Cannabis business: What marijuana legalization means for Illinois

Cresco Labs CEO and Charlie Bachteu and Alexis Keenan of Yahoo Finance discuss the process of growing marijuana and how legalization in Illinois is changing the way cannabis is processed and distributed.

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39 Comments

  1. @sanjuansteve on June 1, 2025 at 11:22 am

    I think the added temporary interneuronal synapse connections thanks to cannabis and especially the psychedelics are literal wiring upgrades to our brains that can be made permanent through normal neuroplasticity learning. These new connections give parts of our brains new access to both our current sensory perceptions, heightening them and making us more appreciative of everything we experience, while also giving parts of our brains new access to memories making even our memories heightened with literally new mental perspectives on them (explaining ‘flashbacks’). It’s like a physical empathy, giving our brains the ability to have new and more diverse perspectives on everything, past and present.

    These substances widely have the reputation as creativity-enhancers but I think actually they’re empathy-enhancers creating new perspectives, giving artists greater ability to imagine how a wider audience will perceive their work while it’s in progress, making it more creative as a result.

    Legalize, release, expunge and give industry advantages to the minorities most harmed.

  2. @MapleLeaf_yt on June 1, 2025 at 11:26 am

    Where can we smoke it?

  3. @johnwashington5510 on June 1, 2025 at 11:26 am

    I’m in Illinois 🤩💯🤑😎😜

  4. @luclongly529 on June 1, 2025 at 11:27 am

    I had Cresco pre rolls and anything with a THC above 30 will send you into severe psychosis (warning). You know, a feeling of doom, terror, extreme paranoia, involuntary muscle and hand movements and auditory / visual hallucinations. Not fun, very scary.

  5. @GodBlezzAmerica on June 1, 2025 at 11:29 am

    WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HOME GROW

  6. @toadlika on June 1, 2025 at 11:31 am

    Do not buy their garbage. They paid bribes to keep it illegal for you to grow

  7. @thomashall4625 on June 1, 2025 at 11:35 am

    What about the jobs are they hiring for bud trimmers?

  8. @actorben on June 1, 2025 at 11:35 am

    Very insightful.

  9. @davidbrandenburg8029 on June 1, 2025 at 11:35 am

    don’t forget how they chop up all the leaves on the plant, and use it as the majority of the shake they are selling. but anyone who knows anything about pot knows that leaves are not shake, shake is what falls off the buds and left in the bottom of the bag. the cresco owner is laughing all the way to the bank, as they are screwing the medical user, since they have gone legal retailers are letting the recreational users buy up all the stock. i went to the dispensary yesterday and stood in line only to find I had 2 choices, one ways 20 dollars a gram and the other was a 1/4 oz for 160 dollars. well I went with the 20 dollars a gram stuff, only to find I could only buy 1 gram. I am too god damn sick to be standing in lines, only to find that it has all been a waste of time and energy!.

  10. @soulseeker42388 on June 1, 2025 at 11:36 am

    No one is getting 33%return on concentrate production that is false information the best and most consistent i have seen so far is 20 to 25% max 27%. So saying 1 pound will creat a 3rd pound rosin is false

  11. @paulj.brazzlejr.4392 on June 1, 2025 at 11:38 am

    I was wondering why their was so job openings in Indiana?

  12. @mskeating3259 on June 1, 2025 at 11:38 am

    When we can grow our own we will have the freedom to share it freely. Both markets will become irrelevant

  13. @j50wells on June 1, 2025 at 11:39 am

    So glad. Now my rent in Denver will go down.

  14. @r.giskardreventlov2268 on June 1, 2025 at 11:46 am

    Say NO to McPot! Support craft cannabis!

  15. @stevebenson3011 on June 1, 2025 at 11:46 am

    Fake news story, they are not getting 1/2 lb. per plant indoors, $1500 a plant 😂😂😝 yeah right if we let you tell it, more like $500 a plant

  16. @masterspin7796 on June 1, 2025 at 11:47 am

    A little dope can give a sad fellow a little hope…

  17. @MeanLaQueefa on June 1, 2025 at 11:50 am

    Home grown or bust

  18. @AaronRodriguez-vm5gs on June 1, 2025 at 11:51 am

    Crazy how many people they locked up and traumatized over this ND now they legalize it like they didn’t beat people for doing this a year or two ago

  19. @ricostackinclips9833 on June 1, 2025 at 11:51 am

    i know my comment might go unnoticed but can we try to boycott this company their making money of off all the people the locked for this and now a white man is running the fucking drug game lets not keep giving business to these wankers who lock us up for using it

  20. @kurtfrancisco2072 on June 1, 2025 at 11:52 am

    what a scumb bag having such control over permits!!!

  21. @domais68 on June 1, 2025 at 11:53 am

    I’m a big fan of this Co. Unfortunately, the Cannabis space has had a brutal 2019. To see this promising sector fall, as the market flies, is a real bummer. I believe things will turn around or, at least, the blood loss will end soon.

  22. @alxjetson8157 on June 1, 2025 at 11:55 am

    Green light ahead.

  23. @FiciousCritik on June 1, 2025 at 11:59 am

    “…Pursuit Of Hempiness…”
    It’s in the constitution…somewhere…right?

  24. @expertguy101 on June 1, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    White folks so full of it

  25. @85prp on June 1, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    *I saw a million times on COPS they pull over a black guy or some meth head white dude, would say they smell marijuana, then search the car, then find it, and arrest them and charge them. And now soccer mom’s teachers, doctors, and any mainstream suburbianite can walk in and buy marijuana in a store, people don’t make any sense.*

  26. @christiancalderon2654 on June 1, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    CRESCO LOBBIED ILLINOIS POLITICIANS FOR NO HOMEGROW ALLOWED!

  27. @ganjatrain2324 on June 1, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    Good video!

  28. @arthurzettel6618 on June 1, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Illinois just got stupider.
    Marijuana makes one stupid in the first place. Mix that with their gun violence problem and it be bound to end up being marijuana war zone with even more violence.
    If you think it won’t happen then you’re already stupid.

  29. @iesushominumsalvator7035 on June 1, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    Fumaos no

  30. @castlev1986 on June 1, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    we need one of them weed shops here in rosiclare

  31. @Jay_chicago on June 1, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    My question is… I have a CDL and a CCL. Does that mean no Cannabis for me?

  32. @Foxtucky on June 1, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    It means extremely high prices for flower at dispensaries and everyone will continue to get it from there guy down the block for 1/2 the price.. lol at least it’s legal now

  33. @diocletianrecords1089 on June 1, 2025 at 12:11 pm

    Residents in care homes shouldn’t be evicted for smoking cannabis.

  34. @DJ_0000 on June 1, 2025 at 12:11 pm

    Can we get some down in collinsville?? They sell seed pot here!😂😂😂

  35. @angnation7764 on June 1, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    WHAT ABOUT FL!!!!!!!!!! WHEN???

  36. @thereal001 on June 1, 2025 at 12:14 pm

    Why does Cresco have such dry cannabis? I mean by the time you open a "jar" it’s so dry it crumbles in your hands…. absolutely no moisture at ALL! If you have a card GROW YOUR OWN!!! Glad to see the smuck behind the chuck!

  37. @crashburn821 on June 1, 2025 at 12:16 pm

    Bunch of hypocrites! Must use our meds and you can’t grow your own! Catch me if you can!

  38. @soulseeker42388 on June 1, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    They better stop the neem oil sooner then pre flower other wise they are selling neem oil in the flower which has been shown to cause chs cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome

  39. @samuelsh1899 on June 1, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    Preventing home grow, is legalized cornering of a market. With legal and BILLION dollar impacts

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