Collective Awakenings
- 4.8 (5)
- 2823 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, Oregon, 97232
- Monday 12:00 am - 12:00 am
- In-store purchases only
One of the friendliest dispensaries in the area with a large selection. I've consistently found some of my favorites.
Killer selection of recreational & medical. Professional staff and knowledgeable bud tenders. The selection is large and rotates often. I tend to dig Indica's and they've provided me with the best quality flower I've had in ages. Super good pre-roll selection too and way better pricing than anywhere else I've been.
These guys are so incredible. I had a problem with a product I bought from another store. These folks were nice enough to exchange it for me. I will be coming back here in the future.
Corporate af prepackaged herb literally hundreds of better shops in Portland. But cool location LOL
Nectar on Mississippi is and has always been my favorite dispensary! Every budtender there is super knowledgeable about the products, which makes it easy to find what I need. They're always so fun to chat with about the products as well because they're just as enthusiastic about it as their customers are--it's a mutual geeking out about weed, and that's how it should be. Also, Nectar always has tons of great strains on hand, good prices, and the best hours in the business. They were there for me on Christmas and New Year's Day when the other shops were closed, but when many of us needed them the most! I'll keep them.
On the occasions I do make stops with my S.O. It's nice to see a shop well put together. The displays were bright but with a hint of almost steam punk charm. The tender was good at listening to what my bf wanted and what traits he enjoyed while staying within the budget and tax range. They had a nice selection of consumables that goes beyond just wyld. There were brownies and cakes. Along with Gron chocolate bars and gummies. That tender was focused on the customers before her so I couldn't get a good idea of their options or ask questions. But my bf got a nice reusable jar to keep his flower fresh which we thought was pretty cool. Kind of pricier than what I guessed with the surplus but he asked for top shelf so you get what you want. It still took him about an hour and a half after consuming to activate the sleepiness effects but now he's knocked out as I write this review. So I'm sure we will stop by when we are in the neighborhood again.
This place is going downhill....is it 'cause of OLCC? Anyhoo. I HIGHLY recommend any container handed to you is thoroughly checked. My last gram purchased there was leafy AF. Foxtail galore. See photos. The Nectar is not so sweet.
I have come Into this place numerous times and it's gone downhill over the years. I went in there last week for what should've been a quick buy. Well I walked in and went straight to the edibles. There was only 3 other shoppers in the store and figured it would be quick to get help. What should've been a 5-10 min wait ended up being a 20-25 minute wait because as customers came in the bud tenders failed to come check the other side (which they have done before) and ended up watching 4-5 people go before me. The guy that was by the edibles finished with his customer and then went to the back then out the front door. No ackwkowlegement, no "hey guys there's a customer over here" just rude. Finally I get helped cause I had to move and asked if there was a structure for the line and the girl couldn't even answer. I told them maybe put up stanchions so people know where to go and she said thanks for the feedback and that was that. I left the store upset and to find a parking ticket at my car. So not only was my time wasted because nobody cared to check in but now I have to pay a $105 ticket. Never going back again. if I could rate this place 0 stars I would. I watched the other two employees stare at me multiple times as well as I looked Around for help
I used to like this place but it's going downhill. Not sure if it's because of all the new rules and what not but something has changed. The guy who helped me was very rude and talking to me like I knew nothing when I work down the street and come in very often. It's close and convenient but it is not anything special anymore. I'd go to Farma in Southeast if I were you.
Staff seems very knowledgable about their products and you get to see flower under lights which is pretty cool. I enjoy stoping by here as my go to when I'm in town!
They've got a great selection of everything. First place I randomly walked into and found Girl Scout cookies. The staff is very attentive and friendly, answered all the questions I had. Definitely will come back again when I'm in the area!
i dropped in here one time with a date and we just needed some prerolls for a walk, what a clusterfuck!! god, we stood around for 20 minutes just waiting to be helped. one person behind the counter, no sense of who was next. what a mess, i will never go back here. too expensive, too messy. why this place gotta be in a house anyways. ugh.
Great selection of kief and pre rolls- good quality and price. Very professional & knowledgeable staff!
Great service & selection, very casual and in a great location! Thank you for a great experience!!!
Employees are extremely helpful selection is great. 10/10 would recommend. No line, ATM and cc transactions available.
Nice clean store, friendly help, no waiting. The staff is knowledgeable and professional. One of my favorite dispensaries.
Vanessa was very helpful and super friendly. She answered all my questions and helped me pick out just what I needed. She made this experience one of a kind and I will recommend this place to any travelers that want a good experience. The variety was extensive and FreeRollFriday is a good deal. Don't miss out. The place is hidden next to a Community center. Everyone is friendly so don't hesitate to ask for directions.
Very friendly staff. A lot of different choice on a very large menu. Helpful in picking out products and work with you to smell test and look at products. Had some freebies with purchase.
A word of advice to those working at dispensaries in Portland, ESPECIALLY one right next the the Q Center. If someone tells you to not say their legal name out loud, DONT SAY IT. There are a lot of trans folks that are triggered by hearing their birth name. It takes a lot of energy to constantly be asking people to not use the name on their ID. If they ask you to not, and you accidentally do and they call you on it, don't get defensive. Apologize. Use the name they're requesting. Do better next time. Don't put the blame on them. I saw all of this happen to my partner recently and I'm not going back.
First let me say this: this review is for a person at this store, not the actual business. My partner and I love this place. We live right down the street and come in about every two days. Everyone here is always super nice and helpful and it's been a pleasure giving Nectar our business. We will continue coming to this store, only hoping we will not have to interact with this particular woman again. We came in today, I literally had a bouquet of small flowers I had just picked to give to the good folks at Nectar since they always help us out. We walked in and we're greeted by this woman (who would not give us her name, so I will describe her as a bit older, tattoos on her hands and fingers, black hair with a bit of teal, somewhat on the heavier side) and we're immediately put off by her attitude. It can only be described as the kind of attitude one has when they think they know everything and that they are much "cooler" than all of the plebeians who don't work at the pot shop. Apparently she is not new to the company, but she is new to this store. She was quite plainly, a complete b*tch to us. Like I said we LOVE this store and all the people who work there! We come in looking forward to seeing if not familiar, at least friendly faces. I didn't even give them the flowers I picked for them. It sucks walking into a place that you literally spends hundreds of dollars a week at, only to be helped by a lady with a massive bad attitude, that wouldn't even give my partner her name because she said it made her feel unsafe. I mentioned we are there basically every other day right?! She said she has worked there for months and never seen us, which we found out was a lie, when her coworker said she wasn't new to the company, but she was very new to working in this location. Watch out for this chick if you come here. LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE AT THIS STORE WILL GLADLY HELP YOU, WITH GREAT ENERGY AND A SMILE.
This place is rad. All the staff are super nice and enjoyable to talk to as well as knowledgeable. The quality is top notch and they have the best pre rolls in town... anywhere else that sells a full gram pre roll you're gonna be spending fifteen dollars at the least
Absolutely loved visiting this shop! Customer service is wonderful (Cruz was the best!) and you can't beat the selection. Definitely will return!
Favorite spot in the best neighborhood :)Have been coming here for over a year and the best service every time!
Easily my favorite shop in Portland. Great prices, great deals, awesome service. Will go out of my way to hit this spot every time. Check out Sunday funday, best deal in the city. Buy a quarter and get a quarter free, I really don't think you can beat that. I've been to a few good spots but Nectar absolutely blows every where else out of the water. Best prices and quality, and the people are extremely friendly. Don't miss out!
Awesome place!!!!! Friendly service and great products!!!!!! Highly recommend this store!!!!!!!!! Kelsey is awesome and helped us with all of our products!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All time favorite employees are Vanessa and Jessica!!! Appreciate they're great attitude and patience!!
This place is the bees knees for fridays. You can get a gram joint for free with purchase. Staff is quick and friendly and patient about questions and knowledge. They have a loyalty program and a semi-large menu. I've always enjoyed my experiences here and I will continue to always go there.
Best despensairy I've ever been to!!! Friendly service and price is right for tasty treats
So nice, very chill, HUGE selection, knowledgeable! Highly recommended!! One of the better dispensaries I've been too!
Best selection + service in Portland....Nectar's quality speaks for itself across all locations
UPDATE:Decided to give this place a second chance. The bud I received-- two strains which were $6 per gram-- were a year old, dry as a bone, drained of potency, and had stems. I've been to plenty of dispensaries by now, and am always looking for a deal. I've gotten plenty of $6 grams that were fantastic quality. There is no excuse in this town for pawning off sub-par cr*p on the cannabis-buying public. No more Nectar for me. -------------What a disappointing experience.I went in looking for some bud to help me sleep. I'd done my research on Leafly, but wanted recommendations from a budtender.First of all, there's no waiting area, so it's super noisy and hard to hear each other speak.The "budtender" pointed to an indica and said it had high THC. Then he pointed out two more that were also high THC. (High THC does not automatically equal sleep-inducing.)And that was it. No further talk about the qualities of each, no offer to see and smell the product. He just looked at me. I activated my spidey-sense and picked out Hindu Kush.When I got home and looked up the three different strains, I saw that the one I picked was the ONLY one of the three indicated for sleepytime. Thanks, spidey-sense; you were a lot more helpful than my "budtender".The bud is packed in a pill-bottle, and was somewhat dried out. Definitely not fresh. However, the quality was good. I would have liked to know the name of the grower, but that info is not on the bottle, nor was it mentioned.Oh, also- when you conduct a transaction, "please" and "thank you" go a long way toward goodwill. I work in a dive bar and even I say please when asking for money. Jeez.There are so many great places in town- Bridge City Collective is my current fave- so customer service is a major factor in return business. Nectar won't have mine.
This place is sweet. Better and more intuitive than most other suggestions, great deals and swag. Cool bonus joints and grams. The bud tenders are happy to help and make the experience great.
Nectar is awesome! The bud tenders are very helpful, they have great prices and the product is solid!
Super helpful staff! I havent been to many dispensaries as i just moved from out of state but this one is close to my house and the guys behind the counter are always welcoming and crazy friendly!
I love Nectar! The budtenders know what they're selling, it's always clean and they have the best selection. Always fun and great strains!!!!
Everyone that works here is super friendly and knowledgeable. The selection is great, and so are the prices. I don't live in the neighborhood but still make a point to re-up here. Best dispensary in Portland!
This used to be my favorite go to pot shop, since the staff has changed they seem to have forgotten all about customer service. Makes me sad and unfortunately i wont be returning to this location for awhile. Hopefully somebody figures this out and they correct the problem soon.
Nice, clean, & orderly outside. Well-organized inside. Great selection of products, and knowledgeable staff. Reasonable prices, especially their "Sunday Fun Day" specials. I'll definitely recommend Nectar - Mississippi to both recreational & medical cannabis users.
Great service, great product, awesome experience, would recommend in A heartbeat!!!!!!!! Thank you Kelsey
Best dispensary in the neighborhood for the price, staff is always awesome. $3 full gram prerolls almost every day, and great deals every other. Service is and friendly these guys are champs! Love this place!
Lame, I just left there. I went in with my boyfriend to get some medicine. Stood on the medical side for ten minutes. There was ONE other guy in the room looking at BHO product. Not taking up the budtenders time at all. ( not even talking to him). The customer was just doing his own thing deciding what he wanted to buy. The counter guy walked past us and opened up a cabinet right where we were standing three different times and didn't even say hello to us. Luckily we live in Portland where there's a dispensary on every corner. Get your shit together dudes. We went to Bloom 5 minutes away. Got really friendly, helpful, and fast service.
First customer (OMMP) @10 am. Not even a hi, hello or good morning it's WHERE'S YOUR ID? Nice customer service. I was checking out their shatter selection and saw they had a buy one get one gram get one free promo written on their board. According to the bud tender, this was false and it's actually buy 2 grams which was correct on leafly. That sucks, take the sign down/change it, I feel duped. The tender then gave me their printed menu. I picked 3 strains of shatter and they had NONE OF THEM in stock. I finally got the clue to STOP reading off their menu! He then left a pile of shatters on the counter for me to choose from. It's hard to choose with no organization, clearly printed labels and nothing comparable was offered to what I originally selected. This experience was something that was suppose to be so easy and effortless but quickly became stressful and not even worth the free first time preroll!
Have really liked the selection and service but every time I come in, I find myself behind someone that knows nothing about weed and everyone there feels the need to explain every detail from strand types to how it's grown, and most annoyingly--excessive detail about the state testing and regulations. I understand that people want that information and appreciate the service, but some of us are also regulars and know exactly what we would like and don't really appreciate a 20 minute wait while you explain the seed-to-sold storyline--please offer faster service. I have personally only ever taken max 60 seconds to decide and just want some green.
Nectar Mississippi is fantastic. The budtenders are extremely nice, helpful, and knowledgeable. Had s great experience and highly recommended.
Shout out to my favorite Portland dispensary!This place is adorable and the people are fantastic! As someone who asks a billion questions, it was great to have people who answered everything and didn't make me feel silly.Shout out to the adorable girl with the silvery bob and hand tats that gave us a crap ton of good info and helped us find our best strains!
The Mississippi location is a GEM! All Nectar dispensaries have the same, excellent prices and daily deals... but the Mississippi store is in the heart of a very fun, active neighborhood; there's lots of food and music right there; which is excellent news for customers. Their entire staff of friendly, knowledgeable bud tenders provide excellent customer service. :)
My first visit will be my last. Unattentive staff, very poor selection. The bud I viewed was still a bud, but the gram I received didn't even need to be grinded, shake basically.... Very disappointed.
I LOVE this dispensary, and I don't understand some of the bad reviews. Most seem to be related to the increase in cost but if people actually visited other dispensaries or did their research they'd realize ALL of them have had to increase cost since the change in testing requirements a month or two ago. Or people complaining of quality, yet every person can view what your buying before you walk out the door so..Regardless I've never been unsatisfied with service or quality. we've always got a pretty good deal here, and are regulars. Especially since Sunday Funday returned!!! Please do not stop Sunday Funday! You rock nectar!
I was visiting from out of town and came in to buy some edibles. On both visits the staff listened to my needs and then gave me several options, explaining each one. The place looks very clean and well lit and I will def be back if I am ever back in town.
Very helpful and very courteous. Answered every question and made me feel very confident I picked the right one for me.
Lots of variety, fantastic gummy selection. Got a few cartridges and some buds. Very knowledgeable budtenders and nice people here!
Came here to pick up some last minute goodies on the way back home to Vegas! The place is an old house that from the outside looks like grandma would be in there watching Matlock with her 5 cats and 50 doilies! When you walk up the steps from the sidewalk, you walk immediately into the store with bud tenders and glass counters eager to help. The selection is much better for flower and concentrates than I'm used to seeing in Vegas and the prices are much lower. I bought a gram of Super Sour Diesel for $60. The THC level is 85%...wow! I recommend to anyone visiting the Portland area and are in need of some serious cannabis meds.
As someone that is not a frequent pot smoker (I almost never smoke due to work and the fact that I have lived in states that do not have legalized marijuana), this place was unexpectedly friendly. I was in fear of the typical dope pushers of my youth: loud mouthed, crude and juvenile. Instead what I got was a very professional setting along with professional employees. No more "Hey man, check out this new strain. It'll blow your mind" or getting a joint that's laced with something. I got an experience more in line to buying a pack of cigarettes, except with a bit longer of a line. I do not know the typical price for weed, but everything was reasonably priced. The employees were very friendly and open to the fact that this was a special occasion for me, and that I know absolutely nothing about marijuana. I also felt like they did me fair and weren't trying to rip me off, or put me down for being a square. Overall a very pleasurable experience. I'll definitely be back when I'm in need of some...stuff.
This was my first experience in a recreational pot shop and I am so Glad that I went here. Now I have been to Medical Cannabis clubs in California before but this is a new world to me. Went in received very helpful advice and I have to say the business inside and out is very cozy and welcoming. Great selection, super professional while still being fun. I ended up getting a few items all of which were great!I will be back next time I visit the wonderful city of Portland!
The McDonald's Of Oregon's cannabis industry. -Doesn't list price with tax. -Shows weekly specials without total price-Most flower on the shelf isn't fresh ( 6-12 month old harvests )-They acquire most top tier flower for $2.50-3.50 a gram and charge $12.00 a gram They open at 7am but don't disappoint yourself. Save your money and give it to someone who isn't trying to get rich off hard working Oregonians.
My go to dispensary. They have awesome recommendations to newbies like me and some killer deals! Loving that they have curbside pickup through y'all the social distancing
We did an online order this morning for curbside pickup my boyfriends ID is expired so he also brought his passport, not sure if it would be a problem with covid as the OLCC has allowed expired IDS for alcohol at the moment and wasn't sure if it was the same for cannabis. The budtender who came out to greet us was honestly really rude when I asked about it (not arguing because obviously had a passsport as well) and rolled their eyes at me and told me not to argue with them. Again not what I was doing I just asked a question and instead of educating me I felt belittled and talked down to. They came back out with our order and we tipped and left. I had enjoyed coming here because it was local, service was friendly, and they are knowledgeable but would much rather support The New Amsterdam on Killingsworth as they have never been rude and are always helpful.
I recently went to Nectar on Mississippi, and DID NOT leave a happy customer. Recently bought their top Shelf product and was disappointed as soon as I tasted mold. I went back to the store and they advised me that i couldn't return but I could always contact the grower with my complaint. WTH? Bad customer service, offered me nothing in return. I'm not going to hurt my lungs with some toxic stuff would you? They've lost a customer for good. Beware.
The bud tender was very nice and helpful. Sadly I don't think she knew what a true OG Indica was. That funky original OG smell type. I spent 150 on 4 8th all different kinds and all of them where packaged over 7 months ago , so they are ALL dry and moldy. The taste is a big thing for me. All of them taste like dirt or mold. Not even herb or smokeable.Bummed cause I'm from SoCal so I know good herb and have been smoking for 20 years almost: This also happened in Colorado and I'm just thinking that bud places outside of Cali don't know what true OG smells or looks like. Or that after 3 months in the jar you loose most of the thc which is why nugs are sticky. All of these are dry and gross 9lb hammer Obama Mango mints Hazmat OG Will have to go else where as I dont think they'll honor a exchange
Great prices and great product. Knowledgeable and fun budtenders. Good COVID practices.
I almost copied and pasted what I wrote on Google maps. But instead I'll keep it brief.I didn't know what I wanted because I haven't smoked quite a while.Everyone was patient and kind to me. Prices to me were reasonable and I enjoyed the purchase.5/5 stars will return
Very friendly service! Gave me exactly what I was looking for, made for extremely quick visit.
I live a half mile from this dispensary, I come here frequently, tonight I had a budtender who knew literally nothing about the products I was trying to get, take so long to figure out my order that she kicked me out of the dispensary because they were closed, I arrived at 9:56 and needed my medication to sleep. It takes someone less then a minute to process a transaction. on top of that I get moldy flower Everytime I come in, worst dispensary ever, and least compassionate place I've ever been to, avoid at all costs.
Ice cream shop ..candy store...its awesome and the people working there ..well they are a trip...go in and browse. Knowledgeable crew..great product selection and the prerolls ...rolled up...adventure unsnap that and light up your day. Cuz we all wanna say it. ."why is the world just a little bit more beautiful when u puff puff pass it"..
Huge selection with two separate sides, one dedicated to solely weed and the other to pens, bongs, edibles, merch e.tc. Nice spot, friendly staff.
Place is great my fav weed house in Portland, most days there is something on special, its fun randomly going in and figuring out what is up that day
Oregon-owned Nectar has served our community since 2014 with the very best service, selection and value. We promise 100% customer satisfaction with every purchase. Open 365 days a year.
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