Metro Detroit has no shortage of dispensaries.

Drive down Eight Mile or Detroit’s inner ring suburbs and you’ll find dozens of storefronts, each promising deals and a wide selection of cannabis.

But most of those shops are indistinguishable, selling the same cheap weed that is saturating the market and threatening the industry.

The best dispensaries offer more than just shelves of budget flower, distillate vapes, and rubbery gummies. The standout ones focus on quality, offering fresh, trichome-covered flower, top-tier live rosin, and other premium products. Their budtenders are knowledgeable and take the time to help customers find the right cannabis.

And their environments are welcoming and easy to navigate.

Out of the hundreds of dispensaries in metro Detroit, these are among the best. They are reliable, reasonably priced, and stocked with exceptional cannabis.

Refinery 12641 Stout St., Detroit; detroit.refinemi.com No dispensary in metro Detroit comes close to matching the quality, diversity, and prices at the Refinery. Located off I-96 on Detroit’s west side, the Refinery offers fresh, high-quality flower, concentrates, edibles, vapes, topicals, and tinctures at a lower cost than its competitors. The flower deli selection is so large that it spans both sides of the store, offering customers a wide variety of choices they can see and smell. And unlike many dispensaries, a majority of the Refinery’s flower selection is high in quality. The lineup includes A1Za, Doghouse Farms, Exotic Matter, Favrd, Fractal Cannabis, Mi Loud, Seed Junky, Society C, Tip Top Crop, Voyage Bloom, and Hytek, the dispensary’s sister brand. The Refinery also has a wide selection of top-tier live rosin, an increasingly popular solventless concentrate prized for its quality and flavor. The rosin brands include 710 Labs, Hytek, Wojo, Eastside Alchemy, Exotic Matter, Apex Solventless, Lambchop, Peninsula Gardens, Monopoly Melts, and Yetistash, and they come in jars or vapes. While the Refinery is often busy, the dispensary is fully staffed with friendly and knowledgeable budtenders, so there’s almost never a wait. As an added benefit, the Refinery has one of the best deals for first-time customers. For the first three visits, customers receive a free deli eighth of their choice, including top shelf, for spending at least $50. Credit: Steve Neavling
Nature’s Remedy 925 E. Drayton St., Ferndale; naturesremedycannabis.com It’s hard to go wrong with any of the cannabis products at Nature’s Remedy, which specializes in offering connoisseur-level flower, concentrates, edibles, topicals, and tinctures. But what really sets Nature’s Remedy apart is its interaction with customers. Instead of standing at a cash register asking to see products, budtenders encourage customers to walk around and check out the products. And if you need advice, they are full of knowledge. Nature’s Remedy has built a loyal customer base that has come to expect high-quality products. Most of the flower brands are exceptional and include 710 Labs, Hytek, Michigrown, Kai, Giving Tree Gardens, Vanilla Sunshine, Peninsula Gardens, A1Za, Special Blend Gardens, Super Dope, Doja, Fear of Boof, LightSky Farms, and Flos. Nature’s Remedy is also an ideal spot for live rosin, offering brands that include 710 Labs, Eastside Alchemy, Hytek, Monopoly Melts, LightSky Farms, Information Entropy, and Peninsula Gardens. To dabbers, Nature’s Remedy may be best known for its incredible selection of 710 Labs, arguably the highest quality live rosin in the state. With more than 150 strains from 710 Labs, Nature’s Remedy boasts the largest selection of the brand in metro Detroit, and it’s available in all forms of consistency, from badder to first press. If you become a frequent customer, Nature’s Remedy has a points program that adds up fast with freebies and deals. Credit: Steve Neavling
The Hive 21630 John R., Hazel Park; thehivemichigan.com A small, woman-owned dispensary in Hazel Park, the Hive is the only one on this list that has a Class A cannabis microbusiness, which allows it to grow up to 300 cannabis plants and operate a retail store in the same space. Owned by Dana Elgie, the Hive is the state’s first woman-owned Class A cannabis microbusiness. The dispensary shares its building with B.D.T. smoke shop at 21630 John R, which is owned by Elgie’s father, Curtis Goure, and has served stoners with marijuana paraphernalia like bongs, rolling papers, and tie-dye T-shirts since 1973. By focusing on a relatively small grow, the Hive can dial in on its plants, making it easier to adjust the environment, check for problems, and make sure the flower is at peak quality. It’s no wonder the quality of the Hive’s products is reliably exceptional. For such a small grow, the number of strains is impressive. They include Hash Bee OG, Headstash #1, Ice Creature, Lemon Cookies, Party Runtz, Permanent Marker, Superboof, Pink Zoap, Royal Runtz, Sherb Cream Pie, and Strawberry Coffinz. The Hive is also constantly adding new strains. The flower is available in the deli and prerolls. But the dispensary isn’t limited to just the Hive’s brands. The dispensary also offers infused flower, edibles, vape cartridges, live resin and rosin, THC-infused drinks, and topicals. It also boasts deli-style rosin, which allows customers to glance at the consistency and maybe take a whiff. You can’t do that with most rosin that comes in sealed jars. Credit: Steve Neavling
Utopia Gardens 6541 E. Lafayette St., Detroit; utopiagardens.com Open since 2017, Utopia Gardens is a Detroit gem and may be the most visually striking dispensary in the metro area. Tucked inside a former elevator factory on Detroit’s lower east side, Utopia Gardens has preserved the building’s industrial setting, with polished concrete floors, hanging light fixtures, and a massive yellow crane that still looms from the tall ceiling. Replica Diego Rivera murals adorn the walls, and vintage motorcycles are on display. A curved oak counter, where budtenders help customers, adds some warmth to the large space. One side of the building is graced with a colorful mural by local artist Camilo Pardo. On the other side is a Zen garden with benches and a basalt stone fountain. Owned by longtime cannabis activist Stuart Carter, Utopia Gardens grows its own flower through its sister business Utopia Farms and whips up some of the best live resin in the state, selling it in one-gram jars, vapes, and infused prerolls, cleverly named Gas Can. Utopia Farms also has a remarkable collection of more than three dozen strains and is constantly upgrading its menu with new high-quality cultivars. The dispensary also sells flower, prerolls, concentrates,edibles, topicals, and tinctures from other brands. Credit: Steve Neavling
Supergood Detroit 10 Eight Mile Rd., Detroit; supergoodstore.com Opened in November 2024, Supergood has quickly become a hot spot on Eight Mile, where dozens of dispensaries have opened at Detroit’s border with the inner-ring suburbs. Rather than inundating customers with the same budget weed, Supergood focuses primarily on standout products, which gives it a leg up in an area dominated by dispensaries. Located near the border of Ferndale, Supergood is a choice spot for high-quality flower, including brands like Apex, Exotic Matter, Favrd, Fractal Cannabis, Growing Pains, Grown Rogue, Hytek, Kai, Local Grove, Mi Loud, Michigrown, Pro Gro, Society C, and Voyage Bloom. But if you are looking for cheaper products, Supergood also has it, with several brands selling for under $80 an ounce. Supergood has a good selection of quality rosin. The brands include 710 Labs, Eastside Alchemy, True North Collective, Ice Kream Hash Co., and Wojo. Supergood also has one of the best deals for new customers — 40% off the first purchase. Credit: Steve Neavling
Noxx Cannabis 23662 Woodward Ave., Pleasant Ridge; noxx.com Oakland County has a lot of dispensaries, but few can rival the quality and variety at Noxx Cannabis in Pleasant Ridge. Noxx also offers a lot of deals on its products, so it’s easy to find premium products at a discounted price. And for first-timers, all products are 40% off. Noxx’s flower selection includes some of the best brands in Michigan – 710 Labs, Clout King, Doghouse Farms, Grown Rogue, Kai, Local Grove, Michigrown, Peninsula Gardens, Plant Nerd, Society C, and Wojo. Some of these are also available in the deli for under $35 for a quarter ounce. The dispensary also has a good selection of rosin, including 710 Labs, Apex, Local Grove, Peachy Hash & Co., Society C, True North Collective, and Uplyfted. Summer deals include 30% to 50% off many jars of rosin. If you’re looking for quantity over quality, Noxx has ounces of flower for under $35. The dispensary recently held a contest for an artist to paint a mural on its building. The winner, Jonathan Sandberg, also known as Seymor, painted a teal-accented mural featuring a wispy white tree with mist-like roots and glowing square leaves. Credit: Steve Neavling
Pure Options 2710 Livernois Ave., Detroit; pureoptions.com Pure Options on Detroit’s west side may not have the most diverse selection of premium cannabis, but it does have an unprecedented variety from Pro Gro, a standout cultivator with reasonable prices. The dispensary has more than 50 flower strains from Pro Gro, from Don Mega and Sherb Cream Pie to Moonbow #112 and Lunar Lemon. The flower is available in the deli and mylar bags. For an eighth ounce, the price is usually $25. An ounce sells for $129. With such a large selection of Pro Gro, it may be difficult narrowing down your choices. In the deli, grams of Pro Gro are just $8, and that’s a good way to sample the menu. Or you could start with prerolls, which are $6. Want something a little stronger than flower? Get a three-pack of infused prerolls for $20. If you’re into rosin, Pro Gro has a lineup of vapes for $25 and 1-gram jars for $35. Pure Options also has monthly deals on Pro Gro, as well as happy hour discounts. Credit: Steve Neavling

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Steve Neavling is an award-winning investigative journalist who operated Motor City Muckraker, an online news site devoted to exposing abuses of power and holding public officials accountable. Neavling...