Will Global Legal Cannabis Spending Exceed $40 Billion by 2024?
Consumer spending on legal cannabis worldwide reached $10.9 billion in 2018. This number is especially significant considering the variables at play: the California market transition from lightly regulated medical-only to fully regulated adult-use; the maturation of first-in, adult-use markets in Colorado and Washington; and the lackluster rollout of legal adult-use cannabis in Canada. As legalization […]
The $20 Billion CBD Race
Whether or not you keep up with the cannabis industry, you’ve likely heard the term “CBD” recently. Seemingly overnight, CBD is appearing everywhere from beauty product lines to burger joints. As it turns out, there’s legitimate reasoning behind “today’s” latest hype.
A More Conservative View of Canadian Cannabis Market Growth
Our research on the roll-out of adult-use legalization in Canada, published today in the Cannabis Intelligence Briefing titled Canada Leads the Way on Global Cannabis Legalization, is the first research of its kind. The report models each of the 10 Canadian provinces individually. At a countrywide-level, consumer spending is now forecast to grow from $569 […]
Pharmaceutical Versus Dispensary Cannabinoids Competition
Epidiolex Approval Queues Up Pharmaceutical Versus Dispensary Cannabinoids Competition
Top 10 Trends in Cannabis for 2019 (Mid-Year Update)
–Updated August 2019–
What Was Hot in Pot in 2018: Top 10 Cannabis Product Trends
When Colorado kicked-off legal adult-use cannabis sales in the United States in 2014, unbranded flower fully dominated the marketplace, capturing more than 60 percent of all sales. Concentrates, edibles and topicals were far behind.
Flower, Where Have You Gone?
The recently launched industry intelligence publication, The State of Legal Marijuana Markets, 6th Edition, points out in its sweeping analysis of worldwide cannabis markets one trend that is likely to continue — the slow, but inexorable decline of flower’s reign on legal retail.
America’s Own Homegrown Industry
It all begins with the humble plant.
What’s Hot in Pot Retail
Summer 2018 will bring more than warmer temperatures — the season will also turn up the heat on the cannabis market. As Colorado and Washington enter their fifth summer of legal recreational cannabis sales, and California prepares for its first, it is time to examine What’s Hot in Pot(TM).
Are Old School Concentrates Still On Fire?
Back in the day, as in 2015, relatively novel forms of extracts, like shatter and wax, ruled the concentrates marketplace in Colorado. But their reign steadily eroded during 2015 and by the third quarter of 2016 both had been vanquished by vape pens. During that quarter, vapes captured 29 percent of the concentrates market, and […]