On Tuesday, Oregon’s cannabis regulators reported that the state sold a record-breaking $84.5 million worth of weed in March as residents stocked up to prepare for government-ordered self-quarantines.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which oversees the Beaver State’s legal cannabis industry, announced that pot shops sold more weed last month than in the same month the previous year. In March 2019, Oregon sold $61.2 million worth of weed.
“It appears to be ‘stocking up’ type of activity because the next two weeks returned to slightly below their early March sales levels,” Matt VanSickle, a spokesperson with the Liquor Control Commission, told the local CBS affiliate KOIN 6. The largest uptick in March marijuana sales took place the same week the state began its coronavirus lockdown. And that worked out, since state operators also grew a record amount of weed at the end of 2019.