Street cannabis runs about $100/oz above legal retail in the 24 states with both prices

Asked: US cannabis prices by state, official and street — read “official” as legal dispensary retail (2026, 24 recreational markets) and “street” as crowdsourced informal-market prices (PriceOfWeed data, page dated March 2022, all 50 states + DC). All figures are nominal US dollars per ounce of flower. The sources differ in date, quality mix and method, so gaps are directional benchmarks, not a measured premium.

legal retail flower, 2026 street high quality, 2022 street medium quality, 2022 grey band = legal-to-street-high spread; states without a green dot have no legal recreational market

Every one of the 24 legal markets shows street high-quality above legal retail; the unweighted mean gap is $101/oz, widest in Missouri (+$153) and Michigan (+$152), narrowest in Montana (+$62). cannabismarketcap.io

Legal retail spans $105 in Oregon to $275 in New York; Oregon, Washington and Michigan are the cheapest legal markets, New York, Virginia and Connecticut the priciest. cannabismarketcap.io

Street prices are highest where no legal market existed in 2022 data: North Dakota tops the list at $386/oz high quality, while Oregon is cheapest at $206. ilovegrowingmarijuana.com

The legal-retail source also cites a ~$168 national average — likely weighted or differently computed, since the simple mean of its 24 displayed state rows is about $206/oz. cannabismarketcap.io

All 51 rows, dollars per ounce

State	Legal retail 2026	Street high 2022	Street medium 2022	Street − legal	Legal tax	Sources

Legal retail: Cannabis Price Index 2026 (cannabismarketcap.io), average dispensary flower price per ounce across the 24 US states with legal recreational sales; medical prices and concentrate values were cut for space. Street: PriceOfWeed crowdsourced prices republished by I Love Growing Marijuana, page dated 2022-03-01, observation period unstated; low-quality values are mostly missing and omitted. 51 street rows + 24 legal rows, joined by state; research assembled 2026-08-30. Prices are nominal USD per ounce of flower and not directly comparable across the two sources (different dates, quality mix, tax treatment and sampling). Cannabis remains federally controlled; state laws vary.

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