Pot deliveries surge as people stuck at home stock up during coronavirus outbreak

Marijuana deliveries are spiking amid the coronavirus outbreak, media outlets report.

Sales at Bud and Bloom, a dispensary in California, have increased 30% in the last week, Kandice Hawes, spokesperson for the store, told The Orange County Register.

“A supervisor came into the break room and said he just sold $1,500 worth of edibles to one customer,” Hawes told the outlet. The dispensary has not reported any shortages as of yet.

Ganja Goddess, an Oakland store, also saw an increase in sales. “Right at the end of last week, we saw a huge uptick. Our sales have tripled in the past week. Everyone’s working overtime,” Zachary Pitts, CEO of Ganja Goddess, told The Orange County Register.

In New York City and elsewhere, deliveries have also spiked.

“On an average day, one of them is making at least 60 deliveries, making on average $8,000–$9,000,” Zach Sokol, managing editor of Merry Jane told New York Magazine about delivery services. “They both said in light of corona, they’re hitting holiday season type of traffic, $10,000 today.”

Wanda James, 56, owner of Simply Pure dispensary in Denver, Colorado, told USA Today that she usually gets 200 customers a day but got 300 on Monday. “We have a huge uptick of people and they’re purchasing larger amounts of cannabis,” she said.

Sales of marijuana increased by 33% in Washington on Sunday compared to the week before, according to USA Today, citing data from Headset. The data said the amount per purchase increased to $33.70, and the number of people buying more than $50 of cannabis went from 16 to 21 percent in a week.

San Francisco residents began stockpiling marijuana after California counties issued a shelter-in-place order, Business Insider reported.

This story was originally published March 18, 2020 at 5:55 PM with the headline "Pot deliveries surge as people stuck at home stock up during coronavirus outbreak."