The Healing Center Organization, a medical marijuana dispensary, opened at 511 N. 85th St., on the lower level of the Pullington Apartments, last month.
Rex, one of the employees, told me over the phone that THCO is affiliated with 4Evergreen Group on Aurora Avenue near Fremont. 4Evergreen is a clinic that prescribes medical marijuana to eligible patients, then refers them to THCO to purchase it.
The Healing Center Organization is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The phone number is 206-829-9435; email is thcgroup@gmx.com
From THCO’s entry on a medical marijuana locator website:
Come visit us at The Healing Center for high grade, locally grown affordable medicine. All your favorite strains $10 dollar donation per gram. All the time. No low or mid grade medicine. A legally licensed dispensary conveniently located in Greenwood off of 85th street. Our product and price will keep you coming back for a discreet and secure experience at our professional clinic. Our goal is to be a consistent provider of high quality medical cannabis to heal and or suppress whichever symptoms you are suffering from.
Another medical marijuana dispensary, SPaRC (Seattle Patient and Resource Center), opened at 7200 Greenwood Ave. N. last summer. Click here for PhinneyWood’s inside tour of SPaRC last month.
Thanks to Deb S for the tip in the Forum.
27 responses so far ↓
1 Megan the Vegan // Mar 14, 2011 at 8:30 am
Great! I’ve been looking for a cure for my chronic anxiety!
2 Megan the Vegan // Mar 14, 2011 at 8:32 am
Anyone know a Doc who can write me a quick prescription? My anxiety is killing me.
3 Bernie // Mar 14, 2011 at 8:50 am
I’ll wait until COSTCO offers it for less.
4 Deb S // Mar 14, 2011 at 9:09 am
I still think it’s weird that Greenwood/Phinney is a medical marijuana hotspot
5 Neighbs // Mar 14, 2011 at 10:22 am
That’s handy that it’s just a couple of doors down from the Greenwood Medical Clinic.
6 Bob B // Mar 14, 2011 at 10:36 am
Better than selling it from parked cars at the 6th Ave Pocket Park. However, it’s a shame that the State encourages people to delegitimize the prescription industry.
7 Mike // Mar 14, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Is this near the aptment building that blew up last week while they were baking the special brownies?
Seriously though, I agree with Bob B above. I totally support the idea that a doctor might prescribe it for a chemo patient, but the process should have been required to be run through real doctors and pharmacies. As it currently is, it’s a joke and I can’t blame businesses like the design studio that used to be across from Ken’s for not wanting to be near it.
8 Megan the Vegan // Mar 14, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I’m getting really anxious without my medication….anyone know a Doc to can scribble a prescription for my medicine?
9 DEA // Mar 14, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Megan, you are playing with fire. I know you are secretly asking if anyone knows where you can score your pot to get real stoned. I’m on to you.
10 Josh Berman // Mar 14, 2011 at 7:31 pm
I would just to clarify, as one of the owners of 4evergreen Group, that we don’t have any affiliation with THCO… although I am sure that they do an outstanding job providing medicine to patients in need.
11 Megan the Vegan // Mar 14, 2011 at 8:41 pm
@DEA, but I’m sick! I suffer from anxiety.
12 Megan the Vegan // Mar 14, 2011 at 8:43 pm
“they do an outstanding job providing medicine to patients in need.”
Dude, they did! They cured my anxiety for a whole day! But my stash is low, though, and I’m getting really anxious so need a prescription ASAP!
13 Rob // Mar 15, 2011 at 12:08 pm
isn’t that the second “dispensary” to open in our community?
shouldn’t there be limits to how many can be in one area – sort of like “adult dancing clubs”. Things like they can’t be near parks, schools, etc.
OR, let’s just quit being hypocritical about the whole thing and just legalize it for anyone who wants it.
OH NO I am having an anxiety attack over all this. Where do I get a script for it?
14 Megan the Vegan // Mar 15, 2011 at 9:03 pm
“shouldn’t there be limits to how many can be in one area ”
Why? There’s lots of people suffering from anxiety, a serious MEDICAL condition!
15 Ronaldreagenswife // Mar 15, 2011 at 9:06 pm
There is only 2 or 3 of these… Compare that to
How many bars there are.now remember nobody has died smoking pot and nobody is physically addicted to pot unlike alcohol where people die all the time and people are physically addicted.
I think Deb need to go back to looking out her
Window and reporting every who walks by.
16 Ronaldreagenswife // Mar 15, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Do I need to correct the grammar errors?You know what I am saying.
17 Jen S. // Mar 16, 2011 at 4:02 am
Don’t forget every store sells beer and wine.
Deb, get a life and leave the cancer and aids patients alone!
18 Whopper // Mar 16, 2011 at 7:57 am
” get a life and leave the cancer and aids patients alone!”
They can’t, the pot heads enjoy wheeling sick people out in front so they can promote ‘medical’ MJ with names like ‘Trainwreck’ and ‘Destroyer’. If they’d at least be honest and stop disingenuously abusing people who are actually sick, I’d give them more respect.
19 Al Dente // Mar 16, 2011 at 9:25 am
Against MJ? Don’t smoke it. In fact, just move on then. Nothing to see here. Gotta love the self-righteous amongst us that have a gazillion skeletons in their closets telling us what the F to do. Yes, I can spell HYPOCRITES. GO ahead and drink your scotch and take the handfull of pills your Dr. hands you each month. What IS the exit strategy from you Paxil etc??? Seems those hooked on anti-depressants merely get their drugs from a real nice person in an office, with a $700 suit.
20 ric // Mar 16, 2011 at 9:50 am
It has to be decriminalized eventually.
It’s a shame it hasn’t happened already. Aside from smoking pot, I’m a 100% law abding citizen with a college degee and a graduate degree, a wife of 13 years, three kids,401k holder, 529 for the kids, home owner, kids sports coach, white collar job holder, fly fisheman, runner, gardener, home brwewer, etc. I am exactly what conservatives want eveyone else to be.
And you know what? I smoke pot. It’s the ONLY thing that alleviates my Rhuematoid Arthritis. I can and occasionally do take massive amounts of NSAIDS during flare ups but those are killing my liver and my stomach. And they make me feel horrible. And they’re actually really expensive when you take 1400 milligrams three times a day. You can Google all of this if you don’t trust me. It’s all true.
That I have to be a criminal because the only thing that maintains comfort in my hips, ankles and wrists is a naturally occuring plant the government has demonized is absurd. It’s literally offensive.100% insulting, disgusting and absurd.
I don’t hurt anyone. I volunteer a couple times a year at the food bank in Ballard, I mow my elderly neighbor’s lawn during the Summer. I bring in her trash cans every trash day. I’m on the emergency contact list for several people’s kids. I’m a decent person. I’m a boring person. I’m the mid 30s dad you see with a toddler in the grocery store. I don’t rob, steal or hurt anyone. Why can’t I smoke pot in peace? Seriously. It’s astounding that it’s illegal. It’s not like I’m taking massive bong hits during my lunch break. An eighth of pot gets me through an entire month easily, closer to 6 weeks. That’s a miniscule amount of pot for those that don’t know. The amount of tobacco in an average cigar is a good comparison. So, it’s like it takes me a month or two to smoke one cigar. What’s the problem with that? Next time my ankles swell to the size of grapefruits and my wrists look like someone sewed walnuts inside them, call me up and say I’m wrong for smoking pot.
21 Deb S // Mar 16, 2011 at 11:51 am
I’m not against MJ or aids patients, I’m just interested in viable businesses that contribute to the community. I’m surprised that there is sufficient need for 3 dispensaries in the neighborhood.
22 Mondoman // Mar 16, 2011 at 1:47 pm
For those that might not know, THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) has been legally available as a (real) prescription drug for decades. The generic name seems to be Dronabinol.
Seems like the “medical” marijuana movement is pretty much for those who want to smoke it in impure form, with all those wonderful toxic and carcinogenic compounds mixed in.
I am curious as to whether THCO’s “donation” wording means that you can get it there for free.
23 ric // Mar 16, 2011 at 2:57 pm
I’ve tried the “legit” form of prescription pot and it blew my head off. I was so wasted I couldn’t function for half a day. The govenment knows nothing about proper dosage. And the person I but my pot from doesn’t use anything other than clean water, organic soil, and HPS lamps. No toxic stuff there.
In other words, I know how to take care of my self.
24 ric // Mar 16, 2011 at 2:59 pm
And I’m guessing the donation terminology attempts to bypass a legal definition of purchasing.
25 Megan the Vegan // Mar 16, 2011 at 6:13 pm
“I’m surprised that there is sufficient need for 3 dispensaries in the neighborhood.”
THere’s a lot of people suffering from ‘anxiety’ you know!
26 Green Patient // Mar 17, 2011 at 10:43 am
Megan you are the exact type of person hurting the medical movement. Besides, anxiety isn’t even a qualifying condition for a mmj authorization in the state of WA (despite the relief medical cannabis may provide those suffering from anxiety).
And Mondoman, there and many other ways of ingesting your cannabis including baked goods and vaporizing. Not to mention that those patients who need the quick acting pain relief that smoking cannabis provides. So no, the medical movement is not just about being able to smoke cannabis in it’s “impure” form (whatever that may be) it’s about providing pain relief through a naturally occurring medicine that as previously stated in this thread has been demonized by the US government and through it’s propaganda has created mindless, babble machines like you spitting out the status quo as it has been for the past 40 or so years: Down with weed but let’s get drunk and smoke all the tobacco we want despite the fact they they kill hundreds of thousands every year and cannabis is accountable for zero deaths in a 10,000 year history of use.
27 Marijuana // Jun 16, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Marijuana will be legalized in the next 5-10 years tops.
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