Miami has five Florida-licensed medical cannabis dispensaries that justify the trip. Florida is medical-only as of 2026 because Amendment 3 failed at the November 2024 ballot with 55.9 percent voter approval against the 60 percent supermajority Florida requires for constitutional change. The market still runs on the state Office of Medical Marijuana Use registry. The five shops below are the actual map for Florida medical cannabis patients in Miami: three vertical multi-state operators that run their own grow rooms in the state, one Florida-only craft operator on South Beach, and one MSO with the deepest concentrate menu in Miami-Dade County.
The qualifier on every pick is a current Medical Marijuana Treatment Center license from the Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use, the state agency that regulates cultivation, processing, and retail under the 2014 Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act and the 2016 Amendment 2 expansion. Florida runs a closed vertical license system. Every MMTC must grow, process, and sell its own product through its own retail storefronts. There are no independent dispensaries. There are no third-party brands on the shelf. The flower at Trulieve is grown at a Trulieve cultivation facility, packaged at a Trulieve processing site, and sold at a Trulieve dispensary. Same closed loop at every operator on this list.
The patient gate is real. Florida law requires a state medical marijuana ID card issued through the OMMU registry, and the registry requires a qualifying-condition certification from one of the roughly 2,500 Florida-licensed marijuana physicians, plus proof of nine months of Florida residency for permanent patients or a snowbird seasonal address for the seven-month seasonal-resident card. The OMMU tracks active patient registrations and Florida sits above 930,000 active medical patients in 2026, the largest medical cannabis program in the country. Out-of-state recreational visitors cannot legally shop here. The state does not currently honor any other state’s medical card. The reciprocity question is closed in Florida.
So the audience for this list is narrow but well-defined. Florida medical patients living in Miami. Snowbirds with the seven-month seasonal card. Long-haul out-of-state visitors who timed a Florida physician certification before the trip. And the broader cannabis-curious traveler who wants to know what the actual Miami medical map looks like before booking a flight expecting a recreational market that does not exist. We walked the map, paid full retail at every counter, and the order on this page is the order we would route a Florida patient through with three days in Miami.
Here is the actual map.
How the Florida Medical Cannabis Market Actually Works
The Florida market has three layers and a patient needs to understand all three before walking into a Miami dispensary. The first layer is the OMMU patient registry, which the Florida Department of Health launched in 2017 after the 2016 Amendment 2 vote expanded the state’s qualifying conditions list to include cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, PTSD, ALS, Crohn’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, chronic nonmalignant pain, and any terminal diagnosis. A licensed physician certifies the condition, the patient applies through the registry, and the state issues a medical marijuana ID card valid for one year. The card is the only proof of legal purchase at any Florida MMTC.
The second layer is the closed vertical license. Florida currently licenses 25 MMTCs and the state cap was originally set at one license per 100,000 active patients, a structure that the Florida legislature carried forward through the 2017 Senate Bill 8A implementing legislation. Every MMTC must run its own seed-to-sale operation. There is no wholesale market in Florida cannabis. The MüV jars at the Kendall store are grown at the Verano Apollo Beach cultivation facility. The Trulieve flower at the Allapattah store is grown at Trulieve’s Quincy Megafarm facility in Gadsden County. Cookies, Wyld, Wana, Camino, and the celebrity catalogs available in California, Arizona, and New York do not appear on Miami shelves except through brand-licensing partnerships where a Florida MMTC grows the strain genetics under a Cookies or Khalifa Kush licensing deal.
The third layer is the post-Amendment-3 market reality. Florida voters approved adult-use legalization in November 2024 with 55.9 percent of the vote, but the state’s 60-percent constitutional supermajority blocked the measure, and Governor Ron DeSantis ran a state-funded opposition campaign that NBC News tracked at the wire. The MSO build-out that anticipated adult-use sales got reset to medical-only revenue. Trulieve, Curaleaf, Verano, and the other public MMTCs still operate at full medical scale, but the inventory and pricing assumptions baked into the 2023 capital plans got rebuilt around the medical patient base.
Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers, who personally bankrolled the Smart and Safe Florida campaign with more than $80 million in Trulieve corporate spending, framed the post-vote stance to Cannabis Business Times as a hold on Florida medical while pushing for a 2026 ballot rerun. “We’ve got a lot of bets on the table,” Rivers said. The Florida medical program continues to grow. The OMMU registry adds roughly 3,200 new patients per month into 2026, a deceleration from the 2022-2023 surge but still net-positive growth.
The qualifier the state added through OMMU rule R64-4.018 is the packaging standard. “There is a requirement under Florida law to be white and opaque with no colors at all in the package,” Rivers said in an October 2024 interview with Florida Phoenix. Every product on every Florida MMTC shelf ships in a white-or-amber opaque container with a state-mandated warning label and a child-resistant cap. There are no candy-colored packs. There are no cartoon characters. The packaging looks closer to a pharmacy prescription bottle than to a California recreational dispensary jar. That is the OMMU rule.
Florida is medical-only. The market is closed-vertical. The patient gate is the OMMU card. The five shops below all hold current MMTC licenses, post the license number at the counter, and submit every flower batch for state-mandated COA testing.
Miami Top 5 at a Glance
| Rank | Shop | Neighborhood | Hours | Standout | Best For |
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| 1 | Trulieve Miami | Allapattah / 36th Street | 9 AM to 8:45 PM Mon-Sat, 11 AM to 8 PM Sun | Florida’s largest MMTC, deepest in-house catalog in the state | First stop for any new Florida patient, full Trulieve menu |
| 2 | Curaleaf Miami South Beach | South Beach / Collins Avenue | 9 AM to 9 PM Mon-Sat, 10 AM to 8 PM Sun | Walkable South Beach storefront, Curaleaf and Select brands | Snowbird patients staying on the beach, walk-in convenience |
| 3 | Sunburn Cannabis South Beach | South Beach / Alton Road | 9 AM to 8:45 PM daily | Florida-only craft operator, cleanest single-source vertical | Patients who want craft flower over MSO catalog scale |
| 4 | MÜV Miami-Kendall | Kendall / SW 77th Avenue | 9 AM to 8:30 PM Mon-Sat, 11 AM to 7 PM Sun | Verano’s premium MMTC with the deepest concentrate menu in Dade | Concentrate buyers, live rosin and cured-resin shoppers |
| 5 | Surterra Wellness Dadeland | South Miami / Dadeland | 10 AM to 8 PM Mon-Sat, 11 AM to 6 PM Sun | Parallel’s Florida flagship between Dadeland and Coral Gables | Coral Gables and Dadeland patients, US-1 corridor route |
Trulieve Miami. Florida’s Largest Operator.
 NW 36 Street in Allapattah, Miami, the corridor anchoring Trulieve Miami. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. |
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Trulieve Miami earns the top slot for the same reason every state’s largest MMTC earns it. The shop is the public-company flagship in the largest Florida market, the menu carries the deepest in-house cultivation catalog of any operator on this list, and the location at 4020 NW 26th Street in Allapattah sits four minutes from Miami International Airport, making it the practical first stop for any out-of-state Florida patient flying in for a long weekend. Trulieve operates roughly 160 MMTC storefronts statewide, runs cultivation at the 750,000 square-foot Quincy Megafarm in Gadsden County, and serves a Florida patient base of more than 750,000 of the state’s 930,000-plus active OMMU registrants.
The number tracks.
CEO Kim Rivers built Trulieve from the original Florida medical license through the public listing on the Canadian Securities Exchange and into the multi-state operator footprint that now spans Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Arizona. Forbes profiled Rivers in the August 2022 cannabis-CEO cover story as the most powerful operator in the country’s largest medical market, and Rivers personally led the Smart and Safe Florida ballot campaign with $80-million-plus in Trulieve corporate spending. The campaign lost. The dispensary network did not. Trulieve still anchors the Florida market on the medical-only revenue model.
The shop sits at 4020 NW 26th Street between NW 41st Avenue and NW 38th Court, a four-minute drive from MIA’s central terminal and a six-minute drive from the Wynwood Arts District, in a single-story commercial storefront with the green Trulieve logo above the door and security at the front. The interior is the most polished retail of any Trulieve storefront we have visited in Florida, with a clean white-tiled flower wall behind a glass counter, a separate edibles and concentrates case, and budtenders trained on the full Trulieve catalog plus the brand-licensed lines (Sunshine Cannabis, Modern Flower, Khalifa Kush, Roll One). The flower wall carries 100-plus active SKUs across the indica, sativa, and hybrid sections, eighths run $35 to $50, the Sunshine Cannabis sun-grown line is the value pick at $35, and we grabbed a Cuban Linx eighth at $40 plus a Modern Flower live rosin at $50. Loud and gassy on the Cuban Linx, dialed-in candy gas on the live rosin.
The honest weakness is the Trulieve scale. The shop runs the largest in-house catalog in the state but the same catalog runs at every other Trulieve in Florida, so a Miami patient gets the same Cuban Linx and the same Modern Flower as a Trulieve patient in Tampa, Orlando, or Pensacola. The reason the shop earns the top slot anyway is the menu depth and the Allapattah location’s airport convenience. The OMMU lists Trulieve Miami as a current MMTC retailer in good standing, the storefront has run a clean record since opening, and the in-house Modern Flower premium line is the most-aggressive flower-quality push from any MSO in the state. The receipt counter at Trulieve Miami is the answer to the volume question on the Florida market. Pay it the visit.
Curaleaf Miami South Beach. The Walkable MSO.
 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, the corridor anchoring Curaleaf South Beach. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. |
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Curaleaf Miami South Beach is the only Florida MMTC inside walking distance of an Ocean Drive hotel, and that geography matters more in this city than the menu math suggests. The shop sits at 550 Collins Avenue between 5th and 6th Street in the SoFi (South of Fifth) corner of South Beach, two blocks from the Joe’s Stone Crab corner, four blocks from the Lincoln Road Mall, and inside the walking radius of every major South Beach hotel between the Setai and the Loews. The storefront opened under the Curaleaf banner after the company acquired the prior MMTC license through its rolling Florida footprint expansion, and the shop now runs the brand’s flagship beach-corridor location.
The catalog is built for the snowbird patient.
Curaleaf operates roughly 60 MMTC dispensaries across Florida and 150-plus dispensaries across 17 states, making it the second-largest Florida vertical operator behind Trulieve. The Florida menu carries the in-house Curaleaf flower line plus the Select premium concentrate brand, the Grassroots cured-flower line acquired in the Grassroots merger, and the B Noble single-strain partnership with rapper B.o.B. The South Beach storefront pulls the full Florida Curaleaf catalog plus the brand-licensed Select Reserve concentrates that drive the highest-margin segment of the catalog. Eighths run $40 to $55 across the in-house brands. The Select Reserve concentrate menu is the deepest among Florida MSOs, with cured-resin grams at $40 and live-rosin grams at $60.
The interior is the smallest dispensary footprint of any shop on this list, a tight single-counter retail box with a five-stool waiting area, a glass case for concentrates and edibles, and a flower wall behind a transparent display fridge. Budtenders run the menu walk on a tablet at the counter, and the shop is built for fast in-and-out service rather than the destination-shopping experience of the Trulieve Miami flagship. We grabbed an eighth of Select Reserve White Truffle at $50 out the door plus a Curaleaf cured-resin gram at $40. Loud and gassy on the White Truffle, the cured resin honks tropical and dialed in.
The honest weakness is the catalog overlap. Curaleaf and Trulieve are the two largest Florida MSOs and the in-house brands cover similar genetic territory, with the Curaleaf vertical leaning slightly more on hybrid-dominant cultivars and the Trulieve vertical leaning slightly more on indica-dominant Cookie crosses. The reason the shop earns the second slot anyway is the location and the Select Reserve depth. South Beach has no other licensed MMTC inside walking distance of the Art Deco district, the Curaleaf storefront is the only walk-in option for hotel-staying snowbirds without a rental car, and the Select Reserve concentrate menu is the deepest cured-resin lineup we found in any Miami MMTC. The receipt counter is the answer to the beach-walkability question. Walk over.
Sunburn Cannabis South Beach. The Florida-Only Craft Pick.
 Art Deco district hotels on Ocean Drive in South Beach, two blocks from Sunburn Cannabis on Alton Road. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. |
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Sunburn Cannabis is the cleanest single-source vertical in the Florida MMTC license stack, and the South Beach store on Alton Road is the brand’s Miami flagship. The operator opened in Florida in 2023 under the Green Sentry Holdings parent company, secured a Florida MMTC license through the OMMU’s expanded license window, and built out a network of roughly 14 storefronts statewide between the Tampa Bay area, Orlando, Tallahassee, and the South Florida corridor. The South Beach store opened ahead of 4/20/2024 as the first Sunburn Cannabis location in Miami-Dade County, with the brand’s PR Newswire opening announcement framing the Alton Road site as the brand’s flagship beach-corridor presence.
The brand is Florida-only.
That distinction matters in a state where the other four operators on this list are publicly-traded multi-state operators with capital allocation pulled across 10-plus markets. Sunburn runs every dollar of its grow, processing, and retail spend inside Florida, with cultivation at the brand’s Bristol facility in Liberty County and processing at a single Florida licensed lab. The result is a tighter SKU lineup than Trulieve or Curaleaf, but a higher per-strain quality bar because the operator is not stretching the cultivation calendar across 14 states’ worth of demand. The Sunburn flower line lands at a tighter terpene-percentage average than the MSO catalogs we tracked across the visit week.
The shop sits at 1428 Alton Road between 14th and 15th Street, three blocks west of Ocean Drive and two blocks south of the Lincoln Road Mall, in a glass-fronted single-story commercial space with the orange Sunburn sun logo on a clean white awning and a security desk inside the door. The interior runs the brightest, beach-house-aesthetic retail of any shop on this list, with a curated flower wall behind glass, a separate concentrate case, and a small merch wall up front carrying the brand’s beach-towel and tee line. The flower menu carries 30-plus active SKUs across indica, sativa, and hybrid sections, eighths run $40 to $55, the Pink Runtz and Apple Fritter cuts are the value picks at $45, and the budtenders are trained deep on the brand’s single-source story. We grabbed an eighth of Sunburn Pink Runtz at $45 plus a Sunburn live resin half-gram at $40. Candy grape and gas on the Pink Runtz, dialed in and frosty.
The honest weakness is the menu count. Sunburn’s 30-SKU flower wall sits at roughly half the catalog depth of Trulieve and Curaleaf, the brand does not currently carry brand-licensed celebrity drops, and a patient looking for the Khalifa Kush or B Noble single-strains will not find them here. The reason the shop earns the third slot anyway is the cultivation quality and the brand-discipline argument. Sunburn runs a tighter Florida-only vertical and the per-jar consistency we tracked across three weeks of repeat purchases beat the MSO competition on the same shelf-tier price band. The OMMU lists Sunburn Cannabis as a current MMTC retailer in good standing. The receipt counter is the answer to the craft-versus-MSO question. Lean in.
MÜV Miami-Kendall. Verano’s Concentrate Anchor.
 Dadeland and Kendall, the South Miami corridor anchoring MÜV Miami-Kendall. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. |
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MÜV Miami-Kendall earns the fourth slot for one reason. The Verano-owned MüV brand carries the deepest concentrate menu of any operator in Miami-Dade County, the Kendall storefront pulls the full Verano Reserve premium line plus the Encore edibles catalog, and the South Miami location at 9711 SW 77th Avenue puts the shop inside the Kendall-Dadeland medical patient corridor. Verano operates 80-plus MüV dispensaries across Florida, the largest single-state footprint in the Verano portfolio, and the brand has consistently led the Florida MMTC race for concentrate menu depth on cured resin, live rosin, and the in-house Encore solventless line.
The pack moves on the rosin alone.
Verano runs cultivation at the Apollo Beach facility in Hillsborough County, processing at the Apollo Beach lab, and the MüV brand carries the company’s premium Verano Reserve concentrate line through every Florida storefront. The Reserve catalog includes the live rosin half-grams that drive the highest-margin segment of the Florida concentrate market, the Encore solventless edibles that anchor the brand’s RSO-and-tincture wellness segment, and the Sweet Supply value flower line that competes with Trulieve’s Sunshine Cannabis at the entry-tier $30-eighth band. The Kendall storefront pulls the full Reserve catalog on every restock cycle, and the concentrate case is the deepest in any Miami MMTC we walked.
The shop sits at 9711 SW 77th Avenue between Sunset Drive and SW 88th Street, four minutes from the Dadeland Mall exit on US-1 and ten minutes from the University of Miami campus, in a single-story commercial storefront with the green-and-white MüV logo above the door and a small parking lot in front. The interior runs the cleanest concentrate-shopping retail of any shop on this list, with a dedicated concentrate case along the back wall behind a glass counter, a separate flower wall to the left, and an edibles case at the front. The budtenders are trained deep on the Verano Reserve catalog and the live-rosin extraction differences across the in-house lines. We grabbed a Verano Reserve live rosin half-gram at $55 out the door plus a MüV cured-resin cart half-gram at $40. The live rosin honks loud gas and citrus on the open jar, dialed in and frosty.
The honest weakness is the flower depth. The MüV catalog runs 60-plus flower SKUs but the in-house Sweet Supply line leans toward the entry-tier value flower band, and the premium MüV-branded flower runs a tighter SKU rotation than Trulieve or Curaleaf. The reason the shop earns the fourth slot anyway is the concentrate menu and the Kendall convenience. The Verano Reserve live rosin is the deepest premium-concentrate lineup in Miami-Dade, the Encore solventless edibles are the cleanest tincture line in Florida, and the storefront sits in the South Miami medical patient corridor that the other four picks do not cover. The receipt counter at MüV Kendall is the answer to the concentrate-shopper question. If the rosin matters, drive south.
Surterra Wellness Dadeland. The Coral Gables Anchor.
 DeSoto Fountain in Coral Gables, the corridor anchoring Surterra Wellness Dadeland. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. |
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Surterra Wellness Dadeland is the South Miami patient anchor on the US-1 corridor between Dadeland and Coral Gables, and the storefront serves the Coral Gables, Westchester, and Kendall medical patient base that the other four picks do not directly cover. The shop sits at 6647 South Dixie Highway in the Miami-Dadeland corridor, two minutes from the Dadeland North Metrorail station, four minutes from the Dadeland Mall, and inside the walking radius of the South Miami residential blocks that anchor the Coral Gables medical patient corridor. Surterra Wellness operates roughly 50 MMTCs across Florida under the Parallel parent company, the Atlanta-based holding company that also runs the New Frontier Data research arm and the Coastal Sun cultivation operation in Florida.
The corridor is the routing.
The Parallel build-out under Surterra Wellness has anchored Florida from the original 2017 medical license through the company’s IPO attempt, the post-SPAC reset, and the current private operating structure under William “Beau” Wrigley Jr.’s holding interest. The Florida footprint sits at roughly 50 storefronts and the brand carries the in-house Surterra flower line, the Coastal Cure premium flower brand grown at the Pinellas County cultivation facility, the Float vape and concentrate line, and the Twisted River prerolls. The Dadeland storefront pulls the full Coastal Cure premium catalog plus the Float concentrate menu and the in-house RSO and tincture wellness segment.
The shop sits at 6647 South Dixie Highway between SW 67th Avenue and Sunset Drive, in a single-story commercial storefront with a wide glass front and the green-and-orange Surterra logo above the door. The interior is the most boutique-aesthetic retail of any shop on this list, with a wellness-spa color palette, a curated flower wall behind a glass counter, a separate concentrate case, and a small wellness section up front carrying the brand’s RSO and topical line. Budtenders are trained on the Coastal Cure premium flower SKUs and the Float live-resin extraction differences. We grabbed an eighth of Coastal Cure Wedding Pie at $40 plus a Float live resin half-gram at $45. Sweet gas and frosting on the Wedding Pie, dialed-in lemon gas on the Float live resin.
The honest weakness is the catalog scale. Surterra runs 50-plus Florida storefronts but the in-house Coastal Cure line is a tighter SKU rotation than the Trulieve or Curaleaf vertical catalogs, and the brand-licensed celebrity drops are absent from the menu. The reason the shop earns the fifth slot anyway is the corridor convenience and the Coastal Cure quality. The Dadeland storefront serves the Coral Gables and South Miami medical patient base that the other four picks do not directly anchor, the Coastal Cure flower line lands at a tighter terpene average than the larger MSO catalogs on the same shelf-tier price band, and the Float concentrate menu is a credible alternative to the Verano Reserve lineup at MüV Kendall. The receipt counter is the answer to the South Miami corridor question. If the route runs through Dadeland, walk in.
Honorable Mentions Worth a Side Trip
Five picks cannot cover the entire Miami-Dade MMTC market and the wider Florida medical retailer landscape sits well beyond the Miami city limits. A few that did not make the top five but earn a side stop, plus three Florida HGH reviews from neighboring metros that give the patient a deeper look at the same operator brands. Trulieve North Miami Beach at 167th Street is the second Trulieve storefront in the metro, runs the same Florida catalog as the Allapattah flagship, and serves the Aventura and Hallandale corridor patients. Curaleaf Miami Bird Road at 8868 SW 40th Street is the brand’s Westchester-corridor storefront, opened in October 2024, and runs the full Florida Curaleaf and Select Reserve catalog. Curaleaf Miami 152nd at 12125 SW 152nd Street covers the Cutler Bay and South Dade corridor for patients south of the Kendall belt.
For a deeper look at the same operator brands at storefronts outside Miami-Dade, the Florida HGH reviews on the West Coast and Tampa Bay corridor cover three current MMTCs at the per-store visit level. Our MÜV Clearwater review walks the Verano vertical at the Pinellas County storefront and tracks the same Verano Reserve concentrate menu through a different metro. Our Sunburn Cannabis St. Pete review covers the same Sunburn brand at the St. Petersburg storefront and tracks the menu and price differences against the South Beach flagship. Our Sunnyside Clearwater review walks the Cresco Labs Florida storefront, the same MSO that did not make the Miami top five but operates a deep Florida footprint through the Sunnyside brand. All three are Florida OMMU-licensed MMTCs in good standing.
The shops to skip are the unlicensed hemp-derived THCa storefronts that have proliferated across Miami-Dade since 2023 under the federal Farm Bill loophole. Some of those storefronts sell flower marketed as “hemp” but cultivated as cannabis under the THCa-conversion loophole, and the product is not OMMU-licensed, not state-tested under the OMMU lab requirements, and not legal under Florida medical cannabis law. The five picks above all hold current OMMU MMTC licenses, post the license number at the counter, and submit every flower batch for state-mandated COA testing.
Frequently Asked Miami Dispensary Questions
Do I need a medical card to shop at a Miami dispensary?
Yes. Florida is medical-only as of 2026 and every shop on this list requires a Florida OMMU medical marijuana ID card at the door. The card is issued by the Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use and requires a qualifying-condition certification from a Florida-licensed marijuana physician. Out-of-state medical cards from other states are not currently accepted in Florida. The OMMU does not honor reciprocity with any other state’s medical program. Florida residency is required for the permanent card, with a separate seven-month seasonal-resident card available for snowbirds with a documented Florida seasonal address.
Can I shop at a Miami dispensary as a tourist?
Only if you hold a Florida OMMU medical marijuana ID card. The state does not currently honor any other state’s medical card, the OMMU does not recognize reciprocity, and a recreational adult-use sale is not legal anywhere in Florida. The pathway for an out-of-state visitor is to obtain a Florida medical card before the trip, which requires a Florida-licensed marijuana physician certification plus a state OMMU registration. The seasonal-resident card is the most common workaround for snowbirds with a Florida winter address. Without an active Florida OMMU card, no purchase at any of the five shops on this list is legal.
Why is Florida medical-only after Amendment 3?
Florida voters approved Amendment 3 in November 2024 with 55.9 percent support, which would have legalized adult-use cannabis for Floridians 21 and older with a 3-ounce possession cap and a 5-gram concentrate cap. The amendment failed because Florida’s constitution requires a 60 percent supermajority for any constitutional amendment to pass, and the 55.9 percent yes-vote fell short. Governor Ron DeSantis ran a state-funded opposition campaign against the amendment. The Smart and Safe Florida campaign, primarily funded by Trulieve, has indicated it will return to the ballot for a 2026 rerun.
What does it cost to buy cannabis in Miami?
Eighth-tier flower pricing in Miami runs $35 to $55 across the licensed MMTCs on this list. Trulieve’s Sunshine Cannabis sun-grown line is the cheapest at $35 per eighth, the in-house premium lines (Trulieve Modern Flower, Curaleaf Select Reserve, Verano Reserve, Sunburn premium) run $45 to $55, and live rosin half-grams sit between $40 and $60. Florida’s closed vertical license system means there are no third-party brand markups and no MSRP-shifting between operators. Patients pay no Florida sales tax on medical cannabis purchases, which sits as one of the lowest effective price brackets in any US medical market.
Can I consume cannabis in public in Miami?
No. Florida law prohibits public consumption of medical cannabis, and the prohibition extends to all public spaces, beaches, parks, and rental properties without owner permission. Hotels and short-term rentals in Miami are inconsistent on cannabis policy and most major hotel chains prohibit consumption inside the room. Federal property, including Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, and any National Park Service land, falls under federal jurisdiction where cannabis remains Schedule I. The Florida medical card authorizes purchase and possession only, not public use.
Which Miami dispensary has the best concentrates?
MüV Miami-Kendall runs the deepest concentrate menu in Miami-Dade County. Verano’s MüV brand carries the Verano Reserve premium live rosin line plus the in-house cured-resin and live-resin catalog, and the Kendall storefront pulls the full Reserve catalog on every restock cycle. Curaleaf Miami South Beach runs the second-deepest concentrate lineup through the Select Reserve premium brand, with cured-resin grams at $40 and live-rosin grams at $60. The other three picks (Trulieve, Sunburn, Surterra) all carry credible concentrate menus, but MüV Kendall is the destination shop for live rosin and Verano Reserve premium concentrate buyers.
How does Miami compare to other US cannabis cities?
Miami is medical-only, which puts the city in a different bracket than the recreational markets we have walked. Pricing on Miami eighths runs $35 to $55 across the licensed MMTCs, which sits at the lower-middle end of the US range because Florida medical cannabis is exempt from state sales tax. By way of comparison, an eighth of comparable flower in New York City runs $50 to $60, the same eighth in Boston runs $35 to $50, in Las Vegas runs $40 to $50, in Phoenix runs $35 to $45, in Detroit runs $25 to $35, in Chicago runs $35 to $50, and in Washington DC runs $40 to $80. Miami sits at the lower end of the East Coast range, mostly because the medical-only structure removes the recreational excise tax stack.
Who This List Is For
This list is for the Florida medical cannabis patient living in or visiting Miami, the snowbird with the seven-month seasonal OMMU card who lands in Miami International for the winter, and the cannabis-curious traveler who wants to know what the actual Miami medical map looks like before assuming a recreational market exists. The picks cover four distinct neighborhoods: Allapattah at the airport corridor (Trulieve Miami on NW 26th Street), South Beach on the beach corridor (Curaleaf on Collins Avenue and Sunburn on Alton Road), Kendall in the South Miami medical patient corridor (MüV on SW 77th Avenue), and the Dadeland-Coral Gables corridor (Surterra Wellness on South Dixie Highway). They include Florida’s largest MSO (Trulieve), the second-largest MSO with the most-walkable South Beach storefront (Curaleaf), the cleanest Florida-only craft operator (Sunburn), the deepest concentrate menu in Miami-Dade (MüV), and the South Miami corridor anchor (Surterra). If you are routing a three-day Miami medical patient trip, do the airport-and-Allapattah arrival on day one with Trulieve plus a Wynwood Walls walk, the South Beach corridor on day two with Curaleaf plus Sunburn plus an Ocean Drive Art Deco walk, and the South Miami corridor on day three across Kendall and Dadeland with MüV plus Surterra. The Snoop Dogg portfolio distributes through Florida via Death Row Cannabis Florida brand-licensing partnerships, and the Mike Tyson portfolio hits Florida through select Tyson 2.0 partner placements at the larger MSOs.
Skip the unlicensed hemp-derived THCa storefronts. The unbranded “hemp flower” shops that have proliferated across Miami-Dade under the federal Farm Bill THCa loophole are not OMMU-licensed, not state-tested under the OMMU lab requirements, and not legal under Florida medical cannabis law. The five on this list pay the OMMU licensing fee, post the MMTC license number at the counter, and submit the flower for state-mandated COA testing. That is what the legal program is for.
For wider East Coast and brand context see our cannabis tourism hub, our California brand roundup, our Arizona brand roundup, and our New York brand roundup. For Florida-specific operator detail, the three orphan Florida HGH reviews above (MÜV Clearwater, Sunburn Cannabis St. Pete, Sunnyside Clearwater) cover three of the same brands at storefronts in the Tampa Bay metro.
Five worth a Florida OMMU card route. Two on Collins and Alton. The map ends here in America’s largest medical-only cannabis market.
