Blue Sky Ann Arbor succeeds Arbors Wellness in the brick Enoch James House on E. Liberty. Sam Pernick and Nicholas Rifel started Blue Sky in Belleville, and sister brand Good Vibes has stores in Port Huron and Ecorse.
Nely Velazquez, a manager who floats among the locations, says that while medical cards are seldom seen since Michigan legalized adult use, about half of customers use such products as THC gummies, Rick Simpson Oil, CBG, and CBD for various therapeutic aims—“and then a lot of people come in and just get high.”
Washtenaw Ave. near Pittsfield Blvd. is the place to be for the newest Green Acres, named for the farcical 1960s sitcom. (Previous tenant Pure Roots ran afoul of state regulators and closed last year.) The Inkster-based company’s southeast Michigan dispensaries—six Flower Bowls and nine Green Acres—include one just two miles south on E. Ellsworth.
General manager Hasan Chami says their expansive product lines help cast a wide net as sales and profit margins shrink due to economic conditions and the state’s new wholesale tax.
“You can be still profitable,” he says. “But the problem is, is it worth it to be in business for 10 percent or 20 percent, right?”
Blue Sky Ann Arbor, 321 E. Liberty. (734) 585–5596. Daily 9 a.m.–10 p.m. blueskycannabisco.com
Green Acres, 3430 Washtenaw Ave. (734) 887–6741. Daily 9 a.m.–9 p.m. greenacresmi.com/stores/green-acres-washtenaw-ave
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