I'm finally in CO and am now a legal patient under our states medical cannabis laws. I have visited a few dispensary's/coops now and have decided upon Cannabis Therapeutics.
Now, I'm aware that there's a bit of infighting that goes on in this community and have heard a few disses here an elsewhere about the owner of CT (Herbie), but I so far have found it to be mostly just that, infighting and competition. Herbie and his staff were quit gracious and know their stuff. I'm not interested in becoming a part of the fighting that goes on in the MMJ community in CO between dispensary's/coops, so take this as just one patients opinion and do with it what you will.
The place is wonderful, run just like a dispensary should be. Great staff, HUGE selection (20+ strains on hand, lotions, balms, teas, tons of edibles, hard candies, beautiful and low priced glass, vaporizers, clones, seeds, hash, bubble hash, pure THC extracted from plants, medicinal capsules etc.). The security was tight and proper and all rules of the club appeared to be observed while I was there. The prices were fair to a bit on the pricey side, but all seemed well worth the cost (and I hear costs will be coming down in the new year).
For those who think a dispensary running a club such as the one I described above can sell OZ's for $150-200, you should think real hard on that. Imagine the costs involved (employees, rent, taxes, materials, heat and lights, lawyers, activism, medicine supplies and lab work etc). Sure they make a nice profit, but they also give out and provide low cost medicine to indigent patients. They also have on hand lots of free educational materiel (the club has a members only loaner library and free educational materials all over the place). They also seem to be hard at work developing new and effective means of medicine administration and studying the effects of cannabinoids.
Proprietors of clubs like this one deserve to make a living at what they do, just like any hard working human does.
Time will tell, but thus far I give them a HUGE thumbs up and would recommend them to anyone. In my opinion, this is how a dispensary should be run (assuming that they truly do follow through on all of the various aspects of their mission...again, time will tell).