Is Vape the Next Mainstream Form of Cannabis Rosin Consumption?
In recent years, Rosin, as a typical product type of solventless cannabis concentrate, has become one of the most talked-about products in the cannabis industry. Despite a continuous decline in cannabis concentrate market sales from 2021 to the end of 2023, Rosin has shown a strong market growth trend.
According to Headset Data, the entire cannabis concentrate category saw a decrease in sales from $377 million in Q1 of 2021 to $276 million in Q4 of 2023, with market share dropping from 9.8% to 6.1%. However, during the same period, the market share of rosin nearly doubled from $24 million to $44 million, increasing from 6.5% to 16% of the cannabis concentrate category, surpassing shatter in 2022 to become the second-largest category of cannabis concentrate, second only to live resin.
High Consumer Demand for Rosin
Cannabis enthusiasts have long been fascinated and enamored with Rosin. Since 2019, in light of safety concerns surrounding incidents in the cannabis vape industry, consumers have been fervently demanding cleaner, purer extracts to achieve better and safer highs.
Rosin caters to the needs of the most discerning connoisseurs, offering a product that meets their desire for purity, potency, and quality. It has become the ideal choice for consumers seeking to avoid cannabis extracts rich in chemical additives. While Rosin is widely recognized as the most natural and fresh consumption option in cannabis, determining the best way to consume it for an optimal experience has posed a challenge for many cannabis consumers.
Mainstream Rosin Consumption Methods
Currently, there are three mainstream products for rosin consumption: dabbing devices, rosin vapes, and rosin gummies. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Dabbing: The Dominant Rosin Consumption Method
Dabbing is currently the most popular Rosin consumption method. Scooping a bit of premium live Rosin from a carefully stored Mason jar and then dabbing it in a rig is an exquisite ritual for many cannabis consumers. Dabbing involves heating live rosin on a hot surface, usually a nail, and then inhaling the superior vapor through a dab rig.
While dabbing is hailed as the best way to consume live rosin, offering a more potent and immediate effect, it comes with many diverse components and complex operations, including rosin storage, dab device selection, and temperature adjustment, followed by cleaning and maintenance. The series of tasks makes dabbing a challenging method …