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Cannabis is perhaps the most exciting retail opportunity to hit U.S. markets in decades. The lucrative combination of rapid sales growth, an ever-expanding customer base and government-enforced protection against mass-retail has resulted in a unique market that is unlikely to be replicated anytime...

In October, BDS Analytics, a global cannabinoid market intelligence and research company headquartered in Boulder, CO, released its August Cannabis Retail Price Index (CPI), which clarifies for consumers, producers, and investors demand shifts, pricing adjustments, and trends in the cannabis...

By Javier Hasse, Nina Zdinjak and Alex Oleinic. The booming U.S. CBD market is estimated to exceed $20 billion by 2024, according to BDS Analytics — a substantial jump from $1.9 billion in 2018.  As  CBD becomes mainstream, companies operating in the space are...

Integrated Cannabis Company Inc (OTC: ICNAF) has been struggling on the fundamental side of things for a while. However, this seems to have changed with the acquisition of Ganja Gold earlier this year. Ganja Gold, the top infused pre-roll brand in California, posted roughly $3.3 million in sales...

Cannabis market intelligence and consumer research company BDS Analytics announced the closing of an initial $7-million fundraising round on Tuesday.  The capital will be used to scale the company alongside the growing global cannabis industry, expanding the company's capability ccommodate...

A new report by Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics projects California’s legal cannabis market to reach $3.1 Billion in 2019 Sales. The firms are forecasting a 19% compound annual growth rate over the next five years, which will place annual consumer spending at $7.2 billion in 2024....

By Peter Page. The agency is worried legitimizing over-the-counter CBD will mean the end of Big Pharma interest in developing new drugs. A top FDA official who recently briefed the Senate Agriculture Committee on the status of the agency’s effort to regulate CBD. It’s not going...

Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics have published the seventh edition of their "State of Legal Cannabis Markets" report. In regulated markets, U.S. cannabis sales surged by 20% in 2018 and are on track to jump by another 36% this year, the report said. $40B In Sales By 2024...

Last week, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) introduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act into the Senate, counting on the support of 20 cosponsors. This bipartisan piece of legislation was introduced in the House last month, and was approved with bipartisan...

On Oct. 17, 2018, Canada made history by becoming the first G7 country and the second country overall to legalize adult-use cannabis. Yet the rollout of legal Canadian cannabis was fraught with shortages, a limited retail presence and poor product selection.  In 2018, legal cannabis...

The Cannabis Capital Conference is coming back to Toronto! Click here to learn how you can join Tim Seymour, Jon Najarian, Danny Moses, Alan Brochstein and many others. Flowhub, a provider of cannabis point-of-sale solutions in the U.S., and cannabis data provider BDS Analytics announced a...

At the end of the first quarter of 2018, we spoke with GreenWave Advisors’ Matt Karnes, who said California cannabis sales could hit $2.5 billion in 2018, mostly in line with estimates out of BDS Analytics and Arcview Market Research. Now that a year has passed since recreational...

Even before the vote on the 2018 Farm Bill, the industry was swirling with talk of the implications of the legalization of hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol — CBD. Many conversations focused on CBD-infused edibles and their mass availability, not only online or in dispensaries, but also in...

The market share of cannabis flower continues to fall in California, likely representing an even sharper decline for the rest of the United States. Data from BDS Analytics shows that cannabis flower had a 56-percent share of California's legal cannabis sales for the first quarter of 2017....

After a slow first week of the year, 2019 is quickly picking up steam. This week, we learned that Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) filed a bill in Congress that seeks to remove cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act. The bill is dubbed H.R. 420. In other political news, Marijuana Moment...