If you read my reviews regularly, you'll understand that the NMT has had some struggles in the past…read morefew years. Recently his doctors recommended he start medical marijuana, and it has been a huge help to him. As in, just short of transformative. It's not a fix-all, but it has given him enough of an improvement to come off some medications with scary side effects, and overall he's in a better place.
I will also say the cannabis you get in the dispensaries is not what has been available illegally. The quality is higher, more consistent, and very highly engineered, with different combinations of THC and CBD for different issues, along with different formulations. I am impressed.
Unfortunately, the combination that has been working best for the NMT also works really well for lots of other people, so it's in super high demand. This means I basically stalk the different dispensaries, looking for it on their 'menus'. This is how I came to be at Cure as they opened up one morning.
This is controlled access, as expected, with a sleek, modern feel. I was greeted warmly, my card taken, and pretty quickly headed back to the secure dispensary area. One of their employees, super nice and also knowledgable, helped me with the strain I was looking for and also another that might work about as well (it does, not 1:1 match, but it will do when the preferred strain isn't available).
The place is clean, bright, the staff is approachable and friendly and knowledgable. Cash Only - all the dispensaries are cash only, if you didn't know that. Why? For the same reason you can't use your AMEX to buy from the street - cannabis is still (for now) illegal at the federal level, and banks follow that set of laws. They have an ATM on site, there's also a Bank of America branch on the same block and a Bryn Mawr Trust branch right across the street, so you have options to possibly avoid fees.
Of course I'm going again, when the menu shows his best-working strain, but I'd also go because it's a pleasant experience to be there.
