As the live industry craters, artists who invested in the cannabis industry are happy to learn dispensaries are considered "essential services." When Cypress Hill’s B-Real opened his own marijuana dispensary in the San Fernando Valley two years ago, he considered it a bit of extra business.
But in the midst of the coronavirus-related shutdowns blocking the live industry, the rapper’s revenue from Dr. Greenthumb’s Dispensary has become what he calls “supplementary income that we can’t make on the road right now." Adds the veteran rapper: “Initially, there was a surge.
Everybody came in that first week [of the pandemic], and were stockpiling. People want to cope -- and that's one thing cannabis will help you do." Decriminalized for the