About This Dashboard

Every package tested in New Jersey's regulated cannabis market, visualized and searchable. 72,098 packages across 133 facilities, 8 labs, and 3,499 strains. January 2023 through December 2025.

The data comes from the NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission via Metrc. The analysis, visualization, and methodology are mine. The testing data is public record — this site puts it in a form anyone can read.

This dashboard exists because New Jersey's Cannabis Regulatory Commission chose to make its testing data public — fully, and without being forced to. It is one of the most thorough cannabis testing datasets any state has released.

Public data like this is how a market improves: regulators, operators, and patients can all argue from the same facts. We're grateful the CRC put it in the open, and we hope they keep doing it.

I'm Max Jackson, founder of Cannabis Wise Guys.

Before I started analyzing cannabis markets, I operated in one. I worked on a licensed cannabis farm in Trinity County, California — first as a photographer documenting the operation, then as general manager running the whole on-the-ground business across 13,000 square feet of flowering canopy. I lived on-site in a converted ambulance and learned every lesson the hard way: undersized irrigation, failed automation, diesel generators at 3 AM, two hours from the nearest Home Depot.

When I read a Metrc export today, I'm reading data I used to generate.

Today I work as an operational translator between cannabis operations, finance, and policy. I serve on the cultivation committee of a state cannabis trade association, consult on cannabis litigation as an expert witness, and publish market analysis that connects what operators experience to what investors and regulators assume. No party funded, directed, or pre-reviewed this dashboard. The analysis is independent.

I built this dashboard because I kept citing testing data in policy memos and realized nobody could verify what I was saying without doing the same multi-month data processing I had done. That's a problem. If the evidence matters, the evidence should be public.

Markets work better when participants see the same data.

Operators should be able to see how many facilities are actually producing, what the potency distribution is, which categories are growing, and what the failure rates are by test type. Regulators and policymakers should be able to read the patterns inside the data they already collect. Investors should be able to see structural concentration, cohort survival, and lab variance without commissioning a custom study.

Ten facilities account for nearly half of all tested product. The median facility tests five packages a month. Median flower THC has climbed more than five points in three years. Lab-by-lab failure rates differ by a factor of more than four under the same regulation.

None of these patterns were hidden. They were in the Metrc exports the state has been collecting since 2023. The work was turning the raw exports into something a reader can use. That work is done. The result is on this site.