When you walk into Santa Cruz Naturally, the first thing you’ll notice is the overwhelming scent of high quality product that emanates outward from every corner of the building.

Then, after being greeted in the waiting room by one of their supremely friendly staff members, they’ll ask for your paperwork while you take a seat and enjoy an episode of Scrubs or Seinfeld on a 40’ flatscreen.

Once the heavy lifting is taken care of you’ll be asked back to one of their two personalized patient rooms, each themed with Red or Green highlights. One thing I enjoy about SCN is instead of having you wait in line for your chance to peer in a case that puts two layers of glass between yourself and the product, you get your own private area and all the time you need get acquainted with as many of their dozens of different strains as you please.

Each of the 20-30 selections on display will have their own jar labeled with the prices for grams, eighths, and quarters respectively.

After a few minutes a budtender will come in and personally go over any questions you might have about a specific kind of medicine, and because it’s a one-on-one experience they can also recommend what you might like based on what you picked from previous visits. Think Netflix, but with more personality.

Their Green Crack and Mendo Purp strains come with a special “SCN” marker on each jar, which means the price you see is not necessarily indicative of the quality, but rather that it came from a crop up north made possible by your membership.

According to SB420, the Senate bill passed in 2003 by the California legislature and signed off by Governor Davis, marijuana dispensaries must operate as a “collective”, which means that all members who join are able to sign away their six-plant limit in exchange for a discount on the medication the dispensary eventually provides. This creates a sort of “subsidization” of their product through collective memberships, and although many patients don’t know about this loophole, SCN has done us the favor of taking advantage of it and passing the massive savings right on down the line High quality outdoor nugs that you would normally expect to pay top shelf prices for only set you back at the bottom shelf rate, eighths coming in at a cool $25 a pop with a price break for quarters at only $45.

After making your selection, your ticket will get passed to the bud room while you take your pick of free snacks like cookies, apples, oranges, tea, coffee, candies, and even samples courtesy of the latest medible supplier. All are laid out on top of a case filled to the brim with every kind of goodie bag item you can imagine from vape pens, to Kind Caps, pre-rolls, and concentrates which grace the multi-shelved showcase.

Right now they’re running a special where if you bring in your personal oil pen, they will refill an empty canister with an “oil change” of high grade BHO for free, so get down to SCN and claim your share of their incredible deals today!

420Cali Rating: A-

Source: Images above taken from the SCN FB page at: https://www.facebook.com/santacruznaturallybayarea

For more information and photos please visit the SCN website at: http://www.santacruznaturallybayarea.com