On Brooks Drive just off Interstate 75 Exit 29, Shangri-La Monroe Superstore has become one of Southwest Ohio's most prominent cannabis dispensaries — a family-founded operation that expanded into Ohio after the state launched adult-use sales under Issue 2 in 2024.
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The Storefront on Brooks Drive
211 Brooks Drive puts Shangri-La on Monroe's most convenient retail corridor — the Brooks Drive commercial strip that runs directly off Interstate 75 Exit 29, roughly the midpoint between Cincinnati and Dayton. Over the past decade this stretch of Brooks has absorbed the kind of mid-box, destination-retail development that older Butler County commercial cores — downtown Middletown, Hamilton, West Chester's older strips — didn't have the square footage or ingress to host. The dispensary sits minutes from Butler County's major residential clusters, Middletown, West Chester Township, and the I-75 commuter stream — with ample on-site parking and an ADA-accessible storefront designed for both first-time visitors and returning regulars.
The interior is purpose-built as Shangri-La's Ohio "Superstore" format — larger than a standard dispensary, with broader product bays, more budtender stations, and a deeper selection of Ohio-licensed cultivators and processors. Reviewers on Weedmaps, Leafly, and Google consistently call out the staff's patience with first-time consumers and medical patients — a thread that runs back to Shangri-La's origins as a medical-first operator. The storefront is purpose-built for a modern cannabis retail outlet, with bright lighting, organized displays, and a clear express-pickup line separated from walk-in shopping.
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Street view of Shangri-La's Brooks Drive Superstore. On-site parking and quick I-75 Exit 29 access.
What Shangri-La Carries
Shangri-La's Monroe Superstore menu — kept live at shangriladispensaries.com — spans Ohio-licensed cultivators and processors and rotates weekly as new drops, limited runs, and daily deals come through. Reviewer-pricing snapshots put eighth-ounce flower in a typical range of roughly $30 to $60 depending on tier and cultivator, with frequent promotional pricing that brings entry-level options well under that band.
Product Categories
- Flower: Eighths, quarter-ounces, half-ounces, and ounces from licensed Ohio cultivators — indica, sativa, and hybrid strains
- Pre-Rolls: Singles, multi-packs, infused pre-rolls, and hash-infused pre-rolls at multiple price tiers
- Vape Cartridges & Disposables: 510-thread carts, all-in-one disposables, live resin and distillate vapes
- Concentrates & Extracts: Rosin, live resin, badder, sauce, and high-terpene extracts
- Edibles: Gummies, chocolates, baked goods, drinks, and micro-dose options capped at 10 mg per serving and 110 mg per package under Ohio rules
- Tinctures & Capsules: Sublingual tinctures, ratio-dosed capsules for smoke-free formats
- Topicals: THC- and CBD-infused balms, lotions, patches, and targeted-relief products
- Accessories: Rolling papers, grinders, glass, storage, and branded Shangri-La merch
All products ship in child-resistant packaging per Ohio Division of Cannabis Control rules and include batch-level lab data for cannabinoids and contaminants. Shangri-La staff are trained budtenders — not rushed cashiers — and are available for product-matching conversations, especially for first-time customers, medical patients, and anyone exploring lower-dose or smoke-free formats.
Shopping at Shangri-La
Shangri-La Monroe Superstore accepts both medical and adult-use customers from the same storefront, with separate checkout flows for each. Online order-ahead through Dutchie is the fastest route for express pickup; orders are usually ready within 20–30 minutes during standard hours. Ohio law regulates dispensary practices — including possession limits, packaging, and ID verification — tightly, so first-time customers should expect to present a government-issued photo ID at the door.
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The Shangri-La Story
Shangri-La was founded as a family-run medical marijuana operator, with a founding team whose backgrounds spanned retail compliance, business management, medicine, and dentistry. The company's first priority from the beginning was medical cannabis — serving patients under state medical programs and building out the retail infrastructure to meet them where they were.
When Ohio voters approved Issue 2 in November 2023 and the state's adult-use market opened in August 2024, Shangri-La was among the multi-state operators that acquired Ohio licensure and launched combined medical-and-adult-use retail. The Monroe Superstore became a flagship for the company's Ohio footprint — a larger-format dispensary built to absorb Butler County demand as well as the I-75 commuter stream between Cincinnati and Dayton. The Shangri-La footprint now spans Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, and Connecticut, with the Monroe store functioning as its Southwest Ohio anchor.
The Ohio Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) regulates Shangri-La's retail license and publishes its license status and compliance record. The company is a visible member of the Monroe, Ohio and Butler County business community and has integrated into local civic and small-business networks in a way that makes the Monroe store feel more like a regional small business than a multi-state outpost.
Getting to 211 Brooks Drive
Shangri-La's Monroe Superstore location makes it one of the easier Ohio dispensaries to reach from Cincinnati, Dayton, and the broader I-75 corridor. Here are the fastest routes from the major neighborhoods and towns that send Shangri-La its highest customer volume:
From Cincinnati
I-75 N to Exit 29 (OH-63 / Monroe). Right on Brooks Dr. Roughly 30 minutes from downtown Cincinnati.
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I-75 S to Exit 29 (OH-63 / Monroe). Left on Brooks Dr. About 30 minutes from downtown Dayton.
NavigateFrom Middletown
OH-63 W or Union Rd S to Brooks Dr, under 10 minutes from downtown Middletown.
NavigateFrom Mason / Northeast Cincinnati
OH-741 N to OH-63 E, then left on Brooks Dr; 20–25 minutes.
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Why Shangri-La Matters to Monroe
Shangri-La's Monroe store sits inside a bigger story about how Ohio's cannabis market has evolved. The state's medical program launched in 2016 under Ohio's Medical Marijuana Control Program, and the dispensary licenses distributed during that cycle included allocations across Southwest Ohio. When Issue 2 passed in November 2023 and adult-use sales began in August 2024, those medical operators were first in line to transition. Shangri-La's Monroe Superstore was among the early adult-use launch locations, and it remains the flagship for the family-founded company's Ohio footprint along the I-75 corridor.
For Monroe, Butler County, and the wider Cincinnati–Dayton commuter zone, the result is a dispensary that behaves more like a regional small business than a national franchise — locally staffed, patient-first in tone, and active in Butler County civic networks. If you want to understand what post-Issue-2 Ohio cannabis retail looks like day-to-day, a visit to 211 Brooks Drive is a good place to start.