This Week In Marijuana Business News for the week ended Jan. 10, 2020, with host Maggie Cowee.

Headlines include:

• Some Illinois adult-use marijuana shops close due to product shortages, high demand that totaled $11M in sales in first week
• Michigan recreational cannabis sales near $6.5 million in first month
• Marijuana businesses raise millions of dollars by cashing out of real estate through sale-leaseback deals
• Analyst warns of shelved expansion, restructuring as cannabis firms 'teeter on edge'
• Cannabis captures beer market share in first year of Canadian legalization
• New task force sets out to standardize hemp sampling methods, analysis
• 'Great opportunity to share knowledge and research': Q&A with Caren Wilcox, head of fledgling US Hemp Growers Association
• German hemp retailers could face years in prison for selling hemp tea
• Florida ag department now regulating hemp and CBD products with new rules, permits
• SC tells animal feed, pet treat firms to reformulate products with hemp, CBD
• New York governor pledges to legalize adult-use marijuana
• Vireo's Maryland medical marijuana workers ratify union pact
• Medical marijuana makes ballot in Mississippi
• Weedmaps drops thousands of unlicensed cannabis ads, but some illegal shops remain
• Chart: Local approval in Michigan adult-use marijuana program creates uneven business opportunity
• Foresight is 2020: A decade of opportunity