Cannabis Wise Guys · Data
The states already collect this data.
We make it legible.
Almost every legal cannabis market runs on a compliance-testing record. Every package that reaches a shelf was tested, logged, and filed with the state. That record is a public record. It belongs to the people who paid for the program — and most of them have never seen it.
I built this because the data should be public, and because transparency is the entire point. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. The numbers the states already hold tell you who is testing, where the volume sits, and how a market actually behaves once the rules are set — but only if someone takes the raw export and makes it readable.
Whether a state allows vertical integration, how many licenses it issues, and how much of the market it lets any single operator control — these structural choices shape a market long before it opens.
That is what this property is for. Not a case against any regulator or any company. A clear look at the structure each state built, drawn entirely from the state's own record, so anyone can read it for themselves.
Four states, four records
Each one is a complete, deduplicated read of the state's compliance-testing data. Pick a state.
Twenty-one incumbent cultivators, 88.1% of 2025 tested flower.
Twenty-one cultivation centers licensed under the old medical program still produce 88.1% of tested flower in 2025. The capped craft tier holds 11.8%.
Cleartext — operators and labs named exactly as the state filed them. Sep 2021 – Feb 2026.
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New Jersey's first three years of testing, in full.
New Jersey is three years old. The top ten facilities test 48.5% of all volume, and fifteen of its 133 facilities have gone dark.
De-identified by design — labs and facilities are coded (labs A–H), not named. A deliberate methodology choice, not a gap. Jan 2023 – Dec 2025.
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Six years of Nevada's record: 237 named producers.
Half a million tests, 237 named producers. The cohort that held the market in 2020 has fallen from 100% of tested volume to about 68% by the start of 2025. A sharp 2025 data break follows: several labs drop out of the state's record mid-year.
Cleartext — producers and labs named exactly as the state filed them. Jan 2020 – Feb 2026.
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Six and a half years of an uncapped market: operators climbed to 1,240, then fell to 613.
Oregon caps no licenses. Active operators rose to 1,240 in 2021, then fell to 613 by the first half of 2025. Across the labs that handle the most flower, median flower THC runs from 22.12% to 25.19%.
De-identified at the source — operators and labs carried by numeric ID, shown as Lab 1–28. Jul 2019 – Jun 2025 (2025 is January–June only).
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More states as the records come in.
What is cannabis compliance testing data?
In almost every legal cannabis market, each package must be lab-tested before it reaches a shelf — screened for potency and contaminants, then logged and filed with the state regulator. Those filings are public records. This catalog collects them, deduplicates them to the package level, and presents each state's record on its own page. It currently covers 1,132,583 tested records across four states:
- Illinois — 100,647 packages, 42 named operators, 6 named labs (September 2021 – February 2026).
- New Jersey — 72,098 packages, 133 facilities, 8 coded labs (January 2023 – December 2025).
- Nevada — 513,539 packages, 237 named producers, 10 named labs (January 2020 – February 2026).
- Oregon — 446,299 samples, 2,138 operators, 28 labs, de-identified by numeric ID (July 2019 – June 2025; 2025 is January–June only).
We didn't investigate these states. We made their own data legible.
Every number on this property is the state's own public record — obtained through public-records requests, deduplicated to the package level, and nothing more. No private feeds, no estimates, no modeling. The full datasets are free to download on each state's page, so you can check the work yourself.
Built and maintained by Max Jackson, Cannabis Wise Guys — former licensed cannabis cultivator. cannabiswiseguys.com
Frequently asked questions
The short version: every number on this site is a state's own public record. Nothing is added, nothing is estimated. Here's how it works.
Where does this data come from?
Every record comes from a state regulator's own compliance-testing files, obtained through public-records (FOIA) requests. The processing is deduplication down to the individual package or sample, so each test is counted once, and filtering to completed compliance tests — every exclusion is listed on that state's methodology page. Nothing is added, nothing is estimated, nothing is modeled. Every step is subtractive: it removes or collapses rows, never invents them. The record you see is the state's own.
Is it free? Can I cite or republish it?
Yes. Every dataset is free to download. The work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC 4.0), which means anyone can download, analyze, and republish it for non-commercial use as long as the source is credited. Found something that looks wrong? Send a correction to max@cannabiswiseguys.com.
Why are some states named (Illinois, Nevada) and others coded (New Jersey, Oregon)?
Because each state is shown exactly as that state released it. Illinois and Nevada release cleartext records with operators and labs named, so they appear named here. New Jersey de-identifies its data by design, filing labs as A through H and coding facilities, so that is how it appears. Oregon arrives de-identified at the source, carried as numeric IDs (Lab 1 through Lab 28). I don't de-identify named data, and I don't re-identify coded data anywhere on this site. This is a difference in what each state chooses to make public, not a gap in the data.
How current is the data, and is it updated?
Coverage runs through the most recent records each state has released: Illinois through February 2026, New Jersey through December 2025, Nevada through February 2026, and Oregon through June 2025 (Oregon's 2025 covers January through June only). New records are added as states release them and as new public-records requests are fulfilled, and additional states are added as their records come in. There is no fixed update schedule, and each state's coverage ends where its released record ends.
What does cannabis "compliance testing" actually measure?
Before a package can reach a retail shelf, a sample is sent to a licensed lab and tested for potency (cannabinoids such as THC) and for contaminants (pesticides, microbials, heavy metals, residual solvents, and others). The result is recorded as a pass or fail and filed with the state regulator. That filing is the record this site is built from. One caveat: labs test for both potency and contaminants, but which of those fields ends up in a state's public record varies by state. Not every state releases every field — Nevada's released record, for example, doesn't include usable potency values — so what you'll find on each state page reflects what that state chose to make public.
Did you investigate these companies, or accuse anyone of anything?
No. This is not an investigation, and it is not an accusation. The states generated the data; I made it legible. The site shows the structure each state built, drawn entirely from that state's own record. Any conclusion is yours to draw.
How do I download the raw data?
Each state has its own page with a download section containing the full dataset as CSV (some of the larger files are compressed). It's free, and there's no signup.