The Mercantile

This is one of the few stores in ‘Hamp form waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, and it hasn’t changed! It offers loads of fun and funky items, along with plenty of great gift ideas, most of which are very budget friendly. Great staff too!

Excellent choice of tarot cards. Very friendly and helpful staff. For a certain audience, worth the extra steps from downtown Amherst. Like the Northampton store, but bigger, grittier.

If you are a pseudo hippie fraud who was searching for his or her identity at college and finally settled on too-​cool, dreadlocked liberal activist– this MAGICAL Unilocal review is just for you!
Are you looking for incense to cover up the weed stink in your room? How about hemp «jewelry» you can wear to advertise your new douchebag allegiance? Maybe a tie-​dyed t-​shirt so you can pull off the «this was totally played out by 1972» look?
Well it’s all right here, sport!
They also sell tapestries, which you can either hang on your wall or wear as a cape like some kind of anti-​mainstream, outrageous, outside the box poser superhero.
Now, the good part! The magical thing about this review is that as you grow up, get a job and realize your naïve fake hippie convictions are utter horsesh*t and you know zero about real life, the star count is reduced accordingly. Come back in ten years and you will see no stars here. You’re welcome. Now stop wasting your parents’ money and hit the books, junior.