Shop with Pride all year long by supporting these queer-owned cannabis brands & retailers.

For decades, the cannabis and LGBTQIA+ communities have organized, protested, educated, and advocated for their rights to exist and thrive. And often, their goals overlapped. Lest we forget: Dennis Peron opened the first medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, the Cannabis Buyers Club, to help service queer people coping with AIDS and other medical conditions. Brownie Mary Rathbun’s main clientele were AIDS patients.

If not for the combined activism of these two communities, Prop 215 might not have existed, and set off the nation’s slow and ongoing journey towards safe and legal access to cannabis. This June, Leafly is highlighting the fire from authentic torchbearers of this great gay movement.

Use our shopping filter to browse LGBTQIA+ owned dispensaries in your area and place an order for pickup or delivery this June and all year long.

Find dispensaries like SWAY in the Northalsted/Boystown gayborhood of Chicago—the first and only queer-owned dispensary in Illinois.

“SWAY is built on the strong, sassy shoulders of those who came before. The queer rule-breakers who fought for medicinal weed as a remedy against HIV. The Black and Brown activists breaking down barriers to weed, despite bearing the brunt of over-criminalization and prosecution.”

From Flore Dispensary in San Francisco’s Castro District to Massachusetts’s Tree House Craft Cannabis, there are LGBTQIA+ owned dispensaries from coast to coast that you can support this Pride Month and beyond.

Shop queer-owned cannabis brands

Check out our curated list of products from queer cannabis brands who have made the cannabis landscape a better, danker place.

FLAMER

Available in New York

New York’s FLAMER crafts high-quality, high-style pre-rolls and whole flower, featuring cheeky names and clear effect and terpene information, so you have all the information you need to find your best fit. The queer brand is “chosen-family-owned-and-operated” and draws inspiration from the gritty glamour of New York nightlife. Their newest release, Sasha Colby Kush, is a must this Pride season.

Drew Martin

Available in California & New York

Queer-owned Drew Martin combines sun-grown cannabis and botanicals to create terpene-rich, perfectly mellow, low-dose pre-rolls. Joints as unique as you are.

Stone Road

Available in California & New York 

Stone Road has something for every smoker, from single joints to hash-infused pre-roll packs to eighths to pre-ground ½ ounces to dabbables. As with life and love, there’s no wrong way to be.

Grass Queen

Available in Vermont

The woman- & queer-owned Vermont cannabis company, Grass Queen, makes small-batch flower and botanical blends while creating space for communities underrepresented in today’s cannabis industry.

Available in Oregon

Founded by two queer women, Katie Stem and Kate Black, Peak Extracts makes tinctures and topicals, though most know them for their vape pens and strain-specific chocolates, extracted using an eco-friendly and proprietary CO2 process. Their chocolates have six categories that cycle through strains chosen for their terpene profiles and medicinal benefits.

Shop queer-owned hemp

These queer-owned hemp brands make fabulous products that you can shop online and have shipped right to your door.

Xula Herbs

Queer- and Latinx-owned Xula Herbs is on a mission to help folks feel good. Xula makes plant-powered formulas combining botanicals, adaptogens, and hemp to address everything from period support to unwinding.

CANN

CANN prides themselves on concocting exciting, limited-edition THC drink flavors that tantalize the tastebuds. CANN’s roster of social tonics are infused with a microdose of THC per can, making their delightful beverages an ideal partner for any sort of gathering. 

Set aside your negativity bias for a sec—America’s cannabis flowers of 420 remain more fantastic than ever before. 

Whether it’s price, potency, diversity, or delivery to your door, we live in a platinum era for getting litty.

America’s hottest flowers for 420 come hand-picked from our experts across the country. We stick our noses in hundreds of jars and burn through rolling papers like Chong. The picks mix hype with nostalgia, sweet with savory, and wakes and bake strains with nightcaps.

It’s impossible to fully encapsulate all the greatness out there so give us a read and then let your fingers do the strain hunting—open the Leafly app now.

National THC-A pick

Recommended product

Available from Pure Roots Botanicals nationwide, Tangerine Dream hemp THCA flower is an old-school mix of Haze, Afghani, and G13.

Super Runtz

First off, Runtz is to modern 420 what Guinness is to St. Patrick’s Day: a ritual. Some of the best Runtz we’ve seen is Super Runtz from Heady Heads, in Redding and Adelanto, CA indoor grower. Super Runtz is the super version—dramatically dark, bigger, blingier, more fragrant, and a total knockout. See also: Frozen Runtz, Bolo Runtz, Backpack Boys Lemon Cherry Gelato

XJ-13

Your first smoke of the day on 420 should be the sativa hybrid XJ-13. Multi-state top-shelf brand Alien Labs has doubled back onto the classic for a cheeky release of ‘jack terps’. Whether it’s J-1, or pure Jack Herer, put one in the air for the Hemperor.

The Pures

Thirdly, San Francisco was in the house at Spannabis in Barcelona in March, and the desserts were popping. Bay Area Legend Champelli’s was a popular stopover at the Sensi Seeds booth. And while the seeds looked solid, the flower he had to show off was very exceptional. It checked all those Bay Area boxes on the nose but was a heavier hitter than one might have expected given how delicious it smelled as opposed to gassy. -Jimi Devine

Lobster Butter

Fourthly, in a world that’s gone to candy terps in recent years, arguably lowering the impact and potency of the market as a whole, the rare Lobster Butter by Kushface is an absolute high-potency hitter. The cross of Butter OG x Peanut Butter Souffle smells like you have to call OSHA about an accident at a gas station. It was at the top of my list for gassy strains available in the marketplace in 2024. -J.D.

Scented Marker

Our Leafly Strain of the Year 2023 Permanent Marker widens its winning streak in 2025 with Scented Marker, grown here by Freddy’s Fuego in Washington. Specifically, Scented Marker weds the Marker to the top tropical tasting Pineapple Fruz; ooh-wee. Pungent, lingering, sweet pineapple syrup dankness.

Permanent Gas

Sour and Gas flavors are on the rise, so this combination of a classic sour and Leafly’s 2023 strain of the year is an easy pick. In particular, Permanent Gas produces thick nugs that have that Sour D shade of light green and a flavor that’s an absolute wall of gas, trailing off into hints of candy and soap. -M.J.

Southern Belle

Something heavy and pungent for the 420 party comes by way of Evan’s Creek Farms who consistently turns the heat on in Oregon. Originally bred by Archive Seed Bank around 2014, this has a ton of sweet OG and earthy Dosido on the nose and then goes heavy gas when you crack the nugs open. -M.J.

Tropic Truffle

Ever smelled a bag of weed so good you go full truffle pig? Stick your snout in these frosty buds—it’s like cracking open an orange peel soda in a dense pine forest, and the flavour follows suit. A cross between Tropicana Cookies and Mint Chocolate Chip, it’s the kind of sativa-leaning hybrid that makes everything funnier, delivering a carefree mental lift with enough body to keep you in the moment. Specifically, go for the best small-batch craft version of it, like from Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Winewood Organics—a family-run microbusiness that grows, trims, and sells everything under one roof. -Amanda Breeze. See also: Leafly Strain of the Year 2024 Super Boof (grown by Oakfruitland)

GMO Rootbeer

States like Illinois can sample the latest from the West Coast with strains like GMO Rootbeer—GMO Cookies x Root Beer. Grown by Kaviar in Illinois, the flower is spicy and flavorful, propelling you into a deep sense of euphoria. RMO Rootbeer creeps up behind the eyes and takes a loving effect throughout the rest of the body. Perfect for focusing while also staying giggly and relaxed. -Hannah Vysoky

Black Rainbow Piss

I met the team behind Royal Key nearly a decade ago, in the dawn of California’s adult-use industry. Their methods are precise—small batch, living soil, and thoughtful strain selection—and their offerings of flower and concentrates speak for themselves. Presently, they’ve landed in the Empire State with this same ethos, and their Black Rainbow Piss conjures all the magic of their original coast.

Black Rainbow (Piss) is a genetic apparition between RS11 and Geistgrow’s Geist OG, itself a collaboration with Humboldt Seed Organization with a wide mix of OG ancestors. BRP, for short, contains multitudes: gassy, sweet, pine-laden prismatic buds, and mouthfuls of terps. Straightaway, this is like being high again for the first time; you’re giggling, you’re heavy, you’re hungry, and you can’t remember how anything in the world could stress you out. As spring gives way to hot New York summers, this starts the season off on a high note. -Amelia Williams

420 best weed—4 more flavors

Coolio—growers are getting this cross of Cap Junky x Caps Frozen Oranges dialed; seek out the Delighted brand)

Trainwreck—This vintage sativa is back from obscurity, and available at scale from 7 Leaves, UpNorth)

Double Up—Straight caramelized marshmallow terps on this Mellowz (#8) x Gastro Pop (#5) cross grown excellently by Sense, bred by Compound Genetics.

Point Break—Super Boof’s even more heroic half-sister; grown superbly by Bosky, bred by Surfr Seeds.

In conclusion, that’s it for America’s hottest weed strains of 4/20 ’25. Never miss the latest heat—download the Leafly App (Android, iOS) and turn on notifications to scoop those flavors first.

Freelancers Matt Jackson, Amanda Breeze, Amelia Williams, Jimi Devine, and Hannah Vysoky contributed to this post.

Bye-bye, Dry January.

Millions of weed smokers say adios to winter’s worst with a breathtaking selection of lucky green across the USA and Canada this St. Patrick’s Day.

Legalization in over 20 states offers ever more affordable alternatives to booze. The California outdoor is perfectly cured. Your favorite musician has a new strain.  Maryland has Cookies brand Cinnamon Milk. Even Texas has THCA Pink Certz.

This hand-picked selection includes fresh flowers, rosin chocolates, and infused ‘dogwalkers’—small joints perfect for party-hopping. Just make sure you go easy if you’re cross-fading.

California St. Patrick’s Day strains and edibles picks

Original Glue by various, including by Down Om Farms 

It’s rare to encounter extremely potent cannabis with a faceted, enjoyable high that doesn’t transform you into a zombie halfway through the blunt.

This real, original cut of GG4 (Gorilla Glue #4) grown in living soil by Down Om Farms (available through Farm Cut) is a perfect flower. The potency is rivaled only by the deeply relaxing and joyful experience of its high. 

Heavy on the gas, cream, and chocolate, the nose alone is intoxicating. A single poof coats your mouth in a layer of syrupy terps. The first time I smoked it, I was so high I thought I had also eaten at some point.

Turns out, I had only snapped a single bowl, and this flower is that good.—Lindsay MaHarray

Point Breeze by Khalifa Kush

Wiz Khalifa adds a 5th strain to his Khalifa Kush lineup—Point Breeze. That’s Khalifa Kush x Gastro Pop for a potent mix of OG Kush fuel and grape gas. Wiz dropped it at Stiiizy March 7, and it’ll make its way across the US next. (CA, coming to AZ, NV, OR, MD, FL, PA, MA)

4 Directions by Emerald Spirit Botanicals

Four Directions from Mendocino’s Emerald Spirit Botanicals is yet another Farm Cut masterpiece—because real ones know flower should be untamed. A cross of Pink Boost Goddess (five-time CA State Fair Gold Medalist, 2024 Golden Bear winner) and Harmony Rose (Emerald Cup champ), this strain is a symphony of cannabinoids: THC, CBD, THCV, and CBDV wrapped in 4.2%+ terps. Myrcene brings lush berry sweetness, β-Ocimene adds a citrusy snap, and terpinolene laces in an herbaceous, floral funk. Sun-grown in well-tended soil, jarred fresh with the loosest of trims, Four Directions is as nature intended—pure, potent, and ridiculously flavorful.—Jackie Bryant

Wavvy by Wavves 

Beach weather arrives in your ears and lungs with garage rocker Wavves of LA’s launch of Wavvy Supply Co. Wavves has “mini-donuts” containing hash, and Wavvy minis in dispensaries. Blast the new Wavves track “So Long” and make your winter cares a distant memory.

Zours by Hall of Flame

Fresh off Zalympix contest win for “Most Unique”—this mix of Z and Sour D is lighting up people’s senses then knocking them on their asses. This strain gained a lot of love in 2024 with the exotics crowd, and it would seem that Sweet and Sour weed is definitely on the menu for 2025. —Matt Jackson

See also: Fig Farms Duffy’s 14-gram smalls; Raw Garden’s new ‘Sprout’ all-in-one; Rove Ice Packs and Diamond Series vapes.

St. Patrick’s Day Affiliate partner pick

Recommended product

A staple of our St. Patrick’s Days, CANN’s delicately dosed 2 mg THC and 4 mg CBD really pairs well with picnics and garden parties. Skip the hangovers with this microdosed seltzer that’ll make the drunks less annoying. They use 100% agave nectar, fresh ginger, and high-quality THC and CBD distillate. One CANN equals a glass of wine, and it has just 35 calories. Available nationwide.

Arizona

Zpectrum by Alien Labs

Get this new RS-11 x Z #22 cross in Arizona and puff on the toughest stuff in the market. Shop Alien Labs in Arizona.

Sluggers infused prerolls + Curaleaf

California’s infused joint-maker, Hit Sluggers, are selling quickly in their new market of Arizona via a collaboration with Flow Distro and Curaleaf. Sluggers knock their potent joints out of the park with fire flower that is hand-trimmed, ground, packed, hand-painted with rosin, and hand-rolled in keef. These ‘dogwalker-sized’ joints test around 50% THC and come in artfully designed packaging with collectible cards. Shop Sluggers in Arizona.

Illinois

Garlic Butter by Revolution

Why only drink your green when you can also smoke it? This St. Patty’s Day, the Garlic Butter strain goes along with corned beef and mashed potatoes. This cross between GMO and Fortune Cookie is perfect for wanting to feel focused, uplifted, and happy! The smell is buttery, with a cheesy hint to complement the aroma. The buds are light green (leprechauns love it) and have subtle hints of orange hairs. Before sitting down for an Irish dinner or hitting the town, smoking your greens can bring the best luck with quality bud.—Hannah Vyosky

See also: Rythm Blue Zashimi; Northern Heights Strawberry Gary; DNA Genetics Sharksbreath 2.0

New York

Soft Power Sweets live rosin flower chocolate

Four-leaf clover? In New York, it’s more like 10 leaves. Soft Power Sweets’ new chocolate bars take the shape of flowers (or clovers, depending how you look at it). Each petal contains a single dose of live rosin-infused, vegan milk chocolate. For the marathon that is St. Patrick’s Day, we recommend the “Pick Me Up” sativa-based option. Each petal has 5 mg THC and 2.5 mg CBD in chocolate made with almond milk instead of animal products. Even if you don’t find the pot of gold, you can still feel like you’re over the rainbow. —Amelia Williams

Love Jones by Method Man’s TICAL

Finally, something resembling West Coast Weed. Method Man—an artist who needs no introduction. Love Jones—a symphonic harmony of White Runtz, Jet Fuel Gelato, Horchata, and Grape Gas #10. TICAL—an iconic album and now brand created by Method Man. TICAL in New York comes from ADK Hemp Co, who describe their growing facility as indoor, with help from the sun. Keep a tissue handy because Love Jones has stick, plus you’ll probably stick to the couch. It oozes those classic Runtz and Gelato terps, with a grape and cinnamon twist.—A.W.

See also: Gron 100mg THC Phantom Lychee Limeade Pearls

Canada

Quebec Gold

Almost mythical in its elusiveness, Quebec Gold is the blurry sasquatch photo of cannabis cultivars. Consequently, it’s often duped thanks to its legendary reputation and gold-standard genetics from Canada’s cannabis hall of fame, including M-39, the problem child of Northern Lights #5 and Skunk #1, and Freezeland, a canon legacy market favourite in northern Quebec. Quebec Gold is a sativa-leaning party strain with zero social anxiety. It’s lemon-heavy but has an exceptionally complex tropical flavour profile of pineapple, mango, and pine. Perfect for potheads partying with drunk friends, you can keep the conversations flowing and satisfy any dry mouth with whatever green drinks are on deck! —Amanda Breeze

Michigan

Quad-infused rolls by Jeeter

America’s top-selling infused joint brand, Jeeter, have introduced “quad” rolls this March—a joint with four layers of hash and flavor in it. Specifically, THCA liquid diamonds, terpenes, kief, and now rosin. The rosin adds a “smoother, more full-spectrum effect.” These things pack a punch at over 40% THC, so one puff can be enough. (Also in CA and AZ)

See also: Doja Pak Permanent Marker at King of Budz; Clout King Wagyu at JARS Cannabis

Here are a few more quick picks from six states.

Florida S. Patrick’s Day picks

Root Beer Sherb by GrowHealthy; a Florida exclusive.

Ridgeline LANTZ 90-micron hash from Cookies at Cookies Miami

Live Rosin X Bites Blackberry Lemon at Curaleaf Orlando

Maryland

Fade Co OZK at Nirvana Cannabis Baltimore

Cookies Cinnamon Milk at Greenlight Therapeutics

More brand Hash Burger at Ritual

Missouri

Vivid brand Pure Michigan at Releaf Resources

Local brand RS-11 at From the Earth

Royal Cannabis brand Glitter Bomb at Fresh Green

New Jersey

Rythm L’Orange at Treeotics dispensary

Niche brand Oishi III at URB’N Dispensary

Clade9 brand J1 at Zen Leaf

Texas

Texas is awash in THCA flower to enhance your St. Patty’s Day. Try out these picks.

Kache brand Papaya Cake at Kache

Texas Hill Country brand Italian Ice at Texas Hill Country

Greune Botanicals Pink Certz at Greune Botanicals

Colorado

Lastly, Green Dot Labs brand Final Boss (Cherry Pot Pie x F.A.F.O.). King of Green Dot’s gas-heavy lineages, including OG Kush, Chem, GMO, Sour Diesel, and Cherry Pie.

Rare Dankness Commerce City Kush at Social Cannabis

Wana Brand Fast Asleep Dream Berry at JARS Cannabis

And there are your St. Patrick’s Day picks. Get out there and make your own luck.