SF’s “Green Cross” is Cream of the Crop
July 3rd, 2009 by Russ
As California’s Great Weed Experiment of Ought Nine continues, some truly innovative dispensaries have begun to make a name for themselves. One such outfit, is the San Fransisco based “Green Cross,” earned a recent feature in the San Jose Mercury News.
Run Fight Club-style out of a single Victorian house on Howard Street, 19 space monkeys work around the clock baking edibles, and preparing the 55 delicious strains of green that the dispensary stocks its shelves with. A messenger delivery service runs from noon until 7pm. Even folks who are outside the delivery area meet the bikers halfway.
The Green Cross has its own newsletter, touting the relative benefits of indica and sativa strains, and recommending vaporizers and edibles for those bothered by smoke.
The whole operation has the flavor of a Baskin & Robbins, or Ben & Jerry’s origin story. It’s easy to picture a future in which a whitewashed marijuana conglomerate happily provides the best processed ganja to satisfied customers all over the world. The innovation and professionalism of groups like the GC make one wonder whether we’re just now on the ground floor of something big.
