CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- If you're looking to start off the week with some legal recreational marijuana, you may have to wait until Tuesday.
At least six marijuana dispensaries in Chicago will be closed Monday to recreational users, because supplies are running low.
There are already limited places to purchase recreational marijuana in Chicago, as only 10 of the city's 11 marijuana dispensaries have licenses to sell both recreational and medical marijuana. One of those, Maribis of Chicago in Brighton Park, opted to keep its doors closed until February due to supply concerns.
Four of the stores closing Monday for recreational sales — Dispensary 33 in Uptown, MOCA in Logan Square, NuMed in West Town and Zen Leaf in Norwood Park — said they were either sold out of product or had limited supply.
Some of the 11 dispensaries said they will continue to sell to medical customers.
Jason Erkes, a spokesman for Cresco Labs, told the Sun-Times four of the company's Sunnyside Dispensaries will be closed Monday "to reset and give the staff that has worked five 14-hour days straight a break." Those locations closed Monday include Lakeview, Elmwood Park, Rockford and Champaign.
However, Erkes said, the shops will have flower, vapes, concentrates, and edibles available when the shops reopen Tuesday.
"There are no product supply shortages — just a shortage of state-approved employees to help efficiently service the hundreds of people that have been showing up every day to make their first legal cannabis purchase in Illinois," Erkes said.
That statement counters what many customers have reported after their first visits to Illinois' legal dispensaries.
The state said over $5 million worth of marijuana products were sold in the first two days of legalization.
