Ben Hebert needs no wide-ranging survey to tell him business was pretty good in October.
Looking at his sales records, the owner of Dr. Jolly’s Medical Cannabis, on SE Third Street, in Bend, confirmed Thursday what a white paper issued this week by marijuana business consultants showed: Consumers of recreational marijuana boosted sales at Oregon medical marijuana dispensaries that month by 112 percent for a total of $23 million. Median monthly dispensary sales went from $23,000 in September to $58,000 in October, the first month of legal sales of recreational marijuana in Oregon.
Hebert, whose dispensary is one of 19 operating in Bend, declined to state a specific figure but said sales doubled that month at Dr. Jolly’s.
“I think marijuana sales will continue to grow,” he said, “especially as we continue to scale, the price will come down. We’ll be able to produce better marijuana cheaper.”
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