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Access to recreational cannabis stores across the United States and Canada differs greatly by state and province after taking population into account.
Different state-by-state regulations have created some markets that offer far fewer retail choices for consumers.
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Consider two states with approximately the same populations: Rhode Island and Montana.
Both states have about 1.1 million people.
Rhode Island, however, has only one adult-use retail cannabis store per 100,000 residents, based on March data.
By contrast, cannabis consumers in Montana have 37 recreational stores to shop from per 100,000 residents.
The data comes from the annual state-by-state survey and analysis published in the 2023 MJBiz Factbook.
The population-based analysis sheds fresh light on retail availability, or density, across a country.
So while California might have more than 1,000 recreational marijuana stores sprinkled throughout the state, it also has the country’s largest population, with roughly
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