Dispensaries generated more than $45 million in sales
Dutchess County retailers sold more than $45 million of cannabis products from Sept. 1, 2023, to Nov. 30, 2025, Comptroller Dan Aymar-Blair reported on Tuesday (Oct. 20). From those sales, the county received $1,565,037 in cannabis taxes and distributed $1,173,778 to the eight municipalities with dispensaries.
Beacon — which has three licensed retailers: LotusWorks Wellness, The Station and Hudson Valley Jane — received $51,177.
Products such as cannabis flower, vape cartridges, edibles and concentrates have been exempt from sales tax since New York State legalized recreational use of marijuana by adults in 2021. Instead, consumers pay a 13 percent excise tax: 3 percent goes to the municipality where the business is located, 1 percent to the county and 9 percent to the state.
The Town of Fishkill, with three of the 13 dispensaries in Dutchess, received $388,231 for the two-year period, the most of any municipality. The City of Poughkeepsie, with one dispensary, received $322,497.
Aymar-Blair noted in his report that data from the state Office of Cannabis Management, based on reported sales, does not match information on dispensaries’ tax returns. As a result, the $1,565,037 Dutchess County received in cannabis tax differs from 4 percent of total sales, or $1,812,593, reported by OCM.
