{"id":6380,"date":"2018-02-12T00:28:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:42:00","slug":"legalizing-marijuana-threaten-wine-beer-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6380","title":{"rendered":"Does Legalizing Marijuana Threaten Wine (And Beer) Consumption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"fs-headline speakable-headline\">Does Legalizing Marijuana Threaten Wine (And Beer) Consumption?<\/h3>\n<div>\u00a0<span class=\"fs-author-name contrib-byline-author speakable-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomaspellechia\/\" data-ga-track=\"contrib block byline\">Thomas Pellechia\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span class=\"comma\">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"contrib-byline-type\"><span class=\"fs-text-s author-type\">CONTRIBUTOR<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ad-rail-container\">\n<div id=\"ad-rail-0-rec\" data-google-query-id=\"CIHCwJeYp9kCFVYDgQodMQYJNg\">\u00a0FEB 12, 2018 @ 10:29 AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5>TWEET THIS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"fs-text-xs\"><span class=\"tweet_quote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fthomaspellechia%2F2018%2F02%2F12%2Fdoes-legalizing-marijuana-threaten-wine-and-beer-consumption%2F&amp;text=wine%20consumers%20spent%20%2441.4%20billion%20on%20wine%20in%202017%2C%20nearly%203%20percent%20over%202016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"Tweet this click\">wine consumers spent $41.4 billion on wine in 2017, nearly 3 percent over 2016<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"fs-text-xs\"><span class=\"tweet_quote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fthomaspellechia%2F2018%2F02%2F12%2Fdoes-legalizing-marijuana-threaten-wine-and-beer-consumption%2F&amp;text=adult%20recreational%20marijuana%20use%20will%20be%20at%20%247.7%20billion%20in%202019%20and%20%2414.9%20billion%20by%202021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"Tweet this click\">adult recreational marijuana use will be at $7.7 billion in 2019 and $14.9 billion by 2021<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_611236886\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"article-body-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbor.forbes.com\/thumbor\/960x0\/smart\/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fdam%2Fimageserve%2F611236886%2F960x0.jpg%3Ffit%3Dscale\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">According to the Santa Rosa-based beer, wine and spirits consulting firm\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bw166.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">bw 166<\/a>,\u00a02017 U.S. wine shipments were up 1.3 percent over 2016, and both domestic and foreign wine sales in the U.S. reached 403 million cases.\u00a0According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/us\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Nielsen Data<\/a>,\u00a0<span class=\"tweet_quote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fthomaspellechia%2F2018%2F02%2F12%2Fdoes-legalizing-marijuana-threaten-wine-and-beer-consumption%2F&amp;text=wine%20consumers%20spent%20%2441.4%20billion%20on%20wine%20in%202017%2C%20nearly%203%20percent%20over%202016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">wine consumers spent $41.4 billion on wine in 2017, nearly 3 percent over 2016<\/a><\/span>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The data is good, but the future may not be a certainty for every U.S. wine producer. At 3.5 percent, the increase in wine imports in 2017 was triple the increase in overall wine shipments across the country. Couple that with continuing distributor consolidation and supermarket chain consolidation, each of which favors large domestic wine companies as well as competitively priced imports, and you can see why small and\/or family-run domestic U.S. wineries might be concerned.<\/p>\n<p>If the threat\u00a0within the wine industry isn\u2019t enough, some warn of an impending threat from a weed.<\/p>\n<p>First, the good news: using Colorado as a test case, the wine industry market intelligence company,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfawine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gomberg Fredrickson &amp; Associates<\/a>\u00a0(GFA) shows that marijuana legalization in that state isn&#8217;t having much of an effect on wine, beer, or spirits consumption.\u00a0It took four years for Colorado to legalize medical marijuana (2000-2014). GFA tracked wine sales data \u00a0beginning in 2005, when Colorado represented 1.83 percent of U.S. wine activity; in 2013, the state\u2019s percentage had risen to 1.89; today, it is 1.99 percent of total wine movement. Allowing for changes in the adult population over the period 2005-2017, the data show a continuing increase in wine servings alongside the legalization of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0-inread\">GFA does not view medical marijuana as a threat to wine sales. But what about legalized recreational marijuana?<\/div>\n<p>According to the first issue of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arcviewgroup.com\/product\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cannabis Intelligence Briefing\u00a0<\/a>(CIB), the $23 billion retail cannabis industry is on the move. Using data provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcviewmarketresearch.com\/reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Arcview Market Research<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdsanalytics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BDS Analytics<\/a>, CIB claims \u201c2017 has been a transitional year for the legal cannabis business as investors poured money into the industry in anticipation of some of the largest medical markets moving to adult-use [recerational use] programs by 2018. All signs point to how much of a game-changer that will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spending on legal cannabis in North America was $7.3 billion in 2016\u00a0and up 33\u00a0percent\u00a0in 2017 to $9.7 billion. CIB expects\u00a0<span class=\"tweet_quote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fthomaspellechia%2F2018%2F02%2F12%2Fdoes-legalizing-marijuana-threaten-wine-and-beer-consumption%2F&amp;text=adult%20recreational%20marijuana%20use%20will%20be%20at%20%247.7%20billion%20in%202019%20and%20%2414.9%20billion%20by%202021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">adult recreational marijuana use will be at $7.7 billion in 2019 and $14.9 billion by 2021<\/a><\/span>\u00a0: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that legal cannabis will be a major contributor to the health of the U.S. economy in the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"fs-author-name contrib-byline-author speakable-author\">Retrieved from: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomaspellechia\/2018\/02\/12\/does-legalizing-marijuana-threaten-wine-and-beer-consumption\/#72505a5d7dfb<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Legalizing Marijuana Threaten Wine (And Beer) Consumption? \u00a0Thomas Pellechia\u00a0,\u00a0CONTRIBUTOR \u00a0FEB 12, 2018 @ 10:29 AM TWEET THIS wine consumers spent $41.4 billion on wine in 2017, nearly 3 percent over 2016 adult recreational marijuana use will be at $7.7 billion in 2019 and $14.9 billion by 2021 Shutterstock According &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannabis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}