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In the first year, the sale of legal weeds in Ohio reached $ 702.5 million.
This week is a year from Ohio he started selling Recreational marijuana AND Sales amounted to 702 587 948 USD From 109,706 pounds sold on Tuesday, in accordance with the Department of Trade of the Ohio Department of Cannabis Control. The average price was USD 6.63 per gram in the week July 27 to August 2.
“The first day of sales was amazing,” said Pete Nischt, Vice President for Conformity and Communication in Kluch Cannabis. “It was really exciting when people in the whole state finally enter this legal market and buy safe products. … I think there were still many people who thought that the sky fell.”
Ohioans adopted the law initiated by the citizen legalize recreational marijuana in 2023 with 57% of the votes and Sales began in August 2024. Legislators from Ohio may change the law because it was transferred as a civic initiative, not a constitutional amendment.
Executive director of the Cannao Cannao coalition David Bowling said that you should still do it to inform people that they can legally buy marijuana in Ohio.
“I am constantly talking to people who are not aware that you can legally buy marijuana,” he said. “From the point of view of revenues, things are not exactly where we thought they would be but not terrible” Bowling said. “I think people thought that we would approach $ 2 billion in revenues. ”
Nischt said that Klutch Cannabis, who has four pharmacies in the north -east Ohio, regularly has customers who have never used marijuana before.
“For those who used it decades earlier, but they have not used it for a long time, so much has changed, and one of the best parts with the market regulated by the state is that many fears that people about these products were solved by the rules,” he said. “(You) now has high -quality products produced in a safe facility.”
Ohio has 159 pharmacies According to the Ohio trade department, licensed for the sale of medical and recreational marijuana. There is currently no limit of the number of licenses for pharmacies in Ohio.
Legislators from Ohio have tried – to no avail so far – to change the regulations regarding Ohio marijuana.
Ohio Senate Bill 56 adopted in the Senate at the beginning of this year, but he has not yet left the Commission in the Chamber.
Bill I would do Reduce THC levels In adult marijuana lifts from a maximum of 90% to a maximum of 70%, limit the number of energetic pharmacies to 400 and prohibit smoking in most public places.
SB 56 would also regulate intoxicating hemp products. Only a licensed marijuana outpatient clinic would be able to sell intoxicating hemp products that have been tested and met with the requirements for packaging, labeling and advertising. The OHIO Trade Department would regulate cannabis intoxicating products and drunk cannabinoid products.
The agricultural account in 2018 says that hemp can be grown legally if it contains less than 0.3% THC.
Bowling worries the legislators of dealing with intoxicating hemp.
“We still have a intoxicating cannabis problem that you can deal with on the legislative front, and I think it will be what pushes the program in which it should be,” he said. “I think that when (legislators) come back in October, there is certainly an appetite to do it.”
Herring reporter Megan Henry on BlueSky.
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