DENVER (September 10, 2025) – The Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR) today announced the Average Market Rates (AMRs) for retail marijuana effective October 1 through December 31, 2025. These rates are used to help calculate the state's excise tax on retail marijuana.
The AMRs for October 1 through December 31 are:
- Bud: $649 per pound
- Trim: $204 per pound
- Bud Allocated for Extraction: $354 per pound
- Trim Allocated for Extraction: $75 per pound
- Immature Plant: $14 per plant
- Wet Whole Plant: $71 per pound
- Seed: $9 per seed
These rates were calculated using data from the Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance (METRC) system from June 1 through August 31. The Department uses specific criteria for the data, including transfers that originated at a retail cultivator and went to retail stores or product manufacturers.
Colorado law requires the Department to calculate these average market rates every three months. The AMRs are the median prices per pound or per item for different types of unprocessed retail marijuana. These prices are for marijuana sold or moved from cultivation facilities to stores or product manufacturers.
A 15% excise tax is placed on retail marijuana based on either the AMR or the actual selling price, whichever applies. The AMR is used when marijuana is sold or moved between a cultivation facility and an affiliated retail marijuana store or manufacturing facility.
Visit the Taxation Division’s AMR webpage for more information, including current and prior AMRs.