by Team VRC | Oct 12, 2026 | Recommendations, Brands & Products
Somewhere between pumpkin spice and Halloween costumes, California cannabis gets its own holiday. Meet Croptober: harvest season, when NorCal growers finally get to show off what they’ve been working on all summer. And if flower is your thing, you’ll want to keep an...
by Team VRC | Sep 29, 2026 | Budtender's Choice, Brands & Products, Recommendations
Croptober is here, the crew has been busy, and you can feel it at the shop. Outdoor harvests are wrapping up, new flower is starting to roll in, and the shelves are getting some fresh faces. For cannabis folks, it’s basically like Christmas came early, and our...
by Team VRC | Sep 15, 2026 | Recommendations, Brands & Products
You’ve probably noticed everyone claims to have “the best” something these days. Best burger, best barber, best parking spot on a Friday night. So when we say these are the best concentrate brands in California, we get it if you’re rolling your...
by Team VRC | Aug 31, 2026 | Budtender's Choice, Brands & Products, Recommendations
Half the shop is still mourning summer. The other half already has a game day spread planned and will not stop talking about it. Both sides are equally insufferable right now, and honestly, we’re here for it. This is the stretch where the questions at the...
by Team VRC | Jul 31, 2026 | Budtender's Choice, Brands & Products, Recommendations
If summer had a sweet spot, it’d be August. The routines are out the window, weekends somehow fill themselves up, and everyone seems to be chasing one more good meal, one more road trip, one more excuse to stay out a little longer. Naturally, that changes what...
by Team VRC | Jun 29, 2026 | Recommendations, Brands & Products, Budtender's Choice
Budtenders’ Picks for July 4th There’s only one question that matters on the Fourth: what are you bringing? So we asked our budtenders the same thing. Not what they’d recommend on a regular Saturday, but what they’re actually reaching for when the sky lights up...