COLUMBUS – Recreational cannabis sales in Ohio have been legal for a week and business is booming. Sales in Ohio are rivaling some of the top cannabis markets in the country. It’s also attracting customers from nearby states, where recreational marijuana isn’t legal. But prices remain high in comparison to Michigan.
“We’re seeing numbers at dispensaries that rival numbers in established markets like Illinois, that have been up and running for years,” Jason Erkes of Cresco Labs said. “We’re seeing that in the first week in Ohio.”
Cresco Labs owns Sunnyside Dispensary in Cincinnati. Erkes said the demand has been high from Ohioans and out-of-staters.
“We’re seeing a lot of out-of-state licenses when people are checking in,” Erkes said. “A lot of out-of-state license plates in the parking lot. We know that people want access to regulated lab-tested products and they don’t have access to that in those states.”
When Ohio had exclusively a medical program on July 22, the average cost of an ounce of flower was $222.40, according to state data. No more recent state data is available. But prices today appear higher – according to IHeartJane.com, a website to which many Ohio dispensaries upload their menus – from $290 to $420 an ounce. These prices should not pose a threat to Michigan dispensaries, where an ounce of flower typically sells for less than $100.
Anyone from Indiana or Kentucky, where marijuana sales are prohibited, can buy cannabis in Ohio if they’re old enough. But bringing it across state lines is illegal because marijuana is illegal at the federal level.
“Some people are willing to take that risk to get safe products,” Erkes said. “Once they walk out of the dispensary, where they consume it is really on them.”
Erkes said he couldn’t give a specific number or percentage on out-of-state sales and customers, but he’s seen enough to know there’s a market in those states.
The following list of locations was provided by the DCC on Monday morning. You can view a map of all the marijuana dispensaries in Ohio HERE.
AKRON
- Bloom Medicinals: 737 East North St.
- Culture Cannabis Club: 1568 E Archwood Ave
- The Botanist: 46 South Summit Street
ASHTABULA
- Italian Herbs: 2712 West Prospect Rd.
ATHENS
- Debbie’s Dispensary: 544 Richland Ave
BEAVERCREEK
- Trulieve Beavercreek Dispensary: 4370 Tonawanda Trail
BEDFORD
- Amplify: 22803 Rockside Road
BOWLING GREEN
- Zen Leaf Bowling Green: 1155 N. Main St.
- Nectar: 1011 S Main St.
CAMBRIDGE
- Backroad Wellness: 5748 Glenn Hwy
CANTON
- The Citizen by Klutc: 401 Cherry Avenue NE
- The Botanist: 3840 Greentree Ave SW
- Zen Leaf Canton: 3224 Cleveland Ave. NW
- Ohio Cannabis Company: 4016 Greentree SW
CHILLICOTHE
- Sunnyside: 1641 N. Bridge Street
CINCINNATI
- The Landing Dispensary: 4029 Smith Rd
- Beyond Hello: 693 Old State Route 74
- Sunnyside: 5149 Kennedy Ave
- Zen Leaf Cincinnati: 8420 Vine St.
- Nectar: 3405 Werk Rd.
- OPA: 830 Reedy St
- Verilife: 5431 Ridge Avenue
- The Forest Cincinnati: 4412 Mt. Carmel Tobasco Rd
CLEVELAND
- Therapy Medical Cannabis: 13429 Lakewood Heights Blvd
- The Botanist: 3865 Lakside Avenue East
- RISE Medical Marijuana Dispensary Cleveland: 1222 Prospect Ave E.
- The Landing Dispensary: 1978 W 3rd St
- Shangri-La Dispensary: 4618 Saint Clair Ave
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS
- Amplify: 1782 Coventry Road
COLUMBUS
- Bloom Medicinals: 1361 Georgesville Road
- Amplify: 5304 N. Hamilton
- Herbal Wellness Center Columbus: 2950 E Main St
- Terrasana: 656 Grandview Ave
- The Botanist – Columbus: 115 Vine Street
- Trulieve Columbus Dispensary High Street: 2950 N. High Street
- NAR Reserve: 350 E Long St
- The Landing Dispensary: 724 W Gay St
- Trulieve Medical Marijuana Dispensary: 8295 Sancus Blvd
- Verdant Creations: 1243 N. Cassady Avenue
COSCHOCTON
- Ascend: 23024 County Road 621
CUYAHOGA FALLS
- FRX Health Of Cuyahoga Falls: 1682 State Road
DAYTON
- Columbia Care: 333 Wayne Ave
- AYR Dispensary: 4918 Airway Road
- Green Releaf Dispensary: 3620 Germantown St.
- Pure Ohio Wellness: 1875 Needmore Rd.
DELPHOS
- Shangri-La Dispensary: 215 W 5Th St
EAST LIVERPOOL
- FRX Health: 1865 Dresden Avenue
ELYRIA
- FRX Elyria Craft Cannabis Medical Dispensary: 709 Sugar Lane
EUCLID
- Nectar: 21100 Saint Clair Ave.
FREMONT
- Terrasana: 1800 E State St
GARFIELD HEIGHTS
- Terrasana: 10500 Antenucci Blvd. STE 200
GOSHEN
- AYR Dispensary: 6722 OH-132
HARPSTER
- Ohio Cannabis Company: 17043 CH 113
HARRISON
- Queen City Cannabis Medical Dispensary of Suspension Bridge: 10140 Suspension Bridge Rd
HILLSBORO
- Verilife: 1098 N High Street
HURON
- Firelands Scientific Dispensary: 2344 University Dr E
JACKSON
- Herbal Wellness Center: 3 Acy Ave Ste A
JEFFERSONVILLE
- Debbie’s Dispensary: 1100 McArthur Rd NW Suite 1122
KENT
- Bliss Ohio: 331 E. Main St.
LAKEWOOD
- RISE Dispensaries: 11818 Madison Ave
- RISE Cannabis: 18607 Detroit Ave
LIMA
- Backroad Wellness: 1503 Harding Hwy
LOGAN
- Columbia Care: 245 W Main St
LONDON
- Pure Ohio Wellness: 920 US Hwy 42 NE
LORAIN
- The Citizen by Klutch: 5152 Grove Ave
- RISE Medical Marijuana Dispensary Lorain: 1920 Cooper Foster Park Road W
MARENGO
- Verdant Creations: 876 State Route 61
MARIETTA
- Columbia Care: 414 Greene St
MARION
MILFORD
- Uplift: 401 Rivers Edge Dr
MONROE
- Columbia Care: 300 N Main St
- The Landing Dispensary: 1312 Hamilton-Lebanon Rd
- Shangri-La Dispensary: 211 Brooks Drive
- Shangri-La Dispensary: 100 Clarence F Warner Dr
MOUNT ORAB
NEW BOSTON
- Backroad Wellness: 3210 Rhodes Avenue
NEW PHILADELPHIA
NEWARK
NORWOOD
- Queen City Cannabis Medical Dispensary of Cincinnati: 3764 Montgomery Road
OXFORD
- Consume Oxford: 3620 Southpointe Pkwy
- Pure Iconic: 5280 College Corner Pike
PAINESVILLE
- Bloom Medicinals: 382 Blackbrook Road
PIQUA
- Ohio Cannabis Company: 8866 County Road 25A N
RAVENNA
- Supergood: 554 N Chestnut St
RIVERSIDE
- Zen Leaf Dayton: 5604 Airway Rd.
SANDUSKY
- OPA: 6019 Milan Rd.
- The Forest Sandusky, 5020 Milan Road
SEVEN MILE
- Bloom Medicinals: 403 S. Main St.
SHERWOOD
- Theory Wellness: 9915 Us-127
SPRINGFIELD
- Terrasana: 183 Raydo Cir
- The Forest Dispensary: 1711 W Main Street
STRUTHERS
- Green Leaf Therapy: 93 S Bridge Street
TOLEDO
- RISE Dispensary Toledo: 3157 W Sylvania Ave
WAPAKONETA
- Verilife: 502 N Dixie Hwy
WARREN
- gLeaf: 2932 Youngstown Rd SE
WAVERLY
- Southern Ohio Botanicals: 15451 US HWY 23
WICKLIFFE
- The Botanist: 30133 Euclid Avenue
WINTERSVILLE
- Sunnyside: 180 Main Street
WOODMERE
- AYR Dispensary: 27900 Chagrin Boulevard
