Cannabis Insights

April 14, 2019

Licensing Crisis Lends a Toxic Tarnish to the Golden State’s Legal Cannabis Market

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data What happens if you throw a party and then take the guests’ invitations away? That, in short, […]
April 14, 2019

Will Provisional Licenses Save California’s Cannabis Industry

Results from a gap in California’s cultivation licensing between those growers holding active licenses, inactive licenses, or temporary licenses soon to expire mean that: Prices will […]
April 7, 2019

Global Cannabis Usage Rates by Region

As part of our broader global-demand modeling efforts, New Frontier Data has developed a groundbreaking new model for estimating the worldwide total number of cannabis consumers. […]
April 7, 2019

Consumer Populations Do Not Always Correlate to Frequency of Cannabis Usage

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data New Frontier Data estimates that there are 263 million cannabis consumers globally – 6% of the world’s […]
March 31, 2019

Cannabis Industry Investments Q1 2015-Q1 2019

While 2018 saw a blockbuster year (with nearly $14 billion raised) for cannabis investments, 2019 is on pace to blow past that total. According to Bloomberg […]
March 31, 2019

For Industry Investment, 2018 Was Terrific But 2019 Looks Even Better

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data It may be taken as a given that in the recent past speculators and stakeholders alike have […]
March 24, 2019

Uruguay’s Great Evolving Cannabis Experiment Continues

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data In 2014, Uruguay became the world’s first nation to federally legalize cannabis when it implemented an adult-use […]
March 17, 2019

On St. Patrick’s Day, Signs of Cannabis’ Displacing Alcoholic Beverages

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data The first recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in Boston (not in Ireland) in 1737. Across […]
March 17, 2019

US Cannabis and Alcohol Sales

In 2018, U.S. retail alcohol sales totaled $254 billion, nearly 7x overall cannabis sales (both legal and illicit) of $37.2 billion. New Frontier Data estimates that […]