Grasscity is an online headshop and cannabis community that started in Amsterdam in 2000 and has belonged to Calgary’s High Tide Inc. since December 2018. It pairs a storefront for glass, vaporizers and rolling gear with the Grasscity Forums, a cannabis message board running since the shop opened.
Both halves stayed busy in 2026. The blog posted guides through September, and the forum scheduled a software upgrade for October 7–10.
From Coffeeshop-Amsterdam to fax orders
Grasscity grew out of Coffeeshop-Amsterdam, a site that launched in 1998 to introduce visitors to the city’s coffeeshop culture. In 2000 the team opened Grasscity as an online headshop and forum, taking some of its first orders by fax in the early days of e-commerce.
Through the 2000s the catalog widened, and by the 2010s Grasscity was shipping internationally. When High Tide bought it, more than 90% of revenue came from U.S. customers.
High Tide’s $6.73 million deal in 2018
High Tide closed its acquisition of Grasscity and the Grasscity Forums on December 19, 2018, for about $6.73 million, paid partly in cash and partly in special warrants that converted to common shares. At the time, the store drew roughly 5.8 million site visits a year and handled about 65,000 orders annually. High Tide’s announcement also credited the Grasscity Forums with more than 34 million unique users and 75 million page views a year.
Calgary-based High Tide was then building a retail chain around Canna Cabana and Smoker’s Corner, and Grasscity gave it an online storefront with a customer database of more than 550,000 people.
Grasscity now sits beside High Tide’s other online brands, including Smoke Cartel, Daily High Club, Dankstop, Nuleaf and FabCBD. Shoppers can join the free Cabana Club or the paid Elite tier, which carries discounts and free shipping across the High Tide partner network.
Forums with 22 million messages
The Grasscity Forums are the community side of the business. In September 2026 the forum’s own counter showed 706,362 members, 1,266,086 threads and 22,727,249 messages. Sections cover gear and consumption, indoor and outdoor growing, news and legalization, business and industry, and off-topic boards such as the Chill Out Zone and Mind Over Matter.
The forum planned downtime from October 7 to 10, 2026 to move to XenForo 2.3.
A catalog of bongs, rigs and vaporizers
The storefront lists more than 7,000 products. Bongs come in percolator, beaker, gravity, silicone, ceramic and straight tube styles, alongside glass and electric dab rigs, desktop and dry herb vaporizers, pipes, grinders, rolling papers, bubblers and cleaning supplies.
Brands on the shelf include GRAV and RooR glass, Puffco and MJ Arsenal rigs, Storz & Bickel and DaVinci vaporizers, Jerome Baker Designs, Black Leaf, Pulsar, RAW and Zig-Zag.
Guides from the Grasscity blog
The blog files its writing under How To, Cleaning, Guides, Lifestyle, News and Highlights. Early September 2026 brought an explainer on double chamber bongs, a look at ceramic soda can pipes, a comparison of 2-piece and 4-piece grinders and a light roundup of the funniest bongs the team had seen.
Official channels
Shop at grasscity.com, join the Grasscity Forums, and follow Grasscity on Instagram, Facebook, X and Pinterest.