Illinois is legal for adults and grow-legal only for patients: five plants with a medical card, zero without one. It is the compromise that survived every repeal attempt, and it decides exactly who should be reading this page as a buyer versus a watcher.
Boxes reach Chicago, Aurora, Rockford and the rest of Illinois as tracked nursery stock. Orders ship from the nursery in up to 2 weeks, tracked door to door. Every cut ships as a fully rooted clone, 8-12" tall. Patients: order late April for a mid-May start; adults: not permitted, which is the timing that keeps an arriving clone from waiting indoors or meeting a frost.
| Status | Adult use since 2020 |
|---|---|
| Possession | 30 g flower and 5 g concentrate for residents (half for non-residents) |
| Home grow | Registered medical patients only, 5 plants |
| Retail | Licensed dispensaries |
| Statute | 410 ILCS 705 (Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, 2019) |
| Order by | Patients: order late April for a mid-May start; adults: not permitted |
Registered patients get a real season: Chicagoland clears frost in early May and holds through mid-October, so a late-April order lands a hardened plant on schedule. The five-plant cap rewards clones ruthlessly, since a guaranteed female fills a precious slot that a seed might waste on a male. Adults without a card are watchers for now; the pending home-grow bills would change this page the day one passes.
Computed for IL
Eight cuts scored against this state's season using the worst case of each flowering range, sized for indoor tents.
Yes. Clones ship to Illinois as tracked nursery stock, rooted 8-12" and dispatched within the up-to-2-week window, reaching Chicago, Aurora and the rest of the state. Whether you may then legally grow them is the separate question answered below.
Home cultivation is limited to REGISTERED MEDICAL PATIENTS: 5 plants per household. Adult-use possession is legal but adult cultivation is not; the distinction is enforced.
Patients: order late April for a mid-May start; adults: not permitted. Count backwards from planting: up to 2 weeks to root and ship, a few days in transit, then about a week of hardening off, roughly three weeks from click to soil.
The manifest computes Honey Dew, Skunk Kush and Weave Match #2 at the top for Illinois, scoring every cut's worst-case flowering window against the state's real season. All eight picks are listed on this page.