Legal eighths run $11.55 in Oregon to $31.11 in Ohio — a 2.69× spread across 12 licensed markets

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US Cannabis Prices by State, official and street.

No single current source covers both markets in every state, apples to apples. The best legal series is June 2026 point-of-sale data for packaged flower eighths across licensed retailers in 12 states, net of discounts and before tax. Street prices are crowdsourced, quality- and date-mixed, and generally older — shown here as context, not a same-month comparison.

Fill = licensed-retail average price of a packaged eighth (3.5 g), June 2026, before tax. Grey states had no comparable licensed POS data. Hover a coloured state for street context.

Legal per gram vs street per gram, side by side

Green = licensed retail eighth price ÷ 3.5 g (June 2026). Grey = crowdsourced reported high-quality ounce price ÷ 28 g, mixed and generally older vintages. The two series are not contemporaneous.

The rigorous benchmark: what peer review says

A 2026 peer-reviewed study (PriceOfWeed submissions 2018–2024 plus state-agency legal data) is the strongest illicit-market benchmark — and its definitions, periods, and averages differ from the June 2026 POS eighth series above.

$5.00 vs $7.14

2024 median illicit price per gram in states with operating recreational dispensaries vs states without them

$7.14 vs $8.93

Same comparison across the full 2018–2024 window

$8.50 vs $6.51

Seven-state 2024 mean: illicit vs legal per gram — legal came in cheaper

Lowest state illicit medians over 2018–2024: Oregon $5.36/g, Washington $5.71/g, Colorado $6.07/g. Source: link.springer.com — “High stakes: how legal cannabis pricing impacts the illicit market”.

Findings

Oregon is the cheapest licensed market at $11.55 an eighth ($3.30/g) — below even the peer-reviewed illicit medians — while Ohio, the newest market here, is highest at $31.11. thisiswhyimhigh.com

In 8 of the 12 states, the legal per-gram price sits below the crowdsourced street per-gram figure; Missouri, Illinois, Maryland and Ohio are the exceptions where legal still costs more. thisiswhyimhigh.com

Where recreational dispensaries operate, illicit prices fall: the 2024 median was $5.00/g with dispensaries vs $7.14/g without. link.springer.com

Street figures are self-reported and vary by quality, quantity discount and location — e.g. Maryland's $360/oz benchmark dates to older crowdsourced reporting. businessinsider.com

The rows

State	Legal eighth, Jun 2026	Legal $/g	Street $/oz (high quality)	Street $/g	Street source

Legal column source for every state: thisiswhyimhigh.com (Headset register-transaction data across licensed retailers).

Method: 12 states with comparable June 2026 licensed-retail POS data for packaged flower eighths (Headset register transactions), net of discounts and before tax — “licensed retail”, not government-set prices; this is not an all-50-state legal table. Street context: one selected crowdsourced reported high-quality-ounce price per state, mixed and generally older vintages, self-reported, varying by quality and quantity. Peer-reviewed benchmark: PriceOfWeed submissions 2018–2024 with state-agency legal data. Per-gram legal values derived as eighth ÷ 3.5 g. Blank derived columns in the street set were dropped.

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