Who regulates cannabis retail in Ohio?

Ohio Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) is the state cannabis regulator for Ohio. Official site: https://com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-programs/cannabis-control.

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

Ohio 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 Ohio?

At the register, as of September 2026: the 10% adult-use excise plus 5.75% state sales tax and your county’s permissive rate on adult-use sales; medical-lane sales pay sales tax only.

Is CannAgent available for Ohio dispensaries?

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

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

The OH 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 Ohio opens.

DCC

Target: Mid 2027

Ohio dispensary POS for DCC rules and Metrc

Written against Division of Cannabis Control rules: the 10% adult-use excise plus 5.75% state sales tax and your county’s rate, sales tax only on medical-lane sales, Metrc traceability, and the medical-to-dual licence conversion Issue 2 started in 2023.

Seed-to-sale system: Metrc (Franwell)
Taxes at the register: At the register, as of September 2026: the 10% adult-use excise plus 5.75% state sales tax and your county’s permissive rate on adult-use sales; medical-lane sales pay sales tax only.
Purchase limits: Not published on this page yet
CannAgent in OH: Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

Regulator

Ohio Division of Cannabis Control (DCC)

https://com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-programs/cannabis-control ↗

We re-check this regulatorweekly— active rulemaking / transition / year-over-year scheduleLast checked 2026-09-07. That is 41 days past the weekly re-check above — treat anything time-sensitive on this page as due for confirmation.

Your rules, handled

Ohio’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 DCC, it is flagged against the rule rather than guessed.

What we have written for Ohio

Ohio coverage is written against DCC rules: the medical-to-dual licence conversion from the Issue 2 rollout, the 10%-versus-none cannabis tax difference between adult-use and medical, separate patient and caregiver limits, and Metrc reporting. We say what is not built for Ohio 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

Ohio cannabis retail — common questions

Who regulates cannabis retail in Ohio?: Ohio Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) is the state cannabis regulator for Ohio. Official site: https://com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-programs/cannabis-control.
What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Ohio use?: Ohio 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 Ohio?: At the register, as of September 2026: the 10% adult-use excise plus 5.75% state sales tax and your county’s permissive rate on adult-use sales; medical-lane sales pay sales tax only.
Is CannAgent available for Ohio dispensaries?: Not yet — Ohio is not open to new stores. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the OH list gets you one email when Ohio opens.

Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist.

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