For the first time since May and the transition from BioTrack to Metrc as Illinois’ track-and-trace data system, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) announced partial recreational cannabis sales totals. IDFPR released monthly sales totals for June through October but did not include in-state and out-of-state totals. Since May, monthly sales totals have significantly dropped by $15-30 million per month from previous averages, while the total number of cannabis items sold has stayed about the same or increased.

Total items sold from January through October 2025 reached 42,695,678 (although Illinois listed the total as 42,778,139), outpacing 2024 totals by nearly $2 million. Total items sold from January through October 2024 reached 40,976,044. For the first time since legalization, Illinois is on pace for its first year-over-year decline in sales but, at the same time, an increase in yearly items sold. Total sales from January through October 2024 were $1,420,221,423.88. Total monthly sales from January through October 2025 have dropped to $1,279,783,981.75 (Illinois listed it as $1,279,783,235.31). Illinois’ last four monthly totals (June through October) are on pace to resemble those of 2021.

IDFPR stated, “The State of Illinois went live with a new, state-of-the-art seed-to-sale, track-and-trace data system in July 2025. The new system, Metrc, rolled out across the cannabis industry over several months and concluded in June. The sales tracking features in Metrc help retailers more accurately and reliably report actual sales, including all discounts and promotions at checkout. A thorough review of past data indicates prior months collected some pre-discount prices. The number of items sold remained consistent across months, resulting in the improved data showing cannabis consumers have been paying less at checkout and with pre-tax prices similar to prices in other states that have legalized adult use cannabis. Sales receipts, subject to tax and tax collections, reported directly to the Illinois Department of Revenue by retailers were accurate and not impacted by the non-discounted prices reported through the previous seed-to-sale system. Metrc is currently being updated to include categorization of adult use sales into instate and out-of-state consumers.”

Here are the sales totals for 2025:
January: $140,191,240.27

February: $130,608,286.57

March: $147,485,559.04

April: $146,605,932.99

May: $149,753,845.02

June: $116,714,320.73

July: $114,987,665.39

August: $115,175,036.15

September: $105,183,934.36

October: $113,078,161.23

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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