‘The best college town we can be’: In Carbondale, cannabis-adjacent businesses see big uptick in demand

Mike Whittaker, the director of operations at Pure Oasis recreational marijuana shop, applies bar codes to containers of cannabis flower in the store on March 8, 2020, in Boston. Pure Oasis, Boston’s first recreational marijuana shop, and the state’s first black-owned one, opened the next day. (Steven Senne/AP)