Illinois Generating Large Amount Of Tax Revenue From Pot Sales
May 8, 2023 7:48AM CDT
A customer walks in to a Rise dispensary in Mundelein, Ill., Thursday, April 2, 2020. Marijuana dispensaries have been allowed to stay open as essential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Recreational adult-use marijuana buyers spent almost $40 million in Illinois, in March. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Illinois is bringing in a large amount of tax revenue from marijuana sales. The Marijuana Policy Project reports Illinois made 562-million-dollars in taxes from pot sales last year. That is second to only California. Illinois also set a record last year with one-point-five-billion-dollars worth of cannabis sales.
