What still needs checking
- Hemp statute link is a 2024 edition; current hemp amendments should be checked before product-specific publication.
- Current Title 35 PDF was opened, but exact possession penalties were intentionally omitted to avoid form/weight mistakes.
Possession and use
Wyoming's Title 35 controlled-substances law prohibits unauthorized marijuana possession. It contains penalties that vary by form, weight and prior history, so this guide does not compress them into a single universal sentence. A 2022 proposed Patient Cannabis Act did not by itself change the current law; only enacted statutory text controls.
Medical access
The current statute says a practitioner generally cannot prescribe marijuana or THC, except for drugs receiving final federal FDA approval. That exception is not a state medical cannabis dispensary program. An out-of-state medical card does not give a Wyoming patient registration or marijuana purchase pathway.
Home cultivation
Wyoming Statutes § 35-7-1040 makes knowingly planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying or processing marijuana an offense except where law otherwise permits. No patient or adult personal grow route was found in the reviewed law. Separately, the hemp production statute requires licensing to produce or process hemp.
Buying cannabis
No Wyoming adult-use or medical marijuana retailer is authorized in the current statutes reviewed. The hemp statute permits possession, purchase and sale of qualifying hemp products subject to its exceptions. A hemp seller is not a marijuana dispensary, and an unpassed medical-marijuana bill is not a license.
Taxes
Wyoming has no verified licensed marijuana retail market to which a cannabis excise rate can be attached. Do not use tax rates contemplated in proposed bills. Lawful hemp commerce has its own ordinary business-tax treatment, outside this marijuana guide.
Visitors and travel
An out-of-state adult-use purchase or medical card does not overcome Wyoming's marijuana prohibition. Crossing a state border with marijuana creates an additional federal issue. The hemp statute's allowance for qualifying hemp transportation is not permission to move marijuana.
Sources and remaining checks
We checked the sources below on the date shown above. Rules may have changed since then. Check the current rules before making a decision, and read the remaining questions noted in this guide.
- Wyoming Statutes, Title 35 public health and safety. Opened October 2026; current legislature PDF includes §§ 35-7-1031 and 35-7-1040.
- Wyoming hemp production law, Chapter 51. 2024 statutory version crawled October 2026; hemp distinction.
- 2022 HB 143 Wyoming Patient Cannabis Act. Introduced proposal, explicitly not used as enacted authority.
No professional legal review is claimed. Check official sources and the verification notes below.