Archive for category: Marijuana Industry Data and Charts

By Eli McVey

Nevada’s medical marijuana program is growing – with nearly 12,000 new patients joining in 2016 – but the market is still relatively small and some businesses are struggling to survive.

Consider this: Nevada allows MMJ recommendations for chronic pain, a catch-all diagnosis that historically has translated into patient counts representing around 2% of a state’s population on the high end.

By that metric, Nevada’s program falls woefully short. With a population of approximately 2.9 million and patient counts hovering…

By Eli McVey

Cannatourism is alive and well in Colorado.

Travelers who visited the state primarily for leisure purposes spent roughly $98 million at recreational marijuana stores last year, accounting for nearly 17% of overall adult-use cannabis sales in Colorado, according to a first-of-its-kind estimate by Marijuana Business Daily.

The figures don’t include marijuana purchases by visitors who were in town primarily for business or other reasons, so the actual tourism impact on sales is higher.

While many stores in the Denver metro area…