{"id":20601,"date":"2021-10-28T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20601"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:38:57","slug":"new-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/new-vibrations\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=nov21_fin_web&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=62&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Far from dropping in September, new retail sales figures approach an all-time record.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">FROM STAFF &amp; WIRE REPORTS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When David Heidrich, <strong>Director of Engagement and Community Outreach<\/strong> for the <strong>Maine Office of Marijuana Policy<\/strong>, released the summer sales numbers for adult-use marijuana, he told us, \u201cJune was $6.5M, July $9.4M, and August $10.2M. The August figure was the first time\u201d sales went above $10M. August\u2019s 133,969 transactions earned the state $1,022,175 in taxes. \u201cCertainly tourism is responsible for the robust sales, but then, Maine is a four-season destination. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see what happens this fall.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words, September\u2019s numbers would help us see the future. And they do! Far from dropping down to June levels, September nearly eclipsed August\u2019s all-time high with a total of $9,727,996 in adult-use sales.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20603\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Cannabis-fb\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Cannabis-fb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from dropping in September, new retail sales figures approach an all-time record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20657,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601\/revisions\/20657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}