Legal marijuana sales in Montana topped $27 million in September.
According to data released by the Montana Department of Revenue, total marijuana sales reached $27,520,406 in September. This is a slight dip from the record-breaking $29,716,881 sold in August, and is on par with the $28 million sold in September 2023.
The vast majority of the state’s total marijuana sales was purchased for recreational use, $23,965,392, with medical marijuana patients purchasing $3,555,014 worth of product. Sales data incudes dried marijuana flower, prerolls and concentrates, as well as a variety of marijuana-infused products like edibles, topicals and tinctures.
The year-to-date total for marijuana sales in Montana is now around $250 million, bringing all-time sales since January 2022 to $865,872,472.
August marks the 19th consecutive month that marijuana sales have surpassed $25 million.
Montana legalized recreational marijuana in 2021, with the first licensed retail outlets opening in January 2022. State laws permit individuals aged 21 and over to possess up to one ounce of marijuana. Recreational purchases are taxed at 20%, and medical purchases at 4%.
Marijuana tax revenue is distributed as follows:
- $6 million to the Healing and Ending Addiction through Recovery and Treatment (HEART) account
- 20% to Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks to be used solely as funding for wildlife habitat
- 4% to the state park account
- 4% to the trails and recreational facilities account
- 4% to the nongame wildlife account
- 3% or $200,000, whichever is less, to the veterans and surviving spouses state special revenue account
- $150,000 to the board of crime control to fund crisis intervention team training for the biennium beginning July 1, 2021,
- $300,000 to the Department of Justice to administer grant funding to local and state law enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing and training drug detection canines and canine handlers, including canines owned by local law enforcement agencies to replace canines who were trained to detect marijuana
- The remainder to the general fund
