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First Look at Cannabis Consumer Retail Trends in Nevada

You might think that what happens in Vegas dispensaries stays in Vegas dispensaries. And surely some pot-shop shenanigans never do leave the Silver State’s biggest city. But the volume of flower sales? Market share for vapes? What kind of edibles…

Flower’s Share of Money Pot Declining, But Unit Sales Rise

December 10, 2018
Doug Brown
Cannabis & Hemp Research, Cultivation, Processing
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The decline of flower, and the rise of branded products like edibles, topicals and concentrates, has been a big story in cannabis for a few years. With every quarter, we see consumers spending less of their cannabis money on flower,…

Live Resin Enthusiasm Rises Nationwide

September 10, 2018
Doug Brown
Cannabis & Hemp Research, Processing, Retail
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As we have covered rather extensively for two years, vapes rule in California, with market share for concentrates vaulting from 79 percent in January of this year to 85 percent in July according to cannabis market research firm BDS Analytics.…

Concentrates Growth Keeps On Truckin’

August 8, 2018
Doug Brown
Processing
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The most persistently muscular year-over-year growth (in dollar sales) in the cannabis industry during the past few years has revolved around concentrates. Yes, the entire industry in states like Colorado, Oregon, Washington and California grows every year, and subcategories, like…

Retail Oregon Prices Not Tracking Wholesale Drop

The news of the spring out of Oregon has been the plummeting of wholesale cannabis prices. Since just October of last year, according to some reports, wholesale prices have dropped by 40 percent. Oregon cannabis consumers do, indeed, have reason…

Prices Swing — And Some Prices Are Better Than Others

Savvy dispensary owners, manufacturers and consumers anticipated significant price variation in the months following California’s launch into recreational marijuana. Most people expected prices to rise, and they did, for nearly everything sold through a dispensary. The rise of prices across…

Thinking 4/20 is Meh? Think Again — It’s Massive

Marijuana’s big holiday, 4/20, is a huge day for cannabis sales. In fact, it’s the biggest one-day event of the year for the industry — last year between Colorado, Washington, Oregon and California 4/20, which fell on a Thursday, led…

California Sales Ignite in February, As Vapes, Edibles Keep on Burning

During just the first two months of recreational cannabis in California, sales for all types of cannabis products in the state expanded rapidly, a development probably connected in part to more dispensaries receiving sales licenses. But increased consumer demand, too,…

Med to Rec Reveals Fresh California Trends

How do Californians prefer to consumer their favorite plant? Prior to recreational legalization, we fully understood where those with medical licenses spent their money. Would full legalization change things? It did. So far, the shifts in consumer preferences between those…

Pills Saw Big Sales Gains in 2017 in Colorado, As Flower Sales Languished

February 12, 2018
Doug Brown
Processing
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The cannabis marketplace in Colorado thrived last year, with $1.54 billion in sales and experiencing healthy 15 percent growth according to cannabis market research firm BDS Analytics. While 15 percent growth is enviable for any industry, it represents a slowed-down…

Oregon’s 2017 Saw Edibles Boom, Flower Flatline

Beaver State cannabis industry stores, growers and brands enjoyed a booming 2017 marketplace, with solid growth in most categories. We will explore individual Oregon categories in greater detail in coming weeks, but let’s first examine the broad market. Where is…

Concentrated on Concentrates

January 29, 2018
Doug Brown
Processing
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Of The Big Three in cannabis — flower, concentrates and edibles — growth in Colorado, Washington and Oregon has been strong ever since recreational marijuana was made legal. But one of the categories, concentrates, tends to win the growth category…

Coloradans With MMJ Cards Score Bargains

November 27, 2017
Doug Brown
Cultivation
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It arrives in pre-rolled joints and by the ounce in plastic containers. It is turned into oil and gets smoked, or is used to saturate gummy bears and brownies. Teas contain it. Salves include it as an ingredient. Pills? It…

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…

Tinctures Nab Growth Medal, But Concentrates Still Wow

April 11, 2017
Doug Brown
Processing
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We are lucky to work in such a dynamic industry. Every category of products—from flower to tinctures to edibles—experienced robust growth during 2016 in Colorado, Washington and Oregon. Of course, some categories grew with more oomph than others. It was…