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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...
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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...
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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...
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Blue Flowers is Charlotte’s first pharmacist-owned CBD boutique, operating at 4717 Sharon Rd, Suite 2B in the SouthPark area of Charlotte — a deliberate positioning in one of the city’s most affluent and health-conscious retail corridors. Owner Joslyn B. (Jos) built the shop around a pharmacist’s framework: every product is selected through a clinical lens, staff function as wellness experts Read more...
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Crowntown Cannabis – Central Ave is a CBD and hemp dispensary at 2419 Central Ave in Charlotte, North Carolina — the original flagship location of what became Charlotte’s first cannabis dispensary, founded by three Charlotte natives (Mike, Dan, and Lindsay) who built the brand around a mission to educate their community and reduce stigma around cannabis use. What started as Read more...



