Inside the World’s First Plastic-Free Dispensary

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It is in your food. It’s in your body. It’s in almost everything you live with, and everything you interact with, and well, it’s just not healthy. Plastic. It’s the thing that’s become so ubiquitous that most people don’t even think about it, even though it’s estimated that we are ingesting about 250 grams of it, or roughly the equivalent of an apple every year. 

When you start to think about how much plastic controls our lives, it’s kind of mind-boggling. Can you even think of a business that operates without contributing to the plastic epidemic? How about one that’s mission is to help reduce, reuse, and eliminate the use of plastic as a whole? They would be a first in the cannabis industry.

“I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night handing out plastic bags and then seeing them on the beach.” – Ashley Curtis, founder of Grandma Jazz

A Road Mapped With Intention

Grandma Jazz is not your average dispensary. With a funny name that evokes memories of family and good times, it’s a unique location and vision for what the future of the cannabis industry, and we as humans, can do. Nestled in the rolling mountains of Kamala in Phuket, Thailand, a location as beautiful as it is magical, sits this destination of a dispensary cafe. While the incredible views are something to behold, and the flowing jazz or piano soothes the soul, a lot more is hiding under the surface of this classy and quaint establishment. 

Ashley Curtis, or AC as he is more commonly known, had a vision. Hailing from the UK, AC was someone who came up cutting his teeth in theatre and television. After graduating from drama school, the real journey began, getting into …

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Author: Josh Freeman / High Times

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