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No longer a niche? CBD for Exercise, Sports

Consumers use CBD for relief from a wide range of health and wellness challenges. Anxiety, sleeplessness, pain, and stress top the list for many. Some use CBD to treat aching muscles and sore joints following exercise. When asked in a 2021 cannabis consumer insights survey, 12% of CBD consumers called out using CBD as an…

Brand Building as Easy as CBD

One of the consequences of adult use legalization and expansion of medical marijuana programs in multiple states has been the growth of product manufacturers with consumer-facing brand names. Names like Nativ, Kiva, Wana, Cresco, etc. However, as noted in High Yield Insights’ Adult Use Cannabis Consumer and forthcoming Medical Cannabis User reports, only 13% of…

Whitepaper: Impact of Adult Use Legalization on Medical Users

How do medical users react to legalizing adult use? In our latest whitepaper, we explore how medical cannabis users have responded to legalizing recreational marijuana. Drawn from our Medical Cannabis User report, the whitepaper delivers data to readers enabling proactive anticipation of issues such as: Change in spending, consumption, and usage habits Reaction to legalization…

When Just One More Is Too Many

Picture yourself standing in your local grocer’s pasta aisle: Behind you, all manner of oils: vegetable, canola, grapeseed, sesame, and peanut. Row after row of olive oils, including extra virgin, cold-pressed, Greek and Italian. You flirted with the idea of picking up a fancy olive oil for tonight’s salad but chose to focus your attention…

A Healthy Upside for Topicals

Cannabis-infused balms, lotions, and oils are reaching an increasingly diverse audience. While we all refer to the category broadly as “topicals”, innovations in formulation, application, and delivery have resulted in an interesting array of products available to consumers. For example, THC-free topicals can be found in CBD stores, and dispensaries offer a range of formulations,…

2019 Trends for Cannabis: From The Outside

Tis the season again. No, not Danksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas-light-untangling*, or any other holiday traditions. Trend predictions – issued from all corners – mark the end of the calendar as well. From toys, to fashion, to paint colors, forecasts of hot trends get plenty of play this time of year. In the cannabis industry, much of the…