An eighth costs $15.31 in Washington and $51.63 in Kentucky. Thirteen months of register data across 36 states points at one variable, and it isn’t whether the state calls itself medical or recreational.
Trans-High Market Quotations is live, and this is the first full read of it: thirteen months of retail flower prices, August 2025 through August 2026, built on point-of-sale data supplied by Hoodie.
We brought THMQ back this month because every form of prohibition creates an information gap between the person who knows the going rate and the person who doesn’t. In 1974 High Times closed that gap with field reports mailed in by readers. In 2026 we’re closing it with register data and, shortly, with reports from readers again.
Every price here is what an actual package rang up for at the counter. No conversions applied.
The national number is hiding what happened
A national eighth cost $22.72 in August 2026. A year earlier it was $22.79. Seven cents.
That flatness is an artifact of weighting. The national figure is dominated by the biggest markets, which were already cheap and had nowhere left to fall. Underneath it, 24 of the 34 states with a full year of comparable data cut the price of an eighth, with a median decline of 5.2 percent.
Where an eighth got cheapest
Year-over-year change, August 2025 to August 2026.
StateAug 2025Aug 2026Change
New Jersey$36.66$31.78−13.3%
Connecticut$32.21$28.43−11.7%
Illinois$29.15$26.01−10.8%
Delaware$40.88$36.57−10.5%
District of Columbia$46.23$41.52−10.2%
Maryland$29.08$26.17−10.0%
Colorado$19.77$18.00−9.0%
Source: Hoodie. August 2026 data cut.
Ten states got dearer. Only one moved hard: Minnesota, up 42.4 percent. We’ll come back to it, because it’s the most useful state in the dataset.
The compression is sharpest at the small end. A single gram fell 8.7 percent over the year, from $11.28 to $10.29. A quarter fell 3.8 percent. A half-ounce moved half a percent, from $53.86 to $53.58. Whatever competition is happening, it’s happening at the bottom …
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Author: Rolando García / High Times
