On the five year anniversary of legal recreational cannabis sales in Maine, state regulators say the market is leveling off.

During a webinar on Thursday analyzing retail data, director John Hudak said sales are high, but stable.

"What you're seeing is explosive growth at the outset, which you would expect from a new industry, but you can only sustain explosive growth for so long as the supply begins to catch up with demand," he said.

Data analytics director Eric Miller said York and Cumberland counties combined account for nearly 60% of all retail sales.

"This means that relative to where people live in the state of Maine, we see that there is a disproportionate amount of revenue further south and further west," he said.

He said that's due to both a higher concentration of retail sto

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