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Questions with the rule behind them

Seven questions operators ask, answered with the statute or the administrative rule that decides each one, a link to the state's own text, and the date somebody last read it. Useful whether or not you ever buy anything, which is the point.

Written from primary sources and checked against them. As of October 19, 2026. How that is done.

13 of 52 jurisdictions published. A jurisdiction appears only after its rules have been read against its own statute and administrative code.

Published so far: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Washington. Every state specific figure on the pages below is rendered from that corpus rather than typed into a page, so the count changes as the reading is finished and a state that has not been read cannot appear as an example.

ArizonaCaliforniaColoradoIllinoisMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMissouriNevadaNew JerseyNew YorkOregonWashington

How these pages are written

One rule governs all seven, and it is the same rule the software runs on: a claim renders only when there is a published, verified source behind it. No source, no sentence.

State specific facts come from Bloom's regulatory corpus over its public API, the same rows the register reads when it decides whether a sale may complete. Each carries the citation it came from, a link to the regulator's own text, and the date that text was last read. Nothing is typed into a page, which is why a page cannot go stale separately from the product and cannot claim coverage the corpus does not have.

Where a question is not state specific, what Metrc is, what an inspection power says, the source is a primary document opened and read directly: the statute, the administrative rule, or the organisation's own page. Those appear as quotations rather than as assertions, attributed, with the day they were read, so the two kinds of claim are never confused on the page.

Where neither is available, the page says so and stops. There is at least one such admission on every page here, and one page is mostly admission, because the question it asks does not have a verified answer yet and pretending otherwise would cost a reader their licence rather than costing us a sale.

Free, and staying that way

None of this is gated. There is no form, no email capture and no call, and the regulatory corpus behind it is public and stays public. If you read a state page, check a citation against the state's own text, fix something in whatever system you already run and never come back, the page did its job.

The commercial argument is only that a system able to name the rule it is enforcing is worth more than one that cannot, and the fastest way to test that claim is to put the question to whatever you run today: which rule is it enforcing, and when was that rule last checked?

If you would rather see it working than read about it, the demo opens a private copy of a working dispensary in one click, with no account, and nothing in it can reach a state system.

The rest of the corpus

These seven pages are the questions. The state list is the underlying record, one page per jurisdiction, showing every published fact with its citation and the parts that are missing rather than a guess in their place. What changed is the log of rules that moved, kept because a sale made in March has to be explainable with the rule as it stood in March.

13 of 52 jurisdictions are published today. The rest show what is missing.

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