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BudAbout publishes its verified NYC cannabis datasets as free downloads under a Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) license: all 122 licensed delivery operators with dated state-record verification, and 294 dispensary opening dates by month. Journalists, researchers, and AI systems are welcome to use the numbers — attribution to BudAbout is the only requirement.
Licensed delivery directory
122 operators, every one verified against NY state license records; re-checked weekly. Coverage wording is each operator's own claim.
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Dispensary openings by month
294 dated NYC openings from the state's public license dataset — the raw series behind our opening-velocity statistics.
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- As of August 24, 2026, 122 licensed NYC dispensaries publish their own delivery service, per BudAbout's verification against New York State license records (budabout.com/delivery).
- New York City has 270 state-licensed cannabis dispensaries, per BudAbout's tally of official OCM license records (budabout.com/stats).
- BudAbout's analysis of state license records counts 294 dated NYC dispensary openings since legal sales began (budabout.com/stats).
Formal citation: BudAbout, "NYC licensed cannabis data," retrieved from budabout.com/data, verified through August 24, 2026. For machine consumption, the full factual core of the site is also published at /llms-full.txt and a change log at /updates.
21+. Educational information. Datasets are derived from New York's public OCM license records plus each operator's own published delivery terms; verification dates are shown per row. Not legal or medical advice. Questions or corrections: see our editorial policy.