Colorado has 911 licensed cannabis dispensaries as of November 2026, operating across 112 cities. The count comes straight from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division license database and refreshes weekly.
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Colorado issues Retail Marijuana Store and Medical Marijuana Center licenses through the MED. The MED publishes monthly licensee reports which we use as our authoritative source.
Compared
Colorado has the 4th-most licensed dispensaries of the 10 states we track, behind California with 1,822.
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Methodology
The figure is sourced from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division (CO MED) public license database. We re-crawl it weekly, deduplicate licensees, and exclude closed or revoked licenses — so the number reflects dispensaries actually operating, not licenses ever issued. Free to cite with attribution to Holden Leads.
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Colorado has 911 licensed cannabis dispensaries as of November 2026, spread across 112 cities. The count is verified against the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division (CO MED) license database and refreshed weekly.
Of the Colorado dispensaries with a known program type, 444 are adult-use, 208 are medical, and 259 serve both programs.
Denver leads Colorado with 260 licensed dispensaries, followed by Colorado Springs with 140.
The count comes directly from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division (CO MED) public license database. We re-crawl it weekly, deduplicate licensees, and drop closed or revoked licenses, so the figure reflects dispensaries actually operating — not just licenses ever issued.
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