Ohio’s hashish regulator has issued licenses to 4 extra dispensaries forward of the anticipated rollout of twin medical and adult-use licenses this week.
Final month, Enterprise of Hashish reported that the political impasse conserving Ohio’s adult-use hashish rollout in limbo had lastly been damaged.
In mid-Might, the Joint Committee on Company Rule Assessment gave closing approval to rules that can permit present medical hashish dispensaries to use for dual-use licenses no later than June 07.
With dual-licensing functions anticipated to be revealed on the DCC web site by the top of the week, the launch of 4 new medical hashish dispensaries means there are actually 124 potential adult-use retailers working within the state.
Whereas no stable date has been slated for the launch of leisure gross sales, they’re broadly anticipated to start inside weeks.
It comes amid a reported drop in medical hashish gross sales via April, although it’s famous that April 2024 had 4 Saturdays in comparison with 5 in March 2024 and April 2023.
New information from the Division of Hashish Management (DCC), revealed by Cleveland.com, reveals that medical hashish gross sales fell from $47.4m in March 2024 to $32.3m in April 2024. Gross sales additionally fell year-on-year, dropping from $46.7m in April 2023.
Gross sales continued to be dominated by hashish flower, representing $19.9m in April, a fall from $25.2m in March 2024 and $24.1m in April 2023.
Oil gross sales additionally fell from $14.6m in March 2024 and April 2023 to $11.5m in April 2024, a drop additionally seen throughout edibles, capsules, tinctures and oral oil gross sales.
