Seven days of legal sales of Massachusetts marijuana brought in $2.6 million, according to data released by state regulators.

Customers spent $2.2 million in the first five days of retail sales, bringing the total spending to $4.8 million since stores opened on Nov. 20, according to the Cannabis Control Commission.

The two stores open in Massachusetts, the first retail pot shops east of the Mississippi, are New England Treatment Access (NETA) in Northampton and Cultivate in the Worcester County town of Leicester.

The marijuana and cannabis products are taxed several ways: There's the 6.25 percent sales tax, a 10.75 percent excise tax, and then the 3 percent local tax that communities can levy.

Rep. Mark Cusack, the co-chairman of the state Legislature's Joint Committee on Marijuana Policy characterized the sales figures as $4.8 million that didn't go into the pockets of the black market.

"There's a huge public demand for this," Cusack told MassLive.

Customers bought 65,196 "units" in the second week, the term for cannabis or products with cannabis like a chocolate bar or a bottle of lotion.

The Cannabis Control Commission continues to review applications for marijuana businesses, and other retail stores are expected to open before the end of 2018.

This post was updated with additional information.