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What Are The Hot Trends To Consume Marijuana?

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Most are cool with marijuana consuming – but what is the trend on how people are doing it?

We are all about the current and upcoming trends – whether is it tinned food dinner parties,  scrapped cooking, glitter & sequins, to moon parties…certain generations are obsessed.  About 55 million people use weed at least once a year in the US and Canada.  And over two-thirds believe marijuana should be legal and fully accept it, what is the trend for consuming?

From age 21 to 100, using cannabis is almost as socially acceptable as drinking and way more popular than cigarette smoking…and now more people are doing it openly.  The days of locking yourself in the basement or sneaking outside to a corner of the yard are waning as people are using on walks, family events and public activities.  BDSA, a leading data company in the cannabis industry shared some insight on what is hot right now.

Flower still rules – for now

About 17% of people subscribed to a food meal kit delivery service. Of them, 90% referred others to the service to which they had subscribed.  Marijuana flower is the meal kit of the weed industry. According to BDSA, roughly 39% of all legal cannabis purchases are flower.  This represents $8.2+ billion in sales.  The number is over $10 billion when you add the black market.   With flower, you can consume in a variety of hand crafted way – joints, bongs, bowls, butter, etc.  Aficionados love it and it gives a personal pre-journey experience as you craft it exactly how you want.  Your own micro-production company at home.  Flower tends to be the go to a choice for experienced users who don’t mind the extra work and smell.

Vaping gains ground and is much more public

Continuing to gain ground not just in sales, but in public acceptance is vaping. Despite some hiccups like the Juul incident, vaping is increasing popular.  Owning 26+% of the legal market, vaping represents over $5.4 billion in sales.  The reason for the gaining ground and for it to be trending heavily?  New users love it and find it easy to use, discreet, the ability to control dosing, and very portable.  Another key reason is it eliminates most of the skunk smell around you – allowing appearances at public places like restaurants, black tie events, and weddings without calling attention to the user.  Cigarette companies have paid attention and the technology for all vape development includes ways to consume marijuana and cbd.  Nice joint technology you could say.

Edibles/ Beverages

Cannabis beverages are popular along with gummies, candies and even some food. But they come in third on trending representing 13% of market and almost $3 billion in legal sales.  Of course, this doesn’t count your aunt’s “special brownies”.  While they can be delicious, the issue is the time between ingesting and the start of the experience. Misdosing can also spoil it when you have a bit too much.

Pre-rolls

With a retro vibe of whipping at a joint and taking a long puff, store bought pre-rolls own 11% of the market, around $2+ billion in legal sales.  We are going to puff, puff, pass on making an assumption of how they do in black market as joints are still the iconic imagery of marijuana use.

Oils, suppositories, and other ways fill in remaining amount of sales.  But with the growing acceptance, especially among the under 25 set that prefers cannabis over alochol, use and way to consume will only increase.

Source: https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/what-are-the-hot-trends-to-consume-marijuana/

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New Mexico cannabis operator fined, loses license for alleged BioTrack fraud

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New Mexico regulators fined a cannabis operator nearly $300,000 and revoked its license after the company allegedly created fake reports in the state’s traceability software.

The New Mexico Cannabis Control Division (CCD) accused marijuana manufacturer and retailer Golden Roots of 11 violations, according to Albuquerque Business First.

Golden Roots operates the The Cannabis Revolution Dispensary.

The majority of the violations are related to the Albuquerque company’s improper use of BioTrack, which has been New Mexico’s track-and-trace vendor since 2015.

The CCD alleges Golden Roots reported marijuana production only two months after it had received its vertically integrated license, according to Albuquerque Business First.

Because cannabis takes longer than two months to be cultivated, the CCD was suspicious of the report.

After inspecting the company’s premises, the CCD alleged Golden Roots reported cultivation, transportation and sales in BioTrack but wasn’t able to provide officers who inspected the site evidence that the operator was cultivating cannabis.

In April, the CCD revoked Golden Roots’ license and issued a $10,000 fine, according to the news outlet.

The company requested a hearing, which the regulator scheduled for Sept. 1.

At the hearing, the CCD testified that the company’s dried-cannabis weights in BioTrack were suspicious because they didn’t seem to accurately reflect how much weight marijuana loses as it dries.

Company employees also poorly accounted for why they were making adjustments in the system of up to 24 pounds of cannabis, making comments such as “bad” or “mistake” in the software, Albuquerque Business First reported.

Golden Roots was fined $298,972.05 – the amount regulators allege the company made selling products that weren’t properly accounted for in BioTrack.

The CCD has been cracking down on cannabis operators accused of selling products procured from out-of-state or not grown legally:

Golden Roots was the first alleged rulebreaker in New Mexico to be asked to pay a large fine.

Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/new-mexico-cannabis-operator-fined-loses-license-for-alleged-biotrack-fraud/

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Marijuana companies suing US attorney general in federal prohibition challenge

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Four marijuana companies, including a multistate operator, have filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in which they allege the federal MJ prohibition under the Controlled Substances Act is no longer constitutional.

According to the complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, retailer Canna Provisions, Treevit delivery service CEO Gyasi Sellers, cultivator Wiseacre Farm and MSO Verano Holdings Corp. are all harmed by “the federal government’s unconstitutional ban on cultivating, manufacturing, distributing, or possessing intrastate marijuana.”

Verano is headquartered in Chicago but has operations in Massachusetts; the other three operators are based in Massachusetts.

The lawsuit seeks a ruling that the “Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional as applied to the intrastate cultivation, manufacture, possession, and distribution of marijuana pursuant to state law.”

The companies want the case to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.

They hired prominent law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to represent them.

The New York-based firm’s principal is David Boies, whose former clients include Microsoft, former presidential candidate Al Gore and Elizabeth Holmes’ disgraced startup Theranos.

Similar challenges to the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) have failed.

One such challenge led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2005.

In Gonzalez vs. Raich, the highest court in the United States ruled in a 6-3 decision that the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution gave Congress the power to outlaw marijuana federally, even though state laws allow the cultivation and sale of cannabis.

In the 18 years since that ruling, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized adult-use marijuana and the federal government has allowed a multibillion-dollar cannabis industry to thrive.

Since both Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, currently headed by Garland, have declined to intervene in state-licensed marijuana markets, the key facts that led to the Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling “no longer apply,” Boies said in a statement Thursday.

“The Supreme Court has since made clear that the federal government lacks the authority to regulate purely intrastate commerce,” Boies said.

“Moreover, the facts on which those precedents are based are no longer true.”

Verano President Darren Weiss said in a statement the company is “prepared to bring this case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to align federal law with how Congress has acted for years.”

While the Biden administration’s push to reschedule marijuana would help solve marijuana operators’ federal tax woes, neither rescheduling nor modest Congressional reforms such as the SAFER Banking Act “solve the fundamental issue,” Weiss added.

“The application of the CSA to lawful state-run cannabis business is an unconstitutional overreach on state sovereignty that has led to decades of harm, failed businesses, lost jobs, and unsafe working conditions.”

Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/marijuana-companies-suing-us-attorney-general-to-overturn-federal-prohibition/

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Alabama to make another attempt Dec. 1 to award medical cannabis licenses

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Alabama regulators are targeting Dec. 1 to award the first batch of medical cannabis business licenses after the agency’s first two attempts were scrapped because of scoring errors and litigation.

The first licenses will be awarded to individual cultivators, delivery providers, processors, dispensaries and state testing labs, according to the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC).

Then, on Dec. 12, the AMCC will award licenses for vertically integrated operations, a designation set primarily for multistate operators.

Licenses are expected to be handed out 28 days after they have been awarded, so MMJ production could begin in early January, according to the Alabama Daily News.

That means MMJ products could be available for patients around early March, an AMCC spokesperson told the media outlet.

Regulators initially awarded 21 business licenses in June, only to void them after applicants alleged inconsistencies with how the applications were scored.

Then, in August, the state awarded 24 different licenses – 19 went to June recipients – only to reverse themselves again and scratch those licenses after spurned applicants filed lawsuits.

A state judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Chicago-based MSO Verano Holdings Corp., but another lawsuit is pending.

Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/alabama-plans-to-award-medical-cannabis-licenses-dec-1/

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