Statewide Iowa — The number of providers and people using the state’s medical-marijuana program increased last year as the state came out of the pandemic.
Program Bureau Chief, Owen Parker, says the number of providers increased to 16-hundred in 2021.
He says they started seeing the impact of the law that added more people to the list of those who can prescribe medical cannabis for patients.
He says the number of people who got cards for medical marijuana increased to more than eight thousand.
Parker says the age of those getting the products hasn’t changed dramatically.
Parker says sales went up in 2021.
He says the average transaction price stayed right about 150 dollars. Parker made his comments at the Board’s meeting last week.
