Who regulates cannabis retail in New Jersey?

New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) is the state cannabis regulator for New Jersey. Official site: https://www.nj.gov/cannabis.

What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does New Jersey use?

New Jersey uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.

What cannabis taxes apply to retail in New Jersey?

At the register, as of September 2026: 6.625% state sales tax on adult-use sales, with medical exempt, plus a municipal cannabis transfer tax of up to 2% where your town has adopted one; the Social Equity Excise Fee is paid upstream and reaches you as cost.

Is CannAgent available for New Jersey dispensaries?

Not yet — New Jersey is not open to new stores. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the NJ list gets you one email when New Jersey opens.

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New Jersey is not open to new stores yet. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

The NJ rules on this page are researched from the regulator’s and legislature’s own sources; the date we last checked them is in the regulator card below. There is nothing to sign up for here yet. The waitlist gets you one email when New Jersey opens.

CRC

Target: Mid 2027

New Jersey dispensary POS for CRC rules

Written against CRC rules: 6.625% state sales tax on adult-use sales, a municipal transfer tax of up to 2% where your town adopted one, and the Social Equity Excise Fee kept off the receipt, because it is the cultivator’s fee and reaches you as cost. Plus the adult-use and medical split the CRC requires.

Seed-to-sale system: Metrc (Franwell)
Taxes at the register: At the register, as of September 2026: 6.625% state sales tax on adult-use sales, with medical exempt, plus a municipal cannabis transfer tax of up to 2% where your town has adopted one; the Social Equity Excise Fee is paid upstream and reaches you as cost.
Purchase limits: Not published on this page yet
CannAgent in NJ: Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

Regulator

New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC)

https://www.nj.gov/cannabis ↗

We re-check this regulatormonthly— stable rules, low expected churnLast checked 2026-09-07. That is 18 days past the monthly re-check above — treat anything time-sensitive on this page as due for confirmation.

Your rules, handled

New Jersey’s tax rules and purchase limits are written into CannAgent’s compliance engine from the rule text. Where a figure still waits on an answer from the CRC, it is flagged against the rule rather than guessed.

What we have written for New Jersey

New Jersey coverage is written against CRC rules: the Social Equity Excise Fee and local transfer-tax stack, the adult-use and medical split, and the advertising rules. We say what is not built for New Jersey before you sign.

Operator playbooks

Compliance ops playbook

State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline

Buyer scorecard

Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard

Migration playbook

POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries

Operations deep-dive

Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit

New Jersey cannabis retail — common questions

Who regulates cannabis retail in New Jersey?: New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) is the state cannabis regulator for New Jersey. Official site: https://www.nj.gov/cannabis.
What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does New Jersey use?: New Jersey uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.
What cannabis taxes apply to retail in New Jersey?: At the register, as of September 2026: 6.625% state sales tax on adult-use sales, with medical exempt, plus a municipal cannabis transfer tax of up to 2% where your town has adopted one; the Social Equity Excise Fee is paid upstream and reaches you as cost.
Is CannAgent available for New Jersey dispensaries?: Not yet — New Jersey is not open to new stores. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the NJ list gets you one email when New Jersey opens.

Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

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