Everything below is real. You can’t buy it here yet.
The MA regulator, statutes, tax stack and track-and-trace on this page are researched and current. We can set up stores in Washington and Arizona today, and MAis not one of them — so there is nothing to sign up for here, and we won’t pretend otherwise. (Washington’s CCRS is still the only track-and-trace we have integrated; Arizona mandates none, which is why it could open without one. A state that mandates one needs that adapter built first.)
CCC
Massachusetts CCC-aware dispensary platform
Native compliance hooks for Massachusetts CCC rules. State 10.75% adult-use excise + 6.25% sales tax + up to 3% local option, METRC traceability, and the medical / adult-use / social-equity license lane separation CCC requires.
Regulator
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC)
https://masscannabiscontrol.com ↗Statutes that bite
| Citation | Subject |
|---|---|
| M.G.L. c. 94G | Adult-use cannabis statute (Question 4 / 2016) |
| M.G.L. c. 94I | Medical cannabis program statute |
| 935 CMR 500 | CCC adult-use cannabis regulations |
| 935 CMR 501 | CCC medical cannabis regulations |
| M.G.L. c. 64N | 10.75% state cannabis excise tax |
Tax stack
Excise
10.75% Massachusetts cannabis excise, imposed by M.G.L. c. 64N §2 on the sale “by a marijuana retailer to anyone other than a marijuana establishment”. Chapter 64N contains no medical exemption — the exemption is M.G.L. c. 94I §8: “Marijuana sold pursuant to this chapter shall not be taxed under chapter 64H, 64I, 64K or 64N.” It keys on the SALE being made under the medical programme, not on the shopper presenting a card, so a co-located operator must ring a patient sale through the medical registration for it to fall outside the excise. Excise applies to gross retail receipts at point-of-sale.
Sales / Use
6.25% Massachusetts state sales tax (M.G.L. c. 64H) — applied to adult-use retail sales on top of the 10.75% excise. Medical sales are outside it under the same provision that covers the excise, M.G.L. c. 94I §8, which names c. 64H, 64I, 64K and 64N together.
Local option
Up to 3% local cannabis sales tax — adopted by most municipalities by ordinance under M.G.L. c. 64N §3; rates published by DOR. We confirm your municipality’s rate with you at onboarding — never a silent default.
Compliance topics surfaced in-platform
- Age 21+ adult-use / medical lane keyed to a Commission registration, NOT to an age check — 935 CMR 501.140(1)(a)(4) admits a registered patient younger than eighteen so long as their Caregiver is with them, and (a)(3) says such a patient “do[es] not have to have a separate means of identification to enter”. Dispensing runs to the patient OR their Personal Caregiver under (a)(2), and for a minor that Caregiver must be the parent or legal guardian. An ID-verification flow with a hard 18 floor on the medical lane refuses a lawful visitor and demands a document the regulation waives
- METRC traceability handoff (CCC mandates real-time package tracking; reconciliation export shaped to CCC's API integration spec)
- Patient registry lookup hook (medical / Registered Qualifying Patient profile)
- Inventory reconciliation export shaped to 935 CMR 500.105 record-keeping — we run it daily; the section itself requires a monthly and an annual count
- Social-equity priority license + Economic Empowerment applicant tracking surfaced inline (CCC's program is one of the most documented in the country)
What CannAgent is built toward for MA
- Adult-use vs medical product lanes with separate excise + sales-tax stacks (medical exempt from both)
- 10.75% excise + 6.25% sales + the local 3% option, with your municipality’s rate confirmed with you at onboarding
- Manager write-up assistant configurable to MA labor + CCC rule taxonomy
- CCC monthly inventory + transfer reporting auto-generated
Coverage here — honestly
Massachusetts coverage is written against CCC rules: the bulletins, the 10.75 + 6.25 + local-3 tax stack, the METRC-cadence reporting requirements, and the social-equity priority program. We keep it current as the CCC moves, and where something isn’t built for MA yet we say so 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
Massachusetts cannabis retail — common questions
- Who regulates cannabis retail in Massachusetts?
- Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) is the state cannabis regulator for Massachusetts. Official site: https://masscannabiscontrol.com.
- What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Massachusetts use?
- Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts?
- 10.75% Massachusetts cannabis excise, imposed by M.G.L. c. 64N §2 on the sale “by a marijuana retailer to anyone other than a marijuana establishment”. Chapter 64N contains no medical exemption — the exemption is M.G.L. c. 94I §8: “Marijuana sold pursuant to this chapter shall not be taxed under chapter 64H, 64I, 64K or 64N.” It keys on the SALE being made under the medical programme, not on the shopper presenting a card, so a co-located operator must ring a patient sale through the medical registration for it to fall outside the excise. Excise applies to gross retail receipts at point-of-sale. 6.25% Massachusetts state sales tax (M.G.L. c. 64H) — applied to adult-use retail sales on top of the 10.75% excise. Medical sales are outside it under the same provision that covers the excise, M.G.L. c. 94I §8, which names c. 64H, 64I, 64K and 64N together. Up to 3% local cannabis sales tax — adopted by most municipalities by ordinance under M.G.L. c. 64N §3; rates published by DOR. We confirm your municipality’s rate with you at onboarding — never a silent default.
- Is CannAgent available for Massachusetts dispensaries?
- Regulatory-summary coverage for Massachusetts is current; engineering capacity opens as operator demand lands. There is no MA queue to join yet — read the rules here, and come back when you want a second opinion on a MA question.
Other states
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We know Massachusetts’s rules. We don’t sell here yet.
Everything above is researched against the CCC and kept current. We can only set up stores in Washington and Arizona today, so there is no quote to give you and no queue to join. Read the rules, keep the page, and come back when you want a second opinion on MA.