What does a Dispensary in Alaska Sell?
There are many seed banks that ship to Alaska, and Kind Seed Co is right up at the top of the list. But when you want something already grown, wish to dip into some dabs, or chew your way to gummy freedom, there is a dispensary for that.
Alaskan dispensaries sell everything any other American dispensary does, though there are professional grow and breeding houses here and the selection of unique northern dank is growing. If you want buds, there is no shortage of wacky strains available. If you desire gummies and other high-flying or medicinal edibles, dispensaries in AK have those too. No matter where you go, vaporizers are a popular product, and there are dozens of indica, sativa, hybrid, and CBD vapes and cartridges ready to go when you are. There are also shops selling strictly hemp products, like t-shirts and hoodies, parkas, panties, and sweaters. There are also places of propriety passing on their own in-house creations and making bank!
For those who don’t smoke and who aren’t in the mood for new hemp socks, several dispensaries are operating in Alaska selling medicinal tinctures and capsules, creams, balms, salves, and other topicals. Chances are that if you live in Alaska, you are familiar with the dozens of dispensaries going full force, every day of the week, to serve AK communities. Also of note is that these places employ the ones who know or who know where to point when you have questions.
Edibles
The edibles market in Alaska is, along with the rest of the weed markets around this country, growing exponentially. Recent years have seen a landslide of innovation and experimentation and now there are hundreds of different drinks, including hot chocolate mix, coffees, teas, and trippy fizzy beverages. If you have a sweet tooth there are candies like gummies, sour gobstoppers, and pot-infused pop rocks, and there are myriad capsules to choose from.
Tasty treats like taffy, chocolate, peanut butter bars, rice crispy squares, and fruit leather have popped up alongside your everyday tutti frutti selections of all sorts. Whether you need to chill out with an indica or hybrid chew, or you are looking for an energy boost from your bag of sativa caramels, there are so many to choose from, we are spoiled in the Sourdough State. Medicinal patients are never left out here either, and the many squishy, crunchy sweet and savory selections which can be found for fun can also be purchased for those seeking healing and relief.
Something which may pique the interest of consumers of a more recreational variety is the fact that, in Alaska, edibles are allowed to contain double that of edibles anywhere else. This means that the general 5mg per serving, in the AK is capped at 10mg per serving. This is a big deal because, with this rule, fitting since many of us puff mad weed anyway, the cannabis consumer can get more recreational value per treat. Larger edibles can also be marked for portion recommendations yet carry well above the per serving limit!
Topicals
The cooler climates of our planet may not seem super hospitable to some, but those living in Alaska know how gorgeous it is here. That doesn’t mean that we don’t need protection. In a territory where temperatures can reach a deadly sixty or more below zero, it takes a serious trick to treat cracked lips, dry skin, and tired hands and feet. For all these things and so much more, there are topicals.
Topicals cover everything from skin lotions and creams to oils and balms. These are the cannabinoid-infused hair and face treatments, CBD rubs and salves, and the many other fantastic and user-friendly products to save your skin. But topicals are not just the surface stuff. There are a hundred and one different uses for the cannabis plant and killing pain and inflammation is one of them. There are many CBD topicals designed for instant and long-term relief. Thanks to CB2 receptors in the skin, tired and spasmodic muscles, painful joints, and deep and searing bone pain can all be sated with the topicals available in Alaska dispensaries.
One can always make these products at home, as well. Nowhere in the manual of life does it say you can’t create your own healing wares and wonders. For thousands of years, early and indigenous populations have created everything they require to live full and happy lives, and they did it using native plants. Don’t hesitate to contact Weed Seeds today to find out what strains you need to heal.
Flowers
Alaska is no stranger to cannabis flowers, as is evidenced by the growing number of award-winning strains coming out of this territory. Though we are certain all in the Great AK know what they are doing when it comes time to classify their weed, the second round of light makes the object glow brighter still.
When classifying ganja flowers, there are four primary levels in which a flower may land, depending on several factors. These classifications are A, AA, AAA or triple-A, and AAAA or Quad-A buds, and they are very important to understand, especially if you are taking your products to market.
A - this is the raw material left over from extraction processes, the stalky stuff, and the underdeveloped flower material. This stuff is crap, and may only be used in industry or for low-quality oils.
AA - this describes material apt for making edibles, extracts, topicals, etc., and is the first classification that could be rolled up, though we don’t recommend it and you won’t find these flowers in dispensaries.
AAA - these buds are primarily found in dispensaries. They are usually colorful, smell and taste good, have a strong structure, but can be a little larfy, a little grassy, and may not have been harvested, dried, or cured properly. These buds are fantastic for extracts, presses, etc., but are not award-winners.
AAAA - the best of the best are found in this category. These are the competition winners, the dense, colorful, perfectly flavored, and fantastically fragranced buds we desire.
Concentrates
The concentrate market in Alaska is just as powerful as that of flowers, and many product manufacturers are taking the best buds in the land and turning them into a broad array of solvent-based and non-solvent extracts.
Whether you are a fan of Live Resin, like Shatter, Budder, or Wax, or you prefer Hash, Bubble Hash, or Hash Oil, there is a concentrate in Alaska with your name on it. Fans of diamonds, crumble or some other crunchy, chunky distillate can find just the right type of cannabis crack they’re looking for, and the diversity of strains used to make these wonderful northern delights is mind-blowing. Whereas in some dispensaries throughout other states, one might find an indica, a sativa, a hybrid, and a medicinal vape or concentrate, Alaska abounds with so much of a selection that a vape station can look like the edibles section of many of these establishments.
Concentrates are made through methods ranging from simple sifting to something which, to all outward appearances, is a complicated chemistry set, whirring and whirling round and round, turning green plant material into a product gleaming with golden clarity. If you are in the concentrates market in AK and are looking for the next mighty strain to sieve until she surrenders her essence, the selection available through your account at Kind Seed Co has every single tastiest, most potent, and terpene-packed strain the world has ever thrown an award at.
Testing Kits
There are several different reasons for needing a drug test and simple and affordable tests are available en masse online, so that you, your patients, charges, or clients can be sure they’re on the right track.
Popular in today’s market are the cocaine testing kit, opiates testing kit, and fentanyl testing kit. The latter is in extra high demand thanks to the fentanyl crisis happening throughout our country. Safe injection sites use these to check for the presence of fentanyl in the system, so that correct or safer doses of heroin or other opiates can be more easily and accurately assessed. Tests such as a methamphetamine testing kit or MDMA testing kit are popular in job markets and utilized by employers in situations where one’s sobriety is in question while working a job that requires people to be drug-free behind the desk, wheel, or trigger.
Believe it or not, some jobs require that a cannabinoids testing kit be utilized from time to time. Trace amounts are one thing, and a doobie before bed the night before is no big deal, but to operate much of the heavy machinery on the go around this state, it is often a company or site safety regulation that one is clean. If this sounds like an infringement on one’s rights, it is not. It is up to the employer, healing circle, or physician to choose the rules, so if you sign up for a job that requires sobriety, don’t get loaded!
Vapes
The vaporizer has, over the past couple of decades, become the number one go-to for tokers on the go. There is nothing nicer than packing your blessed Alaskan concentrate into a high-end vape pen and doing the day right. Vapes are available in so many different shapes, colors, sizes, and dollar signs that there is one for every type of consumer. Tabletop devices, handheld, pocket-sized and disposable, there is something for everyone, and they all operate in pretty much the same fashion.
Each vaporizer unit has a body, a well, or vape oil cartridge, depending on whether you have chosen a refillable or disposable type, and there is an atomizer that vaporizes your product. These components come together and, in many cases, can be bought separately so that the consumer can replace parts as they wear out. The atomizer is also interchangeable so that the consumer can pack different oils or other distillates, depending on what type of experience they wish to enjoy or what type of healing they’ll need throughout the day.
For those who like to puff, vapes are a fantastic and discreet way to go about taking your medicine. Many like to think that gummies or other edibles will be an apt replacement for smoking. We suggest not, since THC acts differently when faced with different receptors and the liver will do things to THC which the brain never will.
Seed Starts
We are Kind Seed Co, and we work with our country’s cannabis breeders so we can deliver the best seeds in the country to all citizens far and wide. Alaska is about as far as it gets, connected to the rest of the continental US by nothing more than water and words. This isolation is not exclusive though and, when you need seed starts in the Great White North, Kind Seed Co is here with a stellar selection.
Your seeds arrive ready to go and germination is easily achieved. One can lay seeds on a moist paper towel and trap them between two plates. Just place them in a dark spot for a couple of days. After approximately 48 hours, a small, white taproot will emerge and when you plant it, plant it tip down. You can also soak your seeds. Some will freeze them first, others simply sow directly into soil, coir, and perlite or rock wool to affect a plant sprout.
Once your seed transforms into a beautiful little seedling, full of every type of cannabis potential, it takes just a bit of moisture in the medium and a high humidity environment to flourish. A seedling needs no nutrients, save some trace minerals, and light levels should be low enough that the seedling doesn’t burn, but high enough that it knows where to go and can stack up. Take care with your little seed starts because they are the beginnings of a wonderful world of weed and need love.
Clones
Clones are another way to get a crop of killer cannabis. Whereas seeds are planted, sprouted, raised through seedling into vegging, flipped to flower, and turned into world-class buds, clones are cuttings of a mother plant, genetically identical in every way to their parent plant.
Cloning cannabis is a practice that is performed by Sea of Green growers who require consistency of product. This is generally the case for any en masse production house famous for just a few strains. They will have rooms of mothers from which they are cutting clones to deliver the top-shelf buds their clients have come to trust them for. Some strains throughout history were clone-only, but these are rare outside private producers. If you have decided you want to start with clones, there are some retail places either in person or online which will be happy to help.
So that the cultivator extraordinaire can realize increased success, something critical in today’s financial markets, an aeroponic cloner may be employed. These machines utilize a bubbler and a humidifier in an enclosed microenvironment so that fresh cuttings have the best chance of rooting strong. Rock wool insulation is the medium of choice for DWC and aeroponic cloners. Chosen for both its porosity and penchant for providing oxygen routes through the moist melange of fibers, rock wool has become a must-have for the clone grower or commercial clone provider.
Headshop Merchandise
The Alaska dispensary is packed to the gills with every type of smokable, topical, or edible one can imagine and, of course, dispensaries sell Pipes, Grinders, Rolling Papers, and Bongs. But the Alaskan head shop is a bit of a different animal, a true palace of puff worship for all who enter.
Places such as Planet X, Midnight Market, and AK Smoke and Vape are all packed with
Dab Rigs, Down Pipes, Water Cooled Pipes and Glass Pipes, Torches, Lighters, Butane and metal, and glass Screens, but there is a lot more going on in these places of puff. The products which may not be allowed in a licensed dispensary, such as Kratom extract and Maeng Da liquid kratom products are available for purchase at any number of night markets and private smoke shops throughout the state.
The Alaska head shop is a place where one can set themselves up with all the accessories necessary to get in on all the fun. These are the places where you can find rare products, those which are limited or which have consistent question marks around them. But these places are also staffed by helpful and caring individuals who might just know a thing or two about what they have for sale. Speaking with these professionals of the puff can open up the doors of understanding where once we were lost in darkness. It can illuminate uses we hadn’t thought of, and teach us about the smoking world in ways we never imagined.
Kratom
A subspecies of the Rubiaceae family and closely related to coffee, Mitragyna speciosa or Kratom, is a substance relatively new to American medicinal markets. This powdered or liquid extract has been shown to increase recreational enjoyment, combat insomnia, and free consumers from pain. Although it has been banned in 16 countries, including that of its origin, a kratom craze is sweeping the nation.
Alaska is home to a broad diversity of Kratom products, most commonly found flying off the shelves in local smoke shops and head shops. Products like Kratom tea, tinctures, liquid extracts, and Kratom capsules can be purchased without prejudice so that consumers can experience the real deal relief kratom seems to provide. Kratom effects are of both a stimulant and sedative nature since this member of the coffee family is an Opiate and cooperates with our system’s opioid receptors to become the relaxing and uplifting beast it is known to be.
Special selections abound, including the familiar Borneo Reserve, Bali Reserve, or Enhanced Malay, just to name a few. These products are being utilized all over AK, not just for their recreational prowess, but kratom is also proving to be effective in the fight against opioid addiction and withdrawal. White, green, and red-vein botanical variants are gaining in popularity all over the country, assisting those suffering everything from pain and insomnia to depression and fatigue.
Psilocybin Mushrooms
Psilocybin mushrooms are about the safest and most delightful form of hallucinogen available on American markets and have been for generation after generation of nature lovers. These little wonders are making waves in other areas of American markets as well, including in psychology and the treatment of trauma and stress disorders. Psybin Mushrooms or Shrooms are of a few varieties, the most common of which is Cubensis, and they are being used in treatments all over the state.
The state of Alaska struggles with opioid and mental health crises every day and recent times have seen our friend the magic mushroom step up to change views and perspectives in all sorts of troubled individuals. In the right hands and with friends, shrooms can become the impetus for an entirely new take on life. Dosing with mushrooms can usher one through the gamut of the mind and the right guide can have you safely and freely out the other side.
Magic Mushrooms are not just for serious psychological and CBT treatments but have been, since the dawn of time, an apt recreational activity. Shoot yourself and your circle through to the dark side of the moon and back again. Delve into creative and colorful artistic endeavors, make music with the sounds of creation and adventure, and feel the world and the people around you when you take a mushroom trip.
Kind Seed Co cares deeply about the healing and recreational enjoyment of all our country’s citizens. We have every type and strength, and every modification of seed you could hope to grow inside or outside in Alaska. Give us a call at 1-844-807-1234 for a chat from 9 am-5 pm CDT, Monday to Friday, or send us an email at support@kindseed.com.
