The Hemp Store – Chapel Hill is a CBD and hemp dispensary at 115 E Franklin St in Chapel Hill, North Carolina — the third location of the woman-owned Hemp Store NC brand founded and managed by Tanya Durand, who has been operating in the Triangle hemp market since 2017. E Franklin St is the heart of downtown Chapel Hill, Read more...
Carolina Hemp Hut – Durham is a CBD and hemp dispensary at 4600 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd, Suite 21 in Durham, North Carolina — claimed as NC’s largest cannabis dispensary and the recipient of IndyWeek’s “Best of the Best” award in both 2024 and 2025. The shop was founded by Mary Lopez Carter, who began researching CBD in 2018 as Read more...
Carolina Hemp Hut – Hillsborough is the flagship location of the Carolina Hemp Hut chain at 137 Mayo St in Hillsborough, North Carolina — the store that launched Mary Lopez Carter’s brand and earned IndyWeek’s “Best of the Triangle” award before the Durham location took over the title. Founded in 2018, the Hillsborough store served as the proving ground for Read more...
Emerald Medicine Company is Durham’s original CBD and hemp dispensary at 1921 N Pointe Dr, Suite 110 in the North Pointe shopping center north of downtown Durham — a distinction the shop wears proudly as the Triangle’s longest-running dedicated hemp retail operation. The product selection is among the most comprehensive in the Research Triangle: THCa flower, disposable vapes, and cartridges Read more...
Hemp & Barrel is a locally owned CBD and hemp shop at 800 N Polk St in Pineville, North Carolina — the flagship retail location for the Lake Lure CBD brand, born out of a visit to Lake Lure Farms in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the summer of 2018. The founders came away from that trip convinced that local, Read more...