Oregon recreational marijuana sales top $160 million for first nine months of 2016
Marijuana dispensaries in Oregon sold more than $160 million worth of recreational marijuana products in the first nine months of the year, sales tax figures released Monday by the state Department of Revenue show.
The agency received $40.2 million in recreational marijuana sales tax payments from dispensaries between the start of January and the end of September, suggesting that about $160.8 million worth of recreational pot products were sold in Oregon. State-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries selling recreational marijuana charge a 25 percent sales tax to customers for all flower, edible and other marijuana items.
“We don’t have those ready yet,” Department of Revenue spokeswoman Joy Krawczyk said.Department of Revenue officials still are waiting for some dispensaries to respond with quarterly tax returns from earlier in the year. Without the returns, the agency does not have details about which recreational marijuana products sold the most and produced the most sales tax...
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