Dispensaries in Ohio

Ohio Dispensaries by City

Every Ohio city and town with at least one licensed dispensary is listed here, largest first. Columbus and Cincinnati are far ahead of everyone else, with 25 and 24 stores, and together they have about a fifth of all the stores in the state. Cleveland is a distant third with 10, because most Cleveland-area stores sit in the suburbs rather than inside the city. Names follow each store's mailing address, and because every Ohio store serves both adult-use and medical customers, the last column matches the store count.

Ohio Dispensaries by Region

Licensed dispensaries operate in 61 of Ohio's 88 counties. The three big metro counties, Franklin, Cuyahoga and Hamilton, have 86 stores between them, but stores also reach Lake Erie, the Ohio River towns and the Indiana and Michigan lines. Regional counts below are based on each store's county.

Columbus and Central Ohio (45 stores)

Columbus has 25 stores, the most of any Ohio city, and Franklin County has 32 in all, adding Reynoldsburg (3), Dublin (2), Westerville and Whitehall. North of the city, Delaware County has 5 stores, 3 in Lewis Center and 2 in the city of Delaware. Newark has 3 stores in Licking County to the east. Farther out, single stores serve London, Jeffersonville on Interstate 71 between Columbus and Cincinnati, Carroll in Fairfield County, Marengo in Morrow County and the city of Marion.

Cleveland, Lorain and Lake County (44 stores)

Cuyahoga County has 28 stores, but only 10 carry a Cleveland address. The rest are spread across the suburbs: Parma (3), Parma Heights and Seven Hills to the south, Lakewood (2) and Berea to the west, and Cleveland Heights, Euclid, South Euclid, Solon, Woodmere, Bedford and Garfield Heights to the east. Lorain County has 7, led by the city of Lorain (4) and Elyria (2), with one more in Wellington. Lake County has 5, one each in Painesville, Painesville Township, Eastlake, Wickliffe and Willoughby Hills. Ashtabula County has 3, in Ashtabula and Geneva in the state's northeast corner, and Seville serves Medina County.

Akron, Canton and the Mahoning Valley (31 stores)

Akron has 5 stores, and Summit County has 10 in all, adding Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge and Northfield. Canton has 4, and Stark County adds Massillon and Alliance for 7 in total. Portage County has 4, in Streetsboro, Ravenna and Kent, home of Kent State University. In the Mahoning Valley, Trumbull County has 6 stores, led by Warren (3) with more in Niles, Girard and Hubbard, and Mahoning County has 3, in Youngstown, Austintown and Struthers. East Liverpool, on the Ohio River where Ohio meets Pennsylvania and West Virginia, has one store.

Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio (45 stores)

Cincinnati addresses account for 24 stores: 22 in Hamilton County and 2 in Clermont County with Cincinnati mailing addresses. Hamilton County has 26 stores in all, adding Harrison (2) on the Indiana line, Springdale and Norwood. Butler County has 7, including 2 in Oxford, home of Miami University, and stores in Fairfield, Middletown and Seven Mile. Monroe has 4 stores split between Butler and Warren counties, and Warren County also has Lebanon. Clermont County has 5, including Milford, Amelia and Goshen, and Brown County has Mount Orab and Aberdeen, on the Ohio River across from Kentucky. Hillsboro serves Highland County. Kentucky and Indiana are each a short drive away, and taking Ohio cannabis into either state crosses a state line.

Dayton and the Miami Valley (19 stores)

Dayton has 9 stores, and Montgomery County has 11 in all, adding Riverside and Englewood. Riverside and Beavercreek, which has one store, border Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which is federal property. Springfield has 3 stores in Clark County, Piqua has 2, and Urbana has one. New Paris, in Preble County on the Indiana line, has one store.

Toledo, Sandusky and Northwest Ohio (21 stores)

Toledo, Ohio's fourth-largest city, has only 2 stores in our directory. Bowling Green, home of Bowling Green State University, and Findlay have 2 each. Toledo sits on the Michigan line, and Michigan has its own adult-use stores, but under SB 56 cannabis bought in Michigan is illegal to possess in Ohio. Lima has 2, and Delphos, Wapakoneta, Antwerp, Sherwood, Harpster and Tiffin have one each. On Lake Erie, Sandusky has 2 stores near Cedar Point and the Lake Erie islands, and Huron has one. Fremont, Norwalk, Mansfield and Loudonville round out the region.

Southeast Ohio and the Ohio River (27 stores)

Athens, home of Ohio University, has 4 stores, the most of any city in Southeast Ohio. Along the Ohio River, Portsmouth has 2 and New Boston has one, Lawrence County has 3, in Ironton, South Point and Proctorville, and Marietta has 2. Belmont County has stores in St. Clairsville and Bridgeport, near Wheeling, West Virginia, and Wintersville has 2. Inland, Zanesville and Coshocton have two each, and Cambridge, New Philadelphia, New Lexington, Logan, Chillicothe, Waverly and Jackson have one each. Logan is the gateway to the Hocking Hills, and parts of the region lie in Wayne National Forest, where federal law applies.

How Ohio Licenses Dispensaries: The Division of Cannabis Control

Ohio's medical program operates under Chapter 3796 of the Ohio Revised Code. Adult-use cannabis came under a separate Cannabis Control Law, Chapter 3780, which took effect on December 7, 2023, and the first adult-use sales began in August 2024, when the DCC issued its first dual-use certificates of operation. Senate Bill 56, which took effect on March 20, 2026, repealed Chapter 3780 and folded adult use into Chapter 3796. The Division of Cannabis Control now regulates both programs.

The licensing rules changed in several ways that matter to shoppers:

• One license for both markets: SB 56 combined the adult-use and medical licenses, so every dispensary must work with both. All 232 stores in our directory serve adult-use customers and registered patients.
• A cap of 400 stores: No more than 400 dispensaries may be operating at once, according to the Legislative Service Commission's final analysis of SB 56. The DCC may not license a new store within one mile of another dispensary, or at a site that holds a beer or liquor permit.
• Local control: Cities and townships may ban or limit new marijuana businesses, but they cannot shut down a business licensed before March 20, 2026, and they cannot ban home growing.

Each listing in our directory shows the store's DCC license number, so you can check it before you buy.

Buying Cannabis in Ohio: Age, ID, Limits and Delivery

• Age and ID: You must be 21 or older and show valid government-issued photo ID with your date of birth. The law defines an adult-use consumer simply as someone at least 21, with no residency requirement, so visitors can buy.
• Daily purchase limit: Under SB 56, a store may not sell one adult-use customer more in a day than the legal possession limit. The DCC's sales-limit guidance sets the daily amounts at 2.5 ounces of dried flower plus other products containing up to 15,000 milligrams of total THC. Stores may set lower limits.
• Possession: Adults may possess up to 2.5 ounces of plant material and 15 grams of extract in total, counting homegrown and store-bought cannabis together, under R.C. 3796.221.
• Only Ohio cannabis: SB 56 limits legal possession to cannabis from a licensed Ohio dispensary or grown legally at home. Cannabis bought in another state, even a legal one, is contraband in Ohio.
• Gifting: An adult may give another adult up to 2.5 ounces of plant material or 15 grams of extract in a day, with nothing in return, but only on private property used mainly as a home or farm. Any other transfer by someone without a license counts as trafficking.
• Products: SB 56 added pre-rolls to the approved list and banned products shaped like a person, animal or fruit. Keep edibles in their original package.
• Delivery: SB 56 lets dispensaries deliver medical marijuana to registered patients and caregivers under DCC rules, but it dropped the old law's express permission for adult-use delivery.
• Hours: Each store sets its own hours, so check the listing before you go.

For possession penalties, driving rules and the rest of the law, see our full guide to Ohio marijuana laws.

Growing Cannabis at Home in Ohio

Adults 21 and older may grow cannabis at home, and SB 56 kept the plant counts. Under R.C. 3796.04, each adult may grow up to 6 plants, with no more than 12 at one residence, however many adults live there. Plants must be grown at your primary residence, in a secured closet, room, greenhouse or other enclosed area that keeps out anyone under 21 and cannot be seen with the naked eye from a public space. Home growing is not allowed in a family child care home, a halfway house or similar facility, or a rental whose lease forbids it, and you may not grow for someone else. SB 56 also toughened the penalty: going over the limit by even one plant is now the crime of illegal cultivation, where the old law punished only growing more than double the limit. Homegrown cannabis is for personal use, so selling it without a license is illegal.

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Ohio

Ohio's medical program had 467,085 registered patients and 42,438 registered caregivers as of February 18, 2026, according to DCC figures cited by the Legislative Service Commission. To register, a patient needs a recommendation from a physician who holds a certificate to recommend from the State Medical Board. The patient must have a qualifying condition listed in R.C. 3796.01, such as cancer, epilepsy, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, PTSD, or chronic and severe or intractable pain, and the medical board can add conditions. A registration lasts one year, expiring on the last day of the month it was issued, and can be renewed up to 30 days early. A patient may name up to two caregivers, and a patient under 18 needs consent from a parent or legal representative, who also registers as a caregiver.

Registered patients keep real advantages over adult-use shoppers. First, taxes: the 10% excise applies only to adult-use sales, so patients pay sales tax alone. Second, limits: under OAC 1301:18-8-09, effective March 24, 2026, a store may sell a patient up to 10 ounces of plant material and products with up to 60,000 milligrams of total THC in a day, unless the physician sets a lower limit, and patients may possess up to a 90-day supply. Third, access under 21: the medical program is the only legal way for anyone under 21 to obtain cannabis in Ohio. One rule cuts the other way: patients may not smoke or burn medical marijuana. Every store in our directory serves registered patients and is shown with a Medical badge.

Ohio Cannabis Taxes and Prices

SB 56 kept Ohio's cannabis tax at the rate set when adult-use sales began, according to the LSC's final fiscal note:

• 10% adult-use excise tax on every adult-use sale. Medical sales are exempt.
• Regular sales tax on both adult-use and medical sales. The DCC's own example: a $154 adult-use sale with 7% sales tax and the 10% excise comes to $180.18, because each tax is figured on the sale price.
• No extra local cannabis tax: Cities, townships and counties may not add their own marijuana excise or gross-receipts taxes.

Excise revenue is split 64% to the state's general fund and 36% to the Host Community Cannabis Fund, which pays cities and townships that have at least one dispensary. Prices vary from store to store, so compare out-the-door prices, daily deals and first-visit discounts rather than shelf tags.

Where You Can and Cannot Use Cannabis in Ohio

• Private property only: Under R.C. 3796.06, you may smoke or vape adult-use or homegrown cannabis only on privately owned property used mainly as a home or farm. Smoking or vaping in a public place or a place of employment is a minor misdemeanor.
• Rentals and other homes: Smoking and vaping are also banned in family child care homes and halfway houses, and landlords may ban smoking, vaping and home growing in a lease, including in common areas.
• Vehicles: Carry cannabis in its original unopened package, or, once opened, in the trunk or behind the last upright seat, out of the driver's reach. A passenger who smokes or vapes while the vehicle is being driven commits a third-degree misdemeanor, and driving under the influence falls under Ohio's OVI law.
• Work: A worker fired for using marijuana can be denied unemployment benefits under SB 56.
• Federal land: Cannabis is illegal in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Wayne National Forest, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and other federal property. Our federal marijuana law guide explains why.
• Airports and state lines: The TSA follows federal law and refers cannabis found at screening to police, including at the Columbus and Cleveland airports. Taking cannabis across any state line is illegal. Compare the rules in every state's cannabis laws.
• Hemp THC products: SB 56 rewrote Ohio's hemp definition to match the new federal one. A finished hemp product with more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container, or with cannabinoids made outside the plant, no longer counts as hemp under Ohio law.

What Changed in 2026 Under Senate Bill 56

Besides the changes above, SB 56 cut the THC cap on adult-use extracts to 70%, down from 90% or more, let stores hand out samples, and tightened advertising rules, including a ban on ads claiming adult-use marijuana has health or therapeutic benefits. It also opened a path to clear old records: anyone charged with or convicted of minor misdemeanor marijuana possession, misdemeanor hashish possession, or felony hashish possession of 15 grams or less before March 20, 2026, can ask the sentencing court to expunge the record. The filing fee is $50, waived for applicants who cannot pay, and the court must hold a hearing within 45 to 90 days.

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How we build this directory: Store names, addresses and license numbers come from the Division of Cannabis Control's list of licensed dispensaries. We check each store against map data, leave out stores reported as permanently closed, and refresh the list as the DCC licenses new stores. Browse other states in our dispensary directory, and for the rules in every state, see our state-by-state cannabis law guides.