{"id":1983,"date":"2025-01-25T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/inside-the-32-billion-industry-transforming-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:03:44","slug":"inside-the-32-billion-industry-transforming-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/inside-the-32-billion-industry-transforming-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the $32 Billion Industry Transforming Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An email obtained by The Times shows that one committee leader, Representative Sharon Wylie, a supporter of the industry, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. \u201cThank you for being open to the compromise approach,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview, Ms. Wylie said that \u201cthe jury\u2019s still out\u201d on the potential harms of cannabis, and that regulated business brings revenue to the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Davis is not giving up. She plans to introduce legislation to another committee this month that would prohibit all concentrates exceeding 35 percent THC, with exemptions for medical use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe industry needs limits,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">METHODOLOGY<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">The New York Times examined sales data from two cannabis industry data firms, BDSA and Headset, for October 2023 to September 2024. Because the two firms\u2019 rankings differed somewhat, The Times looked at all brands included in either firm\u2019s top-20 list \u2014 24 brands in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Reporters then located each brand\u2019s page on Weedmaps, where available. Four were excluded, because they did not have a presence on Weedmaps, their listings lacked product-specific descriptions or they had very few products listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">In November 2024, The Times downloaded the entire Weedmaps product catalog for each of the remaining 20 brands: a data set containing nearly 18,000 products. The Times identified dozens of medical- and health-related keywords that appeared in the descriptions. For each brand, reporters confirmed that the keywords were used to suggest that products could help treat specific health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">After contacting the brands for comment, The Times again examined Weedmaps descriptions for all products in the initial analysis, to identify whether any of the health-related language had been removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Weedmaps listings do not necessarily include all products sold under a particular brand and may reflect some items no longer widely sold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">The Times conducted a separate analysis of health claims on Stiiizy\u2019s website, focusing on its guides to individual cannabis strains. Each guide included the strain\u2019s flavors, purported effects and conditions it \u201chelps with.\u201d The Times programmatically identified 82 of these guides in December and January, based on the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stiiizy.com\/sitemap.xml\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website\u2019s sitemap<\/a>, and extracted conditions listed in each one.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Carson Kessler<!-- --> contributed reporting, and <!-- -->Julie Tate<!-- --> contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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