Illinois medical cannabis sales still slumping
Today, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported February 2022 medical cannabis sales totals, which were the lowest since January 2020.
Retail sales of medical cannabis for February totaled $28,187,064.97, including $13,190,063.31 in dry flower sales and $13,918,480.63 in concentrates/infused-products. Licensed medical cannabis dispensaries served 64,180 unique patients, who purchased 1,067,745 grams of dry cannabis.
February 2022 totals were a drop from the previous month’s $29,686,123.47 totals, as well as from February 2021 totals of $29,579,209.83. Total medical sales have not been that low since January 2020’s totals of $27,358,975.27.
Illinois has approved around 50,000 registered medical patients in the past year, but the number of Illinois patients for the last four months has been shrinking. As of December 6, 2021, the current total number of active patients in the MCPP program had been 136,530. The number dropped to 135,167 in January 2022 and to 134,993 in March. As of February 7, 2022, Illinois had 134,834 active patients in the Medical Cannabis Patient Program.
Illinois 2021 sales of medical cannabis totaled $397,249,781.70. Add that to the 2021 recreational cannabis salesof $1,379,088,278.61 for a total of $1,776,338,060.31 in combined medical and cannabis sales.
Monthly Totals for 2022:
January: $29,686,123.47
February: $28,187,064.97,
Monthly Totals for 2021:
January: $32,670,476.42
February: $29,579,209.83
March: $35,688,321.20
April: $35,281,250.08
May: $34,187,235.91
June: $31,776,279.07
July: $34,324,297.27
August: $32,633,798.89
September: $32,292,958.94
October: 31,874,815.57
November: $31,514,504.78
December: $35,426,633.74
2021 totals: $397,249,781.70
Monthly Totals for 2020
January: $27,358,975.27
February: $23,397,209.38
March: $23,397,209.38
April: $29,976,735.01
May: $31,111,926.69
June: $32,060,899.28
July: $29,652,555.16
August: $33,251,969.41
September: $31,542,786.79
October: $31,440,439.61
November: $33,135,102.46
December: $30,793,569.83
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