BDS Analytics’ Top 10 Cannabis Market Trends for 2018 (UPDATED 11/16)
Make sure to check out our year-end recap of the Top 10 Cannabis Product Trends. Legalization changes everything. And in 2018, legalization of cannabis, both for medical and adult-use is playing a huge role in influencing where the industry is headed – with production, with consumption, and everything in-between. It transforms cannabis from something reminiscent […]
Top 10 Ways People Are Consuming Cannabis in 2018
How many products contain cannabis? Hundreds. Flower – of course – and pre-rolls. Vape pens and concentrates like shatter and Live Resin. Creams and massage oils. Chocolate chip cookies, coffee sodas, pills, strawberry taffy, powders for adding to hot tea or cold juice. Companies are rolling out a myriad of new products in pot-friendly states […]
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 […]
California Out Of The (Golden) Gate: A Green Tide
The path towards California’s cannabis pot of gold may be lined in green — moolah and ganja. But the legal commercial ferment could even be more effervescent – the pot of gold that much heavier – if not for regulations and taxes.
How in the World Will People Consume $57 Billion Worth of Legal Cannabis?
How in the World Will People Consume $57 Billion Worth of Legal Cannabis? Every Which Way They Can Imagine!
It Might Not Get You Buzzed (On Its Own), But Consumers Are High on CBD
Initial Findings on California Adult-Use Sales…and “The Seven Effects”
California was already the world’s largest cannabis market when it launched legal adult-use sales on January 1, 2018; and, the early indications are that expansion of sales in the state beyond medical-only will serve to lengthen that lead.