Illinois hashish unit gross sales rose 9.3% throughout the first half of 2026 from final 12 months’s tally to 27.6 million merchandise, in keeping with new state information.
Approaching the heels of a report 12 months in 2025, it’s interpreted as an indication that demand retains rising six years after the state legalized adult-use marijuana.
Progress has additionally picked up steam. Unit gross sales noticed 7.3% development throughout the identical interval a 12 months earlier, in keeping with information from the Illinois Division of Monetary and Skilled Regulation.
Nonetheless, income traits are more durable to learn.
The state switched software program distributors for monitoring gross sales final 12 months and located that earlier information generally ignored product reductions, artificially inflating earlier figures, in keeping with Crain’s Chicago Enterprise.
That distortion complicates year-over-year income comparisons.
What’s taking place with hashish costs?
Costs, in the meantime, maintain sliding. Industrywide, hashish costs have fallen for a number of years amid the oversupply skilled in additional mature markets.
“We’ve skilled quite a lot of worth compression over the previous couple of years,” Tim O’Hern, chief working officer of the cultivation and retail operators Nature’s Grace and Wellness, informed Crain’s.
Even so, retailer counts maintain rising. Illinois now has 288 dispensaries, up 10% from a 12 months in the past, as new license holders open their doorways, Crain’s reported.
Worth manufacturers are main the best way. Bryan Zises, co-founder of Dispensary 33 and Spark’d Hashish, mentioned gross sales of the corporate’s on a regular basis worth line SparkUp are up 15% year-over-year.
“It’s outperforming our different manufacturers, up nearly twice as a lot as all the things else,” he informed Crain’s.
Will Illinois’ hemp ban give regulated market a lift?
A change in state laws later this 12 months may give the market a lift. Senate Invoice 3222, signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on June 12, bans intoxicating hemp merchandise efficient Nov. 12.
O’Hern estimates the intoxicating hemp market is about the identical dimension because the state’s $1.5 billion adult-use market, and operators anticipate a few of that demand to maneuver into regulated shops.
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The legislation additionally doubles buyer buy limits.
“We’re poised to see some development within the regulated hashish market,” O’Hern informed Crain’s.
