Labor Day is The Premiere Cannabis Holiday August 21, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation, Processing 0 Comments 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… Read More→
4/20 Redux August 14, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation, Processing 0 Comments 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… Read More→
The Year in Oregon Edibles August 7, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation, Processing 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Flower’s Dominance Fluctuates July 31, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation, Processing, Retail 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Year-to-Year, Cannabis Still Flowering July 24, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Vapes Pull Away from the Pack July 17, 2017 Doug Brown Processing 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Sweet Rise for Candy in Oregon June 26, 2017 Doug Brown Processing 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Pre-Rolls Rolling Up and Down June 19, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation 0 Comments 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… Read More→
No Beaver State Boom in the Month of 4/20 June 12, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Cannabis pills pop in different directions May 30, 2017 Doug Brown Processing, Retail 0 Comments 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… Read More→
The states of strains May 22, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation 1 Comment The dispensary marketplace is a lively bazaar, with established brands and entrepreneurs every day coming up with new products — everything from chewing gums to nasal sprays to CBD-packed concentrates and massage lotions. But the wide range of commercial innovations… Read More→
Edibles preferences diverge in different markets May 15, 2017 Doug Brown Processing 1 Comment Edibles enjoy a healthy chunk of the cannabis marketplace — for all of 2016, for example, the category captured 12 percent of the $2.41 billion marketplace within Colorado, Washington and Oregon on $282.02 million in sales. That’s an increase of… Read More→
It’s tea time for the cannabis market May 8, 2017 Doug Brown Processing 0 Comments Cannabis with your cup of tea? Increasingly, consumers are saying, “Yes, please.” Cannabis-infused tea drinks are hot in the marketplace, and the thirst for pot tea is a fairly new phenomenon. According to data from BDS Analytics, a leading source… Read More→
Holiday Weekends and Cannabis May 1, 2017 Doug Brown Cultivation 0 Comments Last Monday we examined 4/2o in terms of sales, and compared it to Labor Day Weekend. While the days surrounding the much-trumpeted 4/20 last year in Colorado were big sales events, and the two weekends bookending the holiday represented excellent sales boosts,… Read More→