Vermont Cannabis Market Report — October 2026: $10.19/g Across 89 Tracked Shops

As of October 17, 2026, our tracker reads the live online menus of 89 Vermont dispensaries every day — covering 12,633 in-stock listings from 1,299 brand names, at an average advertised flower price of $10.19 per gram. The scrubbed price band runs from about $3.74/g at the cheapest tracked shop to $15.00/g at the priciest — a 4× spread across the state.

This is the second edition of our monthly market recap (the September 2026 report opened the series), and the first written with near-statewide coverage: 89 tracked shops is close to every licensed Vermont dispensary with a public online menu. Every figure below is as of October 17, 2026, from live menu inventory — not point-of-sale data.

The market in five numbers

• 89 tracked dispensaries — read daily, nearly every licensed VT shop with a public menu
• 12,633 in-stock listings across those menus
• 1,299 distinct brand names on Vermont shelves (as listed on menus — some producers appear under more than one name variant, so the count of distinct companies is somewhat lower)
• $10.19 per gram — the average advertised flower price
• $3.74 → $15.00 per gram — the scrubbed cheapest-to-priciest band, a 4× spread

Flower prices: a $10.19 average, and ten tracked shops under $7/g

The statewide average of $10.19/g hides the most useful part of the story: how far apart Vermont's shelves sit. As of October 17, the cheapest tracked shelf advertises flower at about $3.74 per gram (Best Buds), while the priciest runs $15.00 per gram (Matterhorn Apothecary) — a 4× gap between the two ends of the market.

The value end is deeper than a single outlier. Ten tracked shops advertise average flower prices under $7 per gram as of October 17: Best Buds ($3.74), Lake Effect ($5.12), Cloud9 Cannabis ($5.31), Green Leaf Central ($5.48), Killington Mountain Dispensary ($6.25), Blue Sage ($6.32), VT Strong ($6.49), Silver Therapeutics ($6.56), The Buddega ($6.87) and Notch Nugs ($6.90).

At the top end, Pine Grove Organics ($14.38), Craft Cannabis Company ($14.15), MothaPlant ($13.94) and Magic Mann ($13.75) sit just under Matterhorn's $15.00 ceiling. A premium shelf is a positioning choice, not a verdict — but the spread is real money: at list prices, the same advertised gram costs four times more at the top of the band than at the bottom.

Because these are list prices that change daily, we don't freeze the ranking here. The live, daily-refreshing table lives on the Vermont Flower Price Index, today's lowest advertised prices are on best prices, and the freshest menu drops are on live deals — all updated daily from the same tracker.

October vs September: the lens tripled

The September edition closed at 29 tracked shops, 2,586 listings, 322 brands and a $9.85/g average. A month later the tracker reads 89 shops (3.1×), 12,633 listings (4.9×) and 1,299 brand names (4×). Honesty requires the label we used last month: this is overwhelmingly a coverage effect. Vermont's market did not quintuple in four weeks — our lens widened to take in nearly the whole state. From here forward the month-over-month comparisons get meaningful, because the lens is finally close to fixed.

One number that is at least partly a real signal: the average advertised flower price moved from $9.85/g to $10.19/g (+3.5%). Some of that is composition — the newly tracked shops skew slightly pricier than the early cohort — so we label it an estimate of direction, not a clean like-for-like move. The September floor-to-ceiling spread was 2.2× ($6.15–$13.44); with more shelves in view the October band is wider at 4× ($3.74–$15.00). Wider coverage finds both cheaper floors and pricier ceilings.

Which brands own the shelf

Across 89 tracked menus, the brand names with the most in-stock listings as of October 17 are Pinnacle Valley Farms (429), Satori (335), Upstate Elevator (304), Mountain Girl Cannabis (197), Sunset Lake Cannabis (196) and Taunik (165). That's a lead change from September, when Upstate Elevator topped the table (121) ahead of Pinnacle Valley Farms (103) — under the wider statewide lens, Pinnacle Valley Farms is the clear facings leader.

Two caveats worth keeping. Raw listing counts favor brands that stack deep in a few stores, so facings and breadth (how many shops carry a brand) tell different stories. And because menus list brand names inconsistently — the same producer can appear under several variants — per-brand counts are best read as close estimates. The live brand-share chart on the data hub tracks this daily.

How to read these numbers

We capture each dispensary's public online menu daily. Every figure here is advertised menu inventory, not point-of-sale data: it describes what's on the shelf at what list price, not what sells at the register. Before quoting a floor or ceiling we scrub obvious data artifacts — a handful of menus list mislabeled per-gram prices (pennies per gram) that would make any "cheapest" claim false — so the $3.74/g floor is the cheapest real advertised shelf we track. Where a figure is an estimate, we say so in place.

The takeaway

October 2026 is the month the picture got close to complete: 89 tracked menus, 12,633 listings, and a price band you can actually navigate — $3.74/g to $15.00/g, with ten tracked shops under $7/g and a statewide average of $10.19/g. The numbers above are frozen as of October 17, 2026, for the record; the living versions update daily on the Vermont Flower Price Index, best prices, live deals and the data hub. The November 2026 edition will pick up the series with a near-fixed lens — which is when the month-over-month deltas start to mean something.