James Lathrop, the shop's owner, is whip-crack smart when it comes to cannabis.
And they're still doing a good job of it. Wander down the hallway and you can watch men and women in lab coats distilling concentrate and making pre-rolled joints with the assistance of a machine called the Doobatron 3000.Īnyway, Cannabis City is still doing the thing they did on day one of Washington's legal cannabis experiment: selling weed. The producer-processor Sun Cliff is also in the building. I figured the Vela budtender wouldn't know what strain Field Day was growing, but he did: Galactic Jack, a sativa-dominant hybrid that's a cross between Jack Herer and Space Queen. When I stopped by the other day, the plants on view were five weeks into their flower stage. The growers whose plants you can see through the window are called Field Day. State law mandates that retailers and growers be separate companies, but there's no law preventing retailers and growers from occupying the same building and installing a window between their operations. That's right, you can watch weed grow while you're shopping for weed.
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There are windows within the retail space onto an actual grow op. I'd never been inside a pot shop like this. Limonene is easy to figure out (it smells like citrus, duh!), but ask me what linalool smells like and I'm lost.ġ944 First Ave S, 20, Mon–Thu 9:30 am–10 pm, Fri–Sat 9:30 am–11 pm, Sun 10 am–7 pmĪ friend of mine told me Vela is "the Apple store of pot shops," and I didn't believe him, so I went down to First Avenue South myself, and oh my god, he was right: Vela is the Apple store of pot shops. I particularly enjoy the terpene scent jars, which afford you an opportunity to acquaint yourself with the various scent molecules present in cannabis (terpenes) before a budtender starts rattling them off when you're trying to buy pot. Beyond the bottles, there is an overwhelming amount of information available for you to browse. It sounds bland when I put it that way, but it's awesome, a fascinating physical reminder that pot used to be both legal and benign. That's right: An entire corner of their store is devoted to the history and science of cannabis, including selections from the Wirtshafter collection, Ohio cannabis activist Don Wirtshafter's hoard of vintage cannabis medicine bottles. Dockside's got all that, and a cannabis museum to boot. 1728 Fourth Ave S, 20, Mon–Sat 8 am–11:30 pm, Sun 9 am–10 pmĭockside's Sodo shop is emblematic of the new direction in pot retailing brought on by legalization: big, open floor plans, lots of light, and classy decor.
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