April Rules is a colloquial term for April Fools, on current appropriate verbiage.
So, let it out. April does rule. It is the beginning of spring, and the hope for a new beginning, (aside from the tossed New Year’s resolutions).
This year the new collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association excluded any and all marijuana testing for players per The Athletic.
The NFL hosts franchises in many states where marijuana use is legal for medicinal and recreational use, but the “No Fun League” always fell back on the fact that it remains a controlled substance under federal law.
But now that more and more states are legalizing it, it seems the league might be moved to ban testing altogether, while still maintaining order among players who choose to indulge.
But the league’s current laws surrounding marijuana use and testing might not have anything to do with the substance itself, but rather, a political move. The NFL regards the marijuana ban as part of collective bargaining. This means that, before they get rid of it, they want something in return from the NFL Players Association.
Some believe this has already happened, or the league just refuses to enforce any violations, but it’s simply not the case. The NFL still levies harsh fines for positive tests, and multiple violations still mark players for the treatment program and potential suspensions.
But for how much longer?
Too soon to tell, but there’s no question the NBA’s decision to ban marijuana testing for players is a move other leagues will be monitoring closely.
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Alcohol Distributors for Federal Legalization of Marijuana are Asking Congress to Act Now.
Story by Jessica Gleman •
One of the largest alcohol distributors, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), has called on Congress to legalize marijuana on the federal level this month. The wholesaler argued the continued classification of cannabis as a Schedule I drug has “given rise to an untenable conflict between state and federal law.” WSWA wants Congress to enact regulations similar to that of alcohol.
In 2022, three more states legalized recreational weed, Rhode Island, Maryland and Missouri. There appears to be a growing trend of legalization sweeping the nation, as new measures appear on state election ballots each year. The number of states with legal marijuana will likely increase with every election.
“More than 50 percent of the U.S. population lives in a legal adult-use cannabis state,” read WSWA’s statement.
The statement continues, “The fact is cannabis legalization at the state level is here to stay, evidenced by nearly a decade of newly legalized state markets and no meaningful effort to undo them. Rather, states that have legalized are expanding their markets and even discussing ways to begin interstate commerce of the product. Yet they receive no support from the federal government in determining how to ensure that products are not hazardous or that the market is fair and competitive especially as the market becomes increasingly national in scope.”
A major problem under the current system means states where cannabis is legal face issues with banking or tax deductions because it is not federally legal.
The WSWA wants the federal government to legalize and regulate cannabis in a similar manner to alcohol, which would give distributors an avenue to make a lot of money. The US currently has a three-tier system for alcohol which makes distributors legally necessary middlemen between the producers and the retailers. Therefore, WSWA’s push for legalization is not a selfless act.
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Is Weed Not Yet Legalized in North Carolina? Medical Marijuana Efforts Gain Traction.
Story by Morgan Paxhia
Is weed legalized in North Carolina? Not currently, but efforts are being made by state lawmakers to pass a medical marijuana bill.
Republican state senator Bill Rabon refiled a medical marijuana legalization bill in late January that, if passed, will allow patients with several qualifying conditions, including cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and epilepsy, among others, the ability to buy and possess cannabis from licensed dispensaries. A similar bill was blocked last year, but in its current form, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It still has to make it through a full floor vote in the Senate and House of Representatives, but Republican House Speaker Tim Moore said in an interview that he “would not be surprised at all if that bill moved. I think the odds are more likely than not that something will happen on that.”
According to early looks at the licensing and qualifying conditions included in the bill, North Carolina is making great progress toward establishing its medical cannabis market. Initial plans within the state are for 10 vertically integrated licenses to be approved that will hold up to eight dispensaries each, essentially allowing for 80 doors statewide. Previously, we have seen thriving operators born from a similar tight license count model combined with limited medical conditions and a good addressable market.
We’re reminded of a small-scale version of the Florida market, which has grown massively over the years. This will likely result in a ballot initiative for adult-use weed legalization in Florida in 2024. There will be a lively amount of interest when this is all in place and the application process begins.
Right on North Carolina’s heels comes additional legislative progress in South Carolina. This week, the Senate approved a bill for the legalization of medical cannabis in the state. We covered the potential for this bill to progress earlier this year and are seeing the momentum carry forward.
The movement to legalize medical cannabis in North and South Carolina reminds us of James Tayler and his wonderful song, “Carolina in My Mind.” We are rooting for the Carolinas to bring jobs, tax revenue and legal choice for the good people across both states.
The South shall rise again, but this time as a growth engine for legal cannabis.
Twitter allows ads from legal cannabis companies.
This past October, while Elon Musk completed his ownership of Twitter, speculation swirled around the possibility of the social media platform becoming more cannabis friendly. Last week, the cannabis industry received confirmation of that, as Twitter announced a policy change that will allow U.S. cannabis companies to advertise on its platform.
Twitter is proving to be the social media platform most aligned with the legal cannabis industry, and we are very excited by its move to create a path toward legal cannabis advertising. Mainstream advertising platforms have been reluctant to promote an industry that is federally illegal and have expressed concern about how to validate potential advertisers as legal businesses.
UPDATE 2023
The North Carolina Senate voted on Tuesday to legalize marijuana use for medical purposes, giving strong bipartisan support for the second year in a row to an idea that its supporters say would give relief to those with debilitating or life-ending illnesses.
After little debate, the chamber voted 36-10 to give initial support to legislation that would create a structure by which physicians could essentially prescribe marijuana to their patients if they believe the health benefits outweigh the risks. Patients with over a dozen conditions could qualify — including epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder — as well as those with terminal illnesses or who are receiving hospice care.
The proposal is almost identical to a bill the Senate passed last June by a similar margin, which then stalled in the House. This year, Republican House Speaker Tim Moore has said there’s some support for the idea in his chamber. The measure needs one more Senate vote on Wednesday before it moves to the House.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Marijuana legalization in North Carolina for medical purposes is advancing again within the state Senate, less than a year after a very similar measure setting a structure for its sale and consumption passed the chamber by a wide margin.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday for the legislation, which was refiled last month as the new two-year General Assembly session began. The measure cleared the panel on a voice vote after the passage of several amendments, one of which is designed to ensure sales access in rural areas.
While the new version is likely to clear the full Senate sometime next week, the future of medical marijuana in North Carolina will depend on its level of support in the House. That chamber declined to take up the Senate measure in 2022. Speaker Tim Moore, a Republican, suggested recently that support for legalizing pot for the treatment of medical conditions is possible given the right restrictions in the measure.
Sen. Bill Rabon, a Brunswick County Republican who shepherded the previous and current measures, has pitched to colleagues the legalization of smoking or consuming cannabis as a way to give relief to people with pain or illnesses and from whom their doctors say they could benefit.
House interest “seems to be growing, and I’m very happy to hear that,” said Rabon, a cancer survivor who as a chairman of the Senate Rules Committee is a top lieutenant to Senate leader Phil Berger.
The state’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, has pushed lawmakers in North Carolina to reform its cannabis laws.
“Conviction of simple possession can mar people’s records for life and maybe even prevent them from getting a job,” Cooper said at the time.
“North Carolina should take steps to end this stigma,” the governor added.
In his announcement of the pardons, Biden urged “all Governors to do the same with regard to state offenses.”
“As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates,” Biden said in a statement at the time.
“Federal law currently classifies marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the classification meant for the most dangerous substances. This is the same schedule as for heroin and LSD, and even higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine – the drugs that are driving our overdose epidemic,” Biden added.
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What Cannabis Can (and Can’t) do for Chronic Pain. Pot for Pain Relief?
(Story by Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY) reprinted 1/26/2023.
A growing, but still incomplete body of research suggests the cannabis plant, the source of marijuana, can help fight some kinds of pain.
Rob Sims grew up hearing stories about what opioid addiction could do. The former Detroit Lions guard, whose father, Mickey, also played in the NFL, watched a number of his dad’s friends get hooked. Some died. He vowed his own story would be different.
Then, playing for the Seattle Seahawks in 2008, early in his pro football career, Sims tore a pectoralis muscle in his chest. Primed for his best year ever, Sims was sidelined.
After surgery, he received an open-ended prescription for opioids. “Take when you have pain,” the bottle read. “That’s seared in my memory,” he said. As a football player, “I have pain all the time.”
Scared by the lesson he had learned as a child and with little to do besides focus on his recovery, he remembers thinking: “This could go in a bad way.”
That’s when he turned to marijuana.
It remains unclear whether cannabis can be an effective treatment for pain. Plenty of circumstantial evidence supports the idea, but exactly how, what kinds of products and what can be expected from them has yet to be determined.
“There’s some caveats before it’s ready for broad, prime-time usage for chronic pain,” said Dr. Devan Kansagara, a professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and a staff physician at the VA Portland.
It’s possible that cannabis helps with the psychological aspects of pain, said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Cannabis may improve pain indirectly, for instance, through decreasing anxiety so that someone may be able to deal with pain better,” she said.
One recent examination of previous studies found the benefits of cannabis were equal to the benefits of a placebo, which means that if people thought it would help, it did.
“There’s very limited evidence out there to support that cannabis is effective against pain,” said Karin Jensen, the Swedish neuroscientist who led the study. So far, most of the information showing its usefulness is anecdotal.
“People who use cannabis to relieve pain may have the experience that it helps – there is no doubt about that,” she said. “What’s needed is solid scientific evidence to determine how much of the relief is due to the cannabis and how much is due to other things, such as the placebo effect.”
The general public is already largely convinced.
Marijuana remains illegal in 12 states, but as of 2019, 18% of U.S. adults reported using cannabis at least once in the previous year, and 4% to 5% use it daily or nearly daily, Kansagara said.
It’s not possible to predict ahead of time who will react badly to marijuana, said Dr. Charles Berde, co-founder of a pediatric pain clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital.
THC, the part of the plant that has psychotropic effects, “has narrow uses for nausea and appetite stimulation in patients with severe weight loss due to AIDS or cancer,” but the data for CBD for treatment of chronic pain is “murky,” Berde said. “All the more reason to be hesitant to prescribe it.”
Cannabis and pain relief
When a body is in pain, the brain releases its own pain relievers. There are special receptors in the brain designed to take in these natural cannabinoids and offer relief.
Ingesting or inhaling weed fills up those receptors, too.
Providing more cannabinoids than these receptors can accept overloads them making the person’s own internal cannabinoids ineffective, said Dr. Jordan Tishler, a cannabis specialist physician in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founder and president of the Association of Cannabinoid Specialists.
That’s why higher doses don’t provide any additional pain relief compared with lower ones and can have “all sorts of risks,” he said. Side effects from cannabis can include increased heart rate, dizziness, impaired concentration and memory, slower reaction times and, more rarely, increased risk of heart attack and stroke and dependence.
Tishler said many patients come to him taking far too much cannabis, which increases the risk for side effects. He works to convince them that 5 mg to 20 mg a day will treat their pain better than the 200 mg they’re using.
Cannabis is now sold in many different forms.
“Just because (cannabis) doesn’t lead to breaking the law and incarceration and those sorts of troubles doesn’t mean people can’t have their lives significantly altered by getting overly involved with this particular substance,” he said.
There are also open questions about cannabis, including whether the pain-killing benefits seen in short-term studies will last. Some painkillers, like opioids, can actually make people more sensitive to pain. It’s not yet clear whether cannabis can have this effect.
“You’d like to see what happens with these products over a longer period of time, ideally,” Kansagara said. “I would like to see that before recommending wholesale to patients.”
Although legalization and decriminalization are making a difference, cannabis remains hard to study. Until recent years, it was extremely difficult to gain access to cannabis for research, and there was little federal funding for such work. In early December, President Joe Biden signed a law that will make it easier to research cannabis.
Gold-standard studies compare a treatment versus a placebo, but it’s impossible to keep people in the dark about whether they’re getting high, said Dr. Donald Abrams, an oncologist and professor emeritus at University of California, San Francisco, who studies cannabis.
When Abrams studied cannabis use in his HIV patients, some critics thought patients must be too stoned to notice their pain. But Abrams said the patients reported that it did alleviate their pain.
Dosages of cannabis aren’t standardized, which adds to the difficulty of comparing one study against another, he said.
That’s why trials of cannabis for pain relief have shown mixed results, said Wil Ngwa, an associate professor of radiation oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who’s working to create such standards for drug trials.
This lack of standardization also means people have to use trial and error to find an effective dose for them, according to Staci Gruber, who directs the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital outside Boston.
In one study, Gruber followed 37 volunteers using cannabis for chronic pain. After six months of treatment, participants reported lower levels of pain, better sleep, more coherence and less use of conventional painkillers.
‘Positives, not negatives’
Sims experienced the same benefits.
Daily marijuana use after his pec injury helped cut the pain, allowing him to lift more weight and recover faster. “I was able to come back stronger than I was before.”
Playing NFL ball, Sims said, is like living through a train wreck every Sunday. The best players – the ones whose careers last the longest, he said – “have learned how to recover quicker and get ready for that next train wreck.”
During his career, marijuana helped Sims rebound and improved his sleep, which allowed him to push his workouts.
Asked about side effects from his marijuana use, Sims pointed to his athletic and financial successes. “I wouldn’t call those side effects,” he said, laughing. “I see positives, not negatives.”
In 2021, Sims co-founded the cannabis company Primitiv Group with fellow former Lion Calvin Johnson Jr. Sims and Johnson acknowledge they used cannabis during their professional careers, though there was a zero tolerance policy then, which has loosened only slightly since. Both men believe the restrictions should be lifted.
About a decade ago, Sims persuaded his wife, Natalie, to try cannabis, when a bout with the bowel syndrome Crohn’s disease left her on a morphine drip in an emergency room.
“This can’t be how we live for the rest of our lives,” he told her. She uses cannabis now and finds relief, Sims said.
“It made me very passionate about pain and help for pain.”
Challenges of cannabis care
Cannabis doesn’t make pain go away, like Advil might get rid of a headache, Tishler said.
Instead, “it makes it so it doesn’t bother you so much,” he said. “It divorces the pain from the suffering.”
Whether it’s the THC or the CBD in cannabis or both that might be helpful against pain remains an open question, Kansagara said. THC is what makes people feel “high.” CBD appears to have anti-inflammatory properties, which may be useful to some.
Smoking joints isn’t a good approach for relieving chronic pain, said Tishler, who recommends his patients use edibles instead. The effect of inhaled cannabis wears off in three to four hours, while a gummy might last eight to 12 hours.
The yo-yo effect, when pain comes and goes over a few hours, can exacerbate suffering, Tishler said. “Short-acting actually turns out to be a bad approach in general in pain management.”
In Massachusetts, where medical cannabis has been legal since 2013 and recreational since 2016, doctors are more comfortable giving their patients permission to use cannabis, Tishler said. But they rarely bring it up themselves.
So, Tishler is trying to educate his peers. “If you were thinking the patient needs opioids, think cannabis first. Don’t wait for the patient to bring it up – it’s your job to bring it up,” he tells them.
Similarly, he’d like to get cancer patients on cannabis early in their care, rather than waiting until agony sets in. “Once people are at the end of their rope, things are worse and harder to treat than if we had started when things were still kind of OK.”
Most of the advice on what product to use now comes from the patient care advocates or “budtenders” who work behind the counter at dispensaries, Gruber noted with some concern. They typically don’t know the person’s medical history or history of cannabis use or whether they use other substances such as alcohol, other drugs or prescription medication. Product labels can often be misleading about their THC and CBD content.
The trial-and-error approach can be difficult and challenging for patients with major medical problems.
“Knowing what’s in your weed is critical, but also how you’re going to respond to it is an important consideration. And that’s something we don’t spend a lot of time on,” Gruber said. “You have to educate patients. They’re desperate for it, but it’s not easy, because we’re all different and cannabis is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution.”
Research may change future use.
For cannabis to reach its full potential as a painkiller, more research is needed, experts say.
“It’s really untapped right now, because of that lack of research,” Johnson said.
That’s why NFL players and owners have been supporting cannabis research. Owners have donated more than $1 million this year to two cannabis research programs.
“We need to become better educated about all these issues,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer.
Ngwa, at Hopkins, collaborates with Sims and Johnson to lead some of that research.
He’s also looking at better ways to treat cancer pain with cannabis.
His studies suggest that not enough of the painkiller gets to a tumor when the cannabis is inhaled or ingested, so he has been exploring smart-drug delivery systems than can target the drug directly to the tumor. So far, he has tested only pancreatic tumors but hopes to rapidly expand to other cancer types.
Ngwa is concerned that preliminary research like his will encourage people to self-medicate, taking doses that may not be helpful. “You really have to wait for the clinical trials, but when people are desperate, they just do (anything). I definitely worry about that,” he said.
Until more is known, Sims will keep up his cannabis routine.
Now 39, he has dropped 50 pounds from his 320-pound playing weight, which has helped reduce the lingering bone-on-bone pain in his right knee. He rubs a Primitiv topical on it knee every day.
“My passion behind the plant and what it’s done for my family reigns supreme.”
Contact Karen Weintraub at kweintraub@usatoday.com.
Health and patient safety coverage at USA TODAY is made possible in part by a grant from the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare. The Masimo Foundation does not provide editorial input.
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As 2022 has now past us by, although, not as soon as some had wished. It is now time to assess 2023.
You may be considering the questions no one in this New Year may be asking.
Embarking on new regimens, such as new embraces.
In the world old of CBD, AS IF, IT HAS become, as COMPLICATED In YOUR LIFE, as it has become in mine. You Have to Zero in on what is right for your condition. And this takes time and patience. We have found that as you zero in on the right CBD for you, you’ll no doubt run through a list of considerations, including potency, flavor, price, and type (oil, topical, gummy, etc.). But once you’ve decided on all of that, there’s another factor to think about-
There are a few tried and true guidelines for when to take your CBD. What you choose will depend on your particular lifestyle and the reasons you’re taking CBD in the first place, but these suggestions might be helpful in your exploration of the optimal schedule.
Another perk of taking CBD in the morning, especially before breakfast, is that your stomach is empty. This means that if you’re taking any form of ingestible CBD, those cannabinoids will have front-and-center attention in your body without any other distractions in the digestive system. Another advantage of taking CBD in the morning is that for many of us, those morning hours set the tone for the rest of the day. So rather than pushing through early on, many people prioritize feeling their best during those beginning hours so that they can more easily tackle whatever comes next.
There are two sides to every coin, and while mornings may be a priority for some, nighttime is just as often the target time for those who suffer from sleep issues or difficulty winding down after a busy day. When the hubbub of activity starts to die down and yet you’re still feeling frenetic inside, or your aches and pains start to really flare after a long day, then taking CBD in the evening might be good for you. It’s still suggested to try to take any ingestible CBD on a relatively empty stomach, so avoid taking with meals if possible.
If sleep support is what you’re after, you might want to try taking your CBD oil 30-45 minutes before bed. It will help if you also transition into lower light, detach yourself from electronic devices/screens, and get comfortable so that you’re truly ready for bed. If you’re taking gummies, then you might try taking them about an hour before bed, as it takes a bit longer for the body to engage with CBD through the digestive system.
Here’s one of the amazing things about CBD– it’s not something that you can easily overdose on, and the side effects of taking way too much are relatively benign. This is why there are serving suggestions on many CBD products, but in many usage guidelines you’ll see the option to take “as needed.” Often, people will take CBD oil in the morning or evening and carry their CBD gummies or cream around with them throughout the day to use as the need arises. People often ask if it’s ok to take multiple forms of CBD in the same day and the answer is yes.
Are you looking to get the most out of your CBD and want to know how much to take? With cannabidiol now legal in many states, many people are learning about its therapeutic benefits and want to know how they can benefit from them.
Whether you’re curious about CBD and want to try it out, or are already a regular user, you may find yourself wondering about what level of dosage is right for you. As with any kind of substance we consume—holistic, natural, pharmaceutical, or otherwise—CBD should be measured and researched before use. That’s why we created this CBD dosage chart to help you decide.
Why Dosage Matters
Why does CBD dosage matter? Well it matters because everybody and every body is different! As with many things in life, you need to approach slowly and learn about your body’s threshold. Some people drink one cup of coffee and feel refreshed, whereas others may need several cups to feel fully awake, and others still may take one sip and feel unpleasantly jittery for the whole day.
The same principle applies to CBD dosage, so if you’re a newbie remember to start low and go slow. It is generally recommended to start with 5-10mg of CBD per day over a week, and then slowly increase if needed.
Here are some of the considerations that go into determining dosage:
Weight: A higher body weight will generally mean a higher amount of CBD is needed in order to feel the desired therapeutic effects. The same principle applies inversely for a lower body weight: generally a smaller dose is effective.
Ailment and severity: Depending on what ailment you’re looking to soothe, and how intense the discomfort or pain it is, dosage will vary.
CBD Tolerance: Your personal receptiveness to CBD is determined by your endocannabinoid receptors. This factor varies person to person. Think of it as similar to how certain people have a higher or lower tolerance to drinking alcohol.
CBD product type and bioavailability: Your dosage will vary based on what method you are using to consume it, as well as how much cannabinoids are in the product itself. Reputable sellers will include information about the level of cannabinoids in the product, whether it’s a gummy, oil, tincture, vape cartridge, or loose bud. Oil and edibles are consumed orally, meaning they go through your digestive system and take effect slowly. When you smoke or vaporize, CBD enters the bloodstream through the lungs and the effects are felt more quickly. Us
You also don’t necessarily have to take CBD every day! One huge advantage to the as-needed approach is that you’ll only be taking it when you feel it’s really necessary, so you likely won’t build up a tolerance which might then require higher dosage. While chronic pain sufferers may be better served by regular use, if you’re really only using CBD for the occasional ache or pain, then you can let your body choose for you!
While it’s suggested that you take CBD regularly when you first start, that’s mostly so that you can learn how your body reacts and you can zero in on the best dosage for you. That is most easily discovered when you’re consistent and give the body a chance to learn more about CBD. Once you’re clear on the best dosage for your body, feel free to take it on whatever schedule (or non-schedule) works best for you!
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Prices of wholesale recreational marijuana in Michigan are now as low, or lower, than those in older adult-use states
– underscoring how new markets are ramping up more quickly and, in some cases, becoming glutted.
Industry insiders say cannabis flower in Michigan is readily available for less than $1,000 a pound on the wholesale market – and often for much less – because of oversaturation as more and more cultivation companies come online in a state with no limit on business licenses.
Connie Maxim-Sparrow, a cannabis consultant and marijuana business license holder based in Muskegon, Michigan, characterized the state’s current market conditions as “unstable” – in particular, cannabis growers are spending at least $800 to grow a pound of flower and getting only $600 for it on the wholesale market.
According to Maxim-Sparrow, a year ago a midgrade pound of indoor-grown wholesale flower that tested at around 20% THC potency would sell for $1,800-$2,200.
Now, that same grower is lucky to get $600 a pound, and she’s heard of some selling for as low as $300.
The dynamics playing out in Michigan could offer a harbinger of what’s to come in other new markets.
In particular: As more multistate operators learn how to quickly set up shop in new regions with many producers, the pace of a newly legalized state’s market hitting an oversaturation point is speeding up.
This is more likely to happen in states without licenses caps or that have many growers – unlike limited-license markets that seem more common on the East Coast.
Michigan began marijuana sales at the end of 2019, and the wholesale market prices now more closely resemble those in older markets such as Colorado or Oregon, where wholesale prices have been falling for a year or more.
Colorado’s adult-use sales launched in January 2014, while Oregon’s market launched in October 2015.
Both markets took longer than Michigan’s to experience product saturation and falling prices.
Survival tactics
To survive, cannabis companies across Michigan are tightening their belts, relying on vertical integration and trying to build brand recognition to be more competitive.
Others are limiting their expansion plans or selling out as a wave of consolidation sweeps through the state’s industry.
A few Michigan marijuana retailers have downsized, including major retail chain Lume Cannabis, which closed four of its roughly 30 stores earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Michigan regulators in March implemented new rules, including lower application fees and the removal of licensing tiers, that will further open up the market.
“Everybody’s panicking,” Maxim-Sparrow said.
“Some of us knew this was coming – others are getting caught off guard by the oversupply issue.”
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Any cannabis company executive who has been watching what has happened in other mature marijuana market with relatively unlimited licensing, including Colorado and Oregon, should have seen the market headed in this direction, industry insiders aid.
“We’ve seen this movie before,” said Tyson Macdonald, adviser to and former chief financial officer of Cloud Cannabis Co., based in Troy, Michigan.
“It is definitely happening with an accelerated pace in Michigan.”
Macdonald partially attributes that to a regulatory structure that allows for stacking of cultivation licenses, which has created very large facilities, many of which came online around the same time.
Not limiting licensing also sped up the situation.
Cannabis businesses executives “should have absolutely been aware that this market was going in this direction when there was not a single cap on a cultivation or processing license,” Maxim-Sparrow said.
The pricing situation
Over the past year and half, the state has seen a “ton of new capacity come online,” said Ankur Rungta, co-founder and CEO of C3 Industries, a vertically integrated Michigan marijuana company that also has operations in Massachusetts, Missouri and Oregon.
Rungta, who started out in the cannabis industry with a business in Oregon, said he saw a similar market drop there with overproduction in 2017 and again in 2018.
“Our first market was Oregon, so if anybody should have seen it coming, it was us,” he said.
Yet, Rungta said, the speed of how quickly the Michigan market has become saturated has taken him by surprise.
“We’re definitely getting into a fully supplied or even oversupplied marketplace,” he added.
“That’s definitely putting a lot of pressure on the wholesale market. People are buying the same amount of cannabis; it just costs half of what it used to cost before.”
That’s before the coming fall harvest of outdoor-grown flower hits the market.
“A lot of people are looking at this fall and saying, ‘What’s going to happen?’” Rungta said. “I don’t know that we’ve hit the bottom, to be completely honest with you.”
Macdonald said retailers and manufacturers can buy anything they need for less than $1,000 a pound for wholesale flower.
At Michigan stores, ounces of flower sell for as low as $59-$99, according to Macdonald.
“And a lot of that at the $79-$99 price point, it tests pretty well,” he said. “It’s not terrible product.”
Access isn’t the issue
Some municipalities in Michigan have opted out of allowing marijuana retail stores.
One major area that has yet to open a recreational cannabis store is metro Detroit.
That doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a question of consumer access – despite many municipalities opting out of legal cannabis sales.
Maxim-Sparrow said most customers probably must drive only half an hour at most to find a store.
“If you look at a map of Michigan, there’s very few areas that don’t have access,” Rungta said.
Cities such as Ann Arbor are glutted with retail stores, said Mahja Sulemanjee-Bortocek, CEO and founder of High Haven, which owns cannabis business licenses in Bay City, Michigan.
She would like to see municipalities show a better understanding of the economics of cannabis before licensing too many stores in one place.
“They look at it as a revenue stream for them through taxes, which it certainly is,” Sulemanjee-Bortocek said.
But the towns and cities will lose that revenue stream if the retailers can’t turn a profit and stay open, she added.
“It’s a short win for them. Not a long-term situation,” Sulemanjee-Bortocek said.
Turning to vertical integration
Some companies are banding together to increase their brand power through collaborations and white labeling.
Others are trying to become vertically integrated but are running out of capital as they try to build out their retail or cultivation businesses.
Rungta said that a vertically integrated business structure is becoming more important, so a company can have a “hedge or cushion against some of the wholesale volatility that’s out there.”
He expects more businesses will head in that direction over time.
His strategy is to both move a “sizable chunk” of business through company-owned retail stores while also selling on the wholesale market.
The successful companies are those who saw this coming and built their business model around current pricing, not when the market opened and prices were much higher.
Rungta said the companies that will survive have a clear strategy such as offering a value product or a premium product with a business structured accordingly and a reasonable margin to support their operations.
By “reasonable,” he said a 40% gross margin is a good baseline.
“Those people are having success and, in some cases, continuing to even grab market share,” he said.
But, Rungta said, the branding and quality need to match the product for it to work.
As this all plays out, expect to see more consolidation as business are swallowed up by larger ones and some even go under. The amount of capital a business has could be the deciding factor.
“In this environment, it’s challenging for everybody,” Rungta said. “But it’s most challenging for the smaller businesses.”
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