Access Policy
Public dashboards, the open specification, and bounded aggregate API/MCP reads are available for use and audit. Deeper programmatic access is reviewed so the service stays reliable; commercial reuse of the DevCannabis platform is licensed rather than open by default. DevCannabis does not claim ownership of underlying regulator records, which may carry separate source rights or terms.
Free public access
Public site pages, dashboards, public methodology notes, and published source summaries are free to browse. Each dashboard's published headline figures are also free to download as a small verification CSV (one state, latest reporting week, with source links) so anyone can check the numbers against the official report — no account required. That free verification download is distinct from the gated bulk export below. Free non-commercial/fair-use access is permitted for research, journalism, advocacy, education, and public-interest analysis with attribution to DevCannabis and original regulatory sources where practical.
API and export access
Bounded aggregate routes in /api/v1 and the read-only MCP tier are keyless and rate-limited.
Deeper history, per-operator access, exports, or higher-volume automated use require request, approval,
authentication, and an issued API key. Issued keys are scoped to approved terms,
rate-limited, usage-logged, and can be disabled or revoked. Bulk, commercial, resale, republication,
and model-training use require separate written permission.
Uses requiring written permission
- Bulk export, bulk scraping, automated extraction, or bypassing reasonable access limits.
- Commercial use, resale, republication, syndication, or embedding DevCannabis as a paid data backend.
- Model training, enrichment pipelines, or derivative datasets based on DevCannabis outputs.
- Reselling or re-hosting the DevCannabis platform, brand, or our normalized dataset as a commercial product. (Building your own tool from the original public records is always fair game.)
Contribution proposals
People may propose one bounded, source-backed improvement at a time. Do not send authored work first. Scope, applicable contribution terms, the access path, tests, and a human reviewer must be confirmed before work begins. Approval does not create standing repository access or authority over later work.
The platform, not the records
Public visibility and request workflows do not grant rights to copy, operate, or commercialize the DevCannabis platform. The private code, production adapters, complete corpus, infrastructure, editorial work, and brand remain protected. Source records and third-party materials keep their own rights and terms.
Trust and attribution
Cite DevCannabis and original regulatory sources where practical. Corrections should include source URL, date fetched or observed, last verified date if known, confidence level, reviewer notes, and a challenge/correction link.
Jurisdiction model
Florida is the first mature adapter, not a hard platform assumption. Request missing coverage through the contributor form. Requests record demand and are prioritized by source availability, public value, repeat demand, and maintenance capacity; they do not promise a delivery date.