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OCM
Target: Mid 2027New York OCM-aware dispensary platform
Native compliance hooks for New York OCM rules under MRTA. Tax Law §493 imposes THREE cannabis taxes — 9% distributor-to-retailer, 9% state retail excise and 4% local retail (13% combined at the register, on top of the 9% already embedded in wholesale cost) — plus METRC traceability (post-BioTrack transition) and the medical / adult-use / CAURD lane separation OCM requires.
Regulator
New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM)
https://cannabis.ny.gov ↗Your rules, handled
New York’s cannabis retail rules — what the OCM requires at the counter, how sales are reported to the state, and what the taxes are — are researched from the regulator’s own pages and coded into the register. You run the shop; the rules are handled at the sale.
At the register, as of September 2026: a 9% state excise and a 4% local cannabis tax on every adult-use retail sale, with no general sales tax on top; the 9% distributor tax is paid upstream, and medical runs on a separate basis.
Coverage here — honestly
New York coverage is written against OCM rules: the bulletins, the completed BioTrack→METRC migration, the distributor-vs-retail excise split, and the advertising-restriction framework that catches operators off guard most often. We keep it current as the OCM moves, and where something isn’t built for NY 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
New York cannabis retail — common questions
- Who regulates cannabis retail in New York?
- New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) is the state cannabis regulator for New York. Official site: https://cannabis.ny.gov.
- What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does New York use?
- New York 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 York?
- At the register, as of September 2026: a 9% state excise and a 4% local cannabis tax on every adult-use retail sale, with no general sales tax on top; the 9% distributor tax is paid upstream, and medical runs on a separate basis.
- Is CannAgent available for New York dispensaries?
- Not yet — New York is not open to new stores. Target: Mid 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the NY list gets you one email when New York opens.
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