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Where to Buy
Candela is stocked at 177 licensed dispensaries across Michigan, Illinois, and Oregon, 155 of them in Michigan, with the deepest coverage in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Monroe, Detroit, and New Buffalo. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one, or filter by product type if you are after a specific format.
Market Insights Snapshot
Candela’s August 2026 mix tilted further toward Flower at 61.91% share, with Flower up 25.82% year over year and 23.34% month over month, while Pre-Roll held 29.81% share with a 105.00% year-over-year surge but a 3.33% month-over-month dip. Vapor Pens accounted for 5.96% share with an 11.83% year-over-year decline and 0.95% month-over-month lift, and Concentrates sat at 2.33% share with 20.22% year-over-year growth but a 22.31% month-over-month drop; combined with a 9.90% year-over-year average price decrease to $15.35 and a Flower category rank of 37 in Michigan, the pattern implies volume-led gains concentrated in Flower and Pre-Roll, while premium inhalables contribute less to near-term momentum.
The shift—Flower expanding 23.34% month over month while Pre-Roll contracts 3.33% month over month—suggests an anchor in larger purchase formats for basket fill, with the 105.00% year-over-year Pre-Roll growth indicating trial-to-repeat conversion, not just promo spikes. With Vapor Pens down 11.83% year over year yet up 0.95% month over month, and Concentrates up 20.22% year over year but down 22.31% month over month, Candela is trading depth for breadth: prioritizing high-volume Flower to improve rank positioning from the mid-pack (37) while using Pre-Roll as an entry point, implying that tightening price architecture and pack-size strategy in Flower should be the lever to convert seasonal demand into sustained share without overextending into slower-moving premium inhalables.
Competitive Landscape
Candela sits at rank #37 in MI Flower with a year-over-year climb of 14 positions from #51, but it slid 13 spots from #24 in May 2026 to #37 in August 2026, marking a 3-month retreat from its peak rank of #24 to outside the top 30. Meanwhile, NOBO surged from #42 to #3 alongside a 508.9% YoY sales jump, and High Minded held #1 despite a -17.1% YoY sales change, indicating faster upward mobility among leaders than Candela’s recent trajectory. The pattern implies Candela’s long-run recovery is intact but its short-run slide amid competitor gains suggests share is being ceded unless the brand reverses the post–May 2026 drift.
Notable Products
Animal Tree (3.5g) posted the steepest decline in August 2026 at -46.9% while sliding to rank 4, and Dante's Inferno Pre-Roll (1g) fell -38.2% at rank 3; meanwhile, Munyunz Pre-Roll (1g) dropped -14.9% yet held rank 1, signaling that share is consolidating around a single pre-roll anchor rather than broadening. Munyunz (3.5g) rose +31.9% at rank 2 against those double-digit pre-roll declines, and four of the top ten are Pre-Roll SKUs clustered at ranks 1, 3, 5, and 6, indicating assortment weight in pre-rolls even as month-over-month velocity skews toward flower. With Ice 101 Pre-Roll (1g) at -23.7% and G13 Skunk Pre-Roll (1g) at -27.7% while Super Buff Cherry (3.5g) enters the top ten at rank 8 with $27,434, the mix tilts toward premium eighths absorbing demand as secondary pre-rolls contract. The pattern implies Candela is pivoting from breadth-led pre-roll volume to a tighter hero-pre-roll plus ascending flower portfolio, prioritizing higher-consistency flower turns over a long tail of pre-rolls.
Top Selling Cannabis Brands
Data for this report comes from real-time sales reporting by participating cannabis retailers via their point-of-sale systems, which are linked up with Headset’s business intelligence software. Headset’s data is very reliable, as it comes digitally direct from our partner retailers. However, the potential does exist for misreporting in the instance of duplicates, incorrectly classified products, inaccurate entry of products into point-of-sale systems, or even simple human error at the point of purchase. Thus, there is a slight margin of error to consider. Brands listed on this page are ranked in the top twenty within the market and product category by total retail sales volume.
