Area's Top Strains: Sample & Review
We personally sample the area's best offerings - then offer an opinion.
The Get-Go Test-Best-Trio: "The" Hondo Rei, Honorable Mr. Ganjojo and Sam Anthony each offer their personal and most humble estimatations of locally available MMJ - indicas, sativas and hybrids. For what that's worth - hah!
Rating Local Strains of Medical Marijuana
taste: Strong dank smell
effect: Fast - body pain relief, helped with sleep
description: Purplish, very pretty.
dispensary: Maggie's Farm • 1424 S. Nevada Ave. •
719-328-0420
taste: Good taste, top quality, not particularly fruity or perfumy.
effect: Nice, relaxing, strong pain relief, more physical than mental, though plenty of both.
description: Big buds, well cured, crispy and loaded with shiny trichomes, middle to light greens, not too hard.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
633-5947
taste: Taste is mild
effect: Reliable physical and mental, feel good to work or rest. Pain relief.
description: Big buds, gnarly and long lasting.
dispensary: Todays Health Care • 225 S. 8th Street •
635-9002
taste: Smooth, mild perfume flavor.
effect: Body calms with indica pain relief.
description: Purple, dark with orange and green highlights.
dispensary: Todays Health Care • 225 S. 8th Street •
635-9002
taste: Good sativa taste, sweet pungent
effect: Alert, strong high, mostly straight up
description: One of my favorites, outdoor grown from Maggie's is reliably excellent. Good for working.
dispensary: Maggie's Farm • 1424 S. Nevada Ave. •
719-328-0420
taste: Cheesy fragrance, nice aftertaste.
effect: Body and mind, relaxing, pain reducing.
description: Interesting fragrance.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Nice flavor slightly pungent
effect: Good lift, strong pain relief
description: Good looking buds, nice people.
dispensary: The Herb Shoppe • 3020 W. Colorado Ave. •
634-6337
taste: Great pungent flavor, high in terps
effect: Immediate and strong rush, heady
description: Golden, hard buds, smells so good.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon •
634-7390
taste: Some candy, some veggie-dank, sweet finish.
effect: Good combo body rush with good haze-head high.
description: Yellowish with loads of orangish amber hairs, well cured, tight nugs.
dispensary: The Healthy Connections • 1602 W. Colorado Ave. •
203-6004
taste: Nice taste full of terpenes (pine/terps) pungent yet smooth.
effect: Strong sativa, immediate upward lift, some body expansion - head weight.
description: Hard, light colored tightly trimmed buds.
dispensary: Pain Management Solutions • 1022 S. Royer St. •
473-0279
taste: Nice 'n fruity, smooth.
effect: Pain reliever, physical lift - strong.
description: Middle to light green, yellowish to amber hairs.
dispensary: American Wellness Center • 3632 W. Colorado Ave. •
630-5075
taste: Tastes great, a distinct bubble-gum flavor.
effect: Powerful, plenty of pain relief, stay alert.
description: Hard large nuggets, middle greens with brownish orange hair patches, dense with a slight dank scent.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
633-5947
taste: Flavorful, sort of like chewing gum.
effect: Immediate body descent rush, creeper- gets stronger after a bit.
description: Great flavor, powerful indica - sedate. Very strong physical.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon Suite 108 •
634-7390
taste: Pleasant, mild woody flavor.
effect: Right away lift, strong effect, enhanced visual.
description: Lighter greens - yellowish hairs, dense and crispy, well cured.
dispensary: Trichome Health Consultants • 2117 W. Colorado Ave. •
635-6337
taste: Slightly perfume.
effect: Fast body effect, pain reduction, strong cough reaction.
description: Very hard nuggets within the beautiful buds Enjoyed the relaxing, helpful for sleep
dispensary: Strawberry Fields • 3404 W. Colo. Ave. •
471-2837
taste: Mild, smooth, very faint spice, slight anise (licorice).
effect: Very mental expansion, audio and visual enhancement.
description: Pale, yellowish green, very dense trichome covering, powdery looking, well cured.
dispensary: Pain Management Solutions • 1022 S. Royer St. •
473-0279
taste: Earthy, good (maybe a little chocolate or cantaloupe)
effect: Nice amount of mental shift with the lift, body effect
description: Good looking, light colored with reddish-brn hairs
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Nice taste, with a berry finish
effect: Vertical with some forward movement, alert yet pain relieved.
description: Sticky fat hard big buds, a treat to the eye - dense. One of my favorites from AOM
dispensary: Altitude Organic Medicine • 822 W. Colo. Ave. •
719-313-9841
taste: Very appealing flavor, caramel and hints of sage
effect: Superior, has "creeper" quality, gets stronger w/time after a hit.
description: Gorgeous, crystal laden, as usual from the Van Diest collection.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Caramel like flavor, very smooth
effect: Nice high, both head and body.
description: A fun strain, tasty.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon Suite 108 •
634-7390
taste: Smooth, cool mellow flavor, maybe banana.
effect: Mild body stronger mental, creeper qualities, audio and visual enhancement.
description: Light green crystal covered nuggets with brownish amber hairs. The Ladies of PMSolutions are very patient oriented, out of the way but very worth visiting.
dispensary: Pain Management Solutions • 1022 S. Royer St. •
473-0279
taste: Mild, not harsh, mellow caramel aftertaste.
effect: Strong, moving down from the shoulders, mental.
description: Greenish with lots f hairs.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
633-5947
taste: Slightly woody - slight perfume fragrance
effect: Gentle immediate lift straight up, clear visual, near psychedelic high
description: I like it, one-hit weed that meets reputation as pure sativa.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Some skunky, some flowery fragrances - very tasty
effect: Nice body mind effect, rlaxing.
description: big fluffy sticky, lighter greens amber brown hairs
dispensary: Todays Health Care • 225 S. 8th Street •
635-9002
taste: Terpene with some undertones of pine wood.
effect: Immediate, strong lift, clear head, feeling light.
description: Medium to darker to lighter greens and brownish hairs, tightly trimmed buds.
dispensary: American Wellness Center • 3632 W. Colorado Ave. •
630-5075
taste: Slightly flowery, fruity
effect: Strong body, relaxing, attitude adjusting
description: Good for pain, help sleeping, strong one-hit reaction.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Nice, smooth, delicious caramel maybe licorice.
effect: Fast head effects, weight reliving as it descends into body.
description: Bright green to lighter yellowish, very crytal with scattered amber doublet hairs.
dispensary: Pain Management Solutions • 1022 S. Royer St. •
473-0279
taste: Flavor somewhat like spicy food.
effect: Very potent sativa rush in the head, really like it.
description: Mid greens, orange-brown hairs.
dispensary: New Horizons • 1460 Woosley Heights •
597-7002
taste: Excellent flavor, pungent and rich
effect: Immediate lift off, intense
description: One of my all time favorites.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon •
634-7390
taste: Some dank, some grassy.
effect: Strong physical, couch locker.
description: Light green, shades of near yellow, reddish hairs.
dispensary: Trichome Health Consultants • 2117 W. Colorado Ave. •
635-6337
taste: Deelicioso!
effect: Fantastico!
description: Beeyou-tea-full. Big, fat, crunchy green with orange-rust hairiness.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
633-5947
taste: Pleasant, faint sweet fruit-melon, some spice.
effect: Relaxing, soothing, pain relieving, some heavy head.
description: High hair count on bud nuggets makes them look orange,, smells great.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
630-2137
taste: Pleasant, smooth slight caramel.
effect: Immediate sensation, visual enhancement.
description: Medium with some darker and lighter greens, crystal covered with orangish amber hairs.
dispensary: Colorado Alternative Care Services • 1402 W. Colorado Ave. •
635-5963
taste: Real good, terp flavor, bright, bit of fruit candy in there.
effect: Mostly mental, rising upward, clear vision, no grog.
description: Crispy light greens, sticks together, and to the fingers when squeezed.
dispensary: Pain Management Solutions • 1022 S. Royer St. •
473-0279
taste: Bit of spice, slightly melon, earthy dank too.
effect: Gently uplifting then expansion, immediate pain relief, very relaxing.
description: Medium to lighter shades of green, amber hairs, tightly trimmed, well cured and crystal laden. Thanks to Cami of Trichome Health Consultants - very pleasant and generous.
dispensary: Trichome Health Consultants • 2117 W. Colorado Ave. •
635-6337
taste: Great sativa flavor, sparkly spicy bright.
effect: Immediate take off mostly vertically, cerebral and inspiring.
description: Densely trichome covered, sandy green w brownish hairs.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2606 W. Colorado Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Clean with a perfume finish.
effect: Goo and strong body rush with cerebral heightening.
description: Lighter olives with pale amber hair clumps, well cured You need to look around back, go up steps just north of the ice creamery.
dispensary: Alternative Medicine Colorado Springs • 2606 W. Colorado Ave. Upstairs, Around Back •
358-6955
taste: Mild pungent, slightly fruity
effect: Fast for both body and mind.
description: Appealing, with a lot of lateral lift, sativa leaning.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Excellent fruity smack lips taste.
effect: Immediate, happy, motion and lift.
description: Loved this one, the fragrance/taste of the exhale is extraordinary.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon Suite 108 •
634-7390
taste: Pleasant, slightly fruity
effect: Fast head rush, followed by the body rush.
description: Sweet smell, like melon, before smoking.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon •
634-7390
taste: Great fruity taste, delightful.
effect: First hit lift, head high, moving both up and laterally
description: Good for all day, enjoyable, immediate, not too intense, fun, alert.
dispensary: Maggie's Farm • 1424 S. Nevada Ave. •
719-328-0420
taste: Smooth tasting slight fragrance
effect: Nice body relaxation and pain reduction, not too sleepy
description: Handsome and hefty buds, green with lighter highlights and golden-orange hairs. Strawberry Fields id one of OClorado Springs top stops for MMJ.
dispensary: Strawberry Fields • 3404 W. Colo. Ave. •
471-2837
taste: Candy caramel sweet and melow
effect: Instant head rush.
description: Big buds, green with some brown-orange hair.
dispensary: The Healthy Connections • 1602 W. Colorado Ave. •
203-6004
taste: Not bad, nice fruity after-taste.
effect: Mind and body, relaxing, easy.
description: Great hybrid, not very head-heavy.
dispensary: Maggie's Farm • 1424 S. Nevada Ave. •
719-328-0420
taste: Good taste - slightly fruity, pungent
effect: Gentle lifting up with each inhalation.
description: Gorgeous buds, crystally and crispy
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Good taste, mild flavor, slight fragrance.
effect: Strong, immediate.
description: Beutiful, luffy buds, very yellowish shade, light orange tufts of hair.
dispensary: Natural Advantage 420 • 925 W. Cucharras Street •
533-1177
taste: Smooth, slight alfalfa-grassy
effect: Relaxing, pain relieving, strong, fast and easy.
description: Deeper olive green, faint lavender tint with amber-brown hairs, all trichome crystal covered, looks real good.
dispensary: Total Health Concepts • 502 S. Weber St. •
471-4180
taste: Spicy sweet, some grape candy flavor, mild.
effect: Strong physical, starting with shoulders and moving out into body and head, pleasant, pain relieving,
description: Overall, crystal covered nuggets lighter green-yellow, with outer leaves dark.
dispensary: Trichome Health Consultants • 2117 W. Colorado Ave. •
635-6337
taste: Great taste, spicy and some melon.
effect: Immediate relief, relaxation, calming.
description: Pretty, fluffy light green to whitish - pale yellowish
dispensary: Natural Advantage 420 • 925 W. Cucharras Street •
533-1177
taste: Mellow somewhat dankish, with a light undertaste of fruit.
effect: Immediate upward push and mental adjustment.
description: Tight buds densely packe brownish orange and olive green hairs.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. Suite 102 •
630-2137
taste: Mild taste,
effect: Quickly felt relaxing body sensation
description: Beautiful buds (slight purple cast) with a delightful, fruity-chewing gum scent. The Herb Shoppe's Ashley was very pleasant.
dispensary: The Herb Shoppe • 3020 W. Colorado Ave. •
634-6337
taste: Nice 'n fruity, pungent
effect: Immediate body relaxer, pain lifter
description: Gorgeous light green and hard buds.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Nice sativa sweet pungent, some caramel.
effect: Strong head and body, satisfying.
description: Light and Middle greens, very covered with trichomes, well cured.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. Suite 102 •
630-2137
taste: Clean taste, some terps, smooth.
effect: Nice, body pain and mind adjusting, good strain to work on.
description: Excellent, long buds, hairs amber brown and plentiful, very expertly cured.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
630-2137
taste: Smooth caramel and spice combo.
effect: Uplifting then more sedating, strong physical component with a clear head.
description: Appealing, has strong mental sharpening, motion for the body.
dispensary: Strawberry Fields • 3404 W. Colo. Ave. •
471-2837
taste: Delicious fruity bubble-gum-like taste
effect: Physical pain relief high, strong body rush
description: Beautiful buds with orange-brn. hairs, very tasty
dispensary: Altitude Organic Medicine • 822 W. Colo. Ave. •
719-313-9841
taste: Perfume sweet
effect: Good head adjustment, relaxing without overriding sleepiness
description: Thumbs up! Their selections are great, high crystal - well cured - wide variety.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Sweet, not perfumey, fruity
effect: Body and mind, not sleepy
description: Enjoyable and famous hybrid with a leaning toward sativa.
dispensary: Maggie's Farm • 1424 S. Nevada Ave. •
719-328-0420
taste: Good slight fruity, mild
effect: Even steady high, strong physical pain relief, relaxing
description: Attractive, lighter-middle green with many amber-orange hairs.
dispensary: Todays Health Care • 225 S. 8th Street •
635-9002
taste: Smooth, slight caramel with some fruity undertones.
effect: Pleasant lift, clear vision, strong.
description: Light colored, greenish with a load of orange-amber hairs, tightly trimmed, well-cured fat buds.
dispensary: Trichome Health Consultants • 2117 W. Colorado Ave. •
635-6337
taste: Mild flavor, bit of spice.
effect: Quick expansive sense of relief moving down the body.
description: Light green-yellow, crystally.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. •
633-5947
taste: Good, slight perfume
effect: Quick, felt good, body rush, not sleepy.
description: One of my favorites.
dispensary: Ammendment 20 • 2727 Palmer Park Blvd. •
375-5610
taste: Unique, first a flash of pine, then a bit of dank-wood small.
effect: Immediate body expansion and pain relief, strong creeper up the body - from legs and back up to shoulders and head.
description: Enjoyable and impressive strain, wave of relief - relaxation.
dispensary: Pain Management Solutions • 1022 S. Royer St. •
473-0279
taste: Taste is mild, slight pleasant fruity undertone
effect: Good lift without mental distortion. Great for working.
description: Expertly cured, heavily crystal covered.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Deelicious, candy spice plum flower yum yum
effect: Immediate relief, lift with clear vision, follwed with body creeper effect
description: Gorgeous long purple buds, beautiful fruity fragrance.
dispensary: The Herb Shoppe • 3020 W. Colorado Ave. •
634-6337
taste: Sweet, perfumy
effect: Good on killing the pain, strong.
description: Liked it a lot. The Hemp Center People are smart and kind.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave •
633-1611
taste: Mild flavor, very little cough reaction.
effect: Gentle relaxing, expanding and lifting.
description: Darkish green leaves with golden-olive crystals covering tight little nuggets
dispensary: The Secret Stash • 2845 Ore Mill Dr. #6 •
633-8499
taste: Strong sweet pungence flavor
effect: Strong body rush, satisfying pain reduction
description: Really nice. Glad I bought it. Susan Van Diest's custom blended cannabis with herb infusions are awesome, lotions, and such for skin issues and muscle pain - and more.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Mild, slight mustiness, faint candy aftertaste.
effect: Strong body sensation, relaxing and expanding the body, head band effect, pleasant and enjoyable.
description: Big fluffy buds with orangish hairs, middle/oive greens with lighter, yellowish tones.
dispensary: New Horizons • 1460 Woosley Heights •
597-7002
taste: Good taste, special.
effect: Strong relief for the body.
description: I liked this, good for pain, good looking.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. •
633-1611
taste: Good licorice undertone, chewing gum-like flavor
effect: Nice visual enhancement, rising - floating, expanding, pain relieving
description: Great looking buds, fat fluffy crystal encrusted
dispensary: Todays Health Care • 225 S. 8th Street •
635-9002
taste: Fresh flavor, faint undertone of perfume, bright.
effect: Uplift with some heavy headiness, comfortable, relaxed feeling.
description: Dusty looking with trichome density, yellowish hairs. Sticky big buds.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Smooth, mild caramel, slight fruit, mellow.
effect: Gentle lift with appreciable pain relief, nice visual enhancement, creeper quality.
description: Great looking buds, crystal laden middle greens to lighter green with amber tufts of hair.
dispensary: Natural Advantage 420 • 925 W. Cucharras Street •
533-1177
taste: Delicious pungent - undertone of bubble gum flavor
effect: Immediate wash of relaxation, pain relief
description: Big fat buds, a load of orange hairs
dispensary: Altitude Organic Medicine • 822 W. Colo. Ave. •
719-313-9841
taste: Really pleasing
effect: Immediate vertical and lateral motion lift off.
description: Fun with strong body sensation and pain relief. Enjoyed very much. Erin of AOM was very generous and informative, a true believer.
dispensary: Altitude Organic Medicine • 822 W. Colo. Ave. •
719-313-9841
taste: Pungent with terpene flavors
effect: Immediate good lift, god pain relief, visual enhancement.
description: Very light shades of golden greens, very trichome rich.
dispensary: Total Health Concepts • 502 S. Weber St. •
471-4180
taste: Great taste, smooth and clean, slight candy-anise flavor
effect: Powerful sativa head lifter, really liked this strain
description: Lighter green/olives with yellowish shades, orange amber hairs.
dispensary: Alternative Medicine Colorado Springs • 2606 W. Colorado Ave. Upstairs, Around Back •
358-6955
taste: Mild, pleasant.
effect: Strong, appealing strong body and clear mind combo.
description: Olive shades light and darker too, velvety coating of trichomes, big buds, very awesome.
dispensary: New Horizons • 1460 Woosley Heights •
597-7002
taste: Fresh citrus flavor.
effect: Fast body - couch lock.
description: Light green, fluffy and sticky.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave. Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Excellent sweet pungence.
effect: Immediate, strong vertical lift with forward and lateral motion.
description: Long lasting, intense head effects, very strong sativa. One of the famous Maggie's most potent sativas.
dispensary: Maggie's Farm • 1424 S. Nevada Ave. •
719-328-0420
taste: Pleasant flavor, caramel and coconut?
effect: Good body expansion sensation, some head grog.
description: Gorgeous buds, golden green with a mild dank fragrance.
dispensary: Discreet Treats • 101 N. Tejon St. Suite 102 •
630-2137
taste: Danky.
effect: Body effect and pain relief.
description: Big and fluffy.
dispensary: Strawberry Fields • 3404 W. Colo. Ave. •
471-2837
taste: Very pungent, fruity
effect: Great blend of physical with sativa mental.
description: Really nice nuggets, as usual from Pure Medical
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon Suite 108 •
634-7390
taste: Superior flavor, not perfumey
effect: Immediate pain relief, relaxing.
description: Beautiful buds, Pure Medical always offers great looking medicines.
dispensary: Pure Medical • 19 N. Tejon Suite 108 •
634-7390
taste: Mild, slight melon flavor, slight spice, all good.
effect: Immediate expansive sensation, vertical lift.
description: Deeper Green outside and lemony green inide, sticky.
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
taste: Smooth, pungent and dank, outdoors alfalfa scent.
effect: Good body high.
description:
dispensary: The Hemp Center • 2501 W. Colo. Ave Suite 106 •
633-1611
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