D.C.’s after-hours scene is starting to look a lot less like a bar crawl and a lot more like a mellow, THC-fueled hang. Across neighborhoods from Ivy City to Tenleytown, dispensaries are being rebuilt as places where you book a class, meet up with friends or quietly split a gummy instead of another round of cocktails. Hospitality veterans are turning what used to be basic retail counters into lounges, wellness studios and membership clubs centered on cannabis.
Higher Ground Reimagines A Distillery
According to Higher Ground, its new Ivy City storefront is designed as a patient-first destination that blends retail, education and hospitality under one roof. The operators pitch the spot as a neighborhood hub, with curated products and community programming, rather than a traditional counter-only dispensary where you are in and out in five minutes.
Big-Space Hospitality, No Alcohol
Axios reports that Higher Ground moved into the shell of the former One Eight Distillery and turned it…..