Featured Marijuana MSO Parallel Jumps into the Illinois Market with $100M Acquisition by Sophia Vida April 02, 2021 Atlanta-based Parallel has moved into Illinois with the agreement to acquire six stores belonging to a retail store chain in the state for $100 million. Parallel, who is one of the largest privately held multi-state cannabis op...
Trends & Articles The First On-site Consumption Marijuana Lounge is Set to Open in Illinois by Sophia Vida March 18, 2021 The city of Sesser will be home to the first on-site consumption cannabis lounge in the state of Illinois soon. The state has seen amazing growth in its recreational marijuana industry with sales more than tripling since the in...
Legal Related Illinois Marijuana Workers Want to Unionize by Sophia Vida March 09, 2021 According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, as Illinois' marijuana industry exploded to surpass $1 billion after just a year of sales, marijuana laborers are now working to unionize. "The industry has unfortunately just pro...
Legal Related Illinois Legal Marijuana Sales Hit Record in January by Sophia Vida February 06, 2021 Sales of cannabis in the state of Illinois totaled a record $121.5 million in January compared to being flat in December. In December, Illinois reported $86 million in adult-use sales from 1,896,941 cannabis products—which wa...
Legal Related Illinois Governor Expunges Almost 500,000 Marijuana Arrest Records by Sophia Vida January 02, 2021 Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker has made a big move this week, expunging nearly a million marijuana arrest records and pardoning thousands more. The governor announced on Thursday that thousands of pardons had been issued for l...
Legal Related Illinois Could See $1 Billion in Weed Sales This Year by Sophia Vida December 30, 2020 Recreational marijuana going on sale in Illinois this year has been epic. Thousands of people have lined up, some overnight, as they waited to be among the first to buy recreational marijuana in the state earlier this year. Des...
Marijuana Stocks Cannabis MSO Acreage Signs a $12M Loan to Expand its Illinois Operation by Sophia Vida December 04, 2020 Multistate cannabis operator Acreage Holdings announced this week that it has agreed to a $12 million construction loan to complete the expansion of its cultivation and processing facility in the Illinois market. The company fi...
Legal Related Illinois Marijuana Dispensaries Sell Over Half a Billion Dollars by Sophia Vida November 04, 2020 Marijuana stores in Illinois have now sold over half a billion dollars worth of cannabis products according to the state. October marked the six month in a row that Illinois had hit a marijuana sales record. Since the launch of...
Marijuana Stocks Illinois Sets A Sales Record in Marijuana Sales in September by Sophia Vida October 08, 2020 Illinois has been seeing big sales each month since legalizing recreational marijuana back in January. The state has broken another record for marijuana sales in September, selling nearly $100 million in combined adult-use and ...
Legal Related Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Announces Marijuana Dispensary Lottery Changes by Sophia Vida September 29, 2020 New changes to Illinois' marijuana dispensary application lottery have been announced by Gov. JB Pritzker recently, which aim to support social equity applications. Pritzker said the state is making changes to the recreational ...
