Innovative Products Arise From the Cannabis Market's Rapid Expansion - Seite 2

While extracts are rapidly becoming popular among consumers, there is still a large demand for dried flower. Moreover, cultivators are still aggressively competing against one another to obtain licenses for cultivation approval and there is still a large demand for dried flower within the medical segment of the cannabis industry. And even though some research has shown medical patients are also turning to alternative delivery methods, dried cannabis still required to create most extracts and concentrates. For example, a simple form of a concentrate is kief, which is composed of trichomes that broke away from the flower. Depending on the flower's cannabinoid content, the kief will have its own specific potency and properties. Furthermore, a more complex method of extraction involves using CO2 to separate cannabis components from the plant. Using high pressure and heat, producers can separate certain components of the plants from one another, allowing them to obtain desirable cannabinoids. And similar to the kief, extracts using a CO2 method would also require a high quality strain in order to obtain a high potency. The demand for high quality and premium cannabis is still large, which is why "craft cultivators" have become widely popular within the marketplace. Craft cultivators are generally small-scale growers who strive to produce top shelf quality cannabis through a tedious and meticulous process. Throughout the growing phases, craft cultivators carefully inspect and examine each plant to ensure it is growing correctly and that it is maintaining its cannabinoid content. While the procedure can be automated, craft cultivators believe that tending to each individual plant and catering to its needs can produce an overall higher yield and stronger potency among the plants. "The art of cannabis has come a long way from the days of the dime bag, when you had no idea where your cannabis came from, what kind of pesticides or growing methods produced it, or even what strain it was. These days, in the legal cannabis marketplace, you have your choice of the best of the best of "craft cannabis," said Lisa Rough, former Associate Editor at Leafly.