Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced Illinois’ January 2023 recreational sales totals today. Though January totals were a sharp drop from most of last year’s monthly totals, the $127,938,019.85 monthly figure topped each previous January totals since legalization.

The in-state January resident sales totals finished at $91,820,903.30. The January out-of-state resident sales totaled reached $36,117,116.55 in. Dispensaries sold 3,079,621 items in January.

In comparison, the January 2022 sales total reached $117,251,759.72, while the 2021 January totals finished at $88,813,872.78. In the first year of legalization for Illinois, January totals finished at $39,247,840.83.

The 2022 sales totals of $1,552,324,820.37 are the most since legalization in Illinois and a 12% increase from 2021 totals of $1,379,088,278.61 and 20% from 2021 totals of $669,084,410.12. For 2022, Illinois sold a total of 36,435,129 cannabis items, an increase of 20% from 2021. The 2022 in-state resident sales reached $1,073,132,436.48 (an increase of almost 14% from 2021), and the out-of-state resident sales totaled $479,192,383.91 (an increase of almost 10% from 2021).

2023 total monthly sales include:

January: $127,938,019.85

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

Year 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

Totals: $669,084,410.12

These figures do not include taxes collected.

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