Wyoming

Wyoming 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.

Wyoming permits no legal cannabis use or possession. Home cultivation is a crime, prosecuted either as a misdemeanor under Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1040 for planting, cultivating, or processing cannabis, or as felony manufacture of a Schedule I substance under Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1031(a)(ii). There is no legal possession limit because no amount is lawful; the 3-ounce figure in state law marks the line dividing misdemeanor from felony possession of plant-form cannabis, 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.

Wyoming 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.

Wyoming 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.

Wyoming 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.

Wyoming 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.

Wyoming 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 Wyoming 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.

Wyoming prohibits cannabis in all forms and provides no legal possession allowance. Possession of plant-form cannabis of 3 ounces or less is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 12 months in jail and a fine up to $1,000, with a third or subsequent offense punishable by up to 5 years and $5,000 (Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1031(c)(i)(A)). Possession of more than 3 ounces — about 85 grams — is a felony punishable by up to 5 years and a fine up to $10,000 (Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1031(c)(iii)). Cultivation and sale are charged as manufacture or delivery of a Schedule I non-narcotic under Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1031(a)(ii), each carrying up to 10 years and a fine up to $10,000; a separate, more specific statute, Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1040, makes planting, cultivating, or processing cannabis a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months and $1,000, and both statutes remain on the books. Wyoming sets no weight-based trafficking tier; the 10-year maximum applies regardless of quantity. Separately, knowingly using or being under the influence of a Schedule I, II, or III controlled substance is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months and $750 (Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1039). Wyoming sets no per se THC blood limit for impaired driving, relying instead on an impairment standard under Wyo. Stat. 31-5-233. The state has no cannabis expungement or automatic record-clearing program. The cannabis penalty statute was not amended in either direction across the 2023 through 2026 sessions; over the same period the state enacted Senate Bill 32 in 2024, banning Delta-8, Delta-10, HHC, and similar hemp-derived intoxicating cannabinoids, a ban the Tenth Circuit upheld in November 2025. Cannabis arrests totaled 1,416 in calendar-year 2024, composed of 1,391 possession arrests and 25 sales arrests, roughly 241 per 100,000 residents calculated on total state population, and have fallen from 2,877 in 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 5.2 times the rate of white residents, a ratio that rests on a small Black population base and grew from 3.19 in 2010.