This was an experience. If you are not familiar with the Good Day Farm brand you may well be soon enough. For me, it was a welcome new experience to an industry that is growing and changing the way many people think about medicinal dispensaries. Good Day Farm is a health-focused hemp grower that also offers venue spaces and barns intended to protect and preserve the environment. They recently opened the largest medical cannabis shop in the South at nearly 10,000 square feet in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and I was invited to experience it for myself.
Being a novice to the world of medical cannabis I was not sure what to expect. I, of course, am familiar with cannabis and have heard for years about its various health and wellness benefits from people around me. It just was never my thing. Over the course of my adulthood and especially in recent years my curiosity has increasingly been piqued. For me it is not so much about how cannabis can make me feel physically or emotionally. It is more about its medicinal value and potential curative nature for various ailments and conditions. I was excited to receive this invitation.
I was welcomed at the Good Day Farm Lake Charles store by a very friendly team of staff and leadership at the dispensary who gave me and the rest of the folks in attendance for the celebratory grand opening a very informative tour on the multiple offerings available at Good Day Farm. The new retail location, which replaces Good Day Farm’s old dispensary, features a drive-through and product displays where customers can taste-test unmedicated versions of the company’s THC and CBD gummies, smell the different types of terpenes included in inhalable products and view the different types of flower, as raw cannabis is commonly referred to.
Good Day Farm is one of two companies that are allowed to cultivate, process and distribute cannabis products in the state of Louisiana.
I was able to ask a ton of questions, secure a medical license on the spot, and learn from their friendly team about the various ways to utilize cannabis. In the end, it was a lotion and topical ointment that truly caught my attention and those are the products I have decided to start with. Not before having been treated to a very tasty and new dining experience for myself with Chef Christopher Sayegh – The Herbal Chef himself. Chef Sayegh prepared an infused dining experience for all of us that was personally customized to our comfort level of consumption for the evening. I’ll be honest, I had the lowest dosage available because I was a bit uncertain if I wanted to consume more not being a regular cannabis user otherwise.
It was a very nice experience, and I am happy to report I had no adverse effects afterwards either. Now, I am more excited to give the topical products a try and see how they hopefully soothe me.
Next time you are in the Lake Charles area, or anywhere else where you can find a Good Day Farm near you including in the states of Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, or Louisiana, stop by and talk to their friendly team to explore what medicinal products may be worth considering yourself. I now know I have someone with vast knowledge and experience at Good Day Farm to guide me in the process.
The gummy bar at Good Day Farm in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
