We Are Your Neighborhood Dispensary
Best Daze Cannabis Dispensary is family-owned and operated by Len & Eli Goodman.
Best Daze has been providing New Mexico with the finest flower, prerolls, edibles, vapes, and concentrates to Medical Patients since 2018 and as of April 1st 2022, we are proud to offer the same quality products to Recreational Users!
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Santa Fe Reporter
The Neighborhood Dispensary
Len and Eli Goodman, the father and son behind local company Best Daze, stand in a forest of flowering cannabis, dwarfed by the greenery that stretches over 7 feet high. In between chatting about the warehouse yield surrounding them, they hug one of the potted plants, laughing, and Eli smells some of the bud he’s rubbed on his fingers.
Their passion for the industry and the plant itself is evident, and it’s shared by all of their 53 employees, most of whom are medical cannabis patients themselves, says the younger Goodman, who’s the chief operating officer.
“Everybody growing the medicine, everybody manufacturing and producing, everybody dispensing has a real belief in the importance of what’s taking place and knows that they’re helping people have a better life and feel relieved,” he tells SFR.
Best Daze opened in February 2018 and is expanding as the forthcoming recreational market ramps up, with a new shop on Mercer Street that’s expected to open later this month. The company, which is one of 34 legacy producers that carried over from the medical program and can begin sales to all adults in April, has two other locations in Eldorado and Española.
Anticipating long lines when adult-use sales begin, the Goodmans say their focus will be on protecting access for the patients who have been with them from the beginning.
“They have to be our priority for two reasons,” the elder Goodman says. “One is because we have to assume they really need it for medical reasons, health reasons. But they’re also the people who have supported us all these years. They’re our loyal customers. We’ve gotta take care of our folks.”
Best Daze is one of the only dispensaries on the Southside, and its co-founder was one of the first people in New Mexico to get approval to grow cannabis for medical patients. The family- and worker-oriented company stands out among more than a dozen other options in Santa Fe.
A Best Daze warehouse on the Southside houses rows of cannabis plants in various stages of growth. (Bella Davis)
Budtenders help medical cannabis patients at Best Daze’s store on Airport Road. (Bella Davis)
