Why North Loop Locals Choose Sweetleaves

If you live in North Loop and you enjoy cannabis, the weekend run is about as easy as it gets: a few blocks on foot or a two-minute drive to 905 N Washington Ave, a quick browse through a curated menu, and you’re back home before your coffee goes cold. No highway, no hunting for a licensed shop two suburbs over. The dispensary is already in your neighborhood — which is exactly why most locals stop treating it like an errand and start treating it like part of the weekend.

The North Loop math

North Loop sits in a genuinely lucky spot. You’ve got the warehouse-district walkability, the riverfront, and a dispensary planted right in the middle of it at 905 N Washington Ave. For most residents the run works out to roughly five minutes door to door — short enough that you don’t need to plan around it, close enough that “I’ll grab it on the way back” actually happens.

What the weekend menu looks like

Saturday morning is the best window for an in-person browse. The store opens at 9 AM on Saturdays, the shelves are freshly stocked, and you get the budtender’s full attention before the afternoon crowd rolls in.

Vapes and Cartridges is where most North Loop regulars spend the weekend budget — MN-grown indica, hybrid, and sativa options from a curated mix of cultivators. But the smart weekend basket usually mixes flower with one or two backup formats. Here’s how the menu tends to break down:

CATEGORY	TOP WEEKEND PICKS	TYPICAL SPEND
Pre-Rolls	Unbound, Lakeside Cannabis Co	$15 to $18 per single
Vapes	Grasslandz, Nebula	$40 – $80 per cart
Flower	Redwood County Management Co, Unbound	$58 per eighth
Edibles	Sweetleaves, Wyld, Camino	$15 to $36 per pack

Curbside vs. walking in

Sweetleaves runs two speeds, and North Loop locals use both. Order online and the team brings it right to your car curbside — you don’t even have to find parking. Or walk in and take the slower route through the shelves.

When coming inside you get the opportunity to talk to our expert budtenders, so if you’re deciding between a few items or trying to land a specific kind of evening, two minutes at the counter saves you a guess. The case for curbside is everything else: you already know what you want, you’re short on time, and you’d rather keep the car running. Either way, you pay in store when you collect — quick and simple.

The pre-order routine that saves your Saturday

The fastest run is the pre-order. Build your basket the night before, place the order, and swing by for curbside pickup the next day. No browsing, no waiting — just grab and go.

The exception is when you want to talk through new arrivals. For that, the slower in-person browse is worth it. Plenty of regulars do both: pre-order the staples, then walk the shelves once a month to see what’s dropped.

Why North Loop picks Sweetleaves over the drive

The Twin Cities have more licensed options than they did a year ago, but most of them mean a drive out of the neighborhood. The whole point of living in North Loop is that you don’t have to leave it. A locally owned shop, a curated MN-grown menu, and a calm, design-forward space beat a longer trip to somewhere louder.

Garden Club: rewards for the regulars

If the weekend run is going to be a habit, the Garden Club makes it pay off. Every dollar you spend earns a point, and 100 points gets you $3 off your next purchase — no card to carry, just use your phone number or email at checkout. Members also get a birthday offer, double-points days, and early access to new drops and restocks before they hit the public menu. The rewards stack quietly in the background, so the more Sweetleaves becomes your local, the more they add up. Join the Garden Club.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sweetleaves the closest licensed dispensary to North Loop?

For most residents, yes. The store sits right in the neighborhood at 905 N Washington Ave — typically a five-minute walk or drive, no highway required.

Does Sweetleaves deliver to North Loop?

Sweetleaves offers online ordering with curbside pickup and in-store shopping rather than delivery. Place your order online, swing by, and the team brings it out — or come in and browse.

What time should I do the weekend run for the shortest wait?

Saturday between 9 and 11 AM is the lightest in-person traffic and the freshest shelves. By early afternoon the weekend wave picks up.

The North Loop weekend run isn’t a complicated routine. It’s a short walk, a fast pickup, and a menu that’s already in your neighborhood. You’re not lazy — you’re living. Start your order.