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2021 Best Dispensary In America… Based On Logo By David Wallach The cannabis industry is now in more than half the states in the country, and it’s not a secret anymore. Hell, the first thing you see when you drive into Michigan is a billboard for Herbology, in Kalamazoo it’s #PureMichigan. When you drive into Gary, Indiana you see billboards for dispensaries in Illinois, finally giving you something to look at as you drive through Indiana, other than corn and traffic cones. Dispensaries are the new micro-brew and following that model there is a dispensary for just about every taste, all touting this experience or that for their customers. We are in a cannabis renaissance and it’s wonderful.
We looked at thousands of dispensaries from Amesbury, Massachusetts to Cle Elum, Washington. Special shout out to potguide.com, an amazing resource for dispensaries. Creating this would have been horrible without them.
unless Ron Jon Surf Shop opens a dispensary, Florida you are out of this year’s selection. Take your maskless faces to a massive theme park and work on a design for next year.
Some of the Criteria:
Not a lot of selection, kind of like, well Texas. So, unless you learn how to act like adults and play well with others, you’re not allowed to play with us.
The dispensary had to have a website — I mean really, if you’re in the cannabis business, you’ve got the cash to drop $3.00 at GoDaddy and register your domain. Quite frankly, for a writer making like 10 cents a word, a dime a word, like two nickels a word (that’s 65 cents right there) having to look at Facebook pages and SnapChat profiles is well beyond my pay grade. If you want to be considered next year, then get a web page.
An original logo — Not name. There are plenty of amazing names out there. Yes, we are working on that as well. I’m lookin’ at you One Hit Wonder in Fairbanks, Gnome Grown in Oregon, and Buds and Roses in Massachusetts. Names are great, but at its roots (see what I did there?) cannabis is a creative business, so creativity in the logo is what matters most. Best Buds in Washington DC, parodying the Best Buy logo with the slogan “weed deliver.” Kudos.
Who didn’t qualify:
There are thousands of dispensaries in America and that number continues to grow faster than you can say “Starbuds.” For this article and the title of “Best Cannabis Logo in America,” Cannabis & Tech Today took venture funds turned into a weed company (Hi CuraLeaf) out of the equation. Cash can’t buy this title, only creativity. 124
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There’s a lot of healing or helping this or that, a bunch of remedies and therapies, so many apothecaries and collectives, and of course the many corporate shops, well branded and so very plain. Many states are purely pharmaceutical (Louisiana) and their logos are basic, so we eliminated them as well.
Florida Like you would expect, is all corporate super stores of medical marijuana, and quite frankly giving RISE and Trulieve more real estate to rest their money-soaked hats on, is too much. So,
Texas
States that qualify: Are States that have both recreational and medical. Illinois, Nevada, California, Washington, Alaska, you get the idea. Each state has a local champion, which you can see in our nifty graphic. Our editors, along with yours truly, picked the winners. The great news is the industry is growing and there are some amazing people out there doing what they love to bring you some of the best cannabis products known to man. So you are all winners in our book (insert puke emoji) but there can only be one winner for 2021.
And the winner is : The Best Dispensary … Based on Logo is Glazed and Confused in Crystal Falls, Michigan! Mixing comedy with a simple but funny logo, Glazed and Confused takes the title. Visit our website cannatechtoday.com to find a clickable version of this article and check out the many dispensaries and their cool logos there as well; there are some amazing designs. Hit us up on social and let us know your favorite dispensary by name, logo, or anything else. We will be doing this again! ❖ Note — The writer is now accepting t-shirts and stickers from all of the above-mentioned dispensaries, you know since he only makes 10 cents a word.
