Nearly all of Mainers are acquiring hashish from authorized sources in accordance with a state Workplace of Hashish Coverage (OCP) survey which discovered that 64% of past-month hashish customers have made purchases at licensed retailers, with 36% utilizing unregulated sources.
The survey additionally discovered that 6% of respondents who eat hashish on a month-to-month foundation completely use state-approved retailers in comparison with simply 1% that may solely use unregulated sources.
The company additionally discovered the state has an oversupply of medical hashish a 12 months after adult-use gross sales commenced within the state, the place there may be about $1 in demand for each $6 of provide; comparatively, there may be $1 in demand for each $2 of provide of adult-use hashish.
The oversupply in Maine’s medical hashish market is although 54% of hashish customers who buy from home-based caregivers don’t have a medical hashish card and that 33% of customers who make purchases at medical dispensaries or caregivers with adult-use choices additionally don’t have a medical card.
Amongst previous month’s hashish customers surveyed, 28% stated that they had “no thought” the standard THC efficiency of the merchandise they had been shopping for, with 9% of respondents saying their merchandise contained greater than 50% THC, 4% stated between 35-50%, 11% believing the merchandise contained between 25-35% THC, 20% between 10-15%, 8% between 10-15%, and 4% stated their merchandise had lower than 10% THC.
Flower was by far the popular product sort amongst past-month customers surveyed, with 82% making a flower buy, adopted by edibles (58%), concentrates (41%), drinks (22%), topicals and lotions, balms, or sprays (21%), tinctures (17%), lozenges (7%), and different (11%).
OCP Director Erik Gundersen informed Mainebiz that the report’s findings “level to insurance policies and practices that promote and protect public well being and security whereas permitting authorized companies to compete.”
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