A U.S. projection of pandemic-related losses in the arts is US$15.2 billion and 488 million attendees in losses.
Being declared an essential business at the onset of pandemic-related quarantines around the U.S. may have saved the cannabis industry. It also allowed those who depend on cannabis as medicine and for their quality of life to keep accessing it as COVID-19 vaccines were being developed and distributed.
With cases, deaths and hospitalizations dropping, it seemed as though things were on track to normal again. But as news of the Delta and more recent Lambda variants circulate, it’s possible that a resumption of 2020 measures in the U.S. are in the offing, meaning many industries and communities that has just started to recover could be in for another financial and operational blow.
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