{"id":182575,"date":"2024-08-18T20:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=182575"},"modified":"2024-08-18T23:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:50:33","slug":"marijauna-sales-strong-from-day-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/08\/18\/marijauna-sales-strong-from-day-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana sales strong from day No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; As expected, sales of legal, recreational marijuana took off right out of the gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to figures from the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control, dispensaries pulled in more than $11.5 million in recreational marijuana sales August 6-10.&nbsp; Some of the reason for the multi-million dollar haul in just five days \u2014 a notable jump in prices from the first week that non-medical marijuana was legally sold in Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DCC figures show Ohio dispensaries sold 1,285 pounds of&nbsp;marijuana flower&nbsp;and 173,043 units of other products, including edibles, which generated $11,530,708 in total sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the average price last week of an ounce of dried cannabis plant material \u2014 jumped about 20 percent to $266 per ounce, compared to $222 per ounce in the previous week, according to the Division of Cannabis Control&#8217;s numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 98 dispensaries, including one on the Van Wert County side of Delphos, were approved for dual-use certificates of operation to sell medical and non-medical cannabis on August 6 \u2014 the first day recreational cannabis sales were allowed in Ohio. And another 18 dispensaries received dual-use certificates by late last week. More dual-use certificates are expected to be issued in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff COLUMBUS &#8212; As expected, sales of legal, recreational marijuana took off right out of the gate. According to figures from the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control, dispensaries pulled in more than $11.5 million in recreational marijuana sales August 6-10.&nbsp; Some of the reason for the multi-million dollar haul in just five days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 11:36:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182619,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182575\/revisions\/182619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}