Inside the first ‘Marijuana of the Month' club shipment from Marvina http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/02/02/inside-the-first-marijuana-of-the-month-club-shipment-from-marvina/ You can get wine of the month, vegetables of the month, jerky, lobster, teddy bears, PB&Js, and neckties of the month - so we were long-overdue for cannabis. San Francisco's new medical herb of the month club Marvina - which debuted last week in the Bay Area - has a modern web user interface and packaging, but it's where the technology touches the plant that things went a little awry. The startup has a ways to go before you can call it Bay Area chronnoisseur-grade. Company Name: Marvina Service: medical cannabis of the month club Serves: San Francisco Cost: $95 for seven grams The two-man, month-old, Mission District company debuted to a tidal wave of press in December. However, Marvina soon lost its launch supplier and pushed back deliveries until it could regroup with a second, Medicine Bowl Collective of Pacifica. Without state regulations, MMJ delivery is a legal grey area. Many cities allow it, and those that don't can't interdict the massively popular, intensely competitive service. SLICK UX After ordering online and selecting a time earlier last week, Marvina delivered our first shipment Friday morning. You get SMS texts when the driver is 15 minutes away, then 7 minutes and outside. You pay in cash, the driver is nice, and that's it. CLASSY BOX We got a thin, black, branded box made of sturdy cardboard, which folds open to reveal four packages and a menu. Thick, expensive card stock featured four strains by name, effect, and flavor, with a short description. TOUGH COMPETITION Digging into the vacuum-sealed pouches, we realized Marvina has a tough job. The Bay offers patients literally the world's best cannabis and it's hard for any one collective to compete. The best was the Girl Scout Cookies - an exemplary gram of the indica hybrid. Also, the Blue Crack was unique, with an inviting Blue Dream aroma, and really heavy visible trichome production. Girl Scout Cookies from Marvina. However, what should have been the sativa pack's standout, Green Crack, could have been cured better, and must be more potent to compete in the Bay. (The whole “crack†nomenclature also undercuts the branding. Call it by it's original name Green Cush or Cush, or it's softened name Green Dragon.) We wanted more genetic info on Medicine Bowl's proprietary Morning Star - it smelled and looked a lot like a super-Blue Dream, but it also could have been cured better. That's a sign of rushing. (Again, nomenclature is an issue here. Morning Star is the name of Lucifer. References to crack and Satan generally undercut high-end branding.) The $95, seven-gram box failed to punch its weight with local, award-winning cultivars like Candy Jack, Tahoe Chem, Red Dragon, or a KK, Sunset Sherbet, or Blue Lightning. Cannabis has become so mainstream, it's subject to the same asymmetric hype cycles as wine, kale, apps, lobster, teddy bears, EDM, neckties and everything else. We'll review what Marvina brings us next month.
Sounds really awesome.. its too bad I dont live in a place where awesome things like this happen. Its the little things that make ideas and services great. This is a golden example of a small detail that will improve the company-client service by incalculable amounts.
Legalization IS coming, hon! And if you hunger for a service like this, so do others! Why not start planning on how to do it in your area? You could become your area's first Marijuana of the Month Club entrepreneur! Like you said, attention to details make the business- and you have plenty of time to think of all of the details if you start now! Granny
Why would we need to legalize when we already have services like this. So they can over tax and over regulate. I will pass on that.
Why legalize? Because most SENSIBLE people prefer NOT to go to jail! I think the trade-off of paying a few bucks in taxes, rather than being jailed is a good one! Also at 67, 5 foot 4 and female, buying off the street is a drag! Maybe you are still young enough to enjoy playing "cops and robbers", but after over 45 years of using cannabis, I have gotten dang tired of it! Time to legalize! Granny
Just needs some competition to bring the price down! When the competition is selling his cannabis for $10 less than you, who are folks going to buy from? Granny