If you are traveling to Arkansas, Little Rock is the Capitol and home of 3 medical marijuana dispensaries! My favorite place to visit is Hurts Donuts
Little Rock tends to have cheaper hotel rooms Sunday thru Thursday. The Motel 8’s are pet and tobacco friendly. Two of the three dispensaries are open on Sunday. So once I checked into my room I headed to Herbology.
Herbology is located walking distance of HOC, Little Rock’s other dispensary. Herbology has a large waiting area with glass walls dividing it from the medical cannabis purchase area, aka Budroom. Herbology has an ATM but also accepts Cannapay. If you plan on shopping regularly loyalty points for customers are available. Herbology’s loyalty program is similar to BAMS. Customers earn points that equal cash value to be used toward medical marijuana purchases at their dispensary.
Herbology has a 10% off discount for new patients. They also offer discounts for military, low income, and those working in the cannabis field. Proof will need to be with you to receive discounts for these categories. The Sunday of my visit, Herbology’s sale 10% off all flower cannabis. My total discount equaled 20% since Herbology allows stacking.
All of this information was explained to me at check in as a new patient. It was then re-explained to me by the bud-tender.
While Herbology is clean and had a variety of flower, concentrate, and edibles. I was excited to find flower strains I only see as concentrates, on my side of the state. When entering the bud-tender advised I wait to pull money till we had my total. Not once did the Bud-tender ask me: what I was treating or seeking relief for, if I had luck with any strains, if there is a strain I avoid due to side effects?
She did show me on a tablet what was on sale, we both struggled with the tablet due to screen sensitivity issues. While trying to see the flower strains in stock the tablet bounced to concentrate and edibles then finally we were able to maneuver to flower. While the bud-tender did speak to me, it was more at me, not assisting me. The bud-tender did not inquire if any previous strains had been effective nor have any guidance for what was available.
I choose a gram of Acid Og wax, a quarter of Acid Og flower, and Watermelon Gummies.
My total comes to 173 and some change an I attempt to leave the dispensary. While their doors appear to be push and pull, there is a small turn handle above the push/pull bar. One must turn this handle to exit the doors.
I got into my car and my order was wrong. The bud-tender had given me the wrong concentrate. I considered exchanging the Brass Monkey concentrate but I was so exhausted ,I just left.
As I drove a block to HOC I had high hopes.
While their location appears smaller, it’s signage and location are more defined. HOC has a small new patient packet that has to be filled out the first time. This questionnaire also does not inquire about medical needs.
HOC has a similar layout and style as Herbology. Glass windows divide patients from the Bud room and waiting area. HOC is one of the few locations which carry the Volcano Vaporizers. My intention for this visit was to purchase one, an 1/8 of flower plus whatever their sale was.
Prices at HOC were high and flower strains were limited. HOC did have the largest menu of concentrates, I have seen in Arkansas. This occasion were running a sale on concentrate tanks, 2 for $90. While the employee did make fun of my clothing as I entered the Budroom, she would not interact with me directly till I approached the counter. Despite spending a long time looking at the vaporizers the budtender did not offer any assistance or further conversation. I was the only customer in the Bud-room. I made a second loop around the room and was finally greeted with a, let me know if I can help you and told the menu’s were displayed on the tv and printed versions available on the counter.
While I normally try to take advantage of sales when visiting new dispensaries the menu was too small for me to make out which cartridges were on sale. While there are tv monitors with the menu along the walls, the font on the tv is also too small to read. I asked the budtender which tanks were on special. She stated the Ozark brand, I looked back over the printed menu but every Ozark concentrate tank, on the menu I named she said was not one on sale. She finally stated the $52 carts made up the sale. If the menu had larger font or the budtender would have listed the strains I would have purchased them. None of these things happened. I stood there for a few more minutes, the only customer in the bud-room, she continued typing at the computer and mentioned she loved her job twice.
I ended up just picking a concentrate at the top of the list menu and leaving when another customer entered.
These are the types or medical dispensaries I struggle to support. Locations where bud-tenders do not assist customers but function as a sales funnel. It was not a good feeling as a patient and medical advocate. I question how much help patients are getting if bud-tenders aren’t assisting customers finding the proper strains, ways of medicating, and suggesting dosages for ailments. Medical marijuana is a treatment; new patients need guidance on strains, use, and suggested dosages. Experienced and high tolerance patients deserve guidance an information on ways to medicate. If budtenders are not counseling and assisting patients the dispensary is merely a state approved marijuana shop.
The stackable discounts and flower selection may make a trip to Herbology valuable for patients on a budget .
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