152 APRIL 4-10, 2024 westword.com WESTWORD | REAL ESTATE | RENTALS | SERVICES | EMPLOYMENT | CANNABIS & MORE | CLASSIFIED | promotion, don’t settle for a penny pre- roll or homemade joint. A true celebration requires quality, presentation and elements we can’t make on our own. And few people can make a hash hole like Kayne Perry. The founder of Red Roots Rolling Co., raised around the Kentucky tobacco fi elds, can only make around 75 of the 2.6-gram doughnut doinks a day, with two grams of selected fl ower and a 0.6-gram rosin snake placed in the middle. Meant to be shared with others or smoked over multiple ses- sions, Red Roots hash holes are like a fi ne cigar and should be treated as such, with humidity-controlled storage and a torch lighter. As more grower and extractor col- laborations come to fruition for Red Roots, we can’t wait to celebrate in 2024. Best Dispensary for a Hash Head Reefer Madness 4401 East 46th Avenue 303-322-3404 1995 South Broadway 303-282-6206 reefermadnessdenver.com Named after the beloved and incredibly ridiculous pot propaganda fi lm from 1936, Reefer Madness stores have plenty of good fl ower — but it’s safe to say these dispen- saries are hash-crazy, too. Over the last couple of years, store manager Ryan Ashby has curated quite a selection of extrac- tors on the shelf, from 710 Labs to Single Source and plenty in between. Reefer Madness receives limited drops and brand-new creations from Lazercat and Malek’s Melts, with other popular rosin brands such as Big Heads Little Necks, Green Dot Labs, Mighty Melts, Moun- tain Select, Olio, Sunshine Extracts and Trichome Collective also on the menu. Wax, shatter, live resin, Rick Simpson Oil and vape cartridges are in heavy supply at Reefer Madness as well, so any dabber will fi nd something they like. And with a new store opening on South Broadway last summer, you can now step into the madness on both ends of town. Best Infused Flower Locol Love Infused Flower locol-love.com Hash-covered buds, also known as caviar or moon rocks, aren’t anything new to dispensaries — but good ones are. Simi- lar to pre-rolls, caviar’s starting materials are rarely tip-top, but all of those wor- ries go out the window with Locol Love. The Boulder-based cultivation is one of Colorado’s top wholesale growers, with impressive cuts of Colorado Cream Soda, Minties, Monkey Berries and much more. Now you can get those same beautiful nugs with a frosty coat of solventless sift, col- lected in-house, for a few bucks extra. The high feels clean and supercharged, even for strong tolerances, and the kief sticks to the buds well enough for a slow burn. If you’re looking to impress a cannabis connoisseur without breaking the bank or just want something stiff in case of emergency, this is a great choice. Best Rick Simpson Oil 710 Labs 710labs.com Most people don’t take Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) for a good time on a Friday night, but the medically focused extract is get- ting more use in the recreational market. Intended for medical patients and direct oral consumption, RSO is concentrated THC accompanied by a full spectrum of cannabinoids and plant compounds, so you want to be sure that the starting material is good — and few cannabis cultivations have starting material like 710 Labs. You can get syringes of RSO from one of Colorado’s top fl ower and rosin brands for less than $25 at dispensaries, enabling easy infusion or oral consumption. Medical patients take high amounts of it for various ailments, but recreational users use it in smaller amounts for the concentrate’s full spectrum of plant derivatives, which can bring a calmer high than THC distillate. Best Vape Cartridge DabLogic verdenatural.com/pages/dablogic-how- were-different Most hash pen and vape cartridge options are made with poor starting material and taste like fl avored nicotine. Not DabLogic’s. Made with a cartridge designed and pat- ented by founder and Colorado hash legend Julian Casellas, DabLogic’s rosin cartridges hit smoothly and manage to make us feel like we just took a dab or hit off a doughnut joint. That might sound easy, but the vast majority of vape carts, rosin included, fail to impress our tastebuds or high meter. In contrast, DabLogic brings the fl avor and haymaker hit until the last drop is gone, and you can always count on rare genetics, from Chemmy Jones to Rainbow Disco. Best Rosin Brand Soiku Bano soikubano.com Coloradans love their rosin, but extrac- tion shelves and hash fridges are starting to look like the Buzz Lightyear aisle at Al’s Toy Barn. Never content with being just one more face in the crowd, Soiku Bano takes an innovative, quality-fi rst approach to dab- bing, which keeps the Denver hash factory above the rest. Founded by brothers Xander Tabio and Jose Coto with Coto’s wife, Clau- dia, and led by head extractor Tim Du, Soiku Bano blew us away with a Sour Diesel cold- cure rosin in 2023, and kept the momentum with its Soiku Sundaes. A two-gram ball of cold-cured rosin, covered with 1.5 grams of a rosin sauce drizzled on top, each terpy Soiku Sundae mimics the dessert in more ways than one. Whatever the Bano boys are pulling from, you know the result is worth waiting for payday. Best In-House Flower at a Dispensary Verde Natural 5101 East Colfax Avenue 303-474-4489 302 Pearl Street 303-993-3066 verdenatural.com Dispensary-grown fl ower doesn’t domi- nate the shelf any- Cannabis and More continued from page 150 continued on page 160
