Lake Effect is one of southwest Michigan’s most decorated cannabis operations — a Portage-based, caregiver-founded independent that has accumulated Hightimes Cannabis Cup wins including best concentrate in the world, along with multiple edibles awards, since opening in December 2015. The original 8314 Portage Road location is the flagship, with the newer Westnedge Avenue location running 24 hours as a drive-thru. Read more...
Pure Dakota Health – Fargo is a medical cannabis dispensary at 4302 13th Ave S, Suite 19 in Fargo, North Dakota, and serves as the headquarters location for the locally owned Pure Dakota Health chain operating across Bismarck, Fargo, and Williston. In a state where most dispensaries are Curaleaf-branded former Grassroots locations, Pure Dakota Health positions itself deliberately as the Read more...
Canna43 sits on County Road 653 in Gobles, a small Van Buren County city on the M-43 corridor about seven miles west of Kalamazoo. That stretch of M-43 runs between Kalamazoo and South Haven, and Canna43 is positioned to serve both the Kalamazoo metro’s western edge and the resort communities along Lake Michigan’s eastern shore who make the drive. Gobles Read more...
Strive Life is a medical cannabis dispensary at 1809 13th Ave N in Grand Forks, North Dakota, operating under the banner of We-Mend LLC and carrying what it describes as the distinction of being North Dakota’s only locally owned medical cannabis dispensary. That’s a meaningful claim in a state where the other licensed dispensaries are all operated by multi-state chains Read more...
Fluresh opened in February 2020 as Grand Rapids’ first licensed cannabis dispensary and followed eight months later as the city’s first recreational shop — a double first that still defines its identity. The Phillips Avenue SW address sits on the southwest side of Grand Rapids, accessible from US-131 and a short drive from Roosevelt Park, the West Side, Heritage Hill, Read more...