Californians on track to spend $2.68 billion on just medical marijuana in 2017

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Related: Colorado’s 2017 marijuana sales reach $1 billion in just eight months The most popular strain across the state is called Blue Dream. States with medical marijuana and no recreational sales typically have less variety, he said. Think of smoking cannabis flowers like attending a live concert, he said. Piccinotto purchased four different strains of cannabis flowers, all geared toward different times of day when she wants to be alert or to help her sleep. To understand Californians’ favorite methods for ingesting cannabis, Joshua Hoffman likens it to the different ways of experiencing music.

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To understand Californians’ favorite methods for ingesting cannabis, Joshua Hoffman likens it to the different ways of experiencing music.

Think of smoking cannabis flowers like attending a live concert, he said. The second most popular method — vape pens — is like listening to a CD on high-end speakers.

“The flower is the musician with the instrument,” said Hoffman, who works for SPARC and Peace in Medicine dispensaries in Sonoma County and San Francisco. “The flower is getting the full interpretation of what that plant was doing. In some ways, a CD is crisper than a record or live music, and, in other ways, it leaves things out.”

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