The online marketplace Jane Technologies pulled post-stimulus check data from more than 1,300 dispensaries and found a 48% increase. Data from other sources show a spike in weed purchases on April 15. Why do ya think they call it essential?
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- Springbig reported a 63.31% sales increase on April 15. Flowhub reported its second-best sales of the year after March 18 — the peak of the COVID-19 stockpile. Colorado dispensary Seed & Smith had a 49% increase on April 15.
- “A normal day during this COVID pandemic is about $6,500 a day, which is actually lower than a normal day, because of the lack of tourism,” says Robbie Wroblewski, Seed & Smith’s director of community outreach. “But since the checks started dropping we have seen a huge jump, and it is all coming from the local community as opposed to tourists.”
