LEE, Mass. – Sweetgrass Botanicals, a woman- and minority-owned and operated craft cannabis company was named the Best Dispensary in Massachusetts at the 2024 NECANN Cup, presented in late March at the New England Cannabis Convention in Boston.
Additionally, Sweetgrass Botanicals was one of 35 operations statewide whose scores merited a rating as a NECANN Five Star Dispensary.
NECANN, the largest cannabis conference series in the United States, hosts annual competitions recognizing excellence in each state based on unbiased, third-party blind testing. A new category for 2024, the “Best Dispensary” award employed rigorous secret shopper evaluations to assess dispensaries statewide on criteria such as atmosphere and ambiance, customer service, product diversity, compliance and safety, and patient/customer education.
“We’re honored and excited to have been recognized as the best dispensary in Massachusetts — especially since we’ve been open just two months,” said Cassandra Purdy, founder of Sweetgrass Botanicals. “Our dream was to build a true destination dispensary centered on outstanding curation, fair prices, friendly and knowledgeable service, and we’re pleased this vision has resonated so strongly in such a short time. We are only at the start of our journey, and we can’t wait to serve the community in new ways as we roll out new features like our own lines of solventless concentrates, edibles, and therapeutics.”
About Sweetgrass Botanicals
Sweetgrass Botanicals is a woman- and minority-owned and -operated dispensary and craft cannabis manufacturer based in Lee, Massachusetts. With more than 35 years of combined industry experience among its key management in legal markets such as the Netherlands, Connecticut, Oregon and Massachusetts, Sweetgrass’s leadership team boasts a diverse range of expertise in cannabis retail and processing.
Housed in a rejuvenated lakeside lodge dating to the 1870s, Sweetgrass’s dispensary sells a curated lineup of quality cannabis for all budgets, with a focus on cultivators employing organic or eco-friendly grow practices. With a sizeable retail showroom overlooking Laurel Lake, it also features a full “mercantile” room selling cannabis lifestyle products such as books, functional glass art, apparel, and homewares.
Sweetgrass’s co-located manufacturing operations feature a custom-built solventless extraction lab which powers the dispensary’s forthcoming lines of branded concentrates, edibles, and therapeutics. Featuring one of the only viewing windows in the country, visitors can watch the hash-making process live from the dispensary, providing insight and transparency into how these products are made.
