NJ Cannabis Data Hub: Dispensaries, Sales & Tax

NJ Culture Desk · Data HubLast updated October 5, 2026

Every number New Jersey smokers, reporters and town councils keep asking about, in one place: how many legal dispensaries are open, what the market sells, what Trenton collects in tax, which towns said yes to retail and what the Cannabis Regulatory Commission does next. Each figure links to its source and carries an “as of” date. We refresh it weekly.

NJ cannabis by the numbers

The quick read. Hard counts come from the CRC. Where we added CRC figures together, the card says “TSR sum.”

Adult-use sales: monthly and by year

New Jersey’s legal market opened on April 21, 2022. 2025 was the first full year above $1.1 billion. The biggest month in CRC data so far is May 2026 at $116.4M.

Taxes and fees on NJ cannabis

Three layers hit a legal purchase: the state sales tax at the register, an optional municipal transfer tax, and the SEEF, a per-ounce fee cultivators pay at wholesale. From 2022 through 2025 the state collected $190.6M in adult-use sales tax and $18.3M in SEEF (TSR sum of CRC certified totals).

The CRC’s June 2026 report estimates the SEEF will bring in about $12.4M in fiscal 2026. That’s the CRC’s estimate, not actual collections. CRC 2026 SEEF report

Dispensaries by county: all 21 counties

Hudson County has the most adult-use storefronts (35), led by Jersey City with 25. Measured by dollars, Camden County leads with 10.16% of statewide sales in June 2026. Dispensary counts are TSR’s tally of the CRC finder map by county. The sales share comes straight from CRC slides.

Where retail is allowed: municipal opt-ins

Every New Jersey town decides for itself. Of the state’s 564 municipalities, the CRC’s opt-in table lists 233 that allow at least one type of cannabis business and 176 that allow retail dispensaries (Class 5). That leaves 388 towns with no retail: 331 that aren’t on the opt-in list at all, plus 57 that allow other license types but not storefronts. In practice, 143 towns host at least one adult-use dispensary on the CRC map. 14 of those towns aren’t marked as allowing retail in the CRC table (5 of them host medical dispensaries that expanded into adult-use), so treat the table as a floor, not a final word.

Prices: what flower costs per gram

Prices keep falling. The CRC’s average adult-use bud/flower price per gram was $6.51 in June 2026, down 21.8% from a year earlier. This is market data, not a shopping guide. TSR sells apparel only.

Market snapshot, June 2026

3,469,103 combined medical and adult-use transactions, up 26% year over year. Registered medical patients: 42,984 as of September 15, 2026 (CRC).

Consumption lounges

New Jersey opened the East Coast’s first legal cannabis consumption lounges in July 2025. Each one needs a CRC endorsement and the host town’s approval.

Regulatory timeline

What’s next: CRC meetings and pending rules

Pending and unsettled

• Home grow: Still illegal for adult-use consumers. S2564 (Senate Judiciary) and A4576 (Assembly Oversight) would allow six plants per adult, 12 per household; no committee action is listed beyond referral. New Jersey Legislature · New Jersey Legislature
• Consumption lounges: Endorsements are approved one at a time at CRC meetings; towns must also approve. Five lounges are reported open. NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission · Heady NJ
• SEEF rate for 2027: CRC reviews the fee every year; the 2026 rate was set Dec 17, 2025. No 2027 decision yet. NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission · NJ Treasury, Division of Taxation
• 2026 tax totals: CRC has not posted Q1 or Q2 2026 certified sales, tax or SEEF totals. NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission

Watching the Oct 29 meeting? Our desk previews it in SEEF Tax Watch: what the Oct 29 CRC meeting means for NJ shelf prices.

Upcoming NJ cannabis events

Only events that haven’t happened yet, pulled from The Wire, our daily NJ cannabis board. 21+ where noted. Check the organizer’s page before you go.

Related coverage from the desk

• The Wire: daily NJ cannabis headlines and events
• SEEF Tax Watch: what the Oct 29 CRC meeting means for NJ shelf prices
• CRC Oct 29 countdown: Trenton week
• The Great Weed Tax Promise: where NJ’s cannabis millions go
• NJ home grow arrest and the Statehouse silence
• TSR Dispensary Report: The Apothecarium, Maplewood
• Cars & Cannabis at Showboat: the packing list

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FAQ

Sources & methodology

TSR's compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0. Reuse with credit to The Stoner Review and a link to this page. Underlying figures come from the NJ CRC and NJ Treasury.

• Dispensary counts: we pulled every location on the CRC’s public finder map on October 5, 2026 and counted those tagged or categorized as recreational (adult-use). We placed each one in a county with U.S. Census 2023 municipal boundary files. Delivery-only services are not counted.
• Sales: yearly figures are the CRC’s certified quarterly totals. 2026 monthly figures are uncertified Metrc numbers from CRC meeting slides and can be revised. All-time and year-to-date totals are TSR sums of those CRC figures. They’re arithmetic, not estimates.
• Tax: “state sales tax” is the CRC’s “Recreational Tax Revenue” column. The SEEF is the CRC’s “Social Equity Excise Fees” column. Rates come from NJ Treasury.
• Data-quality calls on the dispensary count: the CRC map had 329 pins on October 5, 2026. We removed one duplicate (an untagged second pin for NJ Leaf Aberdeen at the same address and website). The map lists two different shops, Conservatory Cannabis Company and City Leaves, at 2516 Fire Rd in Egg Harbor Township; we count both, as the CRC lists them. Central Jersey Dispensary (2 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Somerset 08873) is counted in Somerset County (Franklin Township) by its street address, although its CRC map pin sits inside Jamesburg (Middlesex). Headline number: 327 operating on the map; the CRC’s 350 licensed-to-operate count is shown as a note because licensed doesn’t always mean open.
• Third-party data (Headset) is labeled wherever it appears and kept out of the CRC tables.
• Gaps: anything the CRC hasn’t published yet is marked “not yet published.” We don’t fill holes with guesses.
• Refresh: the desk updates this page weekly. Spot an error? Use the contact page and we’ll fix it.

Sources

1. NJ-CRC: Find a Licensed Cannabis Dispensary (interactive map), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
2. NJ-CRC: Reports (license awards, patient counts, quarterly sales), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
3. NJ-CRC: Cannabis Sales Totals 2022–2025 (quarterly, certified), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
4. NJ-CRC public meeting slides, July 16, 2026 (sales, county share, price per gram), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
5. NJ-CRC public meeting slides, August 6, 2026 (businesses licensed to operate), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
6. NJ-CRC public meeting slides, September 9, 2026 (licensing update), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
7. NJ-CRC public meeting slides, June 18, 2026 (Xena NJ consumption area endorsement), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
8. NJ-CRC public meeting slides, March 31, 2026 (Blazin Buddiez consumption area endorsement), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
9. NJ-CRC: Public Meetings (schedule, agendas, slides), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
10. NJ-CRC legal notice: Special Public Meeting, Oct 5, 2026, NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
11. NJ-CRC: Government Relations, Municipalities Opted-In to Adult-Use Cannabis Market, NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
12. NJ-CRC: Robust, trouble-free first day of adult-use sales in New Jersey (Apr 21, 2022), NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
13. NJ-CRC Resolution 2025-12-17-02: 2026 Social Equity Excise Fee, NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
14. NJ-CRC 2026 Recommendations to Legislature for Social Equity Investment, NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Accessed October 5, 2026.
15. NJ Division of Taxation: Social Equity Excise Fee (SEEF), NJ Treasury, Division of Taxation. Accessed October 5, 2026.
16. NJ Division of Taxation TB-104(R): Recreational Cannabis and Licensed Cannabis Establishments, NJ Treasury, Division of Taxation. Accessed October 5, 2026.
17. NJ Division of Taxation: Sales and Use Tax (6.625%), NJ Treasury, Division of Taxation. Accessed October 5, 2026.
18. NJ Legislature S2564 (2026): home grow, up to six plants, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed October 5, 2026.
19. NJ Legislature A4576 (2026): home grow companion bill, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed October 5, 2026.
20. Headset: New Jersey Cannabis Sales (Aug 2026 snapshot), Headset (third-party POS panel). Accessed October 5, 2026.
21. Marijuana Herald: NJ sales $101.2M in July 2026 (Headset data), The Marijuana Herald. Accessed October 5, 2026.
22. Philadelphia Inquirer: East Coast’s first recreational weed lounges open in South Jersey (Aug 6, 2025), Philadelphia Inquirer. Accessed October 5, 2026.
23. Heady NJ: JC Mayor celebrates Xena Dispensary cannabis lounge opening (Oct 2, 2026), Heady NJ. Accessed October 5, 2026.

Last updated: October 5, 2026 · Data file version 2026-10-05. Cite as: The Stoner Review, “New Jersey Cannabis Data Hub,” https://thestonerreview.com/pages/nj-cannabis-data (accessed October 5, 2026).