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US (IL): Lower supply, rising prices

Legal recreational use may cut into the states cannabis supply. But months in advance, medical users are already noticing a strain.

“The amounts are getting smaller and the price is going up,” said Paul Jochujm of Crystal Lake.

Paul Jochum is a stay-at-home dad whose severe physical pain is relieved with cannabis. “This is gone – entirely gone for over 8 months,” Jochum said as he held up an empty plastic jar. “I haven’t been able to find a single ounce of flower at all.”

A larger one-ounce container lasts Jochum almost two weeks. But now, he is buying smaller packages at a higher price. A large container like the empty one Jochum held up had cost $250. Jochum said the same supply would now cost over $400.

Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com

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