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Cannabis search works differently in every state, because the law does. These guides are grouped by what each state actually permits, and every number on them carries its source and the date we checked it.

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By legal status

Why these guides are grouped by law, not geography

Grouping markets by region tells you where a state is. Grouping them by legal status tells you how search behaves there, which is the part that changes the work. An adult-use state with retail density has a Map Pack problem. A medical-only state has an entirely different search intent profile and a smaller pool of qualified buyers. A market where most localities have opted out is really a set of small isolated markets wearing one state's name.

In short: a state's legal status determines its search dynamics more than its geography does, so these market guides are organized by what each state permits. Every statistic on them cites a state agency and carries the date it was verified.

Adult-use markets

Retail open to anyone 21 and older
Oregon
678 retailers recording sales and no paid channel available. The most saturated cannabis market in the country.
Maryland
Adult-use since July 2023, tax raised to 12 percent in 2025. A young market where buying habits are still forming.
New York
145 licensed dispensaries in Brooklyn alone. A walking city where proximity stops separating competitors.
Washington
680 retail licenses permanently closed against 462 active. The oldest market, showing what survival costs.
Massachusetts
Price per gram fell from $14.17 to $3.87. With margin gone, acquisition cost decides who survives.
Nevada
3 consumption lounges open, 23 more approved. A retail category about to grow nine-fold with no incumbent.
Connecticut
75 retailers, 65 operators, and 58 of them run a single store. The most independent market in the country.
Illinois
Sales stepped down 22.6 percent in one month of 2025 and stayed there, while 93 dispensaries opened in a year.
Colorado
The first legal market, down 41 percent from its 2021 peak. Denver alone is 23.6 percent of state sales.
Michigan
$270.5 million in a single month at $58.95 an ounce. The highest-volume, lowest-price market in the country.
Arizona
A billion-dollar market through 170 establishments, while medical sales fell 38 percent in a year.
Missouri
$1.26 billion of adult-use sales through 224 dispensaries, and seven new licenses issued all year.
Minnesota
313 licensed businesses, 219 of them microbusinesses, against 2,611 hemp retailers already on the shelf.
California
333 of 540 local jurisdictions prohibit storefront retail. The biggest market in the world, with most of the map closed.

City guides

Metro-level detail inside a state market
Brooklyn, NY
145 licenses, 82 actually trading, and 45 percent of them in eight zip codes.
Manhattan, NY
95 trading stores, the most in the state, serving a customer base that mostly commutes in.
Queens, NY
128 licenses under 35 neighborhood names. Not one market, and the state data agrees.
Portland, OR
231 licenses, 29 percent of Oregon's retail sector, in a city a quarter of Brooklyn's size.
Boston, MA
Forty-six businesses hold 47 licenses. No chain to outspend, and equity licenses outnumber general applicants.
Baltimore, MD
11 stores for 568,271 residents, and a county of the same name holding 20 more that are not in the city.
Los Angeles, CA
One of only 20 cities in a county of 88 that permit a storefront. The other 67 send their customers outward.
San Jose, CA
Two of Santa Clara County's 15 cities allow retail. San Jose is one, and it holds most of the county's legal capacity.
San Diego, CA
The California exception. Half the county's cities are open and so is the unincorporated county, so nothing is uncontested.
Orlando, FL
43 dispensing locations, the most of any Florida city, and no operator holds more than six.
Miami, FL
39 locations across Miami-Dade, behind Palm Beach, Pinellas, Hillsborough and Orange. Thin for its size.
Denver, CO
Its share of Colorado sales fell from 47.7 percent to 23.9 percent, every year for twelve years running.
Detroit, MI
61 state-licensed stores, the largest municipal count in Michigan, in a market that cleared $270 million in July alone.
Kansas City, MO
23 dispensaries, 18 of them licensed back in 2021, zero added when adult-use launched. Share moves here, the roster does not.
Phoenix, AZ
47 facilities on the state's live lookup, in a $1.07 billion year. Few doors, enormous stakes behind each one.
Minneapolis, MN
24 licensed businesses in the country's newest market, up from a certified zero on January 1, 2025.

Medical-only markets

Retail limited to registered patients
Florida
939,639 patients and 776 dispensing locations, with one operator running 170 of them.
How these are built

What makes a market guide worth reading

Most agency location pages are the same page with the state name swapped. They cite nothing, date nothing, and tell an operator less than five minutes on their own state agency's website would.

Ours start from a facts file per state: license counts pulled from the state cannabis authority, tax rates from the department of revenue, and local-control rules from the agency that administers them. Each fact carries a source URL and the date it was retrieved, and the page shows both. Where we cannot source something, the guide says so rather than filling the gap with a confident-sounding number.

That discipline is not decoration. Cannabis tax rates and license counts change mid-year, and we have already found a state tax page publishing a rate its own agency had superseded a year earlier. A statistic with no date is a statistic you cannot act on.

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