Montana is not open to new stores yet. Target: January 2027. Join the waitlist.
The MT rules on this page are researched and current. There is nothing to sign up for here yet. The waitlist gets you one email when Montana opens.
Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first.
CARD
Target: Jan 2027Montana CARD-aware dispensary platform
Native compliance hooks for Montana Department of Revenue Cannabis and Alcohol Regulation Division rules. METRC traceability, 20% adult-use cannabis tax + 4% medical tax + variable local up to 3%, CARD reconciliation cadence, and the green-county / red-county opt-in/opt-out topology Montana uniquely operates under.
Regulator
Montana Department of Revenue Cannabis and Alcohol Regulation Division (CARD)
https://revenue.mt.gov/card/cannabis/ ↗Your rules, handled
Montana’s cannabis retail rules — what the CARD requires at the counter, how sales are reported to the state, and what the taxes are — are researched from the regulator’s own pages and coded into the register. You run the shop; the rules are handled at the sale.
At the register, as of September 2026: 20% on adult-use and 4% on medical sales, computed on the price after any discount, plus up to 3% where your county has voted a local option; there is no general sales tax.
Coverage here — honestly
Montana coverage is written against CARD rules: the bulletins, the green-county-vs-red-county opt-in/opt-out topology under I-190 (most multi-state POS skip this), the medical-vs-adult-use 4-vs-20 tax split, the no-state-sales-tax framework, and the METRC-cadence reconciliation requirements. We keep it current as CARD moves, and where something isn’t built for MT yet we say so before you sign.
Operator playbooks
Compliance ops playbook
State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline
Buyer scorecard
Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard
Migration playbook
POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries
Operations deep-dive
Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit
Montana cannabis retail — common questions
- Who regulates cannabis retail in Montana?
- Montana Department of Revenue Cannabis and Alcohol Regulation Division (CARD) is the state cannabis regulator for Montana. Official site: https://revenue.mt.gov/card/cannabis/.
- What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Montana use?
- Montana uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.
- What cannabis taxes apply to retail in Montana?
- At the register, as of September 2026: 20% on adult-use and 4% on medical sales, computed on the price after any discount, plus up to 3% where your county has voted a local option; there is no general sales tax.
- Is CannAgent available for Montana dispensaries?
- Not yet — Montana is not open to new stores. Target: January 2027. Join the waitlist. Targets, not promises. Each state's rules come first. Joining the MT list gets you one email when Montana opens.
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