MANSFIELD — The lone (so far) cannabis dispensary in Mansfield is producing about $20,000 per month in local general fund revenue, according to Finance Director Kelly Converse.
The city recently received a check for $142,457.48 covering sales from April to November of 2025, Converse said Tuesday afternoon.
It appears revenue may be trending up. She said the city received about $22,000 for October and $24,000 for November.
That is all “new” money for the city’s final 2026 budget, which must be approved by the end of March. The finance director said the city couldn’t include it in the temporary plan approved by City Council in December.
“We didn’t know whether it was coming or how much it would be. We were completely in the dark, so this will be all new revenue for the final budget,” Converse said.
“That’s good because our (2025) ending cash position is a little less than what we had anticipated,” she said.
There are no restrictions on how the money can be used, allowing local officials to allocate it as needed, according to Converse.
Mansfield is the only city, village or township in Richland County that has approved such dispensaries.
Ohio began disbursing cannabis tax revenue to cities this month, after a delay due to the initial absence of an appropriation mechanism in the voter-approved law that allowed recreational cannabis in the state, according to state lawmakers.
The funds, which total over $33 million statewide as of late 2025, are now flowing to 100 municipalities and townships that host dispensaries, lawmakers said.
When Ohio voters legalized adult-use recreational cannabis through Issue 2 in 2023, the law required dispensaries to have a 10-percent excise tax paid by consumers with the collected revenue going into the Adult Use Cannabis Fund.
Local communities allowing dispensaries receive 36 percent of that 10 percent excise tax from that fund.
Local lawmakers voted 5-3 to allow up to three dispensaries in the city, providing those businesses meet state requirements and also comply with existing city zoning codes for business districts.
The first dispensary in Mansfield, Beyond Hello, opened in April 2025 at 1515 Lexington Ave. after City Council approved up to three such dispensaries in 2024.
Beyond Hello carries both medical and adult recreational products. Its selections include cannabis flower, vapes, concentrates, cartridges, edibles, tinctures, topicals, capsules and even chocolates.
A second local cannabis dispensary in Mansfield may still be in the works.
Cincinnati-based King City Gardens announced plans in November to open a dispensary at 1099 W. Fourth St. in a building that had been purchased and remodeled by a different cannabis company earlier this year.
It does not appear the state has approved a license for that operation as of Tuesday, according to online records.
According to a statewide spreadsheet, the Village of Loudonville received a check for $18,253 from a dispensary there with sales through November 2025.
That spreadsheet reflected amounts for all communities with dispensaries, including Columbus ($4.2 million), Cincinnati ($2.9 million), Dayton ($1 million), Akron ($823,066) and Cleveland ($744,000).