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Maryland's 10 best dispensaries
We pulled every dispensary Google lists across Maryland, kept the 68 that are open and licensed, and ranked them on a rating weighted by how many people actually left one. Top of the list is Elevated Dispo at 5.0 stars.
- Shops ranked
- 68
- Cities
- 26
- Top rating
- 5.0
- Checked
- Sep
The ranking
The ten best, in order
Star averages on their own reward shops nobody has been to. A 4.9 from 340 people is a weaker claim than a 4.8 from 7,000, so every rating here is pulled toward the Maryland average in proportion to how few reviews sit behind it.
Silver Spring02
Pasadena03
Zen Leaf Cannabis Dispensary
16 Magothy Beach Rd, Pasadena
Open
Daily 8am–10pm
Carries
FlowerPre-rollsVapesEdiblesConcentratesTincturesTopicalsAccessories
Baltimore04
Nirvana Cannabis - Downtown Baltimore
805 N Howard St, Baltimore
Open
Daily 10am–9pm
Carries
FlowerPre-rollsVapesEdiblesConcentratesTincturesTopicalsAccessories
Brands on the shelf
WanaStiiizySelect
Bethesda05
064.79
RISE Medical and Adult Use Marijuana Dispensary Hagerstown
Hagerstown · 8,224 reviews · 4.8 stars
By city
Pick a city
Every Maryland city we found licensed shops in, with how many are on the list.
Baltimore 13Rockville 6Frederick 6Silver Spring 5Columbia 4Laurel 4Bethesda 3Towson 2Annapolis 2Salisbury 2Cumberland 2Ocean City 2Germantown 2Westminster 2Ellicott City 2Windsor Mill 1Catonsville 1Timonium 1Halethorpe 1Burtonsville 1Hagerstown 1New Market 1Chevy Chase 1Kensington 1Pasadena 1Waldorf 1
Questions
How this list is built
Why is the order not just star rating?
Because a star average hides how many people stood behind it. Every shop's rating is shrunk toward the Maryland mean in proportion to its review count, so a shop needs both a high score and real volume to reach the top. The weighted figure is printed on every entry next to the raw one.
Where does the data come from?
Google Maps, pulled fresh and filtered to shops that are open, licensed and listed under a cannabis category. Anything permanently or temporarily closed is dropped, as is anything that turned up in the search but sits outside Maryland.
Why are there no prices or brand lists?
Because we have not read them yet. Menu data lives behind each shop's ordering platform and licence numbers live on the state register, and neither is published here until it has been pulled from the source rather than guessed.
How often does it change?
Quarterly. Ratings move, shops close, and a list that is not re-checked becomes a directory of places that used to be good.
Before you go
Worth reading first
Dosing, terpenes and what to actually ask at the counter.