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The legal position and, where the regulator publishes it, the legal market: sales, prices and licences, each with its month and source.
Massachusetts
Adult use has been legal since 2016; medical use is allowed too.
Draft status (9 Oct 2026), not yet checked against the knowledge base · See it on the map
Official figures
Adult-use sales in a month
$139.3m · Sept 2026
+3% on Sept 2025
Medical sales in a month
$11.2m · Sept 2026
−7% on Sept 2025
Medical share of all sales
7.4% · Sept 2026
−0.7 points on Sept 2025
Average shop price per gram
$3.78 a gram · Sept 2026
−73% since Nov 2018
Active business licences
943 · as at 26 Oct 2026
Licence applications approved, all time
1,741 · as at 3 Nov 2026
Licence applications awaiting a decision
256 · as at 3 Nov 2026
Adult-use sales by product · Sept 2026
- Flower$57.2m · 41%
- Vapes$30.9m · 22%
- Pre-rolls$29.1m · 21%
- Edibles$13.4m · 10%
- Concentrates$6.8m · 5%
- Other (topicals, seeds, plants)$1.1m · 1%
- Drinks$901k · 1%
Active licences by type · as at 26 Oct 2026
- Shops (retailers)457 · 48%
- Growers (cultivators)158 · 17%
- Product makers146 · 15%
- Medical treatment centres92 · 10%
- Delivery operators25 · 3%
- Microbusinesses24 · 3%
- Delivery couriers19 · 2%
- Testing labs10 · 1%
- Transporters9 · 1%
- Craft cooperatives2 · 0%
- Research facilities1 · 0%
Source:
- Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission open data, updated 26 Oct 2026
Monthly figures are whole months; sales include delivery. Counts are as at the date each list was last updated.
California
The first medical state (1996); voters legalised adult use in 2016 with Proposition 64.
Draft status (9 Oct 2026), not yet checked against the knowledge base · See it on the map
Not published
Green Ark doesn’t have official sales or licensing figures for California yet. We add places as their regulators publish open data.
Information, not legal advice. Figures are as published by each regulator.