FOOD & TRAVEL
420 Minutes: South Portland B Y I A N S T UA R T
PH O T O G R A H BY J O S E PH S O H M I M AG E U S E D U N D E R L I C E N S E F RO M S H U T T E R S T O C K .C O M
South Portland is a great town if you like being pulled over for minor vehicle violations and shopping at poorly lit retail stores. It’s a joke, the lighting in most retail stores is brighter than prison spotlights during an Alaskan jailbreak. That’s a joke too; I love South Portland, from shopping to dog parks, I spend the majority of my time as a Portlander, in SoPo. South Portland has had a variety of pot shops open recently, and I felt it was time to make the rounds and visit as
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many as I could while taking in the local fare. So I set out to South Portland with a list of dispensaries and the intent to grab breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pre-breakfast, pre-anything for that matter, is coffee. I did not go to a fancy coffee shop or a well-established chain. I went to a gas station that makes coffee for vagabonds without taste buds. Cheap, hot, and filled with more sugar than a chubby kid on Halloween, it
