Human Collective II

By Matthew Korfhage

9220 SW Barbur Blvd, Suite 107, 208-3042, humancollective.org.

Tucked demurely into the bottom half of a strip mall facing away from Barbur Boulevard, with a professional front lobby that looks like a dentist's office, Human Collective was designed for discretion. Human Collective I, in Tigard, was one of the first dispensaries in Oregon, and it paid for it in 2012 by getting raided and cited for "marijuana possession." Unsurprisingly, owner Don Morse moved his dispensary away from evil, evil Washington County and into Portland. (Washington County just finally got a few dispensaries again this year.) Human Collective II remains one of the old guard of medicinal shops—awash in tinctures and concentrates and accessible edibles for patients. But the store was under heavy renovations in late August to prepare for recreational users, installing three fancy rotating displays of bud from the "hundreds" of growers Morse says he uses—including an express lane for regulars who already know what they want. Which is sort of genius.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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