“How remarkable is it that it’s gone from being [illegal] to being classified as an essential business? I think that that’s a permanent shift — I don’t think you go back to saying that it’s a bad thing," Nancy Whiteman, CEO of Boulder edibles manufacturer Wana Brands, told DBJ.
Read MorePlease check out an excerpt of this Denver Business Journal article featuring The Republic - Cannabis Dispensary and Jill Lamoureux.
By Jonathan Rose – Associate Editor, Denver Business Journal
Mar 23, 2020, 9:57am EDT
Sales are booming at local dispensaries and people are buying larger amounts of cannabis products during each visit, according to emerging data and anecdotal accounts — but as other types of businesses around the region shut down in the face of coronavirus, cannabis entrepreneurs are uncertain what comes next.
"We are a resilient industry that’s taken a lot of punches, and I think we'll survive, but we will change and I think that purchasing habits will change," said Jill Lamoureux, co-founder of The Republic, a Boulder dispensary that just opened in February.
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