The Green Cross (TGC) cannabis collective opened its doors in 2004 as a storefront location in Noe Valley. Instantly it was known for its professional, member-centric operation style. The mantra that TGC followed was "member's first," a mantra that has since been used by many other organizations entering the cannabis industry.
TGC broke the mold in 2006 by morphing into a delivery service. Today, TGC still offers many strains, cannabis infused edibles and smoking alternatives with the same friendly service and low prices people have come to expect. TGC has also been known as an exemplar in community and outreach services by offering member consulting, care giving services, and an online community, going above and beyond traditional dispensary services, making it clear to not only its members, but the community and the local government as well, that cannabis is much more important than many people deem it to be.
On June 15, 2013, TGC finally opened a new storefront at 4218 Mission Street in the Excelsior District of San Francisco. It took over six years to find a location and get the storefront up and running, but with the support of our valued members and the neighboring community, we were finally able to open our doors. As an organization, it is our top priority to provide members with quality medication at the low prices they've come to expect from us. It is important to The Green Cross to offer our members a comfortable and accessible place to come purchase cannabis and cannabis infused products from professional and courteous staff members.
A primary goal of TGC is to improve the social and economic conditions of the neighborhood, while providing living wages to residents of the surrounding area. Since opening our storefront at 4218 Mission Street, we have employed several residents of the neighborhood. We take pride in providing employment opportunities to talented individuals from a diverse array of backgrounds. Moreover, TGC has taken the initiative to join various local neighborhood associations to help better the district we now call home.
Neighborhood safety is of the utmost importance to TGC. We have security personnel monitoring the block during business hours, making sure members are being respectful of the surrounding area. Loitering, double parking, leaving debris and smoking nearby are not permitted. We have mobile personnel monitoring the neighborhood during peak hours and in response to neighbor calls, enforcing our safety protocol and ensuring members are following the rules set forth by The Green Cross and local law enforcement. At our expense, TGC acquired the green zone parking spaces in front of our storefront, which allows members to park for a maximum of 10 minutes at a time. In addition, TGC offers special member parking at the tire shop across the street, located at 4249 Mission Street, from 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm Mon-Fri and 8:00 am - 10:30 pm Sat-Sun.
TGC strives to be a valuable asset to the surrounding neighborhood and maintain a welcoming and safe environment for neighbors, local businesses and patients alike. It has been a lengthy process to open a storefront, but we couldn't be more thrilled with the final product. We hope you will stop by and visit us soon.
As of January 6, 2018, The Green Cross is approved by local and state licensure to sell cannabis for both medical and adult use.
Our Founder
Alabama native Kevin Reed is the President of The Green Cross. He moved to San Francisco from Mobile, Alabama in 1999 (following the passage of Proposition 215) after a car accident left him with serious chronic hip and back pain.
Once in San Francisco, Kevin soon discovered the health benefits of cannabis for treating his persistent hip and back pain. During this time, the cost of purchasing medical cannabis through local dispensaries was extremely exorbitant, and because of this, Kevin began growing cannabis in his private residence. Soon after cultivating cannabis for his own private use, Kevin had an unpleasant encounter with local law enforcement that left him in state of mistrust for the system. This occurrence motivated him to become a cannabis activist, fearlessly fighting for the rights of patients throughout San Francisco and California.
Since 2004 Kevin has emerged as an industrious and tireless advocate for cannabis patients and users, as well as the operators and members of cannabis collectives.
In 2005 and 2006, Kevin partnered with other medical cannabis dispensary owners and patient-allies to help advocate for the best possible cannabis legislation for the City of San Francisco.
Kevin served on the San Francisco’s Medical Cannabis Task Force from 2010 to 2012, and currently serves on the Cannabis State Legalization Task Force, continuing his fight for affordable access to cannabis for patients throughout the Bay Area, all while lobbying for better local legislation with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
All of Kevin’s experiences have greatly contributed to the success of The Green Cross over the years, and played an important role in the organization’s underlying mission to put members at the forefront of everything we do.
Organizations We Support
AIDS Walk San Francisco - SF.AIDSWalk.net
Alliance for a Better District 6 - ABD6.org
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club - AliceBToklas.org
American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU.org
American Red Cross - RedCross.org
Americans for Safe Access - SafeAccessNow.org
American Herbal Products Association - AHPA.org
At the Crossroads - AttheCrossroads.org
Bay Area Legal Aid - BayLegal.org
Bayview Hunter's Point Foundation for Community Improvement - BayviewCI.org
Better Business Bureau - BBB.org
Black and Pink - BlackandPink.org
Black Lives Matter - BlackLivesMatter.com
Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco - KidsClub.org
Brownie Mary Democratic Club - BrownieMaryDemClub.org
CAIR California - CA.CAIR.com/SFBA/
California Cannabis Industry Association - CACannabisIndustry.org
California Coalition for Women Prisoners - WomenPrisoners.org
California Growers Association - CalGrowersAssociation.org
California NORML - CANorml.org
Californians United for a Responsible Budget - CurbPrisonSpending.org
Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children - SFCASA.org
Chicana / Latina Foundation - ChicanaLatina.org
City of Dreams - CityofDreams.org
CIVIC End Isolation - EndIsolation.org
Coalition of Homelessness - COHSF.org
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth - ColemanAdvocates.org
College Track - CollegeTrack.org
Community Living Campaign - SFCommunityLiving.org
Community United Against Violence - CUAV.org
Community Works - CommunityWorksWest.org
Curry Without Worry - CurryWithoutWorry.org
Delancey Street Foundation - DelanceyStreetFoundation.org
Disability Rights Advocates - DRALegal.org
Dolores Street Community Services - DSCS.org
Drug Policy Alliance - DrugPolicy.org
Emerge California - EmergeCA.NGPVanHost.com
Equal Rights Advocates - EqualRights.org
Excelsior Action Group - EAGSF.org
Excelsior District Improvement Association - ExcelsiorSF.org
FACES SF - FacesSF.org
Family House - FamilyHouseInc.org
Glide Foundation - Glide.org
Green America - GreenPages.org
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco - HabitatGSF.org
Hamilton Families - HamiltonFamilies.org
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club - MilkClub.org
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Venture Capitalists - HBCU.vc
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco - HRCSF.org
Huckleberry Youth Programs - HuckleberryYouth.org
Human Rights Campaign - HRC.org
JCYC College Access Programs - JCYCCollegeAccess.org
Jobs with Justice - JWJ.org
Joyful Heart Foundation - JoyfulHeartFoundation.org
Kiva - Kiva.org
La Cocina - LaCocinaSF.org
Larkin Street Youth Services - LarkinStreetYouth.org
Law Enforcement Action Partnership - LawEnforcementActionPartnership.org
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area - LCCR.com
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children - PrisonerswithChildren.org
Maitri - MaitriSF.org
Marijuana Policy Project - MPP.org
Minority Cannabis Business Association - MinorityCannabis.org
Mission Economic Development Agency - MEDASF.org
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies - MAPS.org
National Cannabis Industry Association - TheCannabisIndustry.org
National Employment Law Group - NELP.org
National Lawyers Guild, S.F. Bay Area Chapter - NLGSF.org
No Kid Hungry - NoKidHungry.org
One Brick - OneBrick.org
Organic Cannabis Association - OrganicCA.org
Prisoner Reentry Network - PrisonerReentryNetwork.org
Project Open Hand - OpenHand.org
Raphael House - RafaelHouse.org
Rebuilding Together San Francisco - RebuildingTogetherSF.org
Red Light Legal - RedLightLegal.org
Reform CA - ReformCA.com
Rock Paper Scissors Collective - RPSCollective.org
San Francisco AIDS Foundation - SFAF.org
San Francisco City Impact - SFCityImpact.com
San Francisco Interfaith Council - SFInterfaithCouncil.org
San Francisco Night Ministry - SFNightMinistry.org
San Francisco Tenants Union - SFTU.org
San Francisco SafeHouse - SFSafeHouse.org
Save the Bay - SaveBay.org
SCRAP - Scrap-SF.org
SF LGBT Center - SFCenter.org
SF Marin Food Bank - SFMFoodBank.org
SF Playhouse - SFPlayhouse.org
Shanti Project - Shanti.org
Sierra Club Foundation: SierraClubFoundation.org
Southern Poverty Law Center - SPLCenter.org
St. Anthony's - StAnthonySF.org
Stern Grove Festival - SternGrove.org
Stop the Drug War - StoptheDrugWar.org
Students for Sensible Drug Policy - SSDP.org
Summer Search - SummerSearch.org
Supernova Women - SupernovaWomen.Wordpress.com
The Dream Corps - TheDreamCorps.org
The Greenlining Institute - Greenlining.org
The Hood Incubator - HoodIncubator.org
The San Francisco Foundation - SFF.org
The Women's Building - WomensBuilding.org
TGI Justice - TGIJP.org
United Playaz - UnitedPlayaz.org
Welcome Home Project
Western Regional Advocacy Project - WRAPHome.org
Willie Brown Institute - WLBInstitute.org
Young Women's Freedom Center - YoungWomenFree.org
Information About Cannabis Dispensaries
When properly permitted, regulated and operated, medical cannabis dispensaries can be a positive part of a community. They will generate dozens of new jobs for local residents and create business opportunities for nearby shops and neighborhood cafes.
TGC broke the mold in 2006 by morphing into a delivery service. Today, TGC still offers many strains, cannabis infused edibles and smoking alternatives with the same friendly service and low prices people have come to expect. TGC has also been known as an exemplar in community and outreach services by offering member consulting, care giving services, and an online community, going above and beyond traditional dispensary services, making it clear to not only its members, but the community and the local government as well, that cannabis is much more important than many people deem it to be.
On June 15, 2013, TGC finally opened a new storefront at 4218 Mission Street in the Excelsior District of San Francisco. It took over six years to find a location and get the storefront up and running, but with the support of our valued members and the neighboring community, we were finally able to open our doors. As an organization, it is our top priority to provide members with quality medication at the low prices they've come to expect from us. It is important to The Green Cross to offer our members a comfortable and accessible place to come purchase cannabis and cannabis infused products from professional and courteous staff members.
A primary goal of TGC is to improve the social and economic conditions of the neighborhood, while providing living wages to residents of the surrounding area. Since opening our storefront at 4218 Mission Street, we have employed several residents of the neighborhood. We take pride in providing employment opportunities to talented individuals from a diverse array of backgrounds. Moreover, TGC has taken the initiative to join various local neighborhood associations to help better the district we now call home.
Neighborhood safety is of the utmost importance to TGC. We have security personnel monitoring the block during business hours, making sure members are being respectful of the surrounding area. Loitering, double parking, leaving debris and smoking nearby are not permitted. We have mobile personnel monitoring the neighborhood during peak hours and in response to neighbor calls, enforcing our safety protocol and ensuring members are following the rules set forth by The Green Cross and local law enforcement. At our expense, TGC acquired the green zone parking spaces in front of our storefront, which allows members to park for a maximum of 10 minutes at a time. In addition, TGC offers special member parking at the tire shop across the street, located at 4249 Mission Street, from 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm Mon-Fri and 8:00 am - 10:30 pm Sat-Sun.
TGC strives to be a valuable asset to the surrounding neighborhood and maintain a welcoming and safe environment for neighbors, local businesses and patients alike. It has been a lengthy process to open a storefront, but we couldn't be more thrilled with the final product. We hope you will stop by and visit us soon.
As of January 6, 2018, The Green Cross is approved by local and state licensure to sell cannabis for both medical and adult use.
Our Founder
Alabama native Kevin Reed is the President of The Green Cross. He moved to San Francisco from Mobile, Alabama in 1999 (following the passage of Proposition 215) after a car accident left him with serious chronic hip and back pain.
Once in San Francisco, Kevin soon discovered the health benefits of cannabis for treating his persistent hip and back pain. During this time, the cost of purchasing medical cannabis through local dispensaries was extremely exorbitant, and because of this, Kevin began growing cannabis in his private residence. Soon after cultivating cannabis for his own private use, Kevin had an unpleasant encounter with local law enforcement that left him in state of mistrust for the system. This occurrence motivated him to become a cannabis activist, fearlessly fighting for the rights of patients throughout San Francisco and California.
Since 2004 Kevin has emerged as an industrious and tireless advocate for cannabis patients and users, as well as the operators and members of cannabis collectives.
In 2005 and 2006, Kevin partnered with other medical cannabis dispensary owners and patient-allies to help advocate for the best possible cannabis legislation for the City of San Francisco.
Kevin served on the San Francisco’s Medical Cannabis Task Force from 2010 to 2012, and currently serves on the Cannabis State Legalization Task Force, continuing his fight for affordable access to cannabis for patients throughout the Bay Area, all while lobbying for better local legislation with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
All of Kevin’s experiences have greatly contributed to the success of The Green Cross over the years, and played an important role in the organization’s underlying mission to put members at the forefront of everything we do.
Organizations We Support
AIDS Walk San Francisco - SF.AIDSWalk.net
Alliance for a Better District 6 - ABD6.org
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club - AliceBToklas.org
American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU.org
American Red Cross - RedCross.org
Americans for Safe Access - SafeAccessNow.org
American Herbal Products Association - AHPA.org
At the Crossroads - AttheCrossroads.org
Bay Area Legal Aid - BayLegal.org
Bayview Hunter's Point Foundation for Community Improvement - BayviewCI.org
Better Business Bureau - BBB.org
Black and Pink - BlackandPink.org
Black Lives Matter - BlackLivesMatter.com
Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco - KidsClub.org
Brownie Mary Democratic Club - BrownieMaryDemClub.org
CAIR California - CA.CAIR.com/SFBA/
California Cannabis Industry Association - CACannabisIndustry.org
California Coalition for Women Prisoners - WomenPrisoners.org
California Growers Association - CalGrowersAssociation.org
California NORML - CANorml.org
Californians United for a Responsible Budget - CurbPrisonSpending.org
Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children - SFCASA.org
Chicana / Latina Foundation - ChicanaLatina.org
City of Dreams - CityofDreams.org
CIVIC End Isolation - EndIsolation.org
Coalition of Homelessness - COHSF.org
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth - ColemanAdvocates.org
College Track - CollegeTrack.org
Community Living Campaign - SFCommunityLiving.org
Community United Against Violence - CUAV.org
Community Works - CommunityWorksWest.org
Curry Without Worry - CurryWithoutWorry.org
Delancey Street Foundation - DelanceyStreetFoundation.org
Disability Rights Advocates - DRALegal.org
Dolores Street Community Services - DSCS.org
Drug Policy Alliance - DrugPolicy.org
Emerge California - EmergeCA.NGPVanHost.com
Equal Rights Advocates - EqualRights.org
Excelsior Action Group - EAGSF.org
Excelsior District Improvement Association - ExcelsiorSF.org
FACES SF - FacesSF.org
Family House - FamilyHouseInc.org
Glide Foundation - Glide.org
Green America - GreenPages.org
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco - HabitatGSF.org
Hamilton Families - HamiltonFamilies.org
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club - MilkClub.org
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Venture Capitalists - HBCU.vc
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco - HRCSF.org
Huckleberry Youth Programs - HuckleberryYouth.org
Human Rights Campaign - HRC.org
JCYC College Access Programs - JCYCCollegeAccess.org
Jobs with Justice - JWJ.org
Joyful Heart Foundation - JoyfulHeartFoundation.org
Kiva - Kiva.org
La Cocina - LaCocinaSF.org
Larkin Street Youth Services - LarkinStreetYouth.org
Law Enforcement Action Partnership - LawEnforcementActionPartnership.org
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area - LCCR.com
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children - PrisonerswithChildren.org
Maitri - MaitriSF.org
Marijuana Policy Project - MPP.org
Minority Cannabis Business Association - MinorityCannabis.org
Mission Economic Development Agency - MEDASF.org
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies - MAPS.org
National Cannabis Industry Association - TheCannabisIndustry.org
National Employment Law Group - NELP.org
National Lawyers Guild, S.F. Bay Area Chapter - NLGSF.org
No Kid Hungry - NoKidHungry.org
One Brick - OneBrick.org
Organic Cannabis Association - OrganicCA.org
Prisoner Reentry Network - PrisonerReentryNetwork.org
Project Open Hand - OpenHand.org
Raphael House - RafaelHouse.org
Rebuilding Together San Francisco - RebuildingTogetherSF.org
Red Light Legal - RedLightLegal.org
Reform CA - ReformCA.com
Rock Paper Scissors Collective - RPSCollective.org
San Francisco AIDS Foundation - SFAF.org
San Francisco City Impact - SFCityImpact.com
San Francisco Interfaith Council - SFInterfaithCouncil.org
San Francisco Night Ministry - SFNightMinistry.org
San Francisco Tenants Union - SFTU.org
San Francisco SafeHouse - SFSafeHouse.org
Save the Bay - SaveBay.org
SCRAP - Scrap-SF.org
SF LGBT Center - SFCenter.org
SF Marin Food Bank - SFMFoodBank.org
SF Playhouse - SFPlayhouse.org
Shanti Project - Shanti.org
Sierra Club Foundation: SierraClubFoundation.org
Southern Poverty Law Center - SPLCenter.org
St. Anthony's - StAnthonySF.org
Stern Grove Festival - SternGrove.org
Stop the Drug War - StoptheDrugWar.org
Students for Sensible Drug Policy - SSDP.org
Summer Search - SummerSearch.org
Supernova Women - SupernovaWomen.Wordpress.com
The Dream Corps - TheDreamCorps.org
The Greenlining Institute - Greenlining.org
The Hood Incubator - HoodIncubator.org
The San Francisco Foundation - SFF.org
The Women's Building - WomensBuilding.org
TGI Justice - TGIJP.org
United Playaz - UnitedPlayaz.org
Welcome Home Project
Western Regional Advocacy Project - WRAPHome.org
Willie Brown Institute - WLBInstitute.org
Young Women's Freedom Center - YoungWomenFree.org
Information About Cannabis Dispensaries
When properly permitted, regulated and operated, medical cannabis dispensaries can be a positive part of a community. They will generate dozens of new jobs for local residents and create business opportunities for nearby shops and neighborhood cafes.
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