Sentences with phrase «first recreational marijuana sale»

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In some of those states, eager consumers celebrated the first day of legal recreational pot sales by lining up at their local dispensaries in order to be among the first to participate in the newly - legal marijuana economy.

But about $ 200 million in recreational marijuana has already been sold, with the state bringing in about $ 30 million in taxes and fees in the first six months of sales.

JP Noda stocks cannabis at The Apothecarium shortly before the store opened for its first day of recreational marijuana sales on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, in San Francisco.

Customers line up to buy cannabis at The Apothecarium during the store's first day of recreational marijuana sales on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, in San Francisco.

Dominic Rea reads a cannabis menu at The Apothecarium during the store's first day of recreational marijuana sales on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, in San Francisco.

Shoppers at Medithrive browse cannabis variants on an electronic display during the store's first day of recreational marijuana sales on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, in San Francisco.

Customers line up outside The Apothecarium during the store's first day of recreational marijuana sales on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, in San Francisco.

More than a year after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational cannabis sales, the marijuana industry is growing and evolving further.

The marijuana industry first peeked out from the darkness last year when recreational sale was legalized in the states of Colorado and Washington.

DENVER, Nov 5 (Reuters)- Supporters said on Tuesday that a Colorado measure to levy taxes on newly legalized sales of recreational marijuana and earmark the first $ 40 million in revenue for public schools had been approved by voters.

What does spring out of Colorado's model is that of the numbers: in the first month of commercial sales, the state collected $ 2 million (# 1.21 million) in «recreational» sales alone, with the tally rising to $ 3.2 million (# 1.93 million) with existing medical marijuana dispensaries factored in.