SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois officials are toting a record number of cannabis sales in the state in 2022.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation says adult use cannabis dispensaries sold $1,555,324,820.37 worth of product last year. That’s a 12% increase from 2021 and a 131% increase from 2020, the first year cannabis could be sold legally in the state. Those numbers don’t include the tax revenue generated from those numbers.
Officials also said that 36,435,129 items were sold by the state’s 113 dispensaries last year. That’s a 20% increase from the year before.
A further breakdown of the sales numbers show that out-of-state residents bought $497,192,383.91 worth of product, a 10% increase from 2021.
In a statement, IDFPR Secretary Mario Treto, Jr. said, “We are excited for what the future holds for the most equitable cannabis industry in the country.” Treto added that new dispensaries are on the way to the state in 2023.
Governor J.B. Pritzker added that the state is on its way to a goal of the “most equitable and economically prosperous cannabis industry in the nation.”
