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$GPFT 054 IN MARCH, AS a succession of European governments imposed lockdowns to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, Americans started to prepare for their own. Toilet paper, hand sanitiser and tinned food flew off the shelves, as did another product rarely seen on preppers’ checklists: cannabis. According to Headset, a company that analyses data for the cannabis industry, sales of marijuana products in California were up by 92.5% on March 16th when officials in seven San Francisco Bay Area counties ordered their 7m residents to shelter in place. When the entire state of California was ordered to stay at home by its governor on March 19th, sales were still up by over 45%