Products in Ohio’s recreational marijuana market are showing signs of price contraction only five months after sales began.

Adult-use sales for the market topped $242.2 million in 2024, meeting industry expectations for the potential of a market that launched on Aug. 6.

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And while sales are growing, an analysis of weekly adult-use data from Ohio’s Division of Cannabis Control (DCC) shows the price per item/pound in almost all the categories slid with more than half the products experiencing double-digit declines.

Plant material, which accounts for 52% of recreational sales in Ohio, almost doubled since the market opened.

Ohio consumers bought 2,158 pounds of plant material in the first week of January 2025, up from 1,284 pounds in the week ending Aug. 10.

But declining

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Marijuana retailers in Massachusetts recorded $1.65 billion in sales of adult-use products between Jan. 1, 2024, and Jan. 5, 2025.

That’s according to data from the state’s Cannabis Control Commission, which noted that recreational cannabis sales in December 2024 reached $140.2 million, the third-highest monthly total since Massachusetts legalized an adult-use market in November 2018.

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Other top sales months were August 2024 ($147.6 million) and July 2024 ($142.8 million).

During the week ended Jan. 5, 2025, flower represented 40.5% of sales, vapes 19% and pre-rolls 12.6%, followed by edibles and concentrates.

In April, Massachusetts cannabis regulators announced that adult-use sales had surpassed $6 billion since the market launched.

According to the latest figures, recreational cannabis sales in Massachusetts now top $7.2 billion.

Despite

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