Nearly $12M in sales reported after first 5 days of legal recreational Weed in Ohio
Marijuana sales are sky high now that recreational weed is legal in Ohio, and that has growers working at full capacity.
In the first five days recreational marijuana was available at dispensaries across the state, nearly $12 million in sales were reported.
Business at some spots nearly tripled, and that has growers like King City Gardens in the Cincinnati area busy.
The cultivation center sells to about 130 dispensaries. Its co-founder says that number will jump to more than 400 once more places get recreational approval and additional ones are built. It's using every inch of indoor growing space from the ground up.
"A lot of dispensaries are putting a lot of orders in," King City Gardens co-founder Caveh Azadeh said. "We're seeing, you know, our products being sold at a much faster velocity than before, so that's very exciting."
King City Gardens built up a stockpile of 11,000 pounds of pot. Azadeh said it can have even more plants now that it has its dual license to sell medicinal and recreational marijuana. It's also growing its staff. At this time last year, it had no employees, but it now has 180, with plans to add more as it opens its own dispensaries.
Some have questioned whether the new recreational demand threatens the medical supply, but Azadeh said he doesn't think it will because dual-cultivators are allowed more plants than existing medicinal growers.
