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Pre-Rolls Offer Sturdy Foundation, But Pre-Rolls Headed For Lift-Off

It isn’t the sexiest cannabis category in the world, but sales of pre-rolled joints have been strong and steady ever since recreational legalization began in 2014 in Colorado — and sales remain robust in all states with established recreational regimes.…

Blue Dream Reigns Again in 2017, and So Does Sativa

February 28, 2018
Doug Brown
Cultivation
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Cannabis strains fought across 2017 for consumer affection, and people inhaling deeply over aromatic jars and examining buds under big magnifing glasses in dispensaries across Colorado, Oregon and Washington chose their faves with their wallets. And as it has been…

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…

Flower’s Market Share Evolves in Colorado, Oregon

January 16, 2018
Doug Brown
Cultivation
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Back in January of last year in Oregon’s recreational cannabis marketplace flower commanded a firm grip on cannabis sales, commanding 61 percent of the cannabis market compared to 19 percent for concentrates and just 8 percent for edibles. Smaller sales…

Balms Overtake Topicals Market

November 7, 2017
Doug Brown
Processing
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As the legal cannabis market matures, products that in the past barely existed become more mainstream, with multiple brands, plenty of shelf space and enthusiastic consumers. Relatively high-tech concentrates like shatter and wax (compared, for example, to old-school concentrates like…

Solid Growth in Tinctures Market

People working in cannabis spend a fair bit of time talking about vape pens, flower trends and gummies, and for good reason — together, these pieces of the cannabis puzzle represent a healthy chunk of sales. But dispensary shelves groan with…

Medical and Rec Markets in CO and OR: Essential Business Intelligence

October 16, 2017
Doug Brown
Cultivation
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In states that support both medical and recreational cannabis marketplaces, sales in the different channels both reflect each other and diverge. For cannabis industry stakeholders, understanding sales trends and consumer behavior in the different channels is essential business intelligence. First,…

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…

Red States v. Blue States v. State Of Legalization

There has been a clear state-by-state divide in marijuana legalization efforts that some research indicates has occurred because of a red states v. blue states bias. According to research collected online and analyzed by Consumer Research Around Cannabis, Portland, Oregon…

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…

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…

Edibles preferences diverge in different markets

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…

After 4/20, The Next Cannabis Bump

April 24, 2017
Doug Brown
Cultivation, Processing, Resources, Retail
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Goodbye, 4/20. With so many parties, events and sales taking place during the long holiday, the retail environment most likely experienced a healthy boost in Colorado, as it did last year. In Oregon’s medical channel (adult-use for Oregon did not…

Q4 Flower Sales Up and Down

Flower remains the commercial backbone of most dispensaries in Colorado, Washington and Oregon. Consider: In 2016, flower captured 58 percent of the cannabis marketplace, with $1.35 billion in sales out of an overall $2.33 billion market. Flower’s market share is…