Receptive Capital Blog
Opinions and updates on the East Coast cannabis markets.
Cannabis Beverages at Thanksgiving 2023
Before you declare your Thanksgiving shopping done, go pick up some cannabis beverages at the dispensary (or gas station, grocery store or liquor store if you're living in a state that realizes this is where social beverage consumption is headed).
Hemp Derived Beverage Availability
Regarding cannabis beverages, I would prefer to see regulators focus on regulating the PRODUCTS to ensure the consumers that desire them have SAFE access to them. Consumers have demonstrated demand for these products. Banning them is not the move.
Why Are We Asking Consumers to Memorize Chemical Compounds?
I've been in the cannabis industry for years now and I'm getting a little impatient with "Terpenes are the future of how consumers will buy cannabis" theory. We don't have to create our own lexicon and confuse consumers. Lavender, gas, citrus, pine, pepper, etc. These are all words consumers use that they understand.
Buyer’s Club 2 in Hudson, NY
Buyer's Club by On The Revel in Hudson, NY last week was so good. I wish I had more clever words but that's it. The feeling I've had so many times over the past 5 years of "I can't wait until events like this happen in New York" came full circle. The only thing I have to wait for now is the next one.
Pace Functional Energy is Here
Pace Functional Energy is Here. Each can of Pace provides 90 mg of caffeine from green tea and 10 mg of THC for that functional buzz. The flavor Dragonberry features electric dragonfruit and sweet strawberry.
Why Aren’t More People Talking About Cannabis As A Potential Alternative To Opioids?
Cannabis is a potential alternative to opioids because it has been shown to be effective at treating pain. From multiple recently published studies, adult use cannabis markets have a measurable positive impact in the fight against the opioid addiction crisis.
Miss Grass Homecoming in New Jersey
Lots of attention on NY and well-deserved. However there is a very exciting story happening in NJ. Miss Grass, a female-founded, female-led brand, originally launched in CA, is taking the state by storm in homecoming fashion for Kate Miller.
Old Pal “Baked At Home” Hits The Mark
This product hits the mark and, in our view, provides validation for the "cannabis will be everywhere" element of our thesis. The cannabis plant is so dynamic and we have decades of product innovation ahead of us. That is what makes the consumer side of this business so attractive to us as investors.