As the beverage market evolves, consumers now are able to combine drinking a little drink and smoking a little smoke into one (fluid) action with new developments in cannabis-infused beverages.
As one of the most consumed beverages around the world, tea offers an array of health benefits including reducing cancer and heart disease risk, to improving dental health and boosting weight loss.
Whether it is tobacco, packaged foods, consumer health, beverages, or beauty and personal care, many market analysts recognize that cannabis is poised to disrupt these consumer markets as the flowering plant makes inroads in legalization and mainstream acceptance.
San Diego-based Medical Marijuana Inc., a publically traded cannabis company, announced that its subsidiary Kannaway has released its new single-serve coffee and tea pods, which are infused with 10 mg of hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) in each pod, the company says. The single-serve coffee pods – Kannaway French Roast – are made with 100 percent premium Arabica coffee beans and are batch roasted by a fifth generation roast master, it adds.
Distributing products within Central Kentucky for 71 years, Kentucky Eagle operates out of a new 190,000-square-foot facility that is the first Anheuser-Busch LEED Certified distributor in the nation, it says.
The new in-depth study examined state-level alcohol tax receipts and per capita alcohol sales in Colorado, Washington state and Oregon for the two years prior to recreational marijuana legalization and up to three to four years post-legalization.