The state's 37 dispensaries churned through 77,128 transactions to tally more than $3.17 million in first-day sales, said Toi Hutchinson, Governor JB Prtizker's senior adviser for cannabis control, in a news conference on Thursday.
Its regulations also have been heralded for addressing social justice and social equity concerns. Earlier this week, Prtizker expunged 11,017 records for misdemeanor cannabis convictions.On Wednesday, people came out in droves for Illinois' first day of legal weed sales, with hundreds lining up outside dispensaries in the bitterly cold early morning.
RonDeSantisFL
Omg
First day yes, then eventually they will go to the blackmarket as they did in California. For this reason, cannabis sales has been a big disappoint for the CA gov.
Awesome, brings money in, instead of out in a uselesa drugwar
Al Capone will be 'rolling' in his grave.
Cc: NC_Governor 😉
Holy taxes!!!! Better off buying from the street. Or growing your own.
I hear through the grapevine that the going price for a single gram of flower is $100. Medical MJ in Arizona is $7.50/gram. WTF is Illinois trying to pull? JFC. I know they're strapped for cash, but damn.
Celebrate now. This will all go downhill. Notwithstanding medical marijuana benefits in specific instances... SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE of permanent brain damage due to pot use ignored by legalization crowd:
Here lies either an opportunity or a risk to mess up our society. .... Legalising Recreational cannabis...
Is my job the only one that drug tests Wtf !?!?! 🤔
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Look at the customers...
Great job. Cigarettes a nd alcohol do the same as well.
That's the new Hype nowadays right across North America and that's good. In my opinion i would go even further and have it available at every Major Grocery Store Chains. It's all about convenience, were you buy the Food you Buy the DOPE. That's how i see it, saving TIME. 🤠
Illinois will fuck it up somehow just like they do with all their taxes. More people leaving the state than any other in the Midwest
All this money ending up in politicians pockets!
Great news!! Maybe they can fix their crumbling schools and pay their teachers adequately now!
Math doesn't look right, that would be an average purchase of $38,000? No one is buying 38,000 of pot .
I wonder what's gonna happen to the street gig economy now that the silverspoon's can buy weed uptown?
this just in, girl scout cookies have increased 120%
Congrats 200 years of stupidity is over for Chicago..
Why would a company which can choose any state in which to expand pick a state where it is legal for the employees to get high before work?
So, in other words, the states are profiting off of Cannabis. So now it's ok just like it's been for tobacco and vaping and alcohol? I'm not complaining but are the states, and communities, ready for what comes with it?
Now maybe Iowa will follow and quit being such a nanny state.
This is what you do. Take the profit away from drug dealers. They may have to get jobs now. Oh wait, there are still many drug's American's are buying out there and sex.
AndyBeshearKY
Hopefully Illinois does some good things with this extra cash flow! Especially with our new governor!! GovPritzker
They're gonna make a lot of money. Marijuana buyers always come back.
Just what Illinois needs is more crackpots on the street
Omg
Turn those vast corn fields to grow new crop, the cannabis.
But won't stand in line for jobs... funny
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The face of illegal marijuana was Black people. The face of legalized marijuana? Yall doing the math with me?
Millenials are the best potheads
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