The Apothecarium - Maplewood

Best dispensary experience yet in NJ for me in almost 4 years in the medical program. Atmosphere, wait and service was a 10. Upon entering I was greeted immediately, and brought to, after my brief new patient intake info gathering, to an available budtender. Which was good to see despite it being a Friday night, as the place was really hopping and quite busy, This was exciting, an ATC that has enough help so you don't sit there for an hour. This place is run well and you can tell just from the little time I was there. I was in and out in less than 15 min and as a first time patient and an issue with my order that had to be corrected by a manager (was a simple mistake). The product selection was amazing. They have what your looking for, and just an unreal selection of their own Kind tree and other vendor brands of cannabis products. They have been at it a while now even in NJ and the product is getting much better which I was hoping for and why I held out from there for a while at first. But man I cannot wait to go back and try out some other selections. The GSC flower is old school, good bud which is what I was there for. And at 33.4 percent you cannot beat it the stuff is just amazing. Overall outstanding experience and I will be back again soon! Highly recommended!

My LEAST FAVORITE ONE IN NJ; and I have been to all but 2. Unfortunately it’s the first one I ever went to in NJ and almost turned me off for good! The staff is rude rude rude!!! And not just to me- I heard that from several people in the store and people who went to the store on another day. I’m from Oregon and I didn’t know that the rules are different here but they were so mean to me on the second week they opened like I was supposed to know and have memorized what was available and what was not available in NJ. Unhelpful! Sold me cartridges till this day that no matter what smoke shop I go to, I can’t find a pen to fit?! That’s unheard of. Kind weed doesn’t even fit kind pens that I later tried to trek down after none of my 15 or so pens would work? I thought we’ll maybe Oregon pens are different but it even confused everyone in every smoke shop I went to. Wasted a ton of money on stuff that I can’t smoke and didn’t ask for, I wanted pre rolls and I don’t know how this crap ended up in my bag, but it ended up in my friends bag too and she had the same exact problem. They don’t like answering questions. The menu was foreign to me coming from the wide variety sold on the west coast and it didn’t explain anything. Just names. No CBD/THC count. No explanation of stevia, hybrid, or indica. No indications of what they do like this site. I explained exactly what I wanted. A Hybrid or Indica that helps with pain, with a high CBD count if possible and low thc count. They looked at me like I had 39 heads. Someone behind me in line was nice enough to help me but said I should get this and that pre roll etc and when I opened up the dark packaging at home, it wasn’t the pre rolls I expected but rather some other kind of of “kind oils” that doesn’t fit into any pen I have been able to find in Oregon or NJ. Supposedly NJ only sells what it grows I heard online so that sucks too. Luckily the other dispensaries are much more helpful. The only good thing I can say is that it was a pretty store, the lines were really short for the second week of selling recreationally in NJ and the police outside had everything organized. Inside though pretty was disorganized. Terrible terrible staff and I consider it the worst dispensary I’ve ever seen before in CA, OR, NJ, ( I’ve yet to see 2) NY, and NV. Sad but true..

Love this dispensary. Always nice, have great discounts and great products. Shop is always super clean!

NJ recreational dispensaries all pretty much sell the same local brands, but Apothecary seems to be the highest price for the same product. They are also Very misleading with their website. My experience…Went to their site, specifically clicked on recreational menu. Was brought to a menu and there was a note that you could sign in for the medical pricing, which confirmed to me that it was the recreational pricing. Drove the 35 minutes there, asked for the items on the menu, and was told that recreational was only what was on their paper menu. I tried to show that the menu specifically comes up when you click adult recreational use menu, he didn’t want to hear it. The online menu showed 7g for $100. In store the only option was 3.5g for 65, for the bud that’s 3.5g for 60 or 7g for 100 elsewhere, or 3.5g for 60, for the bud that’s 3.5g for 55 or 7g for 80-95 elsewhere. I asked if there was any 7g option, and was told “yeah, but two 3.5g and you get 7g”. Thanks for the math lesson, but that’s 120-130 for what’s 80-100 elsewhere. They also charge 30 for the gummies that are 25 everywhere else, but I asked what they had for indica gummies and was told they would not had strawberry lemonade…so I said I’d just take a pack of those. I left and went to the next dispensary that isn't a ripoff, got 7g for 90, went home and realized the strawberry lemonade gummies are sativa. Can’t even use them. Bottom line, while they have all the same great stuff available, save your money by going literally anywhere else.