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Licensed cannabis retail in San Diego County

State license record checked 2026-10-06 · 118 records

By local government

What else the record shows

• The 87 storefronts trade under 61 names and sit in 29 ZIP codes.
• 81 of the 87 are licensed for both adult-use and medicinal sales.
• 29 further retail licenses in the county are on record as expired or surrendered.

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• CSV — one row per license, 118 rows.
• JSON — the same rows with the source and the date checked.

Columns: license_number, status, license_type, retail, designation, issued, expires, legal_name, trading_name, display_name, jurisdiction, street, city, zip, latitude, longitude, page_url.

Method

• Source. The California Department of Cannabis Control public license search, queried for San Diego County.
• What is included. Every license that permits retail sale: storefront retailers, delivery-only retailers, and microbusinesses with a retail activity.
• City. A store is counted in the city that licenses it. A store with an Escondido or El Cajon postal address in the unincorporated area is counted in the county, not the city.
• Frequency. Checked weekly. A change in a license status is reviewed before it is published.
• What is left out. License holders' names, email addresses and phone numbers. They are in the state record; they are not republished here.

Limits

• A license is not a store's opening status. A licensed store can be closed for the day, or not yet open.
• Two licenses can share one address, so 87 licenses is not always 87 separate shopfronts.
• Whether a city allows storefronts comes from each local government's own rules, checked on the dates shown; local rules change.
• The state does not publish the address of a delivery-only business, so those records have no location.

Updated 2026-10-05. State record checked 2026-10-06. Corrections: see the about page.