Programme status
Adult-use and medical, on tribal land only, under Cherokee Code ch. 17. Medical sales opened April 2024; adult-use sales to all adults from 7 September 2024. The sole operator is Great Smoky Cannabis Co., run by tribally-owned Qualla Enterprises LLC.
What is not published
- No published statistics of any kind.
- No public-records lever exists — this is a sovereign jurisdiction, not a state agency.
Why there is no page here
A sovereign tribal market inside a prohibition state. It is listed under its own name and NEVER folded into North Carolina: doing so would imply that a state with no legal sales has them, and would corrupt any per-capita or state-map figure it touched.
Sovereign jurisdiction
This is a sovereign tribal market, listed under its own name. It is never folded into a state total, a state map or a per-capita figure, and no figure on this site attributes it to North Carolina.
Why this page exists at all
Every US cannabis jurisdiction gets an entry on this site, including the ones with nothing to chart. A jurisdiction that is simply missing looks like an oversight; a jurisdiction whose absence is stated, sourced and dated is a finding. This site is a record of what governments publish, and that record has to include what they do not.
Nothing on this page is an estimate. Where a figure exists in press coverage, a law-firm summary or budget testimony but not in a published government artifact, it is named as unusable rather than repeated.