"Higher Grounds, a small cafe on Wharf Street, a pedestrian-only thoroughfare in the Old Port, is part coffee house, part cannabis apothecary. With a cosmos-themed mural and shelves of CBD products, the coffee shop was the first in Portland to embrace Maine's recent marijuana legalization. But with coffee from Portland roaster Speckled Ax, Higher Grounds' drinks menu doesn't play second fiddle to its CBD sales. Espresso drinks, drip coffees, pour overs, and herbal tea blends are all solid orders." - Kate McCarty