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Sold Out in 2 Days: Booming Cannabis Demand in Kansas City

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The first medical cannabis dispensary in KC recently sold out of their product in just 2 days time. The state continues to make a mess of legalization and we see that with the fact that when sales are finally open for business, only a handful of lucky recipients received the green light from the government in order to do business. Dozens more will be waiting sometimes for a year or more in order to finish everything that's required to open the doors and start selling.

The rigid and highly complex legalization market leaves only a few stores, sometimes just one, to handle the great demand in the region. For this dispensary in KC they were the only ones to offer the goods and it did not take long for people to clean them out entirely.

We have seen the same thing happen on numerous occasions in places where legalization has been embraced, dispensaries sell out because there isn't enough to meet the demand at that time and also a lot of excitement around that new business too. The same demand on the opening day or week wouldn't likely continue for months. They could easily get back to normal in being able to maintain their supply and offer a good variety.

In KC anyone getting the cannabis needs to have a doctor give their okay and it can be difficult to find. Especially since many of them are still pushing pharma alternatives that might be arguably seen as competition to cannabis and what's offered in this market. People should never have had their natural rights infringed upon in this way, the government has no right to tell you what you should put inside of your own body. So imagine how excited they are that they can finally access something without being deemed a criminal. Though there will still be plenty of criminalization surrounding cannabis activities regardless of legalization.

It has taken a great deal of failure, at the expense of communities around the world, and hard work from patients and advocates in order to turn the conversation around and break apart that ignorant cannabis stigma. It might still be a few weeks before more dispensaries get ready to open in KC. And there are also some significant potential changes coming up with legalization in a number of states, including NJ and other regions.

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