Reviewed Sep 2026Adult-use legal

Cannabis in Schenectady

Schenectady passed a 90-day cannabis moratorium in Nov 2024, then zoning in Feb 2025: 500-foot buffers and $850,000 in expected tax. 13 shops listed.

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Sellers listed: 13
License verified: 13
Minimum age: 21+

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The rules

Key rules in New York

Plain-language summary. The regulator is Office of Cannabis Management (OCM).

Minimum age
21
Possession
Up to 3 oz of flower or 24 g of concentrate; up to 5 lb stored securely at home
Home grow
3 mature + 3 immature plants per adult; max 6 + 6 per household
Taxes
Retail taxes totaling 13%; 9% distributor tax (rates effective June 1, 2024); exempt from sales tax
Delivery
Offered by many OCM-licensed dispensaries; the MRTA also created delivery licenses
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How cannabis is sold in Schenectady

Schenectady expected $850,000 from cannabis excise revenue in 2025, up from $300,000 the year before, and that is the stake in the zoning the council adopted that February.

$850,000

projected 2025 cannabis excise revenue, against $300,000 in the prior year

Schenectady Daily Gazette, Feb 2025

90 days

moratorium on new shops, adopted November 12, 2024

Daily Gazette

500 ft

buffer from parks, playgrounds, child-care centres and venues where minors gather

Daily Gazette, Feb 2025

Moratorium, then rules

On February 10, 2025 the City Council unanimously approved zoning for cannabis shops. They are allowed in manufacturing and warehousing districts, the C-4 downtown mixed-use district and C-5, with C-2 and C-3 by special permit only. Residential districts are barred, and shops that had already opened were grandfathered. State law adds 500 feet from schools and 200 feet from houses of worship. At that point the Gazette counted six active licences and a pending project at the former KeyBank on Eastern Parkway.

Where the 13 sit

The Capital Region's first legal dispensary, Upstate Canna Co on Upper Union Street, opened around April 1, 2023. The register now shows Cannabicity at Mohawk Harbor, Electric City Cannabis Co, LLC on Lower Broadway, Grub Bud LLC on Broadway, Mill Lane Provisions, LLC and Planet Green Dispensary and Supply on State Street, Cussin's Cannabis on Central Avenue and 1650 Crane Street Dispensary LLC on Crane Street. For the state-level rules, read the wider New York rules.