The Liquor Control Board told me how to drill down into some of the pot sales data they provide, which netted some interesting information.

I found sales and excise tax numbers for Main Street Marijuana and New Vansterdam. The LCB site only tallies monthly numbers for the stores, but I thought folks might be interested in seeing how the two stores are doing.

As for the totals? So far, Main Street Marijuana has reported sales of $1,095,496 and excise tax of $273,874; New Vansterdam has reported sales of $1,674,733 and excise tax of $418,683.

Across all I-502 stores, sales were $13,924,096 and excise tax was $3,481,024 through Oct. 6.

And a note – these numbers are for stores only, not retailers or processors.

Here’s more data:

Main Street Marijuana:
July: Sales = $356,786; Excise tax = $89,197
August: Sales = $443,389; Excise tax = $110,847
September: Sales = $270,495; Excise tax = $67,624
First week of October: Sales = $24,826; Excise tax = $6,206
Total: Sales = $1,095,496; Excise tax = $273,874

New Vansterdam:
July: Sales = $233,689; Excise tax = $58,422
August: Sales = $718,062; Excise tax = $179,515
September: Sales = $592,495; Excise tax = $148,124
First week of October: Sales = $130,487; Excise tax = $32,622
Total: Sales = $1,674,733; Excise tax = $418,683

All I-502 stores:
July (18 stores open): Sales = $2,000,987; Excise tax = $500,247
August (31 stores open): Sales = $4,794,259; Excise tax = $1,198,565
September (45 stores open): Sales = $5,781,656; Excise tax = $1,445,414
First week of October (47 stores open): Sales = $1,347,193; Excise tax = $336,798
Total: Sales = $13,924,096; Excise tax = $3,481,024

Any comments? Anybody see any interesting trends? Let me know!

Cheers,
-SueVo (sue.vorenberg@columbian.com)