150 MARCH 27-APRIL 2, 2025 westword.com WESTWORD | REAL ESTATE | RENTALS | SERVICES | EMPLOYMENT | CANNABIS & MORE | CLASSIFIED | Best Rosin Thumbprint Soiku Bano Sundae soikubano.com Soiku Bano’s Sundaes aren’t technically thumbprints, geodes (or whatever else you want to call placing a pool of terpene-rich rosin jam inside of a small pressed bucket of cold-cure rosin), but they still qualify and dominate the category. Each Soiku Sundae jar contains a two-gram ball of cold-cure rosin with 1.5 grams of a rosin jam drizzled on top and mimics the dessert in more ways than one: “The sauce hardens,” according to lab director Tim Du, “sort of like a choc- olate sauce on top of an ice cream sundae.” At 3.5 grams, these Sundaes cost a bit more than one- and two-gram thumbprints, but treating yourself isn’t supposed to be cheap — and puffi ng anything from Soiku Bano is defi nitely treating yourself. Best Cannabis Spa Experience Pure Elevations CannaSpa 185 South Santa Fe Drive 720-534-0879 pureelevations.com You can get a massage, smoke a joint and have your body wrapped in sugar scrub at Pure Elevations — or all three, if you have the time. Founder Rebecca Marroquin, a licensed massage therapist, worked for years to open the south Denver cannabis spa, which made its debut last fall. Pure Elevations has solo and couple massage rooms, a hair salon area and skin-care sta- tions, and cannabis is infused into most of its oils, scrubs and lotions. Pure also has a cannabis bar on site with the same products sold at dispensaries, allowing you to puff before, during or after pampering. Book day passes, individual services, private par- ties and more on the spa’s website. It only took a dozen years for a licensed cannabis spa to open in Colorado after recreational legalization, but we’ll take it. Best Collaboration Green Dot Labs and Red Roots Rolling Co. A tasty tag team was created in April when Green Dot Labs handed over its award-win- ning fl ower and rosin to Red Roots Rolling Co.’s Kayne Perry, who turned them into a limited number of Green Dot hash hole joints. Rolled with two grams of fl ower and 0.6 grams of rosin, the joints all featured a strain-specifi c combo from the Green Dot strain Paloma, formerly known as G. The result tasted like a shot of Malört, but un- like with Chicago’s beloved shit-booze, our tastebuds actually enjoyed this combina- tion of grapefruit and gasoline — and the legendary doink left anyone who inhaled it pleasantly incapacitated for the day. The fi rst collaboration sold out quickly, but we hear that more are in the works. Best Classic Strain Lineup Indico indicocolorado.com Indico was busy in 2024, opening its fi rst dispensary in Colorado Springs while ex- panding into more retailers in the Denver area. We’d like to think that some of that popularity comes from the Ordway-based grower’s penchant for growing throw- backs, both in name and characteristics. Indico’s Tropical Haze smells like textbook Florida Kush and a shot of Dole tropical punch. The Orange Kush tastes like a mix of skunk weed and Hi-C Orange Lavaburst and might take you back to the 2000s, while Indico’s cut of Bubblegum will transport you back even further. Given how few Hazes and Bubblegums there are in dispensaries nowadays, we’re lucky some growers still respect the power of classic cannabis. After hitting the Tropical Haze, you’ll respect that power, too. Best Fruit Stand Single Source instagram.com/singlesourcecolorado Single Source could just as easily win an award for “Best Gas Station” because of all the Diesel, Headband and OG-heavy strains it pumps out, but the premier cul- tivation and rosin lab has too damn good of a fruit section. Whether it’s one of the many grape-leaning hits like Dulce de Uva, Gastro Pop and Grape Pie, a tart eye-popper like Lemon Heads or tropical smoothies like Sour Papaya, Tally Mon and Whip-Itz, Sin- gle Source founders Tony Karas and Kennn Wall know how to grow and squeeze a fresh glass or two. You Cannabis & More continued from page 148 continued on page 152
