Is home growing legal where you live?
All 50 states and DC, grouped by what the law allows for growing at home: plant limits, medical-only rules, and states where buying is legal but growing isn't.
Last updated September 29, 2026 · Not legal advice
Full home grow (21)
Adults can legally grow at home for personal use, within a plant limit.
- Alaska6 per adult
- Arizona6 per adult
- California6 per residence
- Colorado6 per adult
- Connecticut6 per adultindoor cultivation only — outdoor growing remains a felony
- Maine6 mature per adult
- Maryland2 per residence
- Massachusetts6 per adult
- Michigan12 per residence
- Minnesota8 per residence
- Missouri18 per adult (includes seedlings/clones)
- Montana4 per adult
- Nevada6 per adult
- New Mexico12 per adult
- New York6 per adult
- Ohio6 per adult
- Oregon4 per residence
- Rhode Island6 per residence
- Vermont6 per residence
- Virginia4 per residence
- Washington D.C.6 per adult
Medical-only home grow (3)
Only registered medical patients (and in some cases their caregivers) can grow at home.
Legal to buy doesn't mean legal to grow
Legal to buy, not to grow (4)
Adults can legally buy and possess cannabis, but recreational home growing is prohibited. In some of these states, only registered medical patients may grow.
No home cultivation (23)
Home growing isn't legal for anyone, recreational or medical. Many of these states still have a medical or CBD program, listed with each state.
- Alabamamedical legal, up to 70 daily dosages
- Arkansasmedical legal, up to 2.5 oz per 14 days
- Floridamedical legal, up to three 70-day supplies
- Georgiamedical legal, 12,000 mg THC possession limit
- IdahoCBD only, under 0.1% THC
- IndianaCBD only, under 0.3% THC
- Iowamedical legal, up to 4.5g per 90 days
- KansasCBD only, 0% THC
- Kentuckymedical legal, 30-day supply
- Louisianamedical legal (30-day supply); recreational possession decriminalized up to 14g
- Mississippimedical legal, up to 3 oz/month; recreational decriminalized up to 30g
- Nebraskamedical legal (approved Nov 2024); recreational decriminalized for first offense
- New Hampshiremedical legal, up to 2 oz; recreational decriminalized up to 0.75 oz
- North CarolinaCBD only; recreational decriminalized up to 42g
- North Dakotamedical legal, up to 3 oz; recreational decriminalized up to 14g
- Pennsylvaniamedical legal, 90-day supply; recreational decriminalized in select cities
- South Carolinacannabis oil only, under 0.9% THC
- Tennesseecannabis oil only, under 0.9% THC
- Texasmedical legal (expanded June 2025), up to 10mg THC per serving
- Utahmedical legal, up to 4 oz per 30 days
- West Virginiamedical legal
- WisconsinCBD only
- WyomingCBD only