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MICHIGAN—Finding good weed in Michigan right now is less about shopping around and more about knowing the right brands. Prices have slid—and quality has fallen with them—making a mental list of companies that haven’t started cutting corners to survive more valuable than ever.
The trouble is, that list keeps shrinking. So when unrelated political reporting took me to Ann Arbor last week, I made my usual detour to Information Entropy, one of the few shops where I trust the shelf more than my own research.
That’s where I found Favrd—a name I’ve heard plenty of times but can never find at my local dispensaries in Lansing. I stocked up with four half-ounce bags at $75 each: Versace, Valley Girl, Blue Gun, and Gas Face. It wasn’t the cheapest weed, but I’ve paid more without complaint.
It’s worth noting: Every bag was dense, sticky, and absolutely caked in trichomes to the point that my grinder needed a thorough cleaning after a long weekend at home. I’m saying that once here so I don’t have to repeat myself four more times below. The photos can handle the rest.
Who is Favrd?
According to the company website, Favrd was started by two growers who have “been deep in the game for over 24 years,” primarily in New York’s medical marijuana community.
They launched the brand in 2019 and initially focused on classic California strains like Trainwreck, AK-47, White Widow, and Jack Herer. They’ve since expanded into “something much bigger” with a huge catalogue of strains that were selected to “explore the whole palette.”
And while the company’s roots might be in New York’s caregiver scene, the Favrd website—and retail locations page—shows their products are now sold exclusively in Michigan.
The whole pitch is “true single-source” weed, crafted in-house using custom lighting systems and “grow recipes developed over decades.” I reached out to learn more (and to invite myself over for a tour), but nobody wrote me back. Maybe they’re too busy growing good weed.
Versace
Wavy x Bebesita
This is my wake-and-bake pick.
These small, dark, blue-green nugs open up gassy with notes of OG Kush and pine, a sweet plastic-chem note, a little skunk, and maybe the faintest cheese without ever tipping into funk. There’s a light berry vibe underneath it all. And the smoke was peppery yet creamy and smooth.
Myrcene is clearly the dominant terpene here. The high is cerebral but clear-headed and mildly relaxing, which made it the perfect thing to start off a quiet Sunday at home. I smoked it and spent the morning puttering around the kitchen with a big pot of chili cooking, music on, dogs underfoot, and preseason football on the TV in the other room. It was a blissful experience.
Just be sure to bring water. The cotton mouth is real.
Valley Girl
SFV OG x Face Off OG
This one runs lighter and airier than the rest. It was still caked with trichomes and sticky as ever, just less compressed, with white frost instead of the dark, greasy, resinous look of the others.
Grapefruit dominates the nose here, with green banana, pepper, and sweet gas behind it. There’s also a minty sweetness and something almost like cotton candy without the artificial edge, sitting on top of pine and woody sourness. It’s truly a difficult flavor profile to describe.
The high was productive, euphoric, and chatty.
This was my early-afternoon strain, and it turned into the best few hours of the week: I got stoned and totally disappeared into Dungeon Crawler Carl for a very long time. There is nothing I like better than getting stoned and getting lost in a good book. I could do it all day long.
Blue Gun
Blue 16 x Sherb Cream Pie
These buds ran dark, almost blue-green—which is probably how it got its name.
It smells like blackberry Windex, but this strain was dessert in a bag. Think blueberry muffins with cream cheese frosting. The nose is sweet, milky, and tart. Underneath that was coconut, fruit salad, sour cream, a woodsy earthiness, and just a touch of cinnamon and icing.
This was the only one of the four strains with a real Headband-style pressure to it. The effects were relaxing without shutting anything down. I kept reading, but the vibe definitely shifted.
Gas Face
Biscotti x Face Mints x Sherbet
This name is not decorative. This is a gassy-ass strain.
The nose is heavy diesel, a squeeze of lemon, classic OG fuel with mint around the edges. And as expected, it was a thick, full-bodied smoke with pepper, herbs, and a touch of garlic cheese. The Sherbet lineage only really shows up as a hint of ice cream on the back end.
This strain gives me Jealousy vibes, which explains a lot about why I liked it. The effects are also a full step above the other three. This is the one that made me put down my book.
Don’t smoke this one in the morning or if you have anything meaningful to accomplish. One joint of Gas Face left me totally dazed, insatiably hungry, and then super tired—in that order.
The bottom line
I’m truly impressed.
There wasn’t a weak strain in this lineup, and I’d have paid $90 for the same stuff without blinking. Weed cured this well, this sticky, with terpenes this loud usually costs far more.
And the cure is really what separates these four bags from everything else on the shelf.
Sticky fingers, no dust at the bottom of the bag, trichomes that survived the trip home. There are a lot of factors that go into growing good weed, but the cure is the final step—and it’s the part where most of this market has quietly started cutting corners. It’s clear Favrd still gives a damn.
And if anyone over there ever checks their inbox, I’d still love to stop by for that tour.
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