Successful cannabis brands looking to expand into new states initially assess the regulatory strictures that determine each state’s overall growth prospects, then the competitive landscape that will impact its market share.

IT’S LITTLE WONDER that market-share for even the largest house of brands in cannabis is measured in single digits—there were more than 3,000 brands on the shelves of America’s 10,000-plus cannabis stores in 2022. Nevertheless, leaders are starting to emerge in the battle for national preeminence.

What do Mary Bailey, Dr. David Meiri, Kim Rivers and Snoop Dogg have in common? Not much, except that they, along with 96 other people, have just been named the 100 Most Influential People in Cannabis by Global Cannabis Times magazine.

2022 was a brutal year for US cannabis companies and some cannabis investors. The leading public stocks lost 66% of their value. New Cannabis Ventures’ American Cannabis Operator Index ended the year at 14.25, 88% below its all-time high of 118.22 set a seeming lifetime ago on 4/1/19, just after the top multi-state operators (MSOs) went public in 2018.

U.S. multi-state operators (MSOs) and Canadian licensed producers (LPs) dominated the first Global Cannabis 50 annual ranking of the largest public cannabis companies in the world. The Global Cannabis 50 is the result of recently conducted research by Global Go Analytics and is published in the Winter 2022-23 issue of Global Cannabis Times magazine.