Consumers spent $440,000 on marijuana products in Massachusetts on first day of recreational sales
Michael Swensen for The Boston Globe
A man paid for his order of recreational marijuana products from NETA in Northampton on Tuesday.
The smoke has cleared, and the numbers are in.
On Tuesday, the first day of legal marijuana sales in Massachusetts, consumers spent a total of $440,011 at two stores on more than 10,700 individual cannabis products, according to data released by the state Cannabis Control Commission Wednesday afternoon
The products, purchased at the first two stores to open, ranged from marijuana flower to pot concentrates to pre-rolled joints to edibles infused with THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis.