{"id":6008,"date":"2016-05-10T03:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=50984"},"modified":"2016-05-10T03:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:18:53","slug":"going-green-not-all-marijuana-business-models-are-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/going-green-not-all-marijuana-business-models-are-equal\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Green, Not All Marijuana Business Models Are Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/going-green-not-all-marijuana-business-models-are-equal\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Providing a quick statistical snapshot of the fast growing marijuana industry within the US, Marijuana Business Daily reported in its 2016 Marijuana Business <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/factbook\/\">Factbook<\/a>; a majority all marijuana-related businesses \u2013 think cultivators, dispensaries, collectives, and the ever popular <a href=\"https:\/\/weedmaps.com\/dispensaries\/in\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">brick-and-mortar recreational pot shops<\/a> \u2013 reported they were able to \u201cBreak-Even\u201d or were &#8220;Modestly Profitable,\u201d during the first part of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As the fast-paced and cyclical business cycle of our country continues to force out prehistoric industries, pushing them to their extinction, 18 percent of all medical marijuana dispensaries from coast-to-coast reported being \u201cVery Profitable\u201d, with 41% reporting being \u201cModestly Profitable.\u201d The remaining 29 percent demonstrated that just because you own a state-sanctioned pot shop, it&#8217;s still a high probability you will only &#8220;Break Even,&#8221; provided you don&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/category\/strain-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">the best strains<\/a> and knowledgeable budtenders.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50986\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/chart-of-the-week-profitability-in-the-cannabis-industry\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-main-slider wp-image-50986\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/going-green-not-all-marijuana-business-models-are-equal\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Marijuana Business Daily\" width=\"700\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Marijuana Business Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Growing Green<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those in the cultivation game, the statistics looked particularly <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/weedmaps.com\/strains\/hardcore-og\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">Kushy<\/em><\/a>. Cultivators with a green thumb and a good distribution network were generally able to recapture their initial investment after just one successful harvest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/04\/oregonians-are-hungry-for-legal-edibles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edibles Cash In<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>91 percent &#8212; that&#8217;s as sweet as it gets from a profitability standpoint. Additionally, the report noted that 37 percent of all producers of cannabis-infused edibles claimed to have broken even so far during 2016, and 27 percent of the surveyed cannabis companies boldly proclaimed they were, &#8220;<strong>Very Profitable.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the above statistics are well and good for the dispensary owners, edible manufacturers, or wholesale cultivators, the well-worn path to success in the marijuana industry is slightly less stoney for many auxiliary businesses models. Per Marijuana Business Daily\u2019s Analysis, \u201c26 percent are losing some or a lot of money \u2013 the most by far of any sector. Many of these companies must shell out a lot of money to get started and face very strong competition, making the runway to profitability much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compared to dispensaries and cultivation warehouses, Dot-com companies are lagging in their overall profitability in marijuana&#8217;s high-tech sector; struggling thanks to the industry\u2019s rapidly budding competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/chart-of-the-week-profitability-in-the-cannabis-industry\/\">Read the MBD report here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing a quick statistical snapshot of the fast growing marijuana industry within the US, Marijuana Business Daily reported in its 2016 Marijuana Business Factbook; a majority all marijuana-related businesses \u2013 think cultivators, dispensaries, collectives, and the ever popular brick-and-mortar recreational pot shops \u2013 reported they were able to \u201cBreak-Even\u201d or were &#8220;Modestly Profitable,\u201d during the [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5650,607,251,2213,2556,5651,5577,2437,9,5652,1,3],"tags":[5653,3180,2829,28,2558,5654,5580,2443,5655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}