36 marijuana predictions that will come true in 2022
Just a little better than a coin toss! Yikes That’s how well our Leafly News predictions held up in 2021.
Our most accurate forecasts:
- In Congress, the House of Representatives will reinstate and pass the MORE Act, but the Senate, under Mitch McConnell, will continue to block scrutiny of the federal legalization law. (Unfortunately that’s true.)
- New York, Connecticut, and New Mexico will pass adult legalization laws in 2021. (That’s right. Three wins!)
- Pennsylvania will wrestle with legalization, but ultimately it won’t happen in 2021. (That’s right, and there wasn’t even much wrestling.)
- 2021 will see the rise of long-term, ever-growing, local businesses like Cookies and Viola. Massive investment-driven expansion and lively national marketing campaigns are so 2019. (Spot on.)
Our least accurate predictions? Too many to list.
Read on for our fearless predictions for the glorious year 2022.
Predictions about cannabis strains and products
2022 you will see Autoflower seeds make unprecedented advances.
We will see more hits GMO Crosses, as well as the extension of the savory ‘breath‘Trend, the sweet one’cake‘Trend, and the Mint’Kush mints‘Crosses.
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We’re going to see some scientific discoveries about terpenes such as new flavor molecules or proof of new entourage interactions.
New stores and delivery services serve more legal consumers in more locations than ever before, with adult retail outlets in Opened in Montana, New Mexico and New Jersey in 2022.
If 2021 was the year of the hemp-derived cannabinoid explosion (Delta-8-THC, Delta-10-THC, THC-O, etc.), 2022 will be the year of the Raid against cannabinoids made from hemp. Legal states will begin regulating hemp-derived cannabinoids like regular old delta-9 THC. Prohibited states will specifically target cannabinoids made from hemp. Some CBD shops and smokers’ shops are raided by the local police who have nothing better to do.
We’ll be California’s’Organic pot label come out, as well as regional Enforcement of Appeals.
THC capsules and Prohibition of products with high THC content will continue to achieve some success at the local level, less so at the state level.
Marijuana Lifestyle Trends
Celebrities will continue to launch their own brands rather than renting their names to existing companies.
In 2021, celebs like Jay-Z and Seth Rogen launched their own fully established cannabis companies. We assume that this trend will continue into 2022.
A new innovation: Snoop Dogg highlights the engagement of celebrities with his Cannabis-focused mutual fund, Casa Verde capital. After Snoop and Casa Verde complete a $ 100 million funding round in 2021, they will become more important and visible in 2022.
At least a new, licensed, sparkling lounge opens in the USA. (But you need a VAX card to get in. And overall, advancements in lounging legalization will continue to battle headwinds from pandemics and bans.)
CBD and the FDA
the FDA will continue to censor CBD companies for all kinds of medical claims – including the “cure” for the coronavirus.
The long awaited by the FDA Rules about CBD will finally, absolutely, we mean it really seriously this time, be published in 2022. And then leading CBD companies will sue the FDA in federal court and suspend the new rules indefinitely.
With vapes, more local and state laws will try to do this prohibit aspects of vaping such as flavors, as well as empty cartridges.
Pot price planning and industry trends
In California we expect wholesale Cannabis flower prices to hit mid-range lows of $ 5 per 8 ounces. Quality indoor products will hit new highs of over $ 80 per eighth in retail.
Also next for California, admission Farm and retail level consolidation. Pot taxes fall in some cities, rise in others, and remain unchanged at the country level.
Most recently for the Golden State in 2022: at least two Dozens of new pharmacies are opened.
In newly opened states such as Montana, New Mexico and New Jersey, sky-high prices will hit the headlines in the early days. But like any other condition used by adults, those early spikes will gradually subside, and the 6 gram dollar is a matter of “when” rather than “if.”
Except in New Jersey. All New Jersey weed price bets are excluded. Because it’s New Jersey.
Other cities in legalization states will discuss and adopt Carbon targets-or Carbon caps-for grows; LED lights will gain market share.
Forecast for the federal reform
Legal There is no international cannabis trade in 2022. We bet you for a pound of Kush Mints.
We expect Congress to do a lot of posing and talking about cannabis legalization – and then do almost nothing to implement it.
The house can reintroduce and say goodbye the MORE act (Slogan: “One more time!”), But it will fail again in the Senate as Mitch McConnell blocks all passageways.
We predict the house will perish SECURE bank account again in 2022. Left and right-wing politicians in the Senate will block his passage – again.
in the Elections in November 2022, Republicans take control of the US House of Representatives. The Democrats are also losing their Senate majority.
Fortune telling at the state level
Watching millions of dollars in state tax revenue flow into New Jersey is something for lawmakers. be too much Pennsylvania. 2022 will be the year the state finally passes a law legalizing adult use.
Missouri Proponents of legalization are confident about their chances of getting a regulated market approved in the coming year. Legal Missouri 2022 is one of two groups aimed at putting voters in a referendum to vote on. They’ll make it on the ballot and legalization will happen in November 2022 with no problems.
Lawyers in Oklahoma strive to expand and better manage cannabis sales in this state. You will receive a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing adult use in November 2022 and it will be passed. The Oklahoma legislature also becomes a type of Cap on the medical marijuana farm Licenses.
Arkansas True Grass, the state’s legalization campaign, had to give up its signature collection due to the pandemic. But they’ll be back for 2022. They collect the necessary signatures, put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, and it is passed.
And that’s it for our predictions for 2022! No matter what, we live in a golden age of cannabis that will make the New Year a win-win situation. So stay positive!
Bruce Barcott and David Downs
Bruce Barcott is Associate Editor of Leafly and author of Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America. David Downs is the director of Leafly’s California office and the author of Beyond Buds and The Medical Marijuana Guidebook.
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