[GlossyEyes]

I want professionalism in a dispensary. Attention to all dispensaries; we patients are patients and not street drugs users. We use this medicine, as a cure to a certain symptom that doctors believe will improve it. When I go to multiple dispensaries I look for the patient-budtender relationship, potency of medicine, and high standard of healthy medicine handling. When purchasing any medicine one wants “top healthy quality” that will benefit the user and not harm them. By medicine I mean any and not limiting to just medicinal use of marijuana but also medicine purchased at pharmacies. I am here to inform dispensaries about what all patients expect when purchasing medicine. There should not be any difference between the quality of health standards between medicinal marijuana and other pharmaceutical medicines. Thus I am here to say beside quality of the medicine itself, I have seen multiple budtenders picking up medicine with just there bare hands, once I even witnessed a budtender sneeze on their hand and then proceeded on picking up a patients medicine that can potentially get them sick due to the germs covered in ones hands. Therefore I suggest the use of chopsticks, gloves, or a utensil that helps transport the bud from the jar to the medicinal cans/bottles/bags/ect. By using hands to handle the bud there are more cannabinoids being stripped away from our medicine decreasing its efficiency.

Besides proper care of the medicine itself from budtender to patient it is also important to not have patients touching all the medications by hand to inspect it and contaminate another’s medicine. Instead of patients touching the medicine of other potential patients, dispensaries should place a small sample nugget of the specific batch of medicine strictly for observational purposes.

I believe this will portray medicinal marijuana to our community in a more serious and professional way and help distinguish medicine from streets drugs to the uninformed community.

Thank you for all your time and support.

[cephas]

I agree.

[OG Dave]

[VooDoo Chile]

EWWWWWWWWWWWW! What co-ops do you frequent?

I've never seen budtenders handle meds with their bare hands. Ick.

[GlossyEyes]

Originally Posted by washgirl

But remember some have gotten the recs wrongly and some shops are old street dealers finding a legal way to profit!

We all know that there are some that bend the law but that is not my concern, our concerns are to get professional healthy standard of medication. And there is no excuse between what kind of "patient" or "collective" it is. If even 3 out the said ten people are truly beneficial from the use of medicinal marijuana it justifies the professionalism. When purchasing medicine it should top quality no matter if its being used or abused. There are many pharmaceutical drugs individuals have and are abusing but the job of the pharmacy is to provide a healthy standard of quality medicine and not to determine who and how the individual is using it. If the doctor see an individual fit to use medicinal marijuana, then let them. I am not a doctor and therefore I am do not say what justifies rightful and wrong use of mm.

[lwien]

Originally Posted by VooDoo Chile

EWWWWWWWWWWWW! What co-ops do you frequent?

I've never seen budtenders handle meds with their bare hands. Ick.

HOK in Eagle Rock does and is one of the many reasons that I stopped going there after my second visit.

[peacefulIRIEfeelin]

Originally Posted by VooDoo Chile

EWWWWWWWWWWWW! What co-ops do you frequent?

I've never seen budtenders handle meds with their bare hands. Ick.

lol. how do you think its trimmed?you guys are funny.

[lwien]

Originally Posted by peacefulIRIEfeelin

lol. who do you think trims it?

lol. The point is, the less hands that are touching it, the better.

Going by your logic, I guess it would also be ok for food servers that make your sandwiches in Subway to not wear any gloves.

[SDbudz]

Originally Posted by lwien

lol. The point is, the less hands that are touching it, the better.

Going by your logic, I guess it would also be ok for food servers that make your sandwiches in Subway to not wear any gloves.

what about the field workers that picked the lettuce on your subway sandwich did they wear gloves?do you think think they wash their hands when they finish using that green plastic house at the end of the row,they don't have any soap and hot water , I think agriculture rules should be followed when growing something, a sterile environment is impossible when it comes to grown marijuana

[VooDoo Chile]

Originally Posted by peacefulIRIEfeelin

lol. how do you think its trimmed?you guys are funny.

Touche' LOL. Hopefully by someone wearing gloves.

[GlossyEyes]

Well, I would prefer the growers to also used sterile growing techniques, and use gloves when handling but that is a later discussion. After all it is MEDICINE, that should be held to the utmost standards.

If I were to open a dispensary of my own, all the medicine would be growing in doors in a controlled environment and be grown with the best standards possible...I think this is not too much to ask or do. Also the prices would be a lot lower then what the standards are. I would created one that can help people in need not rob them of every penny they have. Growing a plant is not too difficult and with all the cost into the equation high quality buds are fairly cheap to produce with auto-timers and such this process would be effortless just a little supervision time to time is required to see if plants are developing adequately. We can one day just hope....peace and love

GlossyEyes

(...cant sleep :( and no meds :[... )

[cephas]

Autotrimmers destroy the buds IMO.

I wear gloves when trimming and harvesting, my plants are never touched by bare hands their entire life cycle if I can help it....

[papasmurf]

one of my main concerns is contamination by perfume ,colgone ,the scents in the soaps the people wash the hands with etc etc.
i was told by someone whos family made hash for generations that a tiny bit of perfume will spread through and contaminate hash chunks. I always wash my hands with kirks castile soap. it leaves no residue at all .i have turned every grower i know onto it they all use it exclusivly now. every dispens operator should stock this in the shops for the employees.
every grower should use this and wash hands at almost a parinoid level if they are touching the plants
i freak out when people spray air freshener and there is open bud containers about EEEEK

[THC_TLC]

Handling the buds should be minimized because the trichomes get knocked/rubbed off.

However, I would not buy any meds I am not permitted to inspect (you have to pinch a bud to assess moisture content). This is why I have never returned to "no touching the medicine" co-ops.

All this germophobic paranoia is nonsense. You don't have to listen to pharmacuetical company propaganda!

The people who worry about strangers who may have touched their buds are the same kind of people who wash their hands after using the restroom!

[papasmurf]

ehehe he said auto timers not trimmers .good luck with the automated grow
my experience is that plants grow best when each and every one is looked at every day.


"the best fertilizer is a growers shadow"

[SDbudz]

Originally Posted by GlossyEyes

Well, I would prefer the growers to also used sterile growing techniques, and use gloves when handling but that is a later discussion. After all it is MEDICINE, that should be held to the utmost standards.

If I were to open a dispensary of my own, all the medicine would be growing in doors in a controlled environment and be grown with the best standards possible...I think this is not too much to ask or do. Also the prices would be a lot lower then what the standards are. I would created one that can help people in need not rob them of every penny they have. Growing a plant is not too difficult and with all the cost into the equation high quality buds are fairly cheap to produce with auto-timers and such this process would be effortless just a little supervision time to time is required to see if plants are developing adequately. We can one day just hope....peace and love

GlossyEyes

(...cant sleep :( and no meds :[... )

high quality buds cheap to produce?effortless? its clear you have never grown

[scpot]

If only there was some way of sterilizing it before it's consumed... like I dunno, maybe setting it on fire or something to burn off the germs...

Chopsticks and plastic gloves look great and sanitary but make little difference. As long as the establishment follows restaurant safety rules (i.e. wash your hands several times a day) you're not going to catch anything.

The first clinic that I worked at made me wear a silly doctor's coat that was too small for me and latex gloves. Wearing those gloves for 10 hours a day had my skin peeling off my fingers after a couple weeks.

Sneezing into your hand and then touching buds is just completely uncalled for though. Ewwww. We have several bottles of hand sanitizer strategically placed around the bud room should such a thing happen.

I guess I don't worry about the buds. But sharing a joint with a group of patients, a bong, passing a pipe around, etc sounds way more dangerous to me.

[tooweirdtolivetooraretodie]

Originally Posted by lwien

HOK in Eagle Rock does and is one of the many reasons that I stopped going there after my second visit.

No doubt, after my last visit to HOK, I was done with that place. Twice in a row, the guard was gone and I walked right in to the bud room and had to wait for the staff to roll and light a blunt before I could make my purchase. Both time my buds were handled and torn up by everybody's favorite HOK budtender, who also had a real hearty cough into his hand, from that blunt he'd just passed before handling my buds. Nothing says "hooked up" like a little smokey aroma and phlegm in your vacuum bag.

[peacefulIRIEfeelin]

ew, you guys are worrying about people touching your bud that you are smoking, not eating. and then you guys are talking about eating at subway?! I would never eat at a subway, now that is truly disgusting.

[hempzelnut]

1. 40 years ago it wasn.t medicine it was weed, grass, mary jane, didn.t care about professionalism just get me some herb.
2. Change is the only constant in creation.I agree with your theory on professionalism,theory and reality sometime clash though and since there are no standards or manual for this industry we must at times overlook certain actions. I feel that the institutions involved will evolve into a more professional(sic) arena, yes herb is medicine, but it's still just herb.
3. I believe the law states that you cannot use the term dispensery.
4. I have busted weed laws in many states by putting my neck on the line,so people can partake of this plant,please try and be somewhat more tolerent of our world.Peace from an old warrior.

[badchild]

Well over 700 spots all i hear is people sniviling oooh why why why...
Where would you get your Cannabis 3 or 4 yrs ago??
Most likely from some random grower??
No matter how Good things are there never Good enough HUH!
Somebody always wants to complain. why is this ?

Its not Rocket Science, Grow Your Own "MEDICINE" ?

Or are you saying you prefer to have it Gov grown pre packaged FDA approved some thing in that order??


Maybe we can learn to be thankful for what we have instead of what we dont!!!

[peacefulIRIEfeelin]

Originally Posted by badchild

Well over 700 spots all i hear is people sniviling oooh why why why...
Where would you get your Cannabis 3 or 4 yrs ago??
Most likely from some random grower??
No matter how Good things are there never Good enough HUH!
Somebody always wants to complain. why is this ?

Its not Rocket Science, Grow Your Own "MEDICINE" ?

Or are you saying you prefer to have it Gov grown pre packaged FDA approved some thing in that order??


Maybe we can learn to be thankful for what we have instead of what we dont!!!

thats where this movement is going. government controlled medicine. im against it, sorry. it trips me out how nobody else doesn't see this. or maybe they dont care. but thats the reality of mmj. they are not going to keep letting these random people run shops. the further and further along this gets, the more strict its gonna get.

[peacefulIRIEfeelin]

Originally Posted by VooDoo Chile

Touche' LOL. Hopefully by someone wearing gloves.

well yeah most people wear gloves trimming their harvest. but after im done trimming my gloves are covered in resin. I go through about 6 pairs of gloves a day when im trimming. its not going to make your medicine much less potent. i think its about the same. gloves or not, i dont think it matters.