MedMen - West Hollywood
5/18/2018
This place is like the Apple Store of Dispensaries. It looks very fancy, clean, and well-maintained. Their prices were ridiculously high, but their selection was equally good. Parking was easy enough, since there were pay meters in the back.
The atmosphere here is very corporate, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. Everyone was wearing a brightly-colored uniform, and it felt super sterile. Too sterile.
Let me explain why I'm knocking it for its atmosphere. With other stores, you feel the sense of the community that everyone's a part of. Here, it feels like it's trying to invent its own community of soccer moms while disavowing the greater marijuana community. You hear about the gentrification of weed, and this place is the shining symbol of it. Every flower and piece of shatter has its own tablet PC telling you about its origins and effects. There are glass cabinets to display everything. Even the smell-proof bags were fancy. The gaggles of Hollywood White Girl Stereotypes I saw lining up here appear to be its target audience.
This feels like a place you could take your conservative christian mom to if you wanted to ease her into the world of marijuana. I found everything I wanted and more. I couldn't find any flaws in what I received, and despite a few hiccups I had in my service, everyone else seemed to be doing just fine. It was certainly an effective rebuttal to the idea that Marijuana stores can't be a nice fixture of a nice area. At the same time, though, it feels like something's gone missing here.