Adult use cannabis sales up in Ill.; Maine and Missouri reach an all time high in March
In Illinois, both adult use and medical retail sales were up, but adult use sales were up 15% from February to March.
Data Points
Two seed-to-sale tracking systems have locked up 73% of states, but still have issues. Is the solution blockchain?
All seed-to-sale cannabis tracking systems are based on software that uses serialized plant tags and labels attached to packages from wholesale to retail point of sale.
Adult use licensees reach some – not all – diversity goals, review of Mass. data shows
Applicants are required to show their progress in annual application renewals. And, according to regulations, these diversity plans have teeth: the CCC is empowered to revoke, suspend, or deny renewal of applications.
In two big US cities, cannabis arrests are significantly down
In Baltimore, cannabis arrests are finally close to mirroring the city’s demographics. Meanwhile, Chicago’s cannabis-related arrests are down in 2022, but 194 people were arrested so far this year.
New England cannabis retail sales still down since December, but license holders are gearing up for April highs
Meanwhile, the price for one ounce of flower for adult use consumers went down just 3% on average in one year from February 2021 in Massachusetts.
There aren’t that many hemp growers in New York eligible for cannabis licenses
New York’s new law allowing hemp growers to grow THC cannabis is actually leveraging a relatively small group of growers,
February draws lukewarm Midwest cannabis sales
“You’ll see the prices go back up in the summer, you’ll start to see sales go back up. In the summer, they will get to a point that’s higher than it is right now. Not a lot higher.”
Fifty seven percent of New York’s municipalities opt out of adult use cannabis sales
Customers in counties with a high number of municipalities that opted out could still benefit from delivery services that are allowed in the state, but it’s likely to be cost prohibitive for some.
Report: States’ medical programs far from the gold standard
After all states and territory grades were averaged, access to medical cannabis received a 44% or a D on the grading scale.
Over 73% of Americans live in states with legal access to marijuana
The average enrollment in medical-only states is 1.84%, with Oklahoma rising to the top, with over 12% of its population enrolled in the medical program.
