Cannabis Insights

October 25, 2018

162% Increase in U.S. Legal Cannabis Cultivation Electricity Consumption by 2022

October 25, 2018 U.S. cultivation consumed 1.1 million megawatt hours of electricity, generated 472 thousand tons of carbon in 2017 Washington – New Frontier Data, the […]
October 20, 2018

Canada Goes Fully Legal

By Yona Torres Editor New Frontier Data All eyes are on Canada as the country takes its first few steps into a fully legal cannabis landscape. […]
October 20, 2018

Comparing Market Sizes of Canadian Industries

The total Canadian cannabis market (legal + illicit) is worth CAD 8.65 billion (USD 6.61 billion). By comparison, that is about 80% the collective worth of […]
October 14, 2018

Comparing Cannabis Cultivation Energy Consumption

Indoor cultivators use 18 times more energy to produce one gram of cannabis than outdoor cultivators use (kWh/gram) Lighting demand for indoor cannabis cultivation operations is […]
October 13, 2018

Examining the Oceania Cannabis Market

By Yona Torres Editor New Frontier Data New Frontier Data’s most recent report release is an analysis of the budding cannabis market in Oceania (Australia, New […]
October 13, 2018

New York State Holds ‘Listening Sessions’ on Cannabis Legalization

By Noah Potter, Of Counsel to Hoban Law Group Last month, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office announced a series of 15 listening sessions about […]
October 7, 2018

Major U.S. Companies Annually Use More Energy Than The Entire U.S. Cannabis Industry

In 2017, the total amount of energy used for U.S. legal cannabis cultivation was 1.1 billion kilowatts (kWh). In 2015, the total amount of energy used […]
October 7, 2018

DEA’s Rescheduling of CBD Is No Industry Cure-All

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, for New Frontier Data Recent news that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is rescheduling cannabidiol (CBD) for use in […]
September 30, 2018

Capturing the Energy Costs for Cannabis Cultivation

Capturing the Energy Costs for Cannabis Cultivation By J.J. McCoy and Beau Whitney for New Frontier Data Cannabis industry stakeholders, much like other stakeholders operating in […]