Wisconsin

Wisconsin issues no cannabis cultivation or retail licenses. There is no licensing framework, no statewide license cap, no vertical-integration rule, no residency requirement, no municipal opt-in structure, no license or application fees, and no seed-to-sale tracking system, because the state operates no legal cannabis industry. Cannabis remains Schedule I under Wis. Stat. § 961.14(4)(t). The absence of every market-access figure here reflects the absence of a legal market, not a gap in reporting.

Wisconsin permits no legal cannabis possession. Any amount of THC is criminal under Wis. Stat. § 961.41(3g)(e), so there is no possession limit, no purchase limit, and no set of legally available product forms. Home cultivation is not allowed; growing cannabis is prosecuted as manufacture of a Schedule I substance and is a felony at any amount under § 961.41(1)(h). Delivery and consumption lounges do not exist as legal categories. The one statutory allowance is 2017 Act 4, an affirmative-defense permission to possess non-psychoactive cannabidiol with a physician certification under § 961.32(2m), which produces no retail access to THC products.

Wisconsin levies no cannabis excise tax, sales tax, potency tax, or wholesale tax, and collects no cannabis tax revenue, because the state has no legal cannabis market to tax. Every fiscal field is null for that reason. The figures cannot be reported because the activity they would measure does not exist in legal form within the state.

Wisconsin has no licensed cannabis operators, no legal sales, no published prices, and no license counts. There are no operator outcomes to report. Any in-state cannabis pricing would belong to the unregulated market and is not a public-record data source. The nulls in this section reflect the absence of a legal industry, not unreported figures.

Wisconsin has no legal cannabis market, so there are no per-capita legal sales, no operating dispensaries, and no published retail price trend. No primary in-state estimate of legal-market capture exists, because there is no licensed channel against which to measure it. Cannabis consumed in Wisconsin moves through the unregulated market or is purchased legally across state lines in Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota; the scale of that cross-border purchasing is not quantified in any Wisconsin public record.

Wisconsin operates no cannabis equity program and no cannabis reinvestment fund, because it has no legal cannabis program. There is no marijuana-specific expungement or automatic record-clearing mechanism; general expungement under Wis. Stat. § 973.015 is narrow, decided at sentencing, historically limited to offenses committed before age 25, and is not a cannabis-conviction relief program. No equity-designated licenses, ownership-demographic figures, or fund disbursements exist to report.

Wisconsin has no cannabis regulatory agency, regulatory budget, inspection regime, testing program, or licensee-enforcement system, because there are no licensees. Enforcement against cannabis is ordinary criminal law enforcement carried out through arrest and prosecution under Wis. Stat. § 961.41, not regulatory action. This section is therefore NOT_AVAILABLE for the regulatory metrics it would otherwise carry — not because enforcement does not occur, but because the regulatory apparatus those figures describe does not exist in a prohibition state.

Cannabis is fully criminalized in Wisconsin. Cultivation, sale, delivery, and possession-with-intent are all charged under Wis. Stat. § 961.41(1)(h) as manufacture or distribution of THC, a felony at any amount graded by plant count or weight: 200 grams or fewer, or 4 plants or fewer, is a Class I felony carrying up to 3 years 6 months and a fine up to $10,000; the top tier — more than 10,000 grams, or more than 200 plants — is a Class E felony carrying up to 15 years and a fine up to $50,000. Penalty enhancers apply for a second or subsequent drug offense under § 961.48 and for offenses near schools, parks, or jails under § 961.49. Possession is charged under § 961.41(3g)(e): a first offense is a misdemeanor carrying up to a $1,000 fine and up to 6 months in jail, and a second or subsequent conviction is a Class I felony carrying up to 3 years 6 months and a fine up to $10,000. There is no weight threshold for possession; the felony trigger is the prior conviction, not the amount. Wisconsin sets a per se limit of 1 nanogram per milliliter of delta-9-THC in blood for impaired driving under § 340.01(50m)(e), excluding precursors and metabolites, paired with the operating prohibition in § 346.63(1)(am) — a numeric per se limit rather than an any-detectable-amount rule. The state's marijuana penalties under § 961.41 have been materially unchanged for decades; the recorded direction is unchanged. Wisconsin recorded 11,592 cannabis arrests in calendar-year 2024, about 95 percent for possession, down from 19,208 in calendar-year 2018, though part of the apparent decline reflects the FBI's 2021 transition to NIBRS, when many Wisconsin agencies stopped reporting and the totals undercount actual arrests. The ACLU, using 2018 FBI data, reports that a Black person in Wisconsin is 4.2 times more likely than a white person to be arrested for cannabis possession. Wisconsin has no marijuana-specific expungement program.