Half of states and the District of Columbia are now on board with medical marijuana. And nine states have marijuana issues on the November ballot. Since the first sales last November 9th, total retail sales in Illinois topped 23.5 million dollars last month. There are now more than 11,000 medical marijuana card holders in Illinois. And 44 dispensaries have been licensed to sell the home grown marijuana products.
Who are these pioneers, and what does the cannabis business look like in Illinois? One year after the first sales, the state is taking the wraps off dispensaries and cultivation sites.
Medical marijuana has been legal in Illinois for more than three years. But, the first harvest didn't happen until just about a year ago. More than 11,000 residents now hold medical marijuana cards. But, who qualifies, and how do you get one? Nothing about this start up environment has been easy, as state regulators, cultivators, and dispensaries try to figure out how to handle a drug that could have put you in jail not along ago, and is still illegal by federal law. But as WGN's Steve Sanders reports, for many people, medical marijuana has been life changing.
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