Monday, March 8, 2010

Dispensary Review Guidelines

Ok, it has taken me a little while to figure out what exactly the guidelines for my dispensary reviews should be. I wanted to be fair and address issues that all you readers can understand. I will include guest judge's opinions when they are along for the ride. I want to be the only completely unbiased dispensary reviews on the internet. Too many other reviews are influenced by the employees of the dispensaries or janky customers that will never be happy. I look upon every dispensary with optimism and understand that it is still just a business. So the guidelines that it will be graded upon are as follows:

Comfortability: The amount of comfort the patient feels while purchasing his medication.

Quality of Medication: The overall quality of medication.

Selection: The size of the selection of different products and strains.

Knowledgeable Staff: How knowledgeable the staff is and willing to share knowledge.

Neighborhood: Due to the controversial issue of medical marijuana many of the dispensaries fall into certain shady neighborhoods. I will rate the neighborhood's safety (very useful for elderly patients).

Wait Times: The amount of wait time in the lobby and while getting medication fulfilled.

Prices/Deals: The rating of overall prices verses quality of medication and special on-going deals.

If anyone has any other ways to rate dispensaries please feel free to comment.

Mendo Purps




I got this on from 1 Love Wellness again (new dispensaries next week). I couldn't find its lineage on the internet. I'm guessing it started in Mendocino, CA. It is a beautiful dark dark purple with slight green hues, yellowy-orange pistils, and yellowy trichomes. It gives off a floral sweet smell almost like sherbert. It has a little of the piney sweet note in the smell when broken up.


Taste: 4 stars
Very fruity with a little citrus/piney flavor. It tastes kinda like a mixture of grape candy and sherbert.


Smoothness: 3 stars
Pretty Smooth.


High: 2 1/2 stars


Length: 2 Stars
Average.


Strength: 3 Stars
It hit hard about 1/3 thru the blunt. It was instantly cerebral, it made me a little tired with pretty tight eyes. This strain hit very, very hard but I think it let down a little too quickly.


Overall: 3 1/6 Stars
I know another vague fraction. I really like Mendo Purps, I think the only thing that kept it from being number one was the quick let down. But it deserves something for the taste and how hard it hit me in the beginning.

Kryptonite




I got this strain from 1 Love Wellness. It is a mix of Sour Diesel and something else, it is Sativa dominant. It had very dense nugs with brown-orange pistils, yellowy trichomes and a dark green that almost radiates from it. You can see in the picture that almost a glow comes off of it. The smell was earthy with a funky catpiss kinda smell, almost a cheese aroma. It gave a slight citrus scent when broken up.


Taste: 2 Stars
Earthy, a smooth kinda sweet taste with a citrus/piney note in the back.


Smoothness: 3 Stars
Very smooth, not perfect but very smooth.


High: 3 Stars

Length: 2 Stars
Slightly above average.


Strength: 3 Stars
Uplifting high. Very inspirational. Not jittery with a nice smooth let down.


Overall: 2 2/3 Stars
A very nice strain that I would recommend but not enough going for it to take 1st place.