The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Cannabis Registry

This Open Data Registry includes currently licensed applicants as well as pending cannabis license applicants. The registry is accompanied by a map, showing the locations of licensed establishments that have applied for a cannabis license and shows their current status, which you can find <a…

Dataset

Publisher
Consumer Affairs and Licensing Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
14
Keywords
cannabis
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/cannabis-registry

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVreferenced40986b68d434858cfdbd084ff3616d4365fc79c619ff4188003491caa84cdd3ba0e24source
PDFreferenced39106230762b331f8ac96c70f1266bfdb340dc0c7dede27ae2f2fe4f30828778a480a7source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

ColumnTypeDescription
id_name_firsttext
id_name_lasttext
id_full_nametext
app_license_categorytext
app_license_notext
app_business_nametext
app_dba_nametext
app_license_statustext
lt_license_typetext
equity_program_designationtext
facility_addresstext
facility_zip_codetext
longitudetext
latitudetext

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:cannabis-registry
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/cannabis-registry
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/cannabis-registry.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
cannabis-registry
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0