Five shops hold licenses on St. Thomas. None are open yet. Here's where each one stands.
Every shop below was licensed by the Office of Cannabis Regulation with its site already approved, and each is now building out. The tracker moves when the next step is confirmed: a final inspection passed, then the grand opening.
Not open yet Licensed January 16, 2026 Location not public yet
Not open yet Licensed January 16, 2026 Location not public yet
Not open yet Licensed January 16, 2026 Location not public yet
Not open yet Licensed January 16, 2026 Location not public yet
Not open yet Licensed January 16, 2026 Location not public yet
A quick tour of the towns, so you know which one is a short drive from where you're staying.
The capital, the cruise gateway, and the island's main commercial core. Fort Christian, the 99 Steps, Main Street's duty-free shops, Havensight Mall at the cruise dock, the cable car up to Paradise Point. If you arrived by ship, you docked here. A Charlotte Amalie dispensary will be the closest option for anyone at a downtown hotel or stepping off a cruise at Havensight or Crown Bay.
The east-end ferry town. The dock for the twenty-minute ferry to St. John and the hourly service to the British Virgin Islands. Marinas, yacht-charter offices, waterfront restaurants, Sapphire Beach a few minutes away. A Red Hook dispensary serves both east-end hotels (Ritz-Carlton, Point Pleasant, Sapphire Village) and ferry passengers who want to shop before or after a day trip.
Frenchtown is the small French-Caribbean enclave west of Charlotte Amalie, known for seafood and quieter waterfront nights. Beyond that, St. Thomas is thirty-two square miles of steep green hills and bright beaches. Magens Bay, Coki Point, Lindquist. Beautiful places to spend a day, not places where a dispensary will open. Whichever town your shop is in, that's where the sale happens, and beaches and public spaces on St. Thomas are not legal consumption spots.
The standard dispensary menu: flower (dried buds), pre-rolls, vape cartridges, edibles and THC gummies, concentrates, and non-psychoactive topicals and tinctures. First-day selection will be narrower than a mainland dispensary since the territory's micro-cultivators are still scaling up. For first-time edible buyers, the rule is start with 2.5 to 5 milligrams and wait a full hour before a second dose.
Not yet. Five dispensaries have cleared the licensing review and are preparing to open. The Office of Cannabis Regulation has said regulated sales will start by fall 2026. The island is allocated up to seven dispensary licenses, the largest pool in the territory.
Check this page. Every St. Thomas shop licensed by the Office of Cannabis Regulation is listed here. If a shop isn't listed on VIBE HIGH, it isn't a legal cannabis dispensary on St. Thomas. Hemp and CBD stores are a different thing: they can sell hemp products, not marijuana.
The first shops are spread across the island's commercial cores. Expect locations in and around Charlotte Amalie (the cruise and shopping hub), at Havensight near the cruise port, and in Red Hook on the east end. Charlotte Amalie is the closest to a downtown hotel or a cruise ship; Red Hook is the closest to anyone ferrying in from St. John.
Yes, once dispensaries open. Any adult 21 or older can purchase cannabis with a government-issued photo ID. Non-residents pay a $20 Cannabis Fee at the register plus 18 percent sales tax. No medical card and no pre-registration is required.
Yes, once shops open, and cruise passengers will be the single largest group of first-day customers. The constraint is time, not legality. Walk off the ship at Havensight or Crown Bay, ID at the door, buy, and get back before the all-aboard. What you cannot do is bring the purchase back onto the ship. Cruise ships operate under federal jurisdiction, and every major line bans cannabis in its guest terms.
Probably none. No licensed shop has announced a location yet, and the island's retail sits in Charlotte Amalie, Havensight, and Red Hook, not along the beaches. From Magens Bay, the shortest drive is back toward Charlotte Amalie. And whatever you buy can't legally be consumed on the beach; the public-consumption rule is territory-wide.
Plan on cash. Federal banking rules make card acceptance at cannabis dispensaries complicated, and mainland shops still largely run cash. Expect an in-shop ATM with a per-transaction fee. Some shops offer pin-debit processed as cash-withdrawal; the rules vary shop to shop. Bring more cash than you think you'll need.
Per-shop hours are set by each operator under Office of Cannabis Regulation guidance. Expect standard retail hours on weekdays, later into the evening on Fridays and Saturdays, and shorter on Sundays. Cruise-port shops will likely track ship schedules. Exact hours will be posted here as each St. Thomas shop opens its doors.
