Landing in San Francisco for the Super Bowl and looking for an only-in-the-Bay-Area experience to brag about back home? The easy play is to run to Moe Greens dispensary and lounge on the city’s famed Market Street, just around the corner from City Hall, for a swanky, memorable time.
San Francisco is one of a handful of places on the planet that give out local licenses to smoke right in the dispensary/lounge. And Moe Greens is the most centrally located of the city’s lounges, and it has plenty of amenities.
On Feb. 7— the night before the big game — the 6-year-old shop is hosting a rare event called 6-Star Full-Melt Drop Party with award-winning grower and hash maker Moon Valley Cannabis, plus fresh Whitethorn Rose hash holes from local champion Fire King. Yes, the six-star hash is $100 per gram, but it comes with 3.5 grams of Moon Valley flower for $1 — a deal that connoisseurs can recognize.
Top-shelf deals are Moe Greens’ most underappreciated facet, according to the team. Moe Greens has about 800 different items on its menu, including Alien Labs, 710 Labs, UpNorth, Bosky, Umma Farms’ Blue Lobster, Dunkz hash holes, Ay Papi Moroccan Peaches dabs, all the way down to some Visine and a Red Bull.
“Nothing in our menu is bad,” longtime staffer Sam Gabel said. “It’s all hand-selected by a master grower himself.”
Moe Greens is run by locals with decades of combined experience in weed, and everything they do drips with Bay Area culture. Local artistic treasure Jeremy Fish did the dispensary’s main brand illustration. Humboldt fixture Sonny Wong has paintings hanging in the lounge. Weekly lounge events include bingo, trivia, comedy and music.
Beyond the comfortable booths, dab bar seating and private tables, the neighborhood is poppin’: The Warfield Theatre has Gogol Bordello in March, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium hosts raves and the singer Miguel, The Asian Art Museum and The Orpheum. Even the San Francisco Public Library’s main building has a punk fashion exhibit and a sneaker culture show. You’re not going to see any of that in Fresno, homie!
Deterred by bridge tolls and intimidated by city parking? Moe Greens is just one block away from Civic Center BART, so ditch the car keys, come get keyed and explore the city this month.
