At a glance
How much was dispensed
Florida meters its market in milligrams of active tetrahydrocannabinol, because that is what the statute meters. This is not a weight of cannabis and it cannot be converted into one — a milligram of THC in a vape cartridge and a milligram in an edible come from very different amounts of plant.
Milligrams of THC dispensed per week
There is no dollar figure on this page, and that is not an omission. The Office of Medical Marijuana Use publishes what was dispensed, not what it sold for, and no official Florida revenue, price or tax figure exists in the weekly updates or in the annual report. Figures that circulate in trade press for the size of the Florida market come from commercial aggregators; they are not state data and are not shown here.
The weeks are the regulator's own. Each edition names the window it covers, and those windows do not line up with calendar months, so there is no monthly view of Florida on this site — splitting a week across a month boundary would invent figures the regulator never published.
The headline and the at-a-glance figure present this same series in kilograms of THC, because the raw weekly milligram figure is too large to read at a glance. The state data file derives the kilograms from the milligrams with the formula recorded — and a kilogram of THC is still active ingredient, not a kilogram of product.
Smokable flower
The one product form Florida reports by weight. Smokable flower was not always dispensable in Florida and the column that reports it does not exist in the earlier editions, so the line starts where the regulator's own table starts — the weeks before it are drawn as holes with that reason, not as zeros.
Ounces of marijuana in a form for smoking, per week
Ounces of flower and milligrams of THC are two different measurements of two different things and cannot be added together or converted into one another. The regulator publishes them as separate columns and this page keeps them separate.
Who the market serves
Florida runs the largest medical cannabis registry in the country. This is a count of cards that are currently active — a stock, not a running total of everyone ever registered — so it falls whenever cards lapse faster than they are issued. A dip is the register working, not a collection failure.
Qualified patients holding an active ID card
The count is printed beside each edition's publication date and is a snapshot taken then, not a figure for the dispensing week it sits next to. The state data file records how far apart those two dates run.
Because it is a count of active cards, it is the same kind of measure as Maryland's registered-patient figure and not the same kind as Washington DC's cumulative registrations. Only the first pair may share an axis.
Where you can buy
Approved dispensing premises, not licences. Florida's treatment centres are vertically integrated — one licensee cultivates, processes and dispenses — so a single company can run dozens of storefronts and this number is far larger than a licence count would be.
Approved dispensing locations
The regulator's own footnote states that the total is current as of noon Eastern on the date at the top of the weekly update, and that a location approved after then appears in the following update. It is a snapshot at publication, and the state data file carries the footnote verbatim.
Some treatment centres show a marker rather than a count. Trustee entities that hold a licence and operate nothing, and centres that dispense only by delivery, are drawn as holes with their own reason instead of as zero locations.
Questions about this data
Why is there no revenue figure for Florida?
Because Florida does not publish one. The Office of Medical Marijuana Use reports how much was dispensed, in milligrams of THC and in ounces of smokable flower, and reports no money at all in the weekly updates — not revenue, not average price, not tax. The annual report does not carry one either. Market-size figures for Florida that appear in trade press come from commercial data vendors rather than from the state, so this site does not present them as official.
Why are the charts weekly when other states are monthly?
Because Florida's source is weekly. Each update names the window it covers, and those windows do not nest inside calendar months. Turning them into months would mean splitting a week at a month boundary and apportioning it, which invents figures the regulator never published. Florida therefore has no monthly view here and does not appear on the site's monthly comparisons.
What does a milligram of THC actually measure?
The active ingredient, not the product. Florida's statute meters dispensing by milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol, so a milligram is the same amount of THC whether it arrived in a vape cartridge, a capsule or a tincture — but the amount of plant behind it is not the same. Milligrams cannot be converted into grams of cannabis, and this site does not try.
Why do some treatment centres show no figure at all?
The regulator prints a marker instead of a number in three situations, and this site keeps them apart from a genuine zero. Some centres hold a licence and operate nothing. Some dispense only by delivery, so a count of storefronts does not apply. And in some rows the regulator simply prints no figure without saying why. A centre that genuinely dispensed nothing shows a real zero, because that is what the regulator published.
Are any weeks missing?
Yes, and they are drawn as holes rather than skipped. Where two consecutive editions are more than a week apart, the regulator published nothing for the weeks in between; those weeks appear on the axis with every value marked as not published rather than being closed up, which would make the market look busier than it was. One window is also printed twice in two different editions, and the state data file records that.
How current is this?
Very. Florida publishes an update days after the week it covers, which makes it one of the freshest sources on this site. The banner above the charts gives the latest week actually published together with how long after that week it appeared, and both figures come from the documents themselves on every build.
Where these figures come from
Sourcing, basis and comparabilityMedical only, under a vertically integrated licence: an MMTC cultivates, processes and dispenses. OMMU reports dispensation in milligrams of active ingredient, which is what the statute meters, rather than in dollars or in product weight - the one exception being marijuana in a form for smoking, which is reported in ounces.
Basis — Milligrams of THC and ounces of smokable flower dispensed in the week the edition names
- Measurement
- measured
- Money
- not_applicable
- Tax
- not_applicable
- Period
- week
- Scope
- retail_only
- Geography
- statewide
- Channels
- medical
- Rounding
- Milligram figures are printed as whole milligrams and ounces to three decimal places.
The regulator's own words: Every edition that reports a dispensation week prints both endpoints of that window. The start endpoint falls on a Friday in 433 of 444 such editions; the end endpoint falls on a Thursday in 408 and on a Friday in 35 of them. The wording changed over the years, and the endpoint it moved is the closing one: the start endpoint keeps one weekday in 433 of those editions and the end endpoint keeps its own in 408, so the key is the start endpoint.
Basis — Kilograms of THC dispensed in the week the edition names, restated from OMMU's milligram figure
- Measurement
- derived
- Money
- not_applicable
- Tax
- not_applicable
- Period
- week
- Scope
- retail_only
- Geography
- statewide
- Channels
- medical
- Rounding
- Carried to six decimal places, which is exact for whole-milligram inputs.
Derivation. kg_thc_dispensed = mg_thc_dispensed / 1,000,000 Error: Exact arithmetic: the milligram figures are printed as whole milligrams, so the division by the metric factor is carried to six decimal places and loses nothing..
Unit conversion. mg_thc → kg, factor 1e-06, defined in The SI milli- and kilo- prefixes: one kilogram is one million milligrams by definition (BIPM SI Brochure). A definition rather than a source-read constant, which is why constants_from_source is false..
Basis — Qualified patients holding an active identification card, as at publication
- Measurement
- measured
- Money
- not_applicable
- Tax
- not_applicable
- Period
- point_in_time
- Scope
- unstated
- Geography
- statewide
- Channels
- medical
The regulator's own words: The count is printed on the first page of each edition beside the publication date, and this build takes it as a snapshot at that date rather than as a figure for the dispensation week: measured over every edition that reports one, publication falls 1 day after the end of the week the same page reports in 408 of 444 editions, 0 days in 35 and 8 days in 1.
Why an axis above reads unstated: `scope` describes which tiers of trade a money or volume figure covers, and a registry count measures none of them. It is recorded as unstated rather than borrowed from the dispensation basis, because a patient is not a tier. An undocumented basis is a gap to be labelled, never filled in with the most likely answer.
Basis — Approved dispensing locations, as at publication
- Measurement
- measured
- Money
- not_applicable
- Tax
- not_applicable
- Period
- point_in_time
- Scope
- retail_only
- Geography
- statewide
- Channels
- medical
The regulator's own words: The total number of dispensing locations listed in the “MMTC Dispensations” table is current as of 12:00 p.m. ET on the date indicated at the top of this Weekly Update. OMMU prints that footnote in 173 of the 491 mirrored editions, and it is why this count sits on its own basis rather than on the dispensation week's.
Sources 1
| Role | Source | Format | From | Last verified | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | OMMU Weekly Update (PDF) Florida Department of Health, Office of Medical Marijuana Use | 2016-05-04 | 2026-09-05 | One PDF a week. The mirror holds 491 editions discovered through 11 yearly index pages plus the hub, of which 382 carry a per-MMTC dispensation table and 62 carry only the earlier statewide dispensation lines. |
Why each marker above says what it says
| Metric | Marker | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Retail sales | Not like-for-like | Florida publishes no retail sales figure of any kind, so it carries no line on this chart and no substitute is offered. A full-text sweep of all 491 mirrored editions for a currency symbol and for the words dollar, revenue, sales tax, price and excise returned 0 matches; the same pass over the same bytes found 1842 occurrences of its control term, so the sweep was reading the documents rather than reading nothing. The `basis` and `tax` flags below read `unstated`, which this enum offers as its weakest value; the basis block they point at says `not_applicable`, which is the truer word and is not among the flag enum's members. Read the basis block, not the flags - and nothing does read them, because the status is cannot_join and the fields array is empty. |
| Medical / adult-use split | Single-channel market | Medical only. There is no licensed adult-use channel in Florida, so a 100% medical share is a category rather than a score and this state is not a data point in a medical-share ranking. |
| Price per gram | Not like-for-like | No price can be derived from these fields: a price needs a dollar figure and a quantity for the same thing, and Florida publishes only the quantity. There is also no weight to divide by for anything except smokable flower - the rest of the market is metered in milligrams of active ingredient. |
| Per capita | Partly comparable | Florida's per-capita figures are milligrams of THC, ounces of smokable flower and patients per resident - never dollars, because these fields carry none. They may not be read beside another state's dollars-per-resident line. Florida reports weekly and nothing coarser, and its weeks do not nest inside calendar months, so it cannot appear on a monthly axis at all. Every edition that reports a dispensation week prints both endpoints of that window. The start endpoint falls on a Friday in 433 of 444 such editions; the end endpoint falls on a Thursday in 408 and on a Friday in 35 of them. |
| Patient counts | Partly comparable | Florida's measure is a point-in-time count of active cards, which matches Maryland's active stock and not Washington DC's cumulative registrations. It is published weekly and as at the publication date, so a Florida point is a snapshot taken at publication rather than at the end of the dispensation week it is filed under: publication falls 1 day after the end of the week the same page reports in 408 of 444 editions, 0 days in 35 and 8 days in 1. Florida reports weekly and nothing coarser, and its weeks do not nest inside calendar months, so it cannot appear on a monthly axis at all. Every edition that reports a dispensation week prints both endpoints of that window. The start endpoint falls on a Friday in 433 of 444 such editions; the end endpoint falls on a Thursday in 408 and on a Friday in 35 of them. |
| Licence counts | Partly comparable | Florida counts approved dispensing premises, not licences. Its MMTCs are vertically integrated, so one licensee operates many locations and this number is far larger than a licence count would be. The count is as at the publication date, on the regulator's own footnote. |
| Tax revenue | Not like-for-like | No cannabis tax figure appears in any weekly update or in the annual report, so there is nothing to place on this axis and nothing is inferred. |
What is checked on every run 2
| Check | Kind | Last result |
|---|---|---|
| OMMU prints a per-MMTC table and its own Total row, which is an independent decomposition of every figure this file publishes. | identity | Across the 382 editions that print both a per-MMTC table and its own Total row, the rows sum to the printed Total in every column in 369 of them; 13 editions differ in at least one column. Largest residual seen per column: locations -2.0 in the edition published 2025-03-28; mg_thc 40000.0 in the edition published 2025-10-03; mg_cbd -1598.0 in the edition published 2020-09-11; oz 133.675 in the edition published 2022-06-10. |
| The 62 editions that predate the per-MMTC table print statewide dispensation figures and nothing to check them against. | unchecked | Not cross-checked. The two forms never appear in the same edition (0 editions carry both), so there is no independent decomposition for that era and this file says so rather than implying the whole series is cross-checked. |
The regulator's own notes, and what is still open
The regulator's own notes
The total number of dispensing locations listed in the “MMTC Dispensations” table is current as of 12:00 p.m. ET on the date indicated at the top of this Weekly Update.
— OMMU Weekly Update, footnote to the MMTC Dispensations table
Medical marijuana is dispensed in milligrams of active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and low-THC cannabis is dispensed in milligrams of active ingredient cannabidiol (CBD).
— OMMU Weekly Update, Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers section
MMTCs are vertically integrated businesses, and are the only businesses authorized to cultivate, process, and dispense low-THC cannabis and medical marijuana.
— OMMU Weekly Update, Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers section
Open questions on this data
Unresolved definitional questions that gate something. Listed because a question nobody can see is a question nobody closes.
- Should the schema's unit vocabulary carry milligrams of cannabidiol, so that OMMU's low-THC column can be a charted series rather than travelling inside the per-MMTC roster? Closing it needs: An estate decision on the unit enum. Until then the figures are published in detail.weekly, because declaring them mg_thc would be a false unit on a shipped field.