How many cannabis dispensaries are in California, and which platforms do they list on?
As of 12 October 2026, fuzzy tracks 1,197 California dispensary menus on Dutchie and Jane. California's own license registry lists 1,267 active retail storefronts as of 1 October 2026. The two numbers are not the same thing: stores that sell only through a menu we do not scan, or that have no public menu, are not in the first.
1,197
California menus tracked on Dutchie and Jane
Counts menus we could read. A floor, not a census.
1,267
Active retail storefront licenses in the state registry
As of 1 October 2026. A license is not an open store with a public menu.
4,069
Brands seen on those menus
Brand names as listed on menus, before any cleanup of spelling variants.
What the 1,197 covers
fuzzy reads public menus on two platforms, Dutchie and Jane, and nowhere else. A California store that lists only on another platform, on its own site, or not at all is outside the count. That is why 1,197 sits below 1,267 and why we call it a floor.
Why the two numbers differ
The state registry counts licenses. We count menus. A licensed storefront can be closed, new, delivery-only, or listed somewhere we do not scan. We have not matched the registry to menus store by store for this edition, so we cannot say how many of the 70 stores in the gap fall into each case.
Which platforms are included
Both scans finished on 12 October 2026, Dutchie at 08:38 UTC and Jane at 05:58 UTC. This edition does not split the 1,197 by platform, because a store can list on both and we count it once.
Questions
How many dispensaries are in California?
fuzzy tracks 1,197 California dispensary menus on Dutchie and Jane as of 12 October 2026. California's license registry lists 1,267 active retail storefronts as of 1 October 2026. Our count leaves out stores that list only elsewhere or have no public menu.
Why is the fuzzy count lower than the license count?
Licenses and menus are different things. A licensed storefront may be closed, delivery-only, new, or listed on a platform fuzzy does not scan. We have not matched the two lists store by store.
Which platforms does fuzzy read?
Dutchie and Jane, nationwide. Not Weedmaps, not Leafly, and not a store's own site.
Where these figures came from
- GET https://api.fuzzy.so/api/radar/markets/CA, pulled 2026-10-12: menusTracked, brandCount, licensedStorefronts, licensedAsOfDate, dataAsOf.platforms[].lastScrapedAt
How counts are made and where they stop: methodology.