Cannacurio #115: licensing of the shop supply Q2 2025

Business or doors are an important retail metric for the industry. Cannabiz media make up medical licenses as pharmacies and adult licenses as retailers. In the second quarter, more shops were added in the second quarter, but the hemp market continues to do a challenge for licensed cannabi stores.

Pharmacy/retail important points

• 28 pages added shops in Q2.
• 361 new licenses were exhibited in the second quarter of 381 (-5%) in the second quarter.
• At the end of the first quarter there are 13,198 active licenses for the apartment from 13,184.
• 132 Oklahoma Stores has been going offline since January 1st.

Trends

The industry competes with substitutes such as hemp and legacy market. In Q2, hempregulation continued to dominate the news:

• The Texas legislator quickly pursued Senate Bill 5 in a special meeting to ban consumption materials with demonstrable THC and criminalize possession as offenses.
• The US Senate has withdrawn the language from the agricultural calculation of the 2026 financial year, which would have banned all intoxicating hemp products and would have received the ability of convenience stores and smoke shops to sell DELTA-8 food and other hemp-derived THC articles.
• Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) successfully blocked Senator Mitch McConnell's advance of closing the 2018 Farm calculation final in the Senate Expenditure Act, and prevented a federal ban on all hemp products that contain “quantifiable” THC and maintained the legal status for most CBD and Hemp-Waren.
• The New York office for Cannabis Management (OCM) incorrectly approved 152 Dizenzenzenzen-105 and 47 pending-for locations too close to schools, which violates the 500-foot buffer rule of the state.

Despite all this drama of hemp and cannabis, licenses are still issued. In the new shop in the second quarter, New York has recorded its leadership position since the fourth quarter of 2024. And made almost a quarter of all new shop licenses nationwide.

In retrospect for the last 12 months, the average number of new shop licenses was around 140. The outlier months can be attributed to one or two countries that drop a large number of new licenses.

After all, the entire top -10 ranking for shops is here:

Diploma

Despite the challenges from the illegal market, hemp and regulatory challenges, the number of business continues to increase. All eyes are aimed at Minnesota, Kentucky and Delaware for the rest of 2026. We also monitor what happens in the trunk front when this activity has increased and can be followed in cannabiz media.

author

Ed Keating is a co -founder of cannabiz media and monitors data research and the efforts of the company's government relationships. He spent his career to work and share information companies in the compliance area. ED has managed product, marketing and sales and at the same time monitored complex product lines for multi-jurisdiction in securities, corporate, UCC, security, environmental and personnel markets.

At Cannabiz Media, ED enjoys the challenge of working with supervisory authorities around the world, while he and his team collect companies, financial and licensed information in order to pursue people, products and companies in cannabis economy.

Ed completed the Hamilton College and received his MBA from Thekellogg School at Northwestern University.

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