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 ...
Money related Illinois Sees Cannabis Sales Peak Record High Last Month by Sophia Vida September 19, 2020 The state of Illinois released its data on cannabis sales for the month of August recently and sales peaked a record high. Adding together medical and adult-use sales, Illinois reached a record high of over $95 million in legal...
Legal Related Top Illinois Marijuana Regulator Says Cannabis is ‘Pandemic-proof’ by Sophia Vida August 26, 2020 According to the top cannabis regulator in the state of Illinois, the marijuana industry is "recession-proof" as well as "pandemic-proof." Tori Hutchinson, the state’s marijuana regulator, discussed the legal economy during a...
Legal Related Illinois Sets Another Sales Record with Recreational Marijuana in July by Sophia Vida August 06, 2020 Marijuana dispensaries in Illinois are doing very well despite the coronavirus pandemic. The stores have been deemed an essential good which has allowed consumers to keep getting their cannabis. The Illinois Department of Profe...