Lansterdam: BOOGIEZ Grow is bringing craft cannabis to Michigan — and it’s the real deal

If you’ve spent any time in Michigan’s cannabis scene, you know the difference between flower that was grown with care and flower that was grown for volume. The difference shows up in the smell the moment you open the jar, in the way the buds feel between your fingers and in the slow, deliberate burn of something hand-trimmed by someone who gives a damn.

BOOGIEZ Grow, out of Jackson, Michigan, is the good stuff.

Founded by Bob “Boogie Bob” Baldori — musician, cannabis attorney, and one of the most quietly consequential figures in Michigan marijuana advocacy — BOOGIEZ is producing small-batch, hand-trimmed, craft flower that is testing at the top of the state. We’re talking Cap Junky at 27.7% THC and Bolo Runtz at 3.43% total terpenes. 

These are not marketing numbers. These are numbers from a licensed Michigan lab, and they reflect what happens when someone who has spent thirty years studying this plant is finally allowed to grow it legally under their own name.

The grow

What separates BOOGIEZ from all that mid-shelf Michigan flower on dispensary menus right now is the fundamentals. The flower is grown in a premium organic medium. That’s the kind of intentional, living soil approach that big commercial operators abandoned years ago in favor of speed and yield. BOOGIEZ is hand-trimmed, which matters more than most people realize. Machine trimming is faster and cheaper. It is also rougher on trichomes, the tiny resin glands that carry terpenes and cannabinoids. Hand trimming preserves them. You’ll taste the difference.

The current lineup, Harvest #2, includes five strains: Cap Junky, Permanent Marker, Bolo Runtz, Pressure Pie and Sherb Cream Pie. Each one is a premium cultivar, the kind of genetics that serious cannabis consumers recognize immediately. Alien Cookies crossed with Kush Mints. Runtz crossed with Zkittlez crossed with Gelato. These are not accidental choices. This is a grower who knows exactly what he is doing and has the lab results to prove it.

The BOOGIEZ man

Bob Baldori is not a new face in Michigan cannabis. He has been in and around the plant for three decades — as a cultivator, as an advocate and as a licensed attorney defending the people who were prosecuted for doing what he is now doing legally in the light of day.

Baldori spent years defending Michigan cannabis patients and caregivers caught in the gap between state and federal law — including Ryan Basore of Redemption Cannabis, one of the most respected names in the Michigan cannabis industry. Basore was one of several Michigan operators caught up in a federal crackdown on state-legal grows in the early 2010s. Bob was in his corner. Basore eventually served time in federal prison despite operating within Michigan law. He came out and built Redemption Cannabis — a brand whose name tells you the story.

Advocacy that matters in Lansing

I can speak to Bob’s advocacy firsthand. He represented me and the Let Lansing Vote campaign when we took on the City of Lansing over its unfair marijuana ordinance. We believed the city’s approach was wrong — that it denied Lansing residents a fair say in how cannabis would operate in their community. Bob took that fight seriously. We went up against the city and ultimately settled out of court. It was not a small fight, and Bob didn’t treat it like one.

That is who is growing your cannabis when you buy BOOGIEZ. Not a private equity firm. Not a multistate operator optimizing for margin. A guy who has been fighting for this plant and the people who use it for longer than Michigan has had legal cannabis.

Where to find it

BOOGIEZ flower is available at the BOOGIEZ dispensary in Jackson, Michigan, and is expanding across the state. If you are a dispensary buyer in the Lansing area or anywhere in Michigan and you are looking for craft, hand-trimmed, top-shelf Michigan-grown flower with verifiable lab results, this is a conversation you want to have.

For more information, visit boogiez420.com or follow @boogiez420 on Instagram.

Chris Silva writes the Lansterdam column for Lansing City Pulse. Got a tip? Email him at silvachr@gmail.com