If there is one particular facet of the cannabis industry that is on the verge of exploding onto the scene and causing a raucous so massive that high timers soon forget that weed can be smoked, it’s the uprising of marijuana-infused beverages. Nearly every major alcohol company has entered into a deal to launch a stoner […]
Edibles & Infused Processors
Marijuana Prices Are Dropping, So Why Aren’t Edible Prices?
Anyone who shopped at dispensaries last year likely noted that marijuana prices were dropping, with flower going as low as $15 an eighth and concentrates like shatter and wax selling for $10 or $12 per gram. So why didn’t edibles get cheaper, too? With wholesale marijuana prices dropping almost 40 percent from the end of 2017 […]
How to Succeed in the Cannabis Edibles Market
For entrepreneurs who want to get into the cannabis industry, edibles is a growing category that could be a viable option. In recent years, edibles and topicals have seen little price change, and while growth hasn’t skyrocketed, it has been steady based on data from BDS Analytics. Edibles sales in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Oregon […]
High-End California Chefs Are Cashing In On Cannabis
Leave it to California to combine high-end cuisine with the kind of ingredients that might actually get you high. It’s an increasingly lucrative niche for chefs in San Francisco and Los Angeles — cities already well known for trendy food culture. Chefs and entrepreneurs making cannabis-infused foie gras and “stoner souffles” have been featured on […]
Why these marijuana edibles are prohibited by Michigan regulators
For state regulators, not all pot pies are created equal. Fruit pies, like the All-American apple, beautiful blueberry and positively peach get the thumbs-up from the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs as confections that can carry the label of an acceptable medical marijuana-infused edible. But pumpkin, banana cream and lemon meringue got the bum’s […]
Lagunitas Releases Alcohol-Free, Cannabis Infused Beer In California
Lagunitas, Heineken’s fast-growing California beer label, bills its new brew as “hoppy sparkling water.” That’s because these cans of brew contain zero alcohol. Instead of booze, the beer-like beverage is made with THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Called Hi-Fi Hops, Lagunitas’ new cannabis drink is the latest wave of a larger move by established […]
3 Big Problems Ahead for the Cannabis Edibles Market
The cannabis edibles market has been growing rapidly for years. Many consumers are uncomfortable with the idea of smoking, so edibles provide the perfect entry point into the marijuana market. To get an idea of the rapid growth rate in the edibles market, consider Colorado where edibles sales increased by 67% between February 2016 and […]
Are Cannabis-Infused Drinks The Next Big Thing?
In the very near future, when you grab an adult beverage from your fridge, it might not contain any alcohol. Are you ready for the next big thing? Legal cannabis provides a huge opportunity to reshape the consumer beverage industry, according to Cannabiz Consumer Group (C2G). And no wonder. The entire beverage industry generates roughly $1.5 trillion […]
Marijuana Extraction Specialists May Get Their Own Licenses In Maine
After years of operating in the shadows, people who make marijuana-infused foods, tinctures and oils for qualified medical patients may finally get their own state license. State lawmakers who oversee Maine’s medical marijuana program want to license and regulate the use of explosive chemicals or gases to extract concentrates from the cannabis plant. Full of […]
Tinctures, Pills Triumph in High-CBD Edibles Market
Candy is the No. 1 edibles category in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon. In all of these states, chocolate is the second-most popular type of product. Other categories like baked goods and beverages fill out the rest of sales. But when we examine edibles products that are high in CBDs, another style of product is […]
Fear And Loathing: The FDA and Marijuana Medical Claims
The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDAC) gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broad regulatory powers over legal drugs and more limited power over the regulation of food. For drug makers, the FDA is the fearsome elephant in the room because of the immense amount of time and huge levels of money it takes […]
How to Find the Right Mix of Infused Products for Your Dispensary
In an ever-changing cannabis market, infused products play a crucial role in any dispensary owner’s business strategy. How does one achieve the optimal mix of infused products? Nancy Whiteman, co-owner and co-founder of Wana Brands, Colorado’s No. 1 infused product manufacturer, according to BDS Analytics, recently spoke at the Dispensary: Next Conference in Denver to […]
Colorado’s Top-Selling Cannabis Edibles Brand Announces Historic Expansion Into Six States and Puerto Rico
Denver, Colorado, September 6, 2017 – incredibles – the same cannabis-infused edibles team that has created and propelled the incredibles cannabis brands (manufactured by Medically Correct, LLC. in Colorado) to the top-selling position in Colorado’s recreational marijuana market, will soon be available in multiple markets throughout the United States via strategic licensing deals via IP holding company, MC Brands, LLC. […]
“Weed Speak” (or Should That Be “Cannabis Creep”?) Now a Bigger Part of Our Social Consciousness
So I had to ask myself: What’s all this then? I was standing in the beer and wine department at my local grocery store in Virginia, a state way behind in any cannabis legalization process, and noticed two beers on the shelf that were seriously using what advertisers are beginning to call “weed speak”. There […]
Lagunitas Brews New Experimental IPA with Cannabis Extracts
Brewers like to describe super-hoppy IPAs the way that they might talk about marijuana: “dank,” “resinous,” “sticky.” It makes sense, after all: Both cannabis (pot) and Humulus lupulus (hops) are members of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants, and both rely on compounds called terpenes to provide their essential flavors and aromas. While breweries have […]
Cannabis in Capsules: Creating Synergistic Effects and More Accurate Dosaging
“What is an excipient?” It’s one of the most common questions we receive in hard capsule manufacturing, and luckily, it’s also one of the easiest to answer. An excipient is a filler agent used to increase the volume of a drug that a patient consumes when taking a medicine. Cannabis manufacturers looking to create professional […]
U.S. Cannabusinesses Watch And Wait While Canada’s Country-Wide Adult-Use Structure Gets Tweaked
In mid-April, Canadian lawmakers put forth cannabis legislation that would legalize adult use of cannabis on July 1, 2018, one of the campaign pledges of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015, which will make Canada just the second country that would legalize adult-use marijuana across the entire country (Uruguay did it in 2014). The country […]
Flower’s Dominance Fluctuates
Sales of flower — everything from grams of Blue Dream to ounces of generic hybrid blends — dominate in all states with legal recreational marijuana, compared to other categories like concentrates, edibles and topicals. During the first quarter of 2017 in all channels between Colorado, Washington and Oregon, flower captured 52 percent of the broader […]
