Medical marijuana sales three times higher than in 2013

Dispensary medical marijuana sales were three times higher than in 2013. The increase is probably as result of the fact that fewer patients were authorized to cultivate their own marijuana in 2014, compared to 2013, according to Will Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services.

ADHS issued its end-of-year annual medical marijuana report:

Dispensaries sold over 9 metric tons (about 10 US tons) of marijuana in 2014 for an estimated gross revenue of about $110M.

There were 1,433,808 individual sales in ‘14 (among the 55,000 patients), with an average of 26 transactions/patient/year.

The average patient bought 166 grams of marijuana in 2014.

At 2 joints/gram, that’s an average of 1 joint per patient per day last year.

Patients in the 18-30 age range had more transactions and sales than any other age group, representing 26% of total sales.

Fridays are the busiest day of the week at dispensaries, and New Year’s Eve was the busiest sales day in 2014.

The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act allows patients that live further than 25 miles from a dispensary to cultivate their own marijuana. According to Humble, wow that Arizona has more than 85 dispensaries operating throughout the state, about 98% of patients live within 25 miles of a dispensary, and very few patients are now allowed to self-cultivate.