Dataset
Cannabis Active Licenses
The Licensing Board issues a variety of license under MGL Chapter 138 and Chapter140 including Billiards, Bowling, Clubs/Veterans' Groups, Common Victualler (Food Service), Alcohol Beverage, Innholder, Dormitories/Lodging houses, and Retail Package Stores This dataset lists all cannabis licenses…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Licensing Board
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 20
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/cannabis-active-licenses
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 21456 | b8ed505ebd6235930467750d83da6a9ca56315cb12cccc2fa25f7999d9ef390a | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
license_num | text | |
status | text | |
license_category | text | |
license_type | text | |
issued | text | |
expires | text | |
business_name | text | |
dba_name | text | |
comments | text | |
location_comments | text | |
applicant | text | |
manager | text | |
day_phone | text | |
evening_phone | text | |
address | text | |
city | text | |
state | text | |
zip | text | |
gpsx | text | |
gpsy | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:cannabis-active-licenses
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/cannabis-active-licenses
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/cannabis-active-licenses.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- cannabis-active-licenses
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |