First day of ​recreational marijuana sales in Illinois topped $3 million

Posted on January 2, 2020
People lined up outside NuMed East Peoria for the first day of recreational cannabis sales Jan. 1. (Photo Facebook/101.5 WBNQ)

 

By Illinois Information Services

CHICAGO – Recreational marijuana sales in Illinois topped $3 million Wednesday.

Over 77,000 transactions were made on the first day for legal pot sales in the state with receipts totaling nearly $3.2 million.

“I think everybody who was out there yesterday understood what we’ve been saying for three weeks that we were going to see lines,” said the governor’s senior advisor on cannabis control Toi Hutchinson.  “People from neighborhoods showed up with coffee and donuts for people waiting in line, and I heard one gentleman showed up with a taco truck.  It was awesome.”

Illinois is just the second state in the Midwest to legalize recreational marijuana, following Michigan which opened sales last month.

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