CANNABIS NEWZ
Markets / California
OFFICIAL STATE FILINGS

California cannabis market

Adult-useSales figures below come straight from CDTFA open data portal (tax return data) and refresh nightly.
California newsroom →Legal status →
Latest quarterly sales
$956.7M
state files quarterly, not monthly
2026 sales to date
$956.7M
sum of reported quarters
vs prior quarter
-2.8%
quarter-over-quarter
Licensed retailers
1,261
from the official roster

Quarterly sales

QuarterRetail salesyr/yr
Q1 2026$956.7M-2.0%
Q4 2025$984.5M-3.9%
Q3 2025$945.6M-8.4%
Q2 2025$992.6M-8.0%
Q1 2025$976.5M-8.9%
Q4 2024$1.02B-5.2%
Q3 2024$1.03B-7.2%
Q2 2024$1.08B-5.2%
Q1 2024$1.07B-4.0%
Q4 2023$1.08B
Q3 2023$1.11B
Q2 2023$1.14B
What this number is: QUARTERLY retail sales reported by tax filers — never ranked against monthly states. Published by CDTFA open data portal (tax return data); files ~1 quarter behind. The current (incomplete) month is never shown.

Licensed operators

Retail / dispensing
1,261
active licenses
Cultivation
4,414
active licenses
Manufacturing
446
active licenses
Testing labs
17
active licenses
From the state's official roster, synced nightly · browse every California licensee →
Citing this data? Credit “Cannabis Newz, compiled from CDTFA open data portal (tax return data)” and link to this page — it refreshes nightly from the same official sources.