Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new CROO website has been designed to be more user friendly and a better comprehensive resource for recreational and medical cannabis in Illinois. The new website includes dropdown menus for information about CROO Media , Research and Data , Legal and Enforcement , About , and Agencies. For Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 21, 2024

Blue Dream was the first strain name I learned and asked for (but rarely found) because I preferred its effects to everything else I’d been smoking. Even though I had not smoked Blue Dream in more than a decade, legalization in Illinois has now made finding the strain as easy as stopping in nuEra Urbana for an eighth of Blue Dream by nuEra.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Illinois may go from no legal curbside pickup for registered medical patients to legal dive-up window service if a recently introduced Senate Bill becomes law. Illinois has until June 30 to amend the law before the variance that allows curbside pickup expires. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

JULY 11, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation today announced recreational cannabis sales totals for June 2023. June sales totals were the third-most monthly sales since recreational-use legalization began. Illinois recorded $136,408,322.07 For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the days before legalization, edibles had one purpose—getting you as high as possible. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here. Individual experiences can be varied.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 14, 2023

Illinois News Joint ’s goal from the first day of publishing has been to slowly and organically expand into a fully staffed daily publication covering all aspects of the Illinois cannabis industry. In Colorado, Lasley worked at a winery as a sommelier during the day and used his free time to learn about the cannabis industry.

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Illinois News Joint

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation today announced recreational cannabis sales totals for July. For the second-straight month, Illinois set a new monthly sales record for 2023. Since legalization, July 2023 sales totals only trail December 2022 totals of $143,899,826.30. February: $120,488,569.91

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Illinois News Joint

JULY 6, 2023

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) released its June 2023 medical cannabis sales totals. For the last three months, monthly sales totals performed weaker than the three years since Illinois legalized recreational use. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here. in concentrates/infused products.

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 3, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced recreational cannabis sales totals for May 2023. After recording strong monthly sales totals for March and April, Illinois recorded its third-most monthly sales total since legalization. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last November, the citizens of Missouri passed Amendment 3 via ballot initiative, legalizing recreational cannabis in the Show Me state and expanding on the medical program that started in 2018. While Illinois shares 361 miles of border with Missouri, the cannabis regulatory frameworks and markets are quite different.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

After comparing Missouri and Illinois legal cannabis markets, we decided to compare the Prairie State to Michigan, the oldest and largest legal market surrounding Illinois. m Illinois: 12.67 m Illinois: 12.67 Illinois: Medical patients only. Illinois: Medical patients only. 12-plant limit.

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Illinois News Joint

MAY 2, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced today recreational cannabis sales totals for April 2023. Coming off Illinois’ third-largest monthly sales total of $134,790,381.77 in March, Illinois recorded its fourth-most monthly sales total in April at $131,990,502.83. February: $120,488,569.91

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Aurora Cannabis Club came about after a conversation between Nelson @prairiegrassselections and Ryan @rfcanna about “wanting to have a space for cannabis minded folks to gather that offered the community a place to learn and share information.” For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here. at Ignite Vape & Glass. “We

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Illinois News Joint

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite claiming the 3rd largest legal cannabis market in America, Illinois has relatively few “signature” strains. IC Collective is helping right this wrong by naming of one of its first drops, Fox River Chem, after a tributary of the Illinois River. ILNJ photos For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As the legal market continues to mature, so do the needs of consumers. This has driven the expansion of vape carts from a half gram to one gram, and now, Illinois is starting to see even larger options hit menus. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 5, 2024

Illinois’ position as the third largest legal market in the United States means a huge list of brands are still working to find licensed partners in the Prairie State. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here. ILNJ photo To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced today recreational cannabis sales totals for August. August continued Illinois’ strong monthly sales, recording the third-highest monthly sales totals since legalization at $139,224,010.03. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 26, 2023

After the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation (IDFPR) announced it was changing its legalities on cannabis curbside pickup for medical patients after the New Year, IDFPR then extended the variance that permitted curbside pickup through January. During the extension, Illinois Reps.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced Illinois’ January 2023 recreational sales totals today. monthly figure topped each previous January totals since legalization. In the first year of legalization for Illinois, January totals finished at $39,247,840.83. February: $113,993,046.06

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Illinois News Joint

MAY 4, 2023

When I founded Illinois News Joint , I made a conscious choice to include an altruistic aspect to the publication but for the first year could not decide on a program that fit what we do. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, click here. For learn about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, click here.

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 14, 2023

meeting, Illinois State Representatives Lakesia Collins, La Shawn Ford, and Cyril Nichols announced they will invite fellow lawmakers, impacted businesses, advocates, and other stakeholders to come together to develop a comprehensive plan for safe regulation of delta-8 and other similar intoxicating hemp products in Illinois.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 11, 2024

When I was younger, dreaming about a legal cannabis future that seemed so far away, one of the concepts we often spoke of was the proliferation of the cannabis cigar. While many states have started to see a wider selection of infused and standard blunts trickle on to menus, Illinois remains behind with only a few options available.

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Veriheal

JULY 6, 2021

Alcohol is legal, and they have bars and clubs for people to go where they can drink until they can’t stand anymore. It doesn’t work that way for legal cannabis, though. It also gives people a place to make friends, a place to medicate, and a place to learn about medicating. Or does it?

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 19, 2023

As mentioned, we at Illinois News Joint believe that Illinois is about to have the biggest boom to its cannabis industry since the first day of legalization. The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) today issued 33 Transporter licenses, finally closing the 2022 application pool.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Scammers have always been a part of the cannabis black market, and the legal market now has brought an entirely new set of scammers to the industry. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) today warned individuals in a press release of “social equity criteria license lottery scams.”

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 2, 2023

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) released its May 2023 medical cannabis sales totals. For the last two months, sales totals dipped lower than all three years since Illinois legalized recreational use. Illinois has been stuck on 55 medical cannabis dispensaries for a few years with no future plans to add more.

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Illinois News Joint

APRIL 11, 2023

The goal of Green Rose 420 Sesh Fest is to celebrate cannabis culture by providing a unique, fun, and joyful experience with lots of great entertainment where everyone feels comfortable and welcome whether they are experienced cannabis users or new to it and interested in learning more about cannabis now that it is legal in Illinois. “We

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Illinois News Joint

MARCH 5, 2023

Vendors include Indiana NORML, Illinois News Joint , Jane & Mary’s Ice Cream, Nectar for the Gods and SLF-100, GreenGro, Earth Juice Nutrients, Fox Farm, Royal Gold Soils, Keefy Canopy, Humboldt Seed Company, Hippiesgalleria, James Gardener Glass, Bangerbuddy420, Totally Normal Fungus, BFG Distribution, and more. The post Blooms Bro.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

One year ago, Washington State’s longest-operating cannabis-dispensary retailers, Kush21 , applied for a dispensary license in Illinois. daily, will be the first Kush21 dispensary in Illinois. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here. To learn about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

MARCH 21, 2023

In the first years of legalization in Illinois, ounces of premium flower were not to be found. But 28g of premium flower from Illinois cultivators were few and far between, and the bulk buy often didn’t warrant enough of a discounted price for the purchase. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 22, 2023

As part of our weekly discussion with ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue , we asked why are legal cannabis prices in Illinois so damn high. One of the main reasons for the high cost of cannabis in Illinois is the limited number of cultivator licenses that have been issued by the state.

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Illinois News Joint

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to a recent report by Pistil Data , more than 220 brands are on the Illinois market, much less than the neighboring legal states. For more Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here. To learn more about cannabis-friendly events in Illinois, visit here. For more Illinois cannabis industry news, visit here.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

September 19, 2022, a ruling by the Appellate Court of Illinois (Third District) delivered the judgment that the “smell of burnt cannabis” alone did not provide an “officer with probable cause to search the vehicle.” Tarver, II also sponsored HB1206 , which takes out the phrase “odor-proof” from the Illinois Vehicle Code.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shortly after I founded Illinois News Joint , a budtender referred to me as a cannabis influencer, and I didn’t like the connotations of the term. From the start, I wanted ILNJ to be a trusted educational resource for all aspects of the Illinois cannabis industry. For Illinois News Joint reviews, visit here. I’ll just admit it.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 3, 2023

In one of our last articles of the year , we reported that Illinois was set to change its legalities on cannabis curbside pickup for medical patients after the New Year. During the month-long extension, Illinois Reps. Kelly Cassidy and Bob Morgan will be working to find a permanent solution to legalities of curbside pickup.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Since full legalization in January 2020, nuEra has been sourcing a majority of its staff from Disproportionately Impacted Areas (DIAs), hiring interns and apprentices from Cannabis Studies programs at City Colleges of Chicago, and whenever possible partnering with minority and women-owned businesses for ancillary services. University Ave.,

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 8, 2023

In our search to learn more about the craft cannabis coming to Illinois, we thought we’d asked ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue. In Illinois, where the cannabis industry is dominated by large companies, craft cannabis is a refreshing alternative that offers consumers a more personal and authentic experience.

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