It’s 4/20 This Entire Month

With over 850,000 cases worldwide of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, governments are sending their countries into lockdown in attempts to minimize social interactions and limit the spread of the disease. This means that stores are shut down, sporting events are cancelled, and business, as usual, is effectively put on hold until the virus is kept at bay.

Though as some cannabis aficionados may know, many cannabis dispensaries are going to remain open as they are deemed “essential” due to their necessity to medical marijuana patients.

The announcement that dispensaries would remain open has caused a huge spike in weed sales, as people prepared for the indefinitely long lockdown to come, with many dispensaries utilizing online delivery services to minimise the crowding at their stores. According to New Frontier Data, some people stockpiled up to two months of cannabis supplies prior to the lockdowns.

And if all this wasn’t interesting enough, this conglomeration of events, with the forced lockdowns, open weed dispensaries and large stockpiles of cannabis, have all fallen upon one fateful date: 4/20.

Moreover, as we are in the fourth month of 2020, this entire month will be 4/20 — an event which only comes around once a century. And if you factor in that pot prohibition began roughly in the 1920s, and the term 4/20…