Edibles, Drinks & Wellness & Vapes Taxonomy Update

On July 14th, 2025, Weedmaps will update our Taxonomy API to provide improved categories for Edibles, Drinks & Wellness, and a more simplified structure for Vapes across all API versions.

As a result the root categories (L1) for Edibles, Drinks & Wellness will be reflected from the /partners/categories endpoint, as well as the /categories/tree for children categories. However for Vapes we've kept the structure the same but did remove Pull and Push Button children categories.

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Fallback Logic

If you don't update your product categories, Weedmaps will auto-map what is provided to the closest L1 category. However in order to support subcategories (L2, L3) you must include the parent and children category_id or category_namewhen updating or creating a product.

Here’s a visual representation of the new category structure for Edibles, Drinks & Wellness

Here’s a visual representation of the category structure for Vapes

Lastly here's a Wellness -> Topical -> Bath JSON example from our partners/categories/tree endpoint:

 {
  "id": 2001,
  "parent_id": null,
  "slug": "wellness",
  "name": "Wellness",
  "published": true,
  "updated_at": "2024-11-23T02:36:25Z",
  "children": [
    {
      "id": 1001,
      "parent_id": "1693",
      "slug": "topicals",
      "name": "Topicals",
      "published": true,
      "updated_at": "2024-11-23T02:36:25Z",
      "children": [
        {
          "id": 1002,
          "parent_id": 1001,
          "slug": "bath",
          "name": "Bath",
          "published": true,
          "updated_at": "2024-11-23T02:36:25Z",
          "children": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].