Over the four year period, the state has collected $217 million in cannabis tax revenue.
By Jacob Olness, Montana Free Press
In the four years since Montana began allowing the legal sale of adult-use marijuana on January 1, 2022, the state’s retailers have sold more than $1 billion in product as adult-use sales rise more than enough to offset a sharp decline in purchases regulated and taxed as a medical product.
From January 2022 through December 2025, total monthly medical and adult-use marijuana sales increased by about 13 percent to $27.3 million according to data from the Montana Department of Revenue. Over that same period, monthly medical marijuana sales alone fell by more than 70 percent.
The department tabulated $327 million in annual sales last year, 90 percent of that sales labeled as adult use. Those sales translated into nearly $60 million in tax revenue.
In 2022, Montana dispensaries sold about $304 million in marijuana products, roughly a third of that for medical marijuana sales. By 2025, annual sales had risen to about $327 million—or $287 per capita—with adult-use sales accounting for nearly 90 percent.
The result is a market that looks markedly different from 2022,
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