The wholesale product taxonomy, and where each Rhode Island METRC category lands in it

What this page is

Two reference tables and one mapping. The taxonomy is WeedShelf’s own: the selling categories a cultivator sees in their catalog and a buyer sees on a menu. The mapping is observed: which METRC item category each package arrived under, and where the sync put it. Neither is a claim about what Rhode Island requires; METRC’s category list is Rhode Island’s configuration and can change. The methodology page says how a number gets onto a page like this one.

Absence is shown as absence: a METRC flag that was not read for a category says “not observed”, never a guess.

Master categories

Rhode Island METRC item categories and where each one maps

The 21 categories the Rhode Island instance served on July 28, 2026. RequiresStrain was read at a production facility on July 24, 2026 for the categories where it is shown; RequiresUnitWeight on the Rhode Island sandbox on July 9, 2026.

Two rows are deliberate rather than obvious. Infused Bud/Flower lands in Flower, not Edible: it is infused flower sold by mass, the lot infused pre-rolls are rolled from, and filing it as an edible made the sync refuse a legitimate draw in grams. Infused Non-edible lands in Other rather than Topical: no connected cultivator has ever stocked it, so the sync refuses to guess a form that would print on a sticker.

Sources and machine-readable copy

• WeedShelf reference tables, read at build time; counts are derived, never typed.
• GET /items/v2/categories at one Rhode Island production cultivator facility, July 28, 2026, the list the sync’s own test pins.
• The mapping is the output of the production sync’s category mapper over that list, computed on every build.

The taxonomy and the mapping in one file: /taxonomy/data.json.

Related

• Guides for dispensary buyers and cultivators
• Methodology: what WeedShelf publishes and what it does not