New weed dispensary has a brewery-style tour to show how cannabis is grown
Move over, craft beer.
Vineyard and brewery tours are big business for large and small operations, and now that cannabis is become more accepted across the United States, companies are starting to capitalize more on their farm to table approach.
Seed & Smith just opened a new venture in Denver, turning an old forklift manufacturing facility into a full-blown weed grow. The indoor cultivation center comes complete with a full tour, giving tourists and interested cannabis consumers a sneak peek behind the process of growing and processing cannabis for consumption in various forms.
The tour offers view of the entire lifecycle of the plant, from "seed to sale." Visitors will be able the view a grow room, extraction lab where concentrates are processed, and trim room. Much like a museum, the tour ends at a retail space, where visitors will be able to purchase some of their own sticky icky.
The tour will also be a great opportunity to learn about the cultivation process, and visitors will be given the opportunity to educate themselves on harvesting, trimming, curing techniques, and strain differences. The tour will also consist of a smell and selfie station (thankfully called a "Smelfie Station"), where visitors can smell fresh terpenes, aromatic compounds that give weed its distinct smell.
While weed tourism is big business in the state of Colorado, one of the first states to legalize recreational cannabis for adults in 2012 along with Washington, most grows operate under the radar, or behind closed doors. Sure, there are other tours of weed greenhouses out there, but most of them will cost you a pretty penny. Thankfully, the 20-minute tour from Seed & Smith is free.
Sadly, thanks to state law, there cannot be any consumption on the property where cannabis is grown or sold, so visitors will not be able to try it on site. However, the company has said that is has plans for a "Napa style" tasting room in the future.
Topics Cannabis
