Dispensaries say a marijuana shortage is unlikelyPosted by On


SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Marijuana sales are higher than ever.

In Missouri, over $100 million has been spent on the product and the state is on track to be the fastest to reach over $1 billion in sales.

“It’s still busy every single day. You know, we went from a normal busy day being about 250 patients to now normal, average day is anywhere between 400-600 patients,” said Joshua Smith with Old Route 66 Wellness.

“We’ve seen a massive amount of influx of recreational users,” said Alex Paulson with Easy Mountain. “[In Republic], we’re not in a high tourist area or anything like that, but we are in an area that has a large population of recreational users.”

A huge rise in demand could worry customers about product availability.

KOLR10 checked in with local dispensaries who say that isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.

Paulson describes what he sees in his store as a ‘squeeze,’ rather than a shortage.

“What we’re seeing is not as much availability,” Paulson said. “We’ve seen suppliers that have previously given us early access to things and stuff like that have to go to completely taking away any wholesale availability just for them to put flower into their own stores and things like that.”

Paulson says one particular form people can buy marijuana is coming in slower than usual and it caught his attention.

“Flower is definitely the…

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