Idaho

Idaho issues no cannabis licenses of any class and operates no cultivation, retail, manufacturing, or delivery program. There is no track-and-trace system, no application or license fees, no municipal opt-in framework, and no vertical-integration rule, because the state has no legal cannabis industry to regulate. Every market-access metric is null by structure rather than by a gap in reporting.

Idaho permits no legal cannabis use or possession. Home cultivation is a felony, prosecuted as manufacture of a Schedule I substance under Idaho Code 37-2732(a)(1)(B). There is no legal possession limit because no amount is lawful; the three-ounce figure in state law marks the line dividing misdemeanor from felony possession, not a permitted quantity. Cannabis delivery and consumption lounges do not exist as legal categories. No product forms are lawful for adult or medical use.

Idaho levies no cannabis excise, sales, potency, or wholesale tax and collects no cannabis tax revenue. The state's general sales tax does not reach a market that does not legally exist. All fiscal metrics are null because there is no taxable legal market.

Idaho has no legal cannabis operators, sales, licenses, or published prices. No figures exist for market size, per-capita sales, wholesale or retail pricing, or license attrition, because there is no legal industry. Any cannabis commerce occurs in the unregulated market and is not captured in any public dataset.

Idaho has no legal cannabis market, so there is no per-capita legal sales figure, dispensary density, or published retail price trend. By definition, all cannabis consumed in the state moves through the unregulated market; no primary estimate of legal-market capture exists, because there is no legal market against which to measure it.

Idaho operates no social-equity program, no cannabis equity or reinvestment fund, and no cannabis-specific expungement or automatic record-clearing mechanism. Because the state has enacted no legalization statute, there is no licensing system in which equity provisions could exist and no triggering event for record relief. These are settled negative answers rather than gaps in reporting.

Idaho has no cannabis regulatory agency, regulatory budget, inspection regime, testing requirements, or licensee-enforcement program, because there are no licensees. Enforcement of cannabis law in Idaho is ordinary criminal law enforcement carried out by police, prosecutors, and the courts, reflected in the arrest figures reported under criminalization rather than in regulatory metrics. The operational enforcement statistics a regulated state would publish are not available because no such regulator exists.

Idaho prohibits cannabis in all forms and provides no legal possession allowance. Possession of three ounces or less is a misdemeanor; following 2025 legislation it carries a mandatory minimum fine of $300, alongside up to one year in jail and an additional fine of up to $1,000 (Idaho Code 37-2732(c)(3) and (e)). Possession of more than three ounces — about 85 grams — is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine up to $10,000 (Idaho Code 37-2732(e)). Cultivation and sale are both felonies under Idaho Code 37-2732(a)(1)(B), each carrying up to five years and a fine up to $15,000; at higher volumes the trafficking statute (Idaho Code 37-2732B) imposes mandatory minimum sentences keyed to plant count or weight, rising to a five-year mandatory minimum at 100 or more plants or 25 or more pounds, with a statutory maximum of 15 years and a $50,000 fine and a doubled minimum on a second conviction. Idaho sets no per se THC blood limit for impaired driving, relying instead on an impairment standard under Idaho Code 18-8004. The state has no cannabis expungement or automatic record-clearing program. The direction of Idaho law is toward greater restriction: the 2025 mandatory-minimum fine was the first first-offense mandatory minimum for low-level possession enacted by any state, and House Joint Resolution 4, referred to the November 2026 ballot, would constitutionally reserve cannabis legalization to the Legislature. Total cannabis arrests were 5,115 in calendar-year 2024, roughly 256 per 100,000 residents calculated on total state population, and have ranged between about 4,500 and 6,100 per year since calendar-year 2018. These counts derive from secondary compilations of FBI Uniform Crime Reporting and NIBRS data, which are incomplete and understate true totals. The most recent published racial-disparity estimate, drawn from 2018 federal data, found Black residents arrested for cannabis possession at 3.89 times the rate of white residents, a ratio that rests on a small Black population base.