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(Forbes) Every Sunday, EZ’s Dispensary sends its weekly menu of bud via text message, offering strains like AK-47 and Girl Scout Cookies, to thousands of people in New York City. Customers respond with their order—quarter, half, full ounce—and their address. Pretty soon, a dealer in a rental car pulls up to complete the sale. All of this is illegal, but weed delivery is part of the city’s fabric—some New Yorkers can get cannabis delivered to their door faster than a pizza. Naturally, as states have legalized marijuana sales, legal delivery services have followed, from Snoop Dogg-funded Eaze to Lantern, which is owned by alcohol delivery and e-commerce platform Drizly. And thanks to the pandemic, delivery services are booming and companies are hiring and raising venture capital to keep up with the surge in demand. READ THE FULL STORY >>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2020/12/23/legal-cannabis-delivery-companies-thrive-amid-pandemic-by-co-opting-illicit-dealers-business-model

(Politico) In the past decade, 15 states have legalized a regulated marijuana market for adults over 21, and another 17 have legalized medical marijuana. But in their rush to limit the numbers of licensed vendors and give local municipalities control of where to locate dispensaries, they created something else: A market for local corruption. READ THE FULL STORY >>> https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/marijuana-legalization-corruption

(Marijuana Moment) It was just one year ago that regulated recreational cannabis sales launched in Illinois, and the state has seen a significant upward trend in purchases in the months since, even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now state officials are reporting at least $1,000,308,800 in total sales from medical and recreational marijuana purchases over the course of the year—and that doesn’t include data from medical cannabis sales in December, which has not been released yet. READ THE FULL STORY >>> https://www.marijuanamoment.net/illinois-sold-more-than-1-billion-worth-of-legal-marijuana-in-2020-new-state-data-shows/