The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and the Pritzker Administration today announced recreational cannabis sales. The December 2024 totals of $153,249,701.54 finished as the second-highest monthly total since legalization, only trailing December 2023 totals of $153,936,703.20. Illinois dispensaries in December 2024 also recorded the most cannabis products sold in a month at 4,515,972 and the highest in-state-resident sales at $120,76,516.83. Sales taxes collected at Illinois cannabis dispensaries totaled more than $490 million in 2024, per the Illinois Department of Revenue.

Illinois again set a new annual-sales total in 2024 at $1,722,755,856.37, which outpaced 2023 totals of $1,634,982,020.74. Along with IDFPR, Pritzker also announced the yearly totals in a press release that combined recreational ($1.722 billion) and medical ($285 million) sales to boast a 2024 sales total of more than $2 billion.

According to the press release, “there are currently 244 adult use cannabis dispensaries in Illinois, including 134 social equity dispensaries that have opened their doors. Seventy applicants selected in the 2022 social equity lotteries are still in the process of receiving their full dispensary licenses from IDFPR, as are 51 applicants selected in the Social Equity Criteria Lottery (SECL) in July 2023. The Department will continue to issue full adult use cannabis dispensary licenses as applicants meet the final licensing criteria. Dispensaries may begin adult use cannabis sales once they receive their full license from IDFPR.”

“The numbers are clear: five years after we legalized adult use cannabis in Illinois, we’re seeing the economic impact of a thriving cannabis industry,” said Pritzker. “With $2 billion in record-setting sales and $490 million generated in tax revenue, our first in-the-nation equity- focused cannabis industry is the result of my administration’s policies, which prioritized repairing the damage done by the failed War on Drugs, creating more good-paying jobs, and building a safe, equitable, and prosperous business sector making Illinois by far the national leader in diverse ownership for this industry.”

“The continued success of adult use cannabis sales highlights how equity-focused policies can create meaningful change,” said Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton. “These sales allow us to reinvest in communities disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs, fostering growth and creating pathways to a more inclusive and prosperous Illinois.”

2024 total monthly sales include:

January: $133,787,753.89

February: $135,571,931.44

March: $148,872,065.12

April: $144,511,466.85

May: $146,229,576.98

June: $141,752,141.71

July: $143,344,184.07

August: $147,391,733.03

September: $136,508,866.78

October: $142,251,704.01

November: $149,284,730.95

December: $153,249,701.54

2023 total monthly sales include:

January: $127,938,019.85

February: $120,488,569.91

March: $134,790,381.77

April: $131,990,502.83

May: $132,777,299.46

June: $136,408,322.07

July: $140,048,722.23

August: $139,224,010.03

September: $139,529,179.26

October: $138,751,456.09

November: $139,100,376.09

December: $153,936,703.20

2023 Yearly Totals: $1,634,983,542.79

2022 total monthly sales include:

January: $117,251,759.72

February: $113,993,046.06

March: $130,960,120.66

April: $131,782,657.26

May: $129,804,017.72

June: $126,808,907.02

July: $135,658,291.46

August: $129,441,315.80

September: $130,685,122.59

October: $131,547,030.86

November: $130,492,724.92

December: $143,899,826.30

Year totals: $1,552,324,820.37

2021 total monthly sales include:

January: $88,813,872.78

February: $80,741,641.84

March: $109,149,355.98

April: $114,961,668.22

May: $116,380,348.01

June: $115,574,741.27

July: $127,794,220.50

August: $121,933,542.23

September: $121,717,709.51

October: $123,375,372.44

November: $120,748,946.72

December: $137,896,859.11

2021 Totals: $1,379,088,278.61

2020 total monthly sales include:

January: $39,247,840.83

February: $34,805,072.01

March: $35,902,543.22

April: $37,260,497.89

May: $44,317,385.72

June: $47,646,437.25

July: $60,956,981.41

August: $63,963,846.90

September: $67,648,362.14

October: $75,278,200.15

November: $75,199,344.33

December: $86,857,898.27

2020 Totals: $669,084,410.12

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