About this directory

The Strain Finder lists hemp shops and explains what to ask for at the counter. It is a small operation, run by one person, and this page says exactly whose it is and where every figure on it comes from.

Who runs it

The site is published by Mark Holland, trading as IntellaGrow Business Solutions. There is no editorial team and no panel of reviewers; when this site says “we”, it means one person and the rules written into the code.

The commercial interest, stated plainly. Shops can pay for a listing — $49 a month for a maintained listing, $149 for a featured one — and paid placement is labelled as such everywhere it changes what you see. Separately, the same operator sells a software product called TerpIQ to hemp shops, which is a different application at a different address. White Label Exotics in Asheville is both the first featured listing here and a TerpIQ customer, and it is run by my brother — a featured placement and a family connection are the two things a reader should be told about together. Beyond the paid listings described above, I have no stake in any shop in this directory. Ownership verification and certificate badges are free on every tier and are never for sale, because they are the two things on a listing that a payment must not be able to buy.

Where shop listings come from

There are 389 shops in the directory. Each field on a listing records where it came from, and there are only five kinds of source:

• The business itself — its own website, something the owner sent us, or a claim submission. This is the only source that establishes who a shop is.
• A public dataset — an open map dataset that recorded the place. A record, not a confirmation: nobody at the shop was asked.
• A third-party listing — a page about the business somewhere else.
• An automated check we ran — usually fetching a website to see whether it answers and what is on it. It tells us a page exists. It does not tell us whose page it is.
• Computed by us — for example turning a street address into map coordinates.

Two consequences you can see on the pages themselves. Where a shop’s own site has not confirmed the details, the listing says so in those words instead of implying it has. 55 of the 389 listings have an identity traceable to the business, a completed claim, or a paid subscription; the rest are still browsable and still linked, and we ask search engines not to index them, because a page we cannot stand behind should not be submitted as a destination.

Opening hours are the strictest field. They are published only when they come from the shop’s own website, and the date they were read is printed next to them so you can see how old they are. Hours are never copied from an aggregator or a map dataset. A shop that claims its listing overrides us.

Blank beats wrong. When a field cannot be traced to a real source it is left empty rather than filled with a plausible guess, and a listing whose identity we could not establish at all is deleted rather than improved later. We have removed listings on exactly those grounds.

Where strain figures come from

The library holds 77 cultivar names. 24 carry published figures and 53 carry none at all — those pages show the name, the family and where to find it, and say plainly that we have no chemistry for it. That is not an oversight we are working through; it is the honest state of the available data, and two pieces of our own research explain why:

• A cultivar name does not predict its chemistry. Across 4,914 lab-tested samples from 1,950 growers, the dominant terpene changed between growers for every one of the 18 cultivars examined — the working is here.
• Almost nobody in this retail channel publishes a terpene panel. Across 651 certificates, every shop and brand library in this directory we could open, sixteen had a panel run and one reported figures — that survey is here.

So a page gets figures one of two ways. Either they are typical published figures for the name, labelled as typical and never as a measurement of anything on a shelf, or they come from a certificate for a specific batch that actually ran a terpene panel. The finder itself will only name a product on the second kind, which is why it currently names none and gives you a terpene target and a counter script instead. Potency and contaminant testing is common and worth showing; it is not the same thing as published chemistry, and this site never presents one as the other.

Correcting a listing

If you run a shop listed here and something is wrong — the hours, the address, the phone, the website, the name, or the fact that you are listed at all — email mhollandanalyst@gmail.com. We respond within 3 business days. Corrections are free, as is verifying that you own the listing; neither requires a paid tier. You can also claim your listing to take over what it says.

Scope, and what this site is not

We have checked the hemp rules against primary sources in four states — North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. Everywhere else we have not looked, and the absence of a note on a state page is never a statement that its rules are permissive. Nothing here is legal advice, nothing here is medical advice, and this site sells no hemp product of any kind. It carries no reviews, no ratings and no star scores, because we have not collected any and would not publish invented ones.

This page reviewed 10 September 2026