--- description: Oregon dispensaries made more than $11 million in their first week of recreational marijuana sales. title: Oregon's First Week of Legal Marijuana Brings in $11 Million image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9cbd05f7b2b7595/69886663a988ca47546b49e6/151001_em_oregonlegalweed.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Drugs](/tag/drugs/) ## Drugs Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Oregon's First Week of Recreational Pot Sales Brings In More Than $11 Million  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 8, 2015 3:23 PM CUT  Displays at Shango Cannabis, a legal recreational marijuana dispensary in Portland, Oregon. Displays at Shango Cannabis, a legal recreational marijuana dispensary in Portland, Oregon.Steve Dipaola—Reuters  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 8, 2015 3:23 PM CUT Oregon dispensaries made more than $11 million in their first week of recreational marijuana sales. This puts Oregon far ahead of the pace of Colorado, which made $5 million its first week of recreational sales, and Washington, which didn’t make $2 million until four weeks in, [the Oregon Retail Cannabis Association told KGW](http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2015/10/07/oregons-first-week-recreational-pot-sales-tops-11-million/73558096/ "undefined"). Oregon made $3.2 million on the first day of sales alone. Oregon recreational marijuana sales won’t be taxed until January, but this first week of sales shows that the state could make far more than it initially predicted once that 25 percent tax is instated. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4066470/oregon-recreational-marijuana-sales/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4066470/oregon-recreational-marijuana-sales/"},"headline":"Oregon's First Week of Recreational Pot Sales Brings In More Than $11 Million","datePublished":"2015-10-08T15:23:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:38:34.132Z","description":"Retailers sold $3.2 million on the first day of legal pot","url":"https://time.com/4066470/oregon-recreational-marijuana-sales/","keywords":["Drugs","Marijuana","oregon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9cbd05f7b2b7595/69886663a988ca47546b49e6/151001_em_oregonlegalweed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9cbd05f7b2b7595/69886663a988ca47546b49e6/151001_em_oregonlegalweed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"151001_EM_OregonLegalWeed","caption":"legal weed","creditText":"Steve Dipaola—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/drugs/","name":"Drugs"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4066470/oregon-recreational-marijuana-sales/","name":"Oregon's First Week of Recreational Pot Sales Brings In More Than $11 Million"}}]}] ```