Michigan's Flower Price Changed What Gets Manufactured
When flower falls far enough, the economics of infusing it invert.
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- MARKETS
- MARKETS
California's Retail Map Is More Concentrated Than the State's Size Suggests
Most of the market sits in a handful of regions.
- MARKETS
Oklahoma Built the Densest Licensed Retail Network in the Country
Door count per resident, not market size, is what makes it unusual.
- PROCESS
Packaging Decides How Much of the Product Survives to the Customer
A correctly built piece can still arrive stripped.
- PROCESS
Cold Rooms Are the Real Capital Expense
Temperature control, not extraction equipment, is what limits how much a producer can make.
- TESTING
A Batch Number on a Hand-Assembled Product Means Something Different
For most products a batch is a volume. Here it is a shift.
- TESTING
Homogeneity Rules Were Written for Edibles and Applied to Everything
The regulation assumes a product that was mixed. Moon rocks are assembled.
- INFUSED
Infused Pre-Rolls Are a Manufacturing Problem, Not a Recipe
Anyone can make one. Making ten thousand identical ones is the business.
- INFUSED
The Wrap Decides More Than the Infusion Does
Paper, hemp and leaf burn at three different rates, and the infusion has to be built for each.
- CONCENTRATES
Distillate Built the Infused Category
The format needed a concentrate that behaved the same way every time, and only one did.
- CONCENTRATES
Terpene Loss Is a Handling Problem Before It Is an Extraction Problem
Most of what a concentrate loses, it loses after it is made.
- CONCENTRATES
Solventless Is a Method, Not a Quality Tier
Rosin commands a premium for how it is made, which is not the same as how it performs.
- MOON ROCKS
Weight Is the Wrong Unit for a Three-Layer Product
A gram of moon rock and a gram of flower are priced the same way and are not the same thing.
- MOON ROCKS
The Moon Rock Is a Producer Product, Not a Strain Product
Strain names describe one of three layers and predict almost nothing about the other two.
- TESTING
A Potency Figure on a Composite Product Is an Average
Testing rules were written for uniform products. Moon rocks are three materials assembled by hand.
- PROCESS
Why Two Pieces From One Batch Are Not the Same
Hand assembly puts a variance into the category that no amount of process control removes.
- CONCENTRATES
Live Resin, Cured Resin, Rosin, Distillate
Four names that answer two different questions, and why the labels get confused.
- INFUSED
What "Infused" Means on a Label
One word covers at least four different products, and the label rarely says which.
- PROCESS
Kief, and Why the Outer Layer Falls Off
The third layer is the one buyers notice first, and the one producers get wrong most often.
- MOON ROCKS
What Moon Rocks Actually Are
The three-layer format that started as a novelty and became a category.