Complete adult-use sales data from Massachusetts in June has been posted by the state Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) on its Open Data platform. June is the first full month that recreational retailers were open for business since February, after being compelled to shut down from March 24 through May 24 as part of Massachusetts’ COVID-19
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Oklahoma’s booming medical cannabis sales continued in June, but it seems that the meteoric growth observed this spring is slowing. Based on tax collection information from the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA), June’s medical cannabis sales in the state reached nearly $80 million, another new record for the young market. Similar to May, it is
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The Colorado Governor’s Office of Planning and Budgeting recently published a new Economic and Fiscal Outlook. The report includes projections for cannabis tax revenue in the current and coming fiscal years. The Outlook also confirms our analysis of recently published sales figures out of Colorado, which we have shown to still be growing year-over-year, but
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The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) published adult-use sales figures for May earlier this week. In a June 11 press release, IDFPR announced that adult-use cannabis retailers in the state generated over $44.3 million in gross revenue in May. May’s sales are up 18.9% from April’s over $37.2 million. The month-over-month uptick
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Visibility into sales and production in Washington’s legal cannabis market has been obscured since late 2017 due to issues with LEAF, the state’s plant and inventory tracking system produced by Akerna (formerly MJ Freeway). However, a recent analysis by data scientist Jim MacRae, who has been observing Washington’s market for years, shows that the Evergreen
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The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) recently released sales and production data for May 2020, a month in which the state began reopening after being under a statewide stay-at-home order throughout April. Under Oregon’s reopening plan, individual counties had to receive permission from the state to begin doing so. Numerous counties received such approval around
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The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) recently released its monthly report on the state’s medical cannabis program for April 2020. Sales remained strong despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a stay-at-home order issued by Governor Doug Ducey at the end of March. However, April’s sales were off from March’s record levels, unlike in 2019 when
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The Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) recently released its monthly Marijuana Sales Report for March 2020. Total retail demand jumped from February to March by a significant magnitude, as has come to be expected based on prior trends. However, the month-over-month increase this year was notably smaller than those observed in the same period in
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In a year marked so far by incredible turbulence, at least one aspect of California’s legal cannabis industry will remain constant. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) recently announced that the mark-up rate used in the calculation of the 15% excise tax on retailers will remain at 80% for the remainder of
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The Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) has published its 2019 Annual Update, providing licensing, sales, production, and product testing data for the entirety of last year. Interestingly, flower production expanded as purchasing declined, yet wholesale prices in the state increased, nonetheless. Some flower was undoubtedly directed toward extraction to manufacture concentrates and infused products. The
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