Cannabis ecommerce built for your state.
Every state writes its own rules for menus, advertising, age gates, delivery, and data retention. These guides explain what the regulator actually says — and how Buddy builds a storefront that respects it.
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Arizona
Arizona replaced its cannabis advertising statute on July 1, 2026: a 73.6% audience test, a mandatory warning, and an age-gated tier that sits outside it.
Read the guideColorado
Colorado rules reach into the menu itself: no price before a store is chosen, an acknowledged in-cart disclosure, and MED advertising limits. Here is how.
Read the guideFlorida
Florida is the largest medical-only cannabis market in the country: 940,000 patients, 778 dispensing locations, roughly two dozen operators. Built for that.
Read the guideIllinois
Illinois dispensaries must purge purchaser data within 24 hours, cannot sell menu placement, and cannot deliver. Here is how to build a storefront for it.
Read the guideMassachusetts
Massachusetts requires a website age gate by rule and sets an 85% adult-audience bar for advertising. Here is what that means for a cannabis storefront.
Read the guideMichigan
Cannabis ecommerce built for Michigan retailers: CRA-aware compliance, Metrc-connected POS sync, and server-rendered product pages on your own domain.
Read the guideNew York
New York licensed a market of independents: 331 microbusinesses, 348 CAURD licensees, 655+ open dispensaries. Storefront tooling built for them.
Read the guideOhio
Ohio treats your site as regulated advertising: DCC pre-approval on a 21-business-day clock, a split 18+/21+ age gate, the DCC seal, and no effect claims.
Read the guideWashington
Washington bans online cannabis sales, so the website's job is discovery. See what Buddy does and does not do for a Washington retailer under LCB rules.
Read the guideFAQ
Cannabis ecommerce by state, answered.
Why do cannabis rules change so much from state to state?
Cannabis is regulated state by state rather than nationally, so each program writes its own rules for how a licensed business may advertise, what a menu can show, who has to be verified before seeing it, and whether an order can be completed online at all. Two neighbouring states can take opposite positions on the same question, and each one is enforced by its own regulator.
Why does that change what a dispensary website needs?
Because most of those rules land on the website rather than the store. The wording on a page, whether a price appears before a location is chosen, how age is verified, what a promotion may say, and how long customer data is kept are all site-level decisions. A storefront built for one state's rules is not automatically publishable in another, which is why Buddy treats these settings as configuration rather than custom work.
Does Buddy work in states that are not listed here?
Yes. These guides cover the markets we have written up so far, not the markets we serve. Buddy is live in about 24 hours and the compliance-related settings are configured per store, so a licensed retailer or brand in a state without a guide is set up the same way. Talk to sales and we will walk through your market's requirements before launch.
How does a multi-state operator handle different rules in each market?
Per-location configuration. One Buddy account can run storefronts in several states, with the age gate behaviour, promotional content, menu presentation and data settings applied per location rather than site-wide. Brand, catalog and reporting stay unified, so the operator manages one platform instead of one website per state.
Need a state that is not listed yet?
Buddy is live in about 24 hours and ships with state-aware defaults. Talk to sales and we will map the rules for your market.
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