CLEVELAND — A year into Ohio’s recreational marijuana industry, dispensary shelves are fuller, prices are falling, and sales are climbing—yet for many in the industry, uncertainty lingers.
Industry experts say the rollout of Ohio’s adult-use program has been largely successful. By the end of the year, the state could have as much as a billion dollars in recreational marijuana sales – funds that would have otherwise gone to the illicit market or into the pockets of Michigan dispensary owners.
Since legal sales began last August, nearly 110,000 pounds of marijuana flower were sold, as of early this month. Another 11.8 million units of manufactured product, ranging from single vape cartridges to packages of gummies, had been sold…