Sticky Diamond at 55 Rome Road in Rome is one of Maine’s more distinctive cannabis destinations — a Leafly List Winner in 2025 operating out of one of the smallest towns in Kennebec County, a community of roughly 1,100 people tucked into the Belgrade Lakes resort region between Belgrade, Smithfield, and Oakland. The store’s tagline, “premium organic selection and pesticide Read more...
Grass Monkey Cannabis Company at 85 Western Avenue has been cultivating and selling cannabis in southern Maine since 2013 — one of the longer-running independent operators in the market, with roots in Maine’s medical program that gave the team deep cultivation knowledge before recreational sales launched. The South Portland location on Western Avenue sits in the same Maine Mall-adjacent commercial Read more...
gLeaf Frederick at 4606 Wedgewood Boulevard holds a historically significant license — D-17-00001, Maryland’s first-ever issued medical cannabis dispensary license, originally granted to Wellness Solutions (Wellness Institute of Maryland) when the state’s medical program launched in 2017. Now operating under The Cannabist Company’s gLeaf premium retail brand, the 4606 Wedgewood location sits next to the Frederick Gymnastics Club with a Read more...
Greenlight Therapeutics at 782 MD Route 3 North, Suite A is a locally owned, independently operated dispensary sitting on Robert Crain Highway in Gambrills — unincorporated Anne Arundel County, three miles north of the Waugh Chapel Towne Centre and a short drive from Odenton, Crofton, Millersville, and the Fort Meade corridor. It’s one of the few truly independent dispensaries in Read more...
RISE Dispensaries at 702 Pulaski Highway sits squarely on US-40 in Joppatowne — a stretch of eastern Harford County lined with Royal Farms, Wawa, Food Lion, and McDonald’s — making it an easy, high-visibility stop for commuters and residents across the eastern Baltimore-Harford County corridor. It’s a 32-minute drive from Baltimore and about 24 minutes from Johns Hopkins, drawing customers Read more...