Colorado Dispensaries: the good, the bad, and the ugly

[66buds]

I just read about a place called Green Medical that opened in Northglenn last week. The article did not have any contact info other than a green door in the north alley of the garland shopping center on washington.

The pic in the article indicates they also have clones. I might check this place out in a few weeks if the city lets them remain open.

 

[clonedoctor420@]

Not that you can tell that well cause most of their jars were not dried right and smelled of ammonia!!!

yuck!

 

[clonedoctor420@]

It's all relative...I have been to 3 other shops than mine last week, and the top strains in 2 of the shops were as good as it gets.

hey greenmtn, you're still on my to-do list, what are your top three strains in stock now. how much do they go for a gram, 1/8 and 1/4. thanks

 

[GreenMtnCare]

Our stock changes daily, but usually our top shelf is. Sour Diesel, Durban Poison, Cough, Ak-47, White Rhino, and Haze.
Our pricing varies proportional to vendor pricing. If it comes out of our garden we charge less than what we purchase from vendors. For people who name us as Caregiver we have $28 grams, before tax, with $65 eights, and $125 a quarter.
Remember these are the top of the line Prices, and we have alot of less expensive meds as well.
Mike

hey greenmtn, you're still on my to-do list, what are your top three strains in stock now. how much do they go for a gram, 1/8 and 1/4. thanks

 

[66buds]

Someone asked me about the prices at http://www.thehealingcenter.co.uk/index.html

Member prices are $45/8th and $300/oz with non-member prices being slightly higher.

 

[ClearBarbedFunk]

Mud Club, 50 a 1/4, patients are limited to a 1/4 a week delivered, takein care of those in need on the western slope(Montrose, GJ) areas and inbetween.


CBF

 

[GreenMtnCare]

So is that the TOP strains? I know several of their vendors, and I am sure they pay more than $300/oz for some strains...I may be mistaken them for someone else though.

Someone asked me about the prices at http://www.thehealingcenter.co.uk/index.html

Member prices are $45/8th and $300/oz with non-member prices being slightly higher.

 

[StoneMountain]

We open our door next Tuesday ,Sept 1st, in Longmont. We are booked with appointments till Friday 4th the response has been overwhelming. We had planned on an Oct 1st opening but the pieces sometimes just fall into place.

We specialize in Heirloom genetics. No edibles at the present time.

Signed on Patients get $14-$15 grams and $330- $350 ounces. Temporary Patients pay $17-$19 per gram and $450 ounce.

No flarf, schwagg or stems. BubbaKush, OG Kush, Purple Kush, Og Kush x Amnesia Haze, Tangerine Haze, SourKush etc.

For more information and contact info: Stonemtnwellness.com

Hope to meet a few of you very soon!

 

[66buds]

So is that the TOP strains? I know several of their vendors, and I am sure they pay more than $300/oz for some strains...I may be mistaken them for someone else though.

Yea, thats across the board...they sometimes have limits on the amount you can get of a certain strain but its basically $45/8th no matter what. The quality varies but they usually have 12-15 strains so choose wisely!

 

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

Our stock changes daily, but usually our top shelf is. Sour Diesel, Durban Poison, Cough, Ak-47, White Rhino, and Haze.
Our pricing varies proportional to vendor pricing. If it comes out of our garden we charge less than what we purchase from vendors. For people who name us as Caregiver we have $28 grams, before tax, with $65 eights, and $125 a quarter.
Remember these are the top of the line Prices, and we have alot of less expensive meds as well.
Mike

$28 per gram PLUS tax. damn and i thought california was expensive....

 

[Tripsick]

$28 per gram PLUS tax. damn and i thought california was expensive....

LoL no kidding the best thing anyone can do is not shop there.

Screw those prices they buy for 4k a LB and double the price with the markup. They need to find new vendors... plus why are they purchasing from a vendor when they are signing people up to give them primary caregiver status? start growing and lower your prices.


They really need to change the caregiver law so you can grow no matter what and you can have two or three alternate growers.

 

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

....maybe they meant $18 per gram???

I dont see how a gram would cost $28+ TAX when a quarter is only $125.

28 x 7 = $196+ tax.... ?


18x 7 = 126+ tax


im guessing typo..?

 

[GreenMtnCare]

No Typo and we are working on our pricing as time goes on.
Actually now that I am in the shop I see that we have changed pricing again.
our top shelf for members that name us caregiver is as follows:
25 a gram, 60 an eighth, and 115 a quarter,
We have 24 strains to choose from at the time and some are as low as 8 a gram and 80 a quarter.
Mike

 

[SweetBOG]

any rooted clones today Mike?

 

[GreenMtnCare]

All I have today are some sickly looking bordello clones that I am going to have to rehab...I got too busy and forgot them over the weekend :-(
Tomorrow I will have a nice selection...I am going to pick them up this evening.

 

[Tripsick]

Well i hope that the Delivery service opens up in the post above. And for 45 an 8th delivered to my door that seems a little more Fair.


I have to wonder why all these people want you to sign them over as Care Givers and then they don't grow their own meds for you and purchase them through another middle man.
plus if they were growing i doubt they want to grow beyond 99 plants. so after 33 people signed on what is the point of collecting more.
Plus if you have a doctor on site why not have them write a note saying you are a caregiver and need to be able to grow 99 plants.
that way you are not taking from the sick...

But it has nothing to do with the sick its just about Money.


I figured out why you would continue to have people sign over their Caregiver rights. Its so you can build up the company almost like having a contract with them and then sell it with all their caregiver status and retire...

They are just going to sell it to the Highest bidder.

i don't think 195.00 1/4 oz are going to fly off the shelves. For that price you don't care about the sick.

I know you are all about making money and not breaking even... Well you are doing it wrong

 

[GreenMtnCare]

I just started my Dispensary in June. Unless Jack sold me some magic beans from the magic bean stalk, how the heck do you think I could grow that many meds in 2 months? Not to mention that every time I sign a patient and can grow more there is an expense that it takes to buy equipment, space, nutes, employees to do everything. Hate to break it to ya man, but in the real world all these things take TIME AND MONEY!!
Now if you think I am brokering the patients that name me as caregiver you are dead WRONG there! Everyone who names me is grown for in-house PERIOD!! We do not sell PATIENTS!!!
As far as your magic money making process, bro all I can suggest is have at it! I know from many years of doing business what margins you need to make, and what margins will run you out of business. Circuit City tried to operate with this imaginary 40% mark-up that some peeps here think works, well i think we all know how that worked out for them. If I can't make the money needed to survive I will just a soon sell Blue Blocker sunglasses by the side of the road (200 to 300% mark-up)
As our grows finish things will start to come down in price. Remember that we couldn't legally start growing most of these patients plants until the last month and a half.
Not sure where your 99 plant thing comes from, but you missed that boat by some as well. If I were to only have 99 plants for all the patients we have i would be just a bit short..lol.
Not sure where you are getting $195 a quarter, but we don't have a Quarter over $115! We will mix and match a quater as well, so if people want several strains we will still keep the 7 gram price.
I doubt that I will be able to keep everyone happy, or will everyone agree with how I do business, but in the end I will still be in business for years to come. For every one that has a problem with our shop, there are a hundred that are happy.
Mike

Well i hope that the Delivery service opens up in the post above. And for 45 an 8th delivered to my door that seems a little more Fair.


I have to wonder why all these people want you to sign them over as Care Givers and then they don't grow their own meds for you and purchase them through another middle man.
plus if they were growing i doubt they want to grow beyond 99 plants. so after 33 people signed on what is the point of collecting more.
Plus if you have a doctor on site why not have them write a note saying you are a caregiver and need to be able to grow 99 plants.
that way you are not taking from the sick...

But it has nothing to do with the sick its just about Money.


I figured out why you would continue to have people sign over their Caregiver rights. Its so you can build up the company almost like having a contract with them and then sell it with all their caregiver status and retire...

They are just going to sell it to the Highest bidder.

i don't think 195.00 1/4 oz are going to fly off the shelves. For that price you don't care about the sick.

I know you are all about making money and not breaking even... Well you are doing it wrong

 

[Feijao]

"I have to wonder why all these people want you to sign them over as Care Givers and then they don't grow their own meds"

Lots of these places grow as much as they can in house in order to sell it a little lower price to their members. The fact is that with the Feds still looking at this as illegal most places like to stay under 99 plants. There is only so much you can do with 99 plants before you have to start buying extra from others that due to supply and demand can get 3500 - 4000 a pound.

I think the point in collecting more than 33 patients is to allow you to offer more strains and have more on location to offer your patients. With 2oz each that is a little over 4 lbs of bud that you can have at a time. If a place like GMC could only carry 66 ounces over 25 strains that would not be very much they could offer per strain. That would be less than 3 oz per strain.

I dont think a doctor can allow a caregiver any amount to grow. Doctors can only recommend what they think their patients needs to self medicate. It would be the patient that needed to grant the caregiver their 99 plants if that were to happen.

I think that your statement "has nothing to do with the sick its just about Money" is pretty encompassing and am sure that it is not true to all dispensaries in CO. The fact is that there has to be money made to pay for all the overhead of these semi legal business. With that being said I am sure some places are charging to much and could be charging a lower prices. But without knowing how many pounds a place moves per month and there actual overhead its kind of hard to say. So I do agree Tripsick with you to a certain extent but I think saying that all these places are here to rip the patient off is unfair.

I really only see 2 ways of doing this right. Charge higher prices and offer your patients other services for free such as massages, etc.... Or charge the bare minimum to patients but not really be able to help them with much else.

 

[Tripsick]

Yeah i miss typed / read the quarter price

I get grumpy for no reason a lot of the time.. anyway i'm sure you are all very nice people. Everyone has to make living and I think your entitled to that. Its a sudo legal business that could go down at any time.
If the Feds come in there goes everything Cars, House, Freedom, all of it. (that's where the 99 plant thing came from.)

But really more power to you. At least your trying to do it and that is more than im doing... Sorry if i seem a little irrational this morning it was a long night.
My crazy thinking lead me to assume the other business model would be to collect and sell it off. but what good would that do with semi legal business... I'll remember to take my meds next time.

You said you don't have a Quarter over 115 that is very fair but it does require a membership?
(blah i just hate giving up my State right to grow... that is the biggest problem for me..)

I would just like to see 45.00 to 50.00 8th.. Not a lot of money in it but i think a few places would survive i know the Black Market does.


But yeah i would still like to stop by

 

[Feijao]

Its all good Tripsick we all get a little grumpy from time to time lol.