The stainless steel THC extractors, reactors and distillation rigs for sale looked like equipment from a diabolical scientist’s lair.
Some cost up to $200,000. Smaller versions could be had for a mere $12,000.
These were just a few of the displays at the CannaCon Midwest cannabis business-to-business trade show in Detroit that caters to Michigan’s growing marijuana and hemp industries. Many of the exhibitors were from Oregon and California, where the marijuana industries are a few years older.
No marijuana was on display. No smoke was in the air. This was commercial business, and big business at that.
The products and services ranged from striking to mundane. There were contraptions that shake and pack marijuana joints several dozen at a time, numerous processing apparatuses used to separate and purify oils from marijuana, tumblers that strip buds in preparation for sale, security systems, grow racks, display cases, blunt holders, real estate advisers, seed banks, fertilizer companies, grow light salesmen, point-of-sale software packages and financial service providers.
The Detroit CannaCon event opened to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and continues during the same hours Saturday, with tickets costing $60 for the expo and $150 for access to the trade show and more than 20 seminars scheduled throughout the two-day event.
Below are some interesting exhibits and offerings from CannaCon:
Tom's Tumbler $45,000 bladeless Python and conveyor on display at CannaCon in Detroit on June 25, 2021.
The Python is an industrial sized conveyor and tumbler that is capable of trimming 200 pounds of harvested marijuana per hour in preparation for packaging and sale.
While the machinery itself is impressive to look at, Tom’s Tumbler CEO Tom Brueggemann said the Python is works differently than most commercial tumblers. It’s bladeless.
The more typical bladed machines “are very harsh,” Brueggemann said. “They cut the trichomes, the crystals and the structure of the flowers. Our allow the flowers to trim each other.
“It doesn’t look machined. It looks identical to hand-trimmed and that’s what everybody wants, that hand-trimmed look.”
The Python with conveyor costs $45,000.
Futurola Knockbox mass joint roller that sells for up to $5,200 based on the model at CannaCon in Detroit on June 25, 2021.
If you have about $5,000 and want to roll 30 or more cone-style joints in less than two minutes, models of the Futurola Knockbox can assist. The rectangular machines on display contained dozens of vials that could be filled with joint wraps and filled to the brim with marijuana in mere minutes.
A representative of the company declined to be interviewed Friday, but online sales of the machines show they sell for about $3,500 for a Knockbox that fills 50 joints at a time and up to $5,200 for one with a 100-joint capacity.
Marijuana Regulatory Agency Director Andrew Brisbo at CannaCon in Detroit on June 25, 2021.
Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency Director Andrew Brisbo is more entertaining than some of his bureaucratic counterparts, and not just because of the THC molecule socks he wore while speaking to about 150 attendees Friday. While his agency plays a large role in marijuana regulation, it seems more concerned with creating a healthy market, rather than restricting it.
Brisbo spoke about how recreational sales surpassed medical sales sooner than expected, the befuddling continued growth of the industry, even during the pandemic shutdown when only curbside sales were allowed, he pointed out an anomaly in the rise of registered patients, a figure that usually declines when recreational markets proliferate, said the market is likely to surpass $1.4 billion in sales over the next year and announced that telemedicine approval for medical marijuana registration will likely continues if the governor, as is expected, signs laws recently passed by the Legislature.
Other notable remarks: Brisbo said, although none are currently licensed to do so, there is an avenue available to consumption lounges that also wish to sell food and drink; he discussed some significant rule changes that will be up for confirmation and public comment later this year; and mentioned creating a path with the DEA that would allow students currently enrolled at universities that have marijuana degree programs to physically handle and study marijuana as part of their curriculum.
Indica Cannabis Puzzles at CannaCon in Detroit on June 25, 2021.
Mostly due to the psychedelic image of the “Mona Lisa” smoking a joint, the large black-and-white sign that asked, “Is it 4:20 yet?” the Indica Cannabis Puzzles booth in the far back corner of the exhibition floor was hard to miss.
The Illinois-based company specializes in customizable puzzles, magnets, novelties and wall art that is sold online or wholesale to dispensaries and retailers with their own brand logos or slogans.
Marijuana-related images, like a cannabis leaf colored to resemble the U.S. Flag, are sold as puzzles inside glass cylinders that dual as the perfect air-tight storage places for marijuana. Chuck Schmelzer of Indica Cannabis Puzzles said company products usually retail between $40 and $110, although expo attendees were able to purchase the goods at wholesale, about half the price.
Summit Research extraction device at CannaCon in Detroit on June 25, 2021.
Extraction and distillation machines
The THC oil extraction and refining machines and equipment were among the most prevalent, expensive and eye-catching on the floor.
Precision Extraction Solutions had a complicated looking device that sells for nearly $200,000. Summit Research and Xtractor Depot had other devices that sold for $50,000 each.
Each of device did something different with the refining process that’s used to remove increasingly purer and potent oils from the marijuana plant.
While marijuana flower is hugely popular, smokable marijuana only represented about half of marijuana sales last month. Edibles, THC extracts, vaping products and other distilled and refined forms of marijuana THC accounted for the rest.
Exhibitors used terms like “decarboxylation” and “hydrocarbon extractor” with “probed temperature monitors on solvent and recovery” to describe what their products do. Essentially, they pull the oils from marijuana and then separate undesired components seeking a pure, high THC oil that is used in products that make it to retail shelves.
Information about CannCon Midwest Detroit exhibitors, seminars and ticketing is available here.
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