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Speaker 1: It was a record year for the cannabis industry, with

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Speaker 1: over one point sixty five billion dollars in sales in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. That's three million more compared to the

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Speaker 1: year before. Jimmy from Medford and Patrick from Wooburn think

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Speaker 1: public opinion has definitely changed.

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Speaker 2: There's definitely a breakdown in stigma and pulling back on

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Speaker 2: what it means. And you know, respective if you've partaken

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Speaker 2: that grade, if you don't, you don't, that's okay.

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Speaker 3: The public seeing that it's probably not quite as elicited

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Speaker 3: a product as maybe we were once told. So I

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Speaker 3: think a lot of it has to do just public knowledge.

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Speaker 3: It's it's now out in the open where before it was.

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Speaker 1: Not only are sales through the roof, but so is

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Speaker 1: the number of cannabis businesses, reaching the highest points since

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Speaker 1: adult US sales began in twenty eighteen. In Medford. James

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