Even before California dispensaries opened their doors to adult-use sales earlier this month, the Golden State has for years lead the way in legal weed technology and trends, setting the green standard for America’s rapidly growing cannabis industry. Melding that cannabis expertise into Silicon Valley’s analytical algorithms, California delivery app Eaze was able to sort through 2017 sales date from over 350,000 delivery customers and 15,000 survey respondents to compile the latest version of Eaze Insights, an end of year report breaking down California’s cannabis consumption habits by age, location, strain, and product type.
According to the newly released data report, Eaze fielded an online order once every 10 seconds in 2017, a 200% order frequency increase that the company largely credits to lag time between the state’s 2016 legalization vote and 2018’s adult-use sales start.
“This year’s State of Cannabis report reveals a turning point in the industry toward mainstream acceptance,” Eaze CEO Jim Patterson said in a press release accompanying the Insights report. “After Californians voted for adult-use in November 2016, many consumers shifted their mindset and became…