Where are Massachusetts’ adult use retailers?
No medical treatment center, cultivator, product manufacturer, retailer, transporter, or independent testing laboratory can have more than three licenses in each category.
No medical treatment center, cultivator, product manufacturer, retailer, transporter, or independent testing laboratory can have more than three licenses in each category.
The cities with the most retail licenses – at 50 each – are Ann Arbor and Bay City, tied for first place.
Industry experts like CannaBizIL executive director Pamela Althoff says May’s slight sales decrease isn’t a sign of bad things to come, but likely because workers returning to the office are consuming less cannabis than they would in the privacy of their own homes.
Eighteen locations have addresses listed as “New Location to be Determined,” meaning a third of businesses have to find another place to do business.
“Consumers viewed legal cannabis as a superior product to illegal cannabis, suggesting that even a slightly higher legal price than illegal could still encourage consumer transition to the legal market,” researchers found.
For the states that have sales numbers publicly available, Grown In analyzed the average amount of money each patient spent in April 2022.
reflected that enthusiasm from patients and the public. But other states that have been in the game for longer only saw nominal changes in retail sales since March, and one actually decreased year-over-year.
To better understand how each state works, we contacted regulators and local experts to explain how states dole out cannabis licenses.
“Getting these questions on the ballot in a year where there’s a presidential election typically is more beneficial for the outcome. Higher voter turnout helps the cannabis perform.”
Despite what one would expect from a patchwork of standards, not much varies state to state. But that’s not true for the threshold of lead, one of many cancer-causing metals, which are absorbed by cannabis plants through water and the environment.