The secrecy Illinois lawmakers ratified covers a rapidly expanding industry that generated $39 million in retail sales in the first month alone. The statute allowed about 50 dispensaries, all previously medical sellers, to obtain licenses to sell recreational pot. By May, the state plans to award as many as 75 more recreational store licenses from a field of about 700 applications. By July, the state plans to issue 40 more licenses to growers, 40 to businesses that infuse marijuana into other products and an indefinite number to business that transport weed.