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Cannabis Is Deemed Essential Business in Bay Area Virus Shutdown

 Posted by  Posted on March 17, 2020

a close up of a person: A customer lights a joint at the Lowell Cafe, a new cannabis lounge in West Hollywood, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. America's first cafe to allow the consumption of cannabis offers an extension to the market, where sales are largely confined to dispensaries and online orders, and tests the appetite for a more open and public consumption of a product that's still illegal in many jurisdictions. © Bloomberg A customer lights a joint at the Lowell Cafe, a new cannabis lounge in West Hollywood, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. America’s first cafe to allow the consumption of cannabis offers an extension to the market, where sales are largely confined to dispensaries and online orders, and tests the appetite for a more open and public consumption of a product that’s still illegal in many jurisdictions.

(Bloomberg) — What’s an essential business during the San Francisco Bay Area’s government-ordered “shelter in place” mandate?

Cannabis.

After some confusion over if dispensaries would have to close in the shutdowns to fight the spread of the coronavirus, the San Francisco Department of Public Health on Tuesday classified them as providing essential medicine.

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