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Monday, January 10, 2011 - post date

Dispensary Review by Hassan i Sabbah

Soon after the fateful presidential memo to federal prosecutors on
July 7, 2009, the Nederland landscape suddenly and dramatically
proliferated with
medical cannabis dispensaries making this little town, reputedly, the
most and best cannabis medicated community...perhaps in the world (see New York
Times, Herald Tribune and Rollin' Stone Magazine).

Now there is only four.

And yet, even though there are fewer, it is possible, that like an
invisible hand, the best dispensers to Colorado medical cannabis
patients survive and continue to serve.

And even though Nedicate, at 150 North Jefferson, Suite 3b, is the
priciest, it is, at this time, my personal favorite.

A feast to the eyes as well as the brain is the sparkling, jewelry bud display
of their featured strains: Triple Diesel (and Bob Marley's favorites)
Lamb's Breath, and Light of Jah. The dispensary's inventory also
could include such popular favorites as Strawberry Cough, Grape Ape.
Mother's Finest, Maui Wowy, Blue Cheese, and Blue Moon.

One hundred percent of the cannabis is grown by the dispensary, and
they do a fine job.

Nedicate and their sister enterprises are not fooling around.

Nedicate, Well, (at 3000 Folsom Street, Boulder) TreeLine Medical
Cannabis dispensary, in Vail, Colorado and Colorado Bubble Company, a
hashish laboratory in Boulder, are all owned by Boulder
Cannabis-Entrepreneur Bryan Swantun.

At the Colorado Bubble Company premium medical grade hashish is
produced by water/ice extraction, and inverse carbon dioxide. The
bubble company makes strain specific, bubbling-until-its-white-ash,
bring-you-to-paradise-as-described-by-the-Koran, earwax consistency -
quality hashish.

This is the hashish dispensed at Nedicate.

This hashish costs $42 a gram. (I too, gulped)

A gram of bud is $15 for members $16 for non-members.
An-eighth-of-an-ounce is $50 for members, $55 for non-members.

"We sell only the best, medical-grade cannabis," says Nedicate Manager
Koby Malone.

And then there are the edibles.

I got some Peanut Butter Cups.

I was advised by Malone that I should only
ingest one quarter of the Peanut Butter Cups which contain 2.4 grams
of Medical Marijuana (Hashed) (It says so on the package).

And yet, I ate the whole thing (this is how The-Old-Man-Of-the-Mountain rolls).

I was seeking to throw-off a sinus infection that had been oppressing
me for the previous two weeks. I fell asleep and when I awoke twelve
hours latter, in a seemingly miraculous manner - I was healed.

And in addition, in those Peanut Butter Cups, I was transported to the
gates of this paradise
where there is no final truth and all is permitted.