What a unique experience. Our daughter signed us up for this tour before we came out to visit and it was a highly anticipated event.
Having tied our munchies on at the local Blue Moon Brewery (lunch) we made our way to a very non-descript warehouse location and started checking in for our tour.
With medicinal and recreational marijuana being legal here for years now, these folks gather people together for a friendly tour of a few of the dispensaries and one of the indoor grow rooms (farms). Weed ranches?
There truly is quite a science behind all of this.
We were given very clear rules, do's and don'ts for the tour. Once we boarded the bus, there were two lights - one red and one green. Apparently there are times when you can and cannot smoke weed in the back of the bus.
Our guide, King Kala being a very petite lady with quite an outsize personality made the tour very memorable.
During the times the green light was on, various smokes were passed around for those who were to partake. Yours truly was a spectator with all of the reason in the world to get a contact high from my co-easy riders in those close quarters.
There was actually lots of room. 9 were in our van, which could accommodate 12 so it wasn't really so close. The rear view was a projected image of the traffic following us.
There was no tobacco allowed on the bus. If one wanted an actual tobacco cigarette, it had to be done when the bus was stopped and of course, outside.
A lot of explaining went on and then there were bags of chips and cookies passed around as well as bottled water. "One must stay hydrated."
So we visited two different dispensaries and everyone was afforded the opportunity to check out everything for sale. And I do mean everything. Well, except tobacco.
The tour inside the dispensaries was also guided by our very own King Kala who showed and explained the growing rooms and the different processes used to identify the medicinal from the recreational "product".
The entire thing lasted a few hours and the trips to, from and between stops was just as cool as the stops themselves. People from all over the country.
For more, you're just gonna have to check em out yourself, although I could go into quite a bit more detail.
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