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Sweet News for Candy Edibles

September 19, 2017
Doug Brown
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Among edibles styles, candy continues to rise in popularity in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon. The rise of the category, which includes gummies, caramels, hard candy and other products, has been steady through July of this year, with the category…

How to Find the Right Mix of Infused Products for Your Dispensary

September 18, 2017
CBE staff
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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…

Californians are Enthused for Infused

A little boost with that joint? The question isn’t common in other states with big legal cannabis marketplaces, like Colorado, Washington and Oregon. But in California it might be the budtender equivalent of the cafe question, “Cream with your coffee?”…

Labor Day is The Premiere Cannabis Holiday

Sales of cannabis fluctuate throughout the year across Colorado, Washington and Oregon, with individual days, like Fridays, serving as most weeks' sales summits, and holidays like July 4 and of course 4/20 boosting cannabis sales significantly. But while 4/20 receives…

4/20 Redux

The 4/20 holiday garners a lot of media attention and promotional hype, but does it live up to its reputation as a blockbuster sales event? The actual day, April 20, does generate quite a bit of sales. On 4/20 this…

The Year in Oregon Edibles

Oregon cannabis consumers needed medical licenses to purchase edibles until June of last year, when the state permitted the sale of edibles to recreational consumers. So with fresh data from Oregon for June of this year from cannabis market research…

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…

Year-to-Year, Cannabis Still Flowering

The cannabis marketplace continues to roar, and not just due to the addition of new adult-use voices around the country, including Nevada, which launched adult-use sales this month. Sales in Colorado and Washington, which are into their fourth year of…

Vapes Pull Away from the Pack

We have watched the concentrates market grow in Colorado since recreational sales began in January of 2014, and the expansion of enthusiasm for concentrates has been marked. The concentrates styles wax and shatter fairly dominated the market for all of…

Infused Products – What’s Next?

Infused products continue to expand their market share of the cannabis industry as new technologies and techniques provide customers unique ways to consume. With edibles now accounting for $1 of every $5 of sales in a dispensary, the power of…

Sweet Rise for Candy in Oregon

The sales environment for all cannabis products other than flower is unusual in Oregon. When recreational shops first opened at the end of 2015, they could only sell flower. Beginning in June of last year recreational shops began carrying things…

Pre-Rolls Rolling Up and Down

Pre-rolled joints experienced huge growth during 2016, with sales of $158 million between Colorado, Washington and Oregon, representing growth of 149 percent compared to 2015. In Colorado, sales were up by 61 percent, in Washington by 278 percent and in…

No Beaver State Boom in the Month of 4/20

Fresh data from Oregon shows that April, which has become a spectacle of cannabis promotions and parties due to 4/20, did not become a behemoth sales month in the Beaver State. Cannabis consumers dropped $34.6 million on cannabis in April…

The rise of the vape

June 5, 2017
Doug Brown
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The concentrates category is the cannabis industry’s largest, next to flower. And it looks like that second-place ranking is not drifting away anytime soon, based on data from BDS Analytics, one of the cannabis industry’s leading sources of cannabis data.…

Cannabis pills pop in different directions

Cannabis is sold in a variety of forms, from joints to caramel truffles. Few of them exactly scream “medicine,” or correspond with something a consumer might pick up at a pharmacy to help deal with back pain or sleeplessness. But…