URBN Leaf San Ysidro San Diego Review (2026)
The San Ysidro Port of Entry on the U.S. side. URBN Leaf sits about two miles north of the busiest land crossing on Earth. Photo by Matt H. Wade via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. URBN Leaf San Ysidro is the closest licensed dispensary in the country to the United States-Mexico border, and after a […]
March and Ash Mission Valley San Diego Review (2026)
Mission Valley from the University Heights rim. March and Ash sits down on the Camino Del Rio retail spine just off Interstate 8. Photo by Lrtman via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. March and Ash Mission Valley is the rare San Diego dispensary that scaled to a regional footprint without selling the brand to a multi-state […]
Mission Cannabis Club SF Review (2026): Lounge Pick
Mission Street looking south toward Bernal Heights. Mission Cannabis Club has been on this corridor since the compassion-club era. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mission Cannabis Club is the rare San Francisco dispensary where you can buy an eighth of legacy-grown Sonoma indoor, walk thirty feet, and legally smoke it on a couch […]
Curaleaf Miami South Beach Review (2026): The Walkable Pick
Featured in our roundup: Top 5 Cannabis Dispensaries in Miami → Curaleaf Miami South Beach is the one Florida medical dispensary you can walk to from an Ocean Drive hotel without a rental car, and on a snowbird week that location is worth more than the menu math says it should be. We parked once […]
The Travel Agency Union Square Review (2026): The Doe Fund’s First-Visit Manhattan Dispensary
Featured in our roundup: Top 5 Cannabis Dispensaries in New York City → The Travel Agency Union Square at 835 Broadway is the easiest first-visit Manhattan dispensary on the New York retail map and the cleanest argument I have seen for what the state’s Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act was trying to build. The storefront […]
Gotham Williamsburg Review (2026): Brooklyn Waterfront
Featured in our roundup: Top 5 Cannabis Dispensaries in New York City → Gotham Williamsburg at 296 Kent Avenue is the Brooklyn waterfront anchor of the New York legal market and the North Brooklyn dispensary I route visitors to first in 2026. I am scoring the visit a 4.4 out of 5. An eighth of […]
Torrey Holistics San Diego Review (2026): Worth the Sorrento Valley Drive?
Torrey Holistics rang up California’s first legal adult-use cannabis sale on January 1, 2018, on license A10-18-0000001. Eight years later, the family-owned Sorrento Valley shop still earns 4.5/5 from a forty-three minute weekday visit.
Mankind Cannabis San Diego Review (2026): Convoy Craft Pick
Mankind Cannabis at 7128 Miramar Road is the curated Convoy District craft pick in San Diego. Specific prices, the 710 Labs Persy stock, and the ramen-and-cannabis pairing.
Apothecarium Castro Review (2026): SF Flagship Worth It?
The Apothecarium Castro at 2029 Market Street is the TerrAscend vertical anchor of the SF retail map. Honest review with prices, flower notes, and the lineage.
SPARC Upper Haight Review (2026): Sun-Grown Eighth Pick
Featured in our roundup: Top 5 Cannabis Dispensaries in San Francisco → SPARC Upper Haight at 473 Haight Street ran the cheapest legal-market eighth I priced anywhere in San Francisco. A jar of SPARC sun-grown Wedding Cake sat on the value tier at $35 out the door, the operator runs its own Sonoma County farm […]