Price and product variation in Washington's recreational cannabis market.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ten U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay have passed laws to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for non-medical purposes. Available research has documented rapidly falling prices and changing product mixes, but many details are not well understood: particularly, the popularity, prices, and product characteristics of different cannabis edibles and extract-based products - each offering different ways to consume cannabis, with unclear health consequences.

Methods

This paper analyzes data from Washington's recreational cannabis market, which has recorded over 110 million retail item-transactions from July 2014 to October 2017. Previous research on price and product trends has focused mostly on herbal cannabis, which accounts for the majority, but a decreasing s

SUBMITTER: Davenport S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7065937 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature