Authorized marijuana gross sales in Connecticut stay secure, with the state reporting $21 million in income from medical and adult-use hashish in April.
The figures, reported on Wednesday by the state Division of Shopper Safety, confirmed that the newly launched adult-use market recorded $10.2 million within the month of April, whereas the medical hashish market introduced in $11.4 million.
The $21 million in whole gross sales was solely barely beneath the gross sales for the month of March, when the state reported about $22 million in hashish gross sales.
The $10.2 million in adult-use gross sales in April represented a brand new excessive for the state’s leisure hashish market, which launched in January.
Earlier gross sales totals for the adult-use market had been $9.5 million in March, $7 million in February and $5.1 million within the inaugural month of January.
The Division of Shopper Safety on Wednesday additionally supplied different figures from April’s gross sales totals, reporting that medical hashish sufferers “bought 314,985 merchandise, and adult-use customers bought 259,499.”
“The typical product worth for Medical Marijuana sufferers was $36.51 in April, whereas the typical worth of adult-use merchandise was $39.58,” the company reported.
Extra from the division:
“This knowledge was collected via the state’s Seed-to-Sale Monitoring System. DCP doesn’t make income projections, set gross sales expectations, gather taxes, or regulate costs. The preliminary knowledge doesn’t embrace taxes collected on the level of sale on adult-use transactions and is topic to additional evaluate by the division. Medical marijuana sufferers don’t pay taxes on the acquisition of their drugs…Gross sales knowledge for the medical marijuana market isn’t accessible previous to Jan. 10, 2023. Seed-to-sale monitoring was not beforehand required for medical marijuana gross sales. Grownup-use and medical marijuana gross sales are actually recorded in BioTrack, the stock monitoring system used to watch the motion of hashish merchandise within the state’s medical and adult-use hashish markets. Transaction limits of 1/4 ounce of uncooked flower or the equal stay in impact for all adult-use purchases. Medical marijuana sufferers could buy as much as 5 ounces per 30 days and will not be topic to particular person transaction limits. The Division will make future knowledge accessible at ct.gov/hashish. The information will likely be up to date month-to-month on or after the tenth of every month, and new knowledge will proceed to be added because it turns into accessible.”
Connecticut legalized leisure hashish for adults aged 21 and older in 2021, when Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont signed a invoice that ended the prohibition and laid the groundwork for the market that launched in January.
“That’s why I launched a invoice and labored exhausting with our companions within the legislature and different stakeholders to create a complete framework for a securely regulated market that prioritizes public well being, public security, social justice, and fairness. It would assist eradicate the damaging unregulated market and assist a brand new, rising sector of our financial system which can create jobs,” Lamont mentioned on the time. “By permitting adults to own hashish, regulating its sale and content material, coaching cops within the newest methods of detecting and stopping impaired driving, and expunging the prison information of individuals with sure hashish crimes, we’re not solely successfully modernizing our legal guidelines and addressing inequities, we’re retaining Connecticut economically aggressive with our neighboring states.”
In December, Lamont announced that, as a part of the brand new hashish regulation, he was expunging round 44,000 low stage pot-related convictions.
“Particularly as Connecticut employers search to fill tons of of 1000’s of job openings, an previous conviction for low-level hashish possession shouldn’t maintain somebody again from pursuing their profession, housing, skilled, and academic aspirations,” the governor, who was re-elected to a second time period in November, mentioned in an announcement on the time.
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