8 Mile Dispensary & Detroit Cannabis Brands

Legal Disclaimer: This information reflects Detroit cannabis law as of June 2026 and is for educational purposes only. It is not legal advice. Laws and regulations change — always verify current rules with the Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency or a qualified attorney. Cannabis remains illegal under federal law.

Last verified: April 2026

The Statewide Brand Landscape

Detroit’s licensed retail landscape includes statewide Michigan brands operating in the city alongside Detroit Legacy / social-equity operators. Statewide brands have several structural advantages: existing supply-chain integration with state-licensed cultivators and processors, established back-office infrastructure, brand recognition with consumers, and access to capital markets unavailable to most equity operators.

House of Dank

House of Dank is one of the largest Michigan-based chains. The original Eight Mile Road location was the first Detroit medical dispensary to convert to recreational sales after Round 1 awards. The chain operates multiple Detroit and metro locations with strong consumer brand recognition.

JARS Cannabis

JARS Cannabis is a major Michigan operator with a Detroit city license at 11400 W. Eight Mile. JARS operates multiple Michigan locations and is among the larger statewide chains by retail footprint.

High Profile Cannabis Shop (C3 Industries)

High Profile Cannabis Shop is operated by Ann Arbor–based C3 Industries, with the Detroit Eastside location co-owned by Najanava Harvey-Quinn as the social-equity applicant. The store opened March 2023 with a Women’s History Month ribbon-cutting. The High Profile model — a statewide brand partnering with a social-equity applicant on a Detroit location — is one approach to bridging the equity-track and statewide-brand worlds.

DACUT

DACUT is a Detroit-based chain. The Gratiot Avenue store was among the first Round 1 retailers to open, on January 4, 2023.

Cookies Detroit

Cookies Detroit is an outlet of the national Berner-founded brand at 6030 W. Eight Mile. Cookies, founded in 2010 by rapper Berner and marketed heavily through hip-hop culture, has built one of the most recognizable cannabis brands in the United States.

Gage Cannabis (Gage 313)

Gage Cannabis (Gage 313) is now part of TerrAscend; legacy of the Gage / Skymint consolidation that reshaped Michigan’s vertically integrated landscape:

Skymint, formerly Green Peak Innovations, filed for receivership in early 2023
Gage was acquired by TerrAscend in 2022

The consolidation moved Gage’s Detroit operations into the TerrAscend portfolio as part of a broader multi-state cannabis-operator (MSO) strategy.

Pleasantrees

Pleasantrees is a statewide Michigan brand with metro Detroit presence (primarily in suburban locations rather than within Detroit city limits).

Lume Cannabis Co.

Lume Cannabis Co. is one of Michigan’s largest retail chains, headquartered in Troy. Lume operates more than 30 Michigan locations and is among the most visible statewide brands at trade-show and industry-event presence.

Greenhouse of Walled Lake

Greenhouse of Walled Lake is a suburban Oakland County operator; the Walled Lake flagship is one of the busiest dispensaries in the state. The location is a short drive from northwest Detroit but outside city limits, capturing Detroit-bound metro consumers along with Oakland County residents.

Green Genie

Green Genie is a Detroit-area medical and adult-use operator with multiple metro locations.

Vertical-Integration Dynamics

Michigan permits vertical integration: the same operator can hold grower, processor, transporter, and retailer licenses. The Class A, B, and C grow licenses cap plant counts at 100, 500, and 2,000 mature plants respectively. Statewide brands typically operate vertically — their retail outlets are supplied by their own grow and processing operations, capturing margin across the supply chain. Detroit Legacy operators more commonly operate retail-only and source product from the licensed wholesale market.

The Microbusiness Counterweight

Detroit’s microbusiness license — capped at 150 plants and direct-to-consumer sales — is a deliberate counterweight to the vertical-integration advantages of statewide brands. The microbusiness category gives small social-equity operators a vertically integrated foothold without the capital required for a full grow-and-retail stack. Across Rounds 1 and 2, the city awarded 2 microbusiness licenses, though the format remains underutilized relative to its policy intent.

The 24% Wholesale Tax Effect

The new 24% wholesale excise tax effective January 1, 2026 falls hardest on retail-only operators (largely Detroit Legacy) who source from licensed cultivators — the wholesale-tax markup compounds margin pressure on retailers. Vertically integrated statewide brands can absorb the wholesale-tax effect across their own grow-to-retail chain. The structural asymmetry between vertically integrated brands and equity-track retail-only operators is one of the binding tensions in Detroit’s 2026 cannabis economics. See 24% Wholesale Tax.

Verifying Listings

Dispensary status changes — new shops open, existing shops relocate or close, license numbers update. Verify any specific shop before visiting using the CRA Cannabis Regulatory Agency Statistical Report at michigan.gov/cra.

Statewide Brands in Detroit