WWLP | High holiday: Cannabis buyers took advantage of higher purchase limit

By Colin A. Young, State House News Service

Cannabis consumers wasted no time taking advantage of the state’s newly-doubled marijuana purchase limit, placing 900 orders that exceeded the old limit across the first two days under the higher limit last month.

The law Gov. Maura Healey signed April 19 to restructure the Cannabis Control Commission also upped the daily purchase limit from one to two ounces of marijuana flower or its equivalent. That change took effect immediately, so it was in place “prior to one of the busiest sales [days] of the year, which is 4/20,” Executive Director Travis Ahern said Thursday, referring to the unofficial pot holiday observed April 20.

Data provided by the Cannabis Control Commission show that consumers made 133 purchases in excess of the old one-ounce limit on April 19, worth a total of $17,400. On April 20, there were 767 purchases in excess of one ounce worth a total $99,667, the CCC said. Between the two days, 900 purchases in excess of one ounce totaled $117,067.

Cumulatively, the state’s marijuana businesses generated $7.32 million in total sales on April 20, the CCC said.

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