Illinois Residents Are Switching to Medical Weed to Avoid Taxes and Shortages

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In just two weeks, thousands of Illinois residents applied for MMJ status that guarantees stocked products, avoids hefty taxes, and can even mean skipping dispensary lines.

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In the three weeks since Illinois opened the floodgates of adult-use cannabis sales, licensed cultivators, producers, and dispensaries across the state have seen an insatiable demand for pot push weeks of long hours, extra shifts, and heavy stress. But budtenders and extractors aren’t the only busy cannabis professionals in the Prairie State. Since legal sales started, doctors who certify Illinois medical marijuana patients say they, too, have seen a sudden surge in applications and renewals for the state’s...

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