The reason to drive to JARS Cannabis on 24th Street is the case at the back of the room.
Mohave Reserve flower sits on a wood shelf at $35 an eighth, Grow Sciences cured-resin jars sit two cases over at $50, and the budtender does not have to scroll a tablet to tell you which one tastes like fuel and which one tastes like fruit. That is the difference between a chain dispensary that prints a menu and a JARS room with someone behind the counter who actually shops their own shelf.
This is the JARS Cannabis 24th Street store, not the JARS Metrocenter location on the north side of town. Both rooms run under the same brand and the same operator, Legacy and Co., Inc., but the inventory and the room itself are different enough that I am writing them up separately. If you are looking for the Metrocenter writeup, the JARS Metrocenter Phoenix review covers that visit. This piece is the 24th Street one.
A south Phoenix room with the airport five minutes away
JARS 24th Street is at 2412 East University Drive, a south-of-downtown block that runs parallel to the Sky Harbor approach path. You can see the inbound aircraft from the parking lot. The cross street is South 24th, the building is glass and beige stucco, and the lot has enough space that you are not fighting for a slot at 5 p.m. on a Friday.
The room itself is taller than it looks from the curb. The cases sit along the long wall on the right, the budtender stations sit along the back wall, and the front of the store is open enough that two customers and three rolling displays do not crowd each other. There is no drive-thru here. There is also no waiting area that feels like a waiting area. You walk in, you get checked, and you are at a counter inside two minutes.
The store opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m. seven days a week, which is the same schedule the Leafly listing publishes. JARS 24th Street is licensed for both adult-use and medical patients, and the Arizona Department of Health Services lists Legacy and Co., Inc. as the operator. The store accepts cash and PIN debit, runs an ATM in the lobby, and offers a veteran discount that the budtender mentions before you have to ask.
The walk-in: meeting Mercedez and what got bought
I came in on a Wednesday afternoon around 3 p.m., about an hour after a Sky Harbor pickup, and the room had four customers in it. The greeter checked my ID, the budtender lane on the left waved me over, and that is where I met Mercedez. Multiple recent positive reviews on the Leafly review feed name her by first name and call out her customer service, and the visit matched the reputation. She asked two questions before pulling anything off the shelf: what I had been smoking lately, and whether I was looking for daytime or evening flower.
I told her I had been on a Mohave Cannabis Co. run for a few weeks and wanted to keep on something terpene-forward but not gassy. She walked me to the indoor flower case, pointed at three Mohave Reserve options, and was specific about the differences. ChemP-Woods was the gas pick at $35 an eighth. Jilly was the candy-leaning option at $25. Space Juice was the one she said tasted closest to the way it smelled, which was citrus and a sweet pine note, and she put the jar on the counter so I could pop the lid before deciding.
The Space Juice jar was 3.5 grams of dense, light-green flower with orange pistils visible at the calyx ridges. The trichome coverage was thick enough that the buds had a frosted look under the case lights. I asked what else she would put in a basket if she were shopping the menu herself, and she pointed at a Grow Sciences jar of Cap Junky Permanent Marker 11 in the cured-resin case at $50 for 3.7 grams. I picked up both. Total at the register before tax came to $85 with the everyday menu price, and the math after Phoenix recreational tax landed inside the ballpark Mercedez quoted at the counter, which is a small thing but the kind of small thing that matters.
The exit pace was the second thing I noticed. From walking through the door to walking out with a sealed exit bag was under nine minutes, even with the conversation. That is the JARS 24th Street pattern: the store moves people through the line without making them feel rushed.
What 24th Street stocks deeper than most JARS rooms
Every JARS in Arizona carries the obvious brands. Jeeter pre-rolls, STIIIZY pods, Wyld gummies, and a rotating selection of in-house Modern Flower or co-pack flower. The 24th Street menu runs deeper on Arizona-grown indoor brands than the average JARS room I have walked. On the day of my visit, the indoor flower case had eight Mohave Cannabis Co. SKUs across the Reserve, Select, and Mini lines, three Grow Sciences jars in the premium case, an Alien Labs prepack at $50 a half, and a Blues Brothers prepack at $30 a half.
The depth shows up in two places. First, the indoor flower selection has more independent Arizona cultivators than I expected, including Grow Sciences, which runs small-batch hand-trimmed flower out of a Phoenix grow and tends to sell out fast in stores that get smaller allocations. JARS 24th Street appears to get a steady drop. Second, the concentrate case had live rosin and live resin from multiple Arizona processors at the same time, which is uncommon at a JARS room of this size. If you are coming into this store for indoor flower or solventless, you will not be browsing one shelf and calling it a day.
What sets it apart from the Metrocenter location is the size of the buildout. Metrocenter is the bigger, higher-volume room with a wider menu and the loyalty program firing on bigger inventory. The 24th Street room runs a tighter, more curated flower wall, which is exactly the trade-off a shopper who cares about specific cultivars wants. Both stores publish daily deals on the JARS app, and both honor the brand-wide veteran and senior discounts, but the in-store feel is different enough that picking between them is a real choice.
The product I bought: Mohave Reserve Space Juice at $35
I opened the Space Juice jar that night. The pop of the lid hit citrus first, then a sweet pine note underneath that the budtender had called accurately. The cure was on point. The buds were dense without being dry, and the grind on a Santa Cruz Shredder produced a fluffy, even consistency that rolled cleanly in a Raw cone.
The COA panel on the jar listed the THC at 28.7 percent with terpenes at 3.2 percent. The dominant terpenes per the lab read like the smell: limonene leading, caryophyllene second, and a small but present myrcene under both. The high came on at the four-to-six-minute mark and held for about an hour and forty minutes from a half-gram cone, which lined up with the cure quality. The peak was clear-headed and uplifting in a way I would call early-evening rather than nightcap.
At $35 for the eighth, the Space Juice landed under the $40 to $45 bracket I would expect for a top-shelf indoor 28-plus-percent jar, and well under the $50 the Grow Sciences cured-resin was running. If you are buying flower for the way it smokes rather than the number on the COA, this was the value play in the case that day. Mohave Cannabis Co. publishes their COAs on the brand site, which is the kind of transparency I look for before reaching for a new cultivar.
Pros and cons after one visit
Pros
- The flower wall runs deep on Arizona indoor brands like Mohave, Grow Sciences, and Alien Labs at the same time
- Mercedez and the rest of the budtender lane recommend specifically, not generically
- The walk-in pace is fast: under nine minutes from front door to exit bag
- Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, which makes a Sky Harbor connection or an early run easy
- Veteran discount and loyalty are stacked on the same JARS app the Metrocenter store uses
Cons
- No drive-thru, unlike a few south Phoenix competitors
- The room is smaller than the JARS Metrocenter buildout if you prefer a wide-aisle high-volume vibe
- The premium concentrate case fills and empties fast, so a Tuesday menu may not be Friday’s menu
Frequently asked questions about JARS 24th Street
How is JARS 24th Street different from JARS Metrocenter?
Both stores carry the same JARS-brand menu and run the same loyalty program, but 24th Street is a smaller, more curated flower buildout near Sky Harbor while Metrocenter is the larger, higher-volume north Phoenix store. If indoor cultivar depth matters to you, 24th Street is worth the drive.
What are the JARS 24th Street hours?
JARS Cannabis 24th Street is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week, including weekends and holidays unless posted otherwise on the JARS app.
Is JARS 24th Street recreational, medical, or both?
Both. The 24th Street store is licensed for adult-use and medical sales under operator Legacy and Co., Inc., per the Arizona dispensary registry.
Is parking easy at JARS 24th Street?
The lot wraps the building and is rarely full outside of weekend evening rush. The store is right off East University Drive, so the in and out is fast.
Does JARS 24th Street accept credit cards?
Cash and PIN debit only, with an ATM in the lobby. This is standard for Arizona cannabis retail because of federal banking restrictions.
What deals does JARS 24th Street run?
The store posts daily deals on the JARS app and rotates a happy hour, a daily brand feature, and an early-bird and late-night discount window. Veteran and senior discounts are honored every day.
Best for, skip if
JARS Cannabis 24th Street is best for shoppers who care about indoor flower from independent Arizona growers, who like a budtender who can name a terpene profile without checking the screen, and who want a fast in-and-out near Sky Harbor or downtown. The store is also a strong fit for travelers because the schedule lines up with airport itineraries and the room moves people through quickly.
Skip it if you want a drive-thru, if you are loyalty-locked into the bigger Metrocenter buildout, or if your shopping is built around bulk-deal value flower rather than top-shelf indoor. Cookies, Wyld, STIIIZY, and Jeeter are all on the menu here, but the reason to make this drive is the deeper indoor case behind those brands.
