AUGUST 19, 2026
To All Our Friends & Lovers
With heavy hearts, we share the news that our landlord has forced our sweet little shop to close. Given the rigid and incredibly expensive nature of cannabis licensing, that means we have very little time left with you all. Cannabis sales will end on Thursday, August 27th; we will also hold space here next Friday and Saturday (August 28th & 29th) serving coffee and saying goodbye. Our work on behalf of small farmers and the everyday people who love this plant will continue with the Maine Craft Cannabis Association (IG: @mainecraftcannabisassoc), but here on 45 Wharf Street, our 9 years in business comes to an end.
Serving and sharing space with you all has been an honor, a joy, a struggle—sometimes a tempest, but always a sunny island afternoon. Most of all, it has been a calling: to connect with plant wisdom despite the hyper-industrialized regulations of the cannabis plant, to reframe the conversation away from polarizing and politicized Drug War attitudes and instead toward the many other worlds of experience that cannabis can offer. We’ve carved out a safe space for the curious, the hesitant, the stigmatized, the seeking, and most especially, for the queers and outsiders—who despite all the weapons of commerce and state stacked against them—know somewhere deep inside that cannabis is not only safe but one of our strongest plant allies on this planet. If we could only cultivate and experience her with the freedom we, born to this bounty here on Earth, all deserve.
There will be a day when we can fully realize that potential free from the strictures of corporatism, fear-mongering, and propaganda. Like so many others, we’d hoped that day could dawn in Maine much sooner. However, like so many others, the realities of extractive capitalism and regulatory capture have bled us dry along that journey. This little shop will not live to see it. But I believe we, the people, will. If we’re willing to fight. To love ourselves and each other enough to recast the narrative around this plant away from commercialization and back to nature from where she most assuredly springs.
Our journey is in no way special, but collectively, the thousands of small farmers and small businesses who have been pushed out of this dream deserve to be remembered. Our own journey began alongside many friends and family, many of whom—like this project—will pass from the earth. These words are for you, our sweet and beautiful community, but also for them.
I love you, Dad. I love you, Andrew. I love you, Myung Sook. May something of the magic you contributed to us here persist in this space; may something of the love you had for this beautiful, bountiful world persist in the air and the stones of Maine. May the power of our collective love bring that energy outward to this country and to this world.
We could not have done any of this over the past decade without our dedicated staff and the dozens of small Maine businesses that supported us. Please, keep your commerce local. Choose your neighbors over convenience. Most importantly, we could not have done this without you, our friends and lovers from Portland, Maine and around the world. Keep your lights bright and shining, and look after yourselves and your own. Thank you all for everything—it has meant the world to us.
