Illinois adult-use cannabis market continues to be hampered by supply issues

Six months in, the supply concerns continue for adult-use cannabis sales at Nature’s Treatment of Illinois in Milan.

While some of it is an understandable growing pain of a state wading into recreational sales, Matt Stern, CEO and NTI’s owner, continues to point to the way the state set up its industry.

Major cannabis companies such as Green Thumb Industries, with a cultivation center in Rock Island, are what’s known as multi-state operators, or vertically-integrated businesses that grow cannabis and own retail dispensaries to sell it.

So an independent dispensary like Nature’s Treatment of Illinois, with its original Milan location and its second location in Galesburg, is at the mercy of cultivators.