Analysis: Rise in CBD sales in Minnesota

BY ANDREW WRIGHT

For the analysis article this week, I found an article from the Star Tribune that looks at the increase in CBD sales in Minnesota.

The author focuses on the effects and uses of hemp-based CBD products and how more people are turning to CBD to cope with mental issues and other illnesses. The author points to the increase in CBD sales across the United States as evidence that more people are relying on CBD products to relieve their illnesses.

The author needed to understand several aspects of the data to be able to report on this story. First the reporter needed to be able to interpret the data to understand the trends in CBD sales in Minnesota and across the United States. Another important skill the reporter needed for the story was to have a basic understanding of the effects of CBD and why more people are turning toward the drug. This is something that could not be found in the data, and as a result the reporter needed to find the information from other sources.

The Star Tribune article did not use an assortment of interactive graphs and visuals to engage the reader. Instead, the Star Tribune used only one graph the displayed the current and projected sales of CBD across the United States to show the possible trends of CBD in the future.

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