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Amid Global Pandemic, Illinois Sets Marijuana Sales Record

The Joint Blog

Although the pandemic has had a sad, unfortunate and unprecedented negative impact on a large number of industries, the same isn’t necessarily true of the marijuana industry, as more and more people decide that if they have to stay home anyway, they might as well enjoy it with some legal marijuana. million in June and $44.3

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How ‘essential’ transformed the US marijuana industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic

SpeedWeed

During the tumultuous weeks and months of the past year, a nine-letter word emerged as a game changer for the nation’s legal marijuana industry: “essential.”. It began about a week after the World Health Organization on March 11 declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Cannabis Council. “I