that when another local dispensary was found not to be handicapped-accessible, the head of PMoC was willing to reach out to disability advocates and seek their advice on how to build new dispensaries to allow patients with disabilities to gain easy access. I don't think someone just in it for the money would volunteer to spend extra $$$ on construction to help patients out like that.

Granted, the loads of dispensaries with various medical marijuana doctors probably have varying quality--I'm only really familiar with the Denver and Boulder people.

And, waxing philosophical for a moment, I honestly like seeing a larger company dealing with medical marijuana in Colorado and expanding to other states. I think that legalization will finally happen when business demands it. Politicians aren't listening to the over 70% of ordinary Americans who want legalization now; they'll only listen when it affects their bottom lines. Once the business community starts to tell Congress and state legislatures that they want legalization and the politicians realize how much tax revenue could be made that way, we'll finally be able to change the image of marijuana advocates from "a bunch of stoners" to "ordinary business people with families who use, buy or sell marijuana and/or support others' right to do so."

[johnthemick]

Well, honestly does one really have to name names to find a dispensary charging more than $100/qt? I am not throwing anyone under any bus.

Dispensaries exist so people who don't have a connection to a grower can have a safe, friendly, reliable place to buy their medicine. If people have a safe and reliable connection without going to a dispensary, great. For those who don't, we are here.

As far as quality goes, I have no problem putting my product under a scope for anyone. It is top shelf. I also have a sampling room on site. Bring your glass. Sample anything in the store before you purchase. I encourage it.

So, Naturelover, before you dismiss a store for its high prices, please come in and see what we have, get a taste, and then make a decision.

John
Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine

[HighPopalorum]

re: $100 quarters

I've paid a good bit more than that on a price-per-gram basis; I think most patients probably have. $100 quarters don't exactly make me jump for joy, but I don't think that's exorbitant if the medicine is top notch. I live in a different part of the state or I would definitely be visiting John and sampling his medicine. The fact that he encourages his patients/customers to scope and sample before they purchase is a good sign, IMO.

Also, I can't wait to visit the Boulder/Denver area and try some of these places.

[imoutclimbing]

re: $100 quarters

The fact that he encourages his patients/customers to scope and sample before they purchase is a good sign, IMO.

In my on-going dispensary tour... He's the only one that I've run into that allows sampling (nice work John!). But, I'm kinda torn on this issue...

On one hand, it seems only right that an entity that sells a consumable, that cost as much as a precious metal per oz, encourages and is allowed to provide sampling. On the other hand, this has the potential to attract unwanted attention. And some will argue that... Without a designated driver, this type of thing might violate a principle of responsible cannabis use.

I hope this aspect of dispensaries will work out. But at the same time, I hope the people utilizing this service understand how much of an extremely experimental privilege it is right now & treat it as such.

If this were to work out well at RMOM, and a given dispensary was allowed, it would be hard for dispensaries, in the future, not to offer such a service. However, it this goes bad at RMOM, the sampling issues may never be heard from again.

[NatureLover]

Well, honestly does one really have to name names to find a dispensary charging more than $100/qt? I am not throwing anyone under any bus.

Dispensaries exist so people who don't have a connection to a grower can have a safe, friendly, reliable place to buy their medicine. If people have a safe and reliable connection without going to a dispensary, great. For those who don't, we are here.

As far as quality goes, I have no problem putting my product under a scope for anyone. It is top shelf. I also have a sampling room on site. Bring your glass. Sample anything in the store before you purchase. I encourage it.

So, Naturelover, before you dismiss a store for its high prices, please come in and see what we have, get a taste, and then make a decision.

John
Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine

Fair enough, I'll do so. And as far as the frustration I expressed in previous posts, I'll make it clear that my frustration is with my experience of the dispensary business model so far, it's not with your store in particular. From now on I'll save my ranting for other threads and use this thread just for specific reviews of dispensaries I've personally been to.

[palerider7777]

Sorry can not help you.My caregiver is not taking on anymore patients at this time.
I have been to alot of disp.Buffalo Meds in Nederland have alot nicer products than John, their buds are very nice and they can tell you where they do come from.They are also starting to grow.I was there just looking and enjoying the area on sat.I could not help and I bought a qt.of Mandarin Haze.for 80.00.It was great.Nothing there is over 350.z.There is a nice store on 32 in Highlands area.father and daughter ,they are growers and have organic ladies.In june I bought a z for 325 including tax of durbin poison.it was great ,they also have nicer looking ladies than John has,because they are the growers.I am not at all speaking bad of John,it is great to see so many stores opening,but not all are good.another store is in westmester on 72 st.they grow alot of their ladies to ,always 35 + strains.If one can only afford to buy qt.It is alot harder to get nice looking ladies.Tops of the plants are much nicer in every way.You seem to know alot on them you should start growing.peace,jazz

Ps for 100 qt your buds should all be nice !!!! small pieces suck

so what r u saying all the growers/shops should only sell the tops? and do what with the smallers ones throw them away? also i find it funny u say u know all the smaller buds are from the lower half of the plant.i can grow the very bottom branches and have them come out bigger than alot of growers tops.also i've seen some growers that produce small buds all over even the tops.also there have been times when smaller buds pack just as much punch all depends on strain and also who's growing it too.

[palerider7777]

When we talk about prices, let's take a step back and have a look reality before we get too excited.

The legalization/decriminalization of things makes them less expensive, not more so.

The price of gold has been exploding exponentially over the last few years and it's currently at a little less than $1000/oz. They say "money doesn't grow on trees," but cannabis does (figuratively speaking). Should two and a half ounces of cannabis be worth a one ounce bar of gold?

How about the prices of some other agricultural products retailing on the consumer level? Let's see...Tobacco. It's a much more volatile substance, so not only do the tobacco companies have to deal with the pseudo-legality of their product, they also have to dish out big money for lawsuits and money for civil suit lawyers.

A pack of the most expensive brand name pre-rolled cigarettes weighs 1.1 ounces and retails for around $5. That's including all the packaging, papers and filters too. Rolling your own costs even less, and they usually throw in a complimentary pack of rolling papers.

I'm not saying that marijuana should cost $5 an ounce, and I want to see people able to make a profit from the industry and be able to support themselves while doing work that spreads awareness and acceptance of cannabis as a medicine. But it damn sure shouldn't cost as much as most dispensaries are charging, even the ones who are selling at "only" $100 for a quarter. Even on the black market a quarter from someone who knows where to get it only retails for about $75-$90.

If the dispensaries can't get the prices down they're not going to survive in a legal market. I suggest patients choose private caregivers and caregiver co-operatives; who/which retail marijuana for between $200-$300. Those are the growers, and the growers' co-ops. Private caregivers and caregiver cooperatives are less likely than the dispensaries to be raided, and if your dispensary ends up like one of the dispensaries in Colorado that recently got raided by the feds then your name and documentation goes into a federal database. The feds don't have time for individuals who are growing enough for only a couple of other people, they will continue raiding the dispensaries.

The huge DEA operation in Hawaii that went on just a couple days ago targeted all the dispensaries on several islands, it was not focusing on rounding up caregivers, it was engaged in a shock and awe mass-raid of the dispensaries. So maybe it's not economical to own a dispensary yet in the current legal environment. I think it could be done, but if it's not economical to own a dispensary yet in the current legal environment that's no reason to rip people off in order to do so when there are other legal and much more affordable alternatives ot there, of better quality. Let's face it, the dispensaries that aren't growing their own are getting somebody else's leftovers, who is keeping the better stuff for themselves and their patients. That's why the tiny buds, caregivers can only legally have 2 ounces of product per patient, and when they get more than that in a single harvest (six or even three plants can give you waay more than 2 ounces), they sell the excess to dispensaries who in essence recieve and mark up a product that's inferior to the cheaper version.

Dispensaries that grow their own are at least possibly producing an equivalent product to what smaller scale gardeners are producing, but still their retail products are overpriced. Really, mass-producers don't produce the same quality product that small-scale producers do, but they may have a larger strain selection.

The only reason I can ever imagine going to a dispensary that didn't grow its own would be for convenience, like going through the drive-thru at mcdonalds. You're not there for price, it'd be cheaper to shop at the grocery store. You're damn sure not there for the quality. You're there for convenience, because it's a way to get yourself a little something to hold yourself over until it's time to make a real purchase.

your babbling on, bottom line is it will bring what the market will bare simple.also it's his stuff he can sell it for what he wants where i come from 400 an oz is the norm.also if it's so easy and cheap and can be done for free then why even bother with a shop do it your self since it's free and all.

i mean since all the equipment and electric and overhead is free also then i don't know why you would even care what he's doing. im not taking up for him don't even know him but i find it very odd when peole say someone is a rip off for charging what ever they charge as if it cost nothing to do.forget all the cost u still sumwhat have to worry about leo still and robbers too.:wtf::smokin:but im sure im wrong i could see bitching about gas prices as u can't make your own but your legal and u want to whine about this dude when if it's so free and easy do it yourself huh?

ps mcdonalds is cheaper when is the last time u went to the store? say tacobell u go buy 10 tacos@59cents each total around 6$ to buy the same stuff thats in those tacos at the store would cost you 16 $ go see for yourself.

[palerider7777]

ps the 2 1/2 oz worth an oz of gold stuff i say this after all the money for equipment,overhead,leo,robbers,neighbors being nosey and so on u still have all the time that grower spends growing it and caring for it.so are you saying that that person that is doing all of this should do it all for free just to give it to a person thats looking for a free handout? why i say that cause thats how it sounds when u could do all of it yourself? i'll say to u like i said b4 to another since it's free and this guy is a rip off for charging what he is then put your money where your mouth is and u do all the growing and i want to see u hand it out for totally free k?..... yea did'nt think so

would u expect to go to your job and them tell you that you should work for free and to quit being so greedy for wanting the wage you want per hr? again did'nt think so.....wow

[topjazzman]

Just a thought to think about:

Cargiver what does that really mean?
Being very sick that meds do help you with pain and mental heath.
Having very little money !!
CAREGIVER somewhere in the 400.oz the meaning gets lost.


Black market wanting to smoke to fill good,still 400 oz.

Peace JAZZ :question:

[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.