Earlier this week, we seemed on the dramatic shifts within the UK medical hashish flower market over the past three years.
In response to the most recent and most detailed gross sales knowledge ever revealed within the UK market, Adven’s EMT-2 T20 (Cairo pressure) accounted for roughly one-third of all allotted flower throughout the cleaned knowledge set, promoting roughly 6.1 tonnes, peaking in 2023 at over 3.3 tonnes alone.
In 2024, Curaleaf’s Lavender Cake LCE T20, which was barely registering in 2023 with simply 4 kilograms, then exploded to greater than 3.5 tonnes in 2024.
It’s price digging deeper into the implications of those statistics and exploring how the market has quickly consolidated right into a ‘winner-takes-most’ framework.
Inside this dynamic, we see the few hottest strains inhabit an enormous proportion of the nationwide prescribing volumes, whereas the remainder of the market fragments into smaller niches.
Regardless of the lots of of obtainable flower merchandise obtainable for sufferers, the information reveals that the highest 5 merchandise between 2022-2025 make up round 60% of complete quantity.
In 2022, EMT-2 T20 accounted for 55% of complete flower quantity, rising to 64% in 2023, with second hottest strains represented simply 12% and seven% respectively.
Utilizing complete matched grams throughout 2022–2025:
|
Rank |
Product |
Whole Quantity (g) |
Share of Matched Market |
|
1 |
Adven EMT-2 T20 (Cairo) |
6,123,451 g |
32.5% |
|
2 |
Curaleaf LCE T20 (Lavender Cake) |
3,746,468 g |
19.9% |
|
3 |
Adven EMT-1 T20 |
~1,050,000 g (approx.) |
~5.5% |
|
4 |
4C Labs T24 (Chilly Creek Kush) |
~900,000 g |
~4.8% |
|
5 |
BC Inexperienced CAP T25 |
~800,000 g |
~4.2% |
By 2024, EMT-2 T20 had collapsed to only 12%, whereas Lavender Cake LCE-T20 surged to 36%. Solely 4 different strains had above 5% of the whole quantity.
Whereas the 2o25 knowledge stays minimal, solely protecting January and February, with a heavy caveat of reporting delays inherent within the UK market, Lavender Cake seems to stay dominant, whereas Releaf’s T7:C10 balanced pressure unexpectedly took the second spot.
Regardless of being completely personal, the flower market within the UK is on no account a typical client market, and continues to be formed by a variety of key dynamics it’s necessary to know.
Whereas sufferers can decide their strains as soon as they attain the clinic (a contentious situation for a lot of prescribers), importers successfully management what is out there, that means that an oursized significance is positioned on the consistency of availability, and the person relationships between suppliers, importers, and clinics.
