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While state lawmakers consider legalizing recreational cannabis this year, sales of medical marijuana continue to hit new highs.
The reason isn’t just that more people are ailing, state regulators say.
The state’s three medical marijuana dispensaries are on pace to sell about $56 million worth of medicinal marijuana in fiscal 2019, said Norman Birenbaum, the state’s top marijuana regulator. That’s $17.8 million, or 46.6 percent, more than in fiscal year 2018.
And that year itself was record-breaking, with $38.2 million worth of marijuana sold, a third more than in fiscal 2017.
