Cannabis in Brooklyn

Last verified: April 2026

Brooklyn’s Cannabis Geography

With roughly 2.6 million residents, Brooklyn is NYC’s most populous borough — and after a year-long licensing freeze caused by the Variscite NY One v. New York dormant-Commerce-Clause injunction (November 2022 through May 2023), Brooklyn’s legal dispensary count has grown faster than any other borough. The cluster is unevenly distributed: Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Park Slope/Gowanus, and Coney Island Avenue carry the densest licensed shops; the deeper-residential southwest Brooklyn neighborhoods (Bay Ridge, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Sheepshead Bay) lag.

The Defining Brooklyn Sites

Williamsburg & Greenpoint

Brooklyn’s densest cluster of licensed dispensaries. Hii NYC at 152 Bedford Avenue, founded April 2024 by Peter Beznos (license OCM-CAURD-24-000102), runs same-day delivery to ZIPs 11211, 11249, 11222, and parts of 11206. 7 Leaf Clover Cannabis at 132 Metropolitan Avenue. Misha’s Flower Shop, one of Brooklyn’s largest at 2,500 sq ft, sits on the Bushwick edge near Maria Hernandez Park.

Bushwick & Bed-Stuy

StashMaster, license OCM-CAURD-24-000217, serves Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Williamsburg, Clinton Hill, Brownsville, Fort Greene, Crown Heights via licensed delivery. RNR Dispensary on Wyckoff Avenue is veteran-owned and opened in 2025. Jungle Kingdom Flower in Bed-Stuy operates a second location at 1055 Flushing Avenue, East Williamsburg. Puro Vita anchors a Clinton Hill / Fort Greene cluster.

Bedford-Stuyvesant Cultural Heritage

Bed-Stuy was the home territory of Notorious B.I.G. (St. James Place) and Jay-Z (Marcy Houses). Cannabis runs through the iconography of both careers — and the unequal enforcement that targeted that same neighborhood for decades runs through the political demands for equity licensing today.

Gowanus / Park Slope

Chronic Brooklyn at 483 3rd Avenue is known for its pneumatic-tube apothecary aesthetic. Park Slope and Carroll Gardens are affluent, residential, family-oriented; cannabis use is private. Dispensaries in this zone tilt toward edibles and tinctures rather than flower.

Atlantic Avenue / Fort Greene

Be. Brooklyn medical dispensary near Atlantic Terminal and Barclays Center serves the medical-cannabis patient base concentrated around the major-employer hospitals.

Bay Ridge

Hii NYC operates a second location at 9206 3rd Avenue, anchoring the legal market for southwest Brooklyn.

Coney Island / Gravesend / Brighton Beach

Grow Together at 2370 Coney Island Avenue was the very first licensed dispensary to open in Brooklyn. Quality Control Dispensary at 3169 Coney Island Avenue (Brighton Beach) anchors the southern cluster. Boardwalk smoking is prohibited under the NYC smoke-free parks and beaches policy; the surrounding neighborhood (Brighton Beach, Gravesend) hosts the legal cluster.

Crown Heights

Caribbean cultural depth — particularly the West Indian community whose presence at Eastern Parkway every Labor Day for the West Indian American Day Carnival and J’ouvert is one of the city’s defining annual events. Council Member Crystal Hudson, a third-generation Brooklynite of Jamaican and Honduran heritage, represents District 35 here.

The Variscite Injunction — Why Brooklyn Lagged

On November 10, 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe granted a preliminary injunction in Variscite NY One v. New York, freezing CAURD licensing in five regions including Brooklyn. The plaintiff was a Michigan-owned entity arguing that the program’s “significant presence in New York” requirement violated the U.S. Constitution’s Dormant Commerce Clause. The injunction was modified by the Second Circuit in March 2023 and settled in May 2023 — but for that nearly year-long window, Brooklyn licensing was effectively frozen. Brooklyn’s 2024–2025 explosive growth was a catch-up. See CAURD & Variscite.

Brooklyn DA — Eric Gonzalez

Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez maintains among the most progressive declination policies in the country. Cannabis personal-possession cases are reliably declined. Gonzalez has been a vocal advocate for harm-reduction approaches and equity licensing.

Tyson 2.0 in Flatbush

Tyson 2.0 Consumption Lounge opened by Mike Tyson at 733 Flatbush Avenue on April 20, 2026, attached to Q Dispensary, is the most prominent unlicensed lounge in the city. Press materials describe it as a “premium consumption sanctuary” featuring a boxing-ring stage and BYO consumption format. It is not OCM-licensed; it operates outside the on-site consumption license framework that has not yet opened. State enforcement posture toward such venues has been generally permissive for now.