These billion-dollar markets are making it impossible for their cannabis industries to thrive. At this time last year, the cannabis industry looked as if it would be practically unstoppable. Canada had just become the first industrialized country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, and Wall Street was throwing out huge estimates on future industry […]
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Consumer Trust In Information On CBD
When we collected feedback on purchase drivers from medical and adult use cannabis consumers in 2018, we noted some intuitive and not-so-obvious patterns. Those who think of cannabis as a wellness solution were much more likely to check CBD contents, for example. (Incidentally, the reverse wasn’t true. THC content topped the list of purchase drivers […]
Boomers Pose Unique Challenge To Dispensary Operators
“The staff has been most important in walking me through the decision-making and purchasing process. Today’s marijuana and it’s methods of use is so different; I find myself knowing basically nothing about it.” – Male 65+, Seattle, WA That is a verbatim quote from a participant in our 2018 study on consumers who use cannabis […]
When Just One More Is Too Many
Picture yourself standing in your local grocer’s pasta aisle: Behind you, all manner of oils: vegetable, canola, grapeseed, sesame, and peanut. Row after row of olive oils, including extra virgin, cold-pressed, Greek and Italian. You flirted with the idea of picking up a fancy olive oil for tonight’s salad but chose to focus your attention […]
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: Take Care of Patient Health Information or Pay The Price
Medical marijuana, like any controlled substance, requires a strong system of identifying patients properly. As the industry matures, the federal government has increasingly been more involved in enforcing ever more stringent laws and regulations on medical marijuana dispensaries. While it is easy to dismiss this if you’re running your business on a strictly cash-only basis, […]
Hawaii’s 17 Years of Missteps in Legalization Blamed on Ambivalence, Lack of Leadership
In the year 2000, Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical cannabis through the state legislature. Act 228 created a medical cannabis registry program that allowed medical cannabis cardholders to grow their own cannabis or have a caretaker grow for them. On July 31, 2017, Hawaii finally certified a cannabis testing laboratory, the most […]
Cannabis and privacy compliance: Is your health information protected?
The legal regime for cannabis is a highly fractured one in the U.S. As of today, we’re approaching the legalized use of either recreational or medicinal marijuana in 30 states with eight states and the District of Columbia nearing full recreational use. Five states in the country continue to ban any use of cannabis, including […]
What Researcher’s Found in California’s Marijuana
Researchers in Northern California have delivered some unsettling news for marijuana users. It turns out, a sizeable amount of the pot sold in California’s medical marijuana dispensaries tested positive for mold and bacteria, which could be dangerous for patients with compromised immune systems. Though the study only looked at cannabis sold in Northern California dispensaries, the […]
With No Product, Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Program Begins Thursday
Medical marijuana becomes legal Thursday in Ohio. But there are just a few problems. There are no marijuana crops because there are no growers. There are no processors, testing labs or dispensaries to sell a product that doesn’t yet exist. And even if all those things were in place, patients would have to get a […]
Medical Marijuana Taxes In Massachusetts On The Rise For Potential Dispensaries
Massachusetts cities and towns are exacting increasingly hefty payments from medical marijuana dispensaries in exchange for letters the companies need to win state licenses, a Globe review of recent compacts shows. In Worcester, a dispensary promised to pay the city $450,000 over three years — and $200,000 a year after that — if officials gave […]
Marijuana Stores Are Taking Their Interior Design To The Next Level
Marijuana shops across the U.S. are getting some work done — a nip here, a tuck there and sometimes an entire face-lift. Call it “Extreme Makeover: Dispensary Edition.” Pot shops, once sparsely decorated storefronts run by people more worried about DEA raids and federal seizures than LED display lights and high-end fixtures, are coming into […]
The State of Oregon’s Marijuana Market, By the Numbers
Here’s a snapshot of Oregon’s marijuana market: 418: Registered medical marijuana dispensaries statewide 167: Dispensaries in Portland 3: Dispensaries facing state “enforcement action” for rule violations since recreational marijuana sales began in October. 850: Recreational marijuana licenses that the state expects to issue this year across Oregon 1,200 to 2,000: Recreational marijuana license applications that […]
