COLUMBUS – More than $50 million worth of recreational marijuana product has been sold in Ohio in the first month of legal rollout, according to the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control.
In the latest report, the division states recreational sales from Aug. 6 to Sept. 7 total $54,649,749. The division reports 840,141 units of manufactured product have been sold, as well as 6,179 Pounds of plant material. Combined with medical marijuana, sales in the state total over $2 billion.
Some Ohio cities are still voting on whether they will allow recreational marijuana within city limits.
On Monday night, Fairfield city council members approved one dispensary within city limits, which will be used for both recreational and medical marijuana.
This comes after years of bans on any sort of marijuana business in town.
A nine-month ban was placed on recreational marijuana dispensaries within the city limits in December.
The city also banned medical marijuana dispensaries when those sales became legal in 2016.
On Tuesday, that ban will end, so city council members made the decision to allow the dual-use dispensary.
The dispensary will not be allowed within 500 feet of any school, church, library, public park or playground. Neighbors were divided about the issue last year, with concerns about the smell that a dispensary would bring.
This story was published by MSN
