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Edible Products Including Legal Psychoactive Hemp Ingredients Market Leadership In Some US States

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In the past few months, foods with the addition of leaves and inflorescences of legal psychoactive hemp have occupied more than a third of cannabisa sales in Puerto Rico, which is two times more than the average in similar markets in other US administrative units.

Analysis of the wholesale hemp market in the United States shows that the share of cannabis food products in the second quarter of 2019 in Puerto Rico was 34.3%, which is double the average for nine other US states. It is noted that despite the fact that consumer demand in the region is shifted to the use of food products, the main value of which is the therapeutic properties of the “green mass” of legal psychoactive hemp, there are extremely few “edible hemp brands” on the island.

Understanding this trend, several American companies announced plans to expand operations on the island, including the creation of vertically integrated structures specializing in the cultivation / processing / sales of food products, which include leaves and inflorescences of legal psychoactive hemp. 

Commentary of the Ukrainian Technical Hemp Association

Since the start of the program for the use of hemp for medical purposes in January 2017, there has been a fairly serious increase in the above-mentioned hemp breeding sector. The data from the Puerto Rico Department of Health indicate that there are about 92 thousand people in need of the therapeutic properties of hemp on the island, which is about 2.3% of the population of this administrative-territorial unit of the United States. The above percentage of the population that regularly uses the therapeutic properties of cannabis has something in common with the corresponding indicators of the corresponding state structures of the states of Arizona and New Mexico). In the past few months, foods with the addition of leaves and inflorescences of legal psychoactive hemp have occupied more than a third of cannabisa sales in Puerto Rico, which is two times more than the average in similar markets in other US administrative units.

 Share of food using psychoactive hemp ingredients compared to other legal cannabis products markets