Greenhouses Still Account for Only 1% of Cannabis Cultivation Centers

National greenhouse usage statistics for marijuana cultivationMarijuana Business Daily posted last week’s chart of the week, showing statistics from their Marijuana Business Factbook 2015. Cannabis cultivation in the US is still dominated by indoor marijuana growing facilities. Perhaps what is even more surprising than the domination of indoor grow ops over greenhouse marijuana growers, is that outdoor marijuana production is also six times greater than the marijuana production in greenhouses.

Coming from the commercial greenhouse industry this statistic seems implausible.  Cannabis grows very well in greenhouses, and the commercial scale of agriculture with all our technical advancements for environmental control lends itself very well to cannabis production.

At GGS we have a division dedicated to legal marijuana cultivation facilities, and we supply warehouse marijuana cultivation centers as well as turnkey marijuana greenhouse solutions.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both growing environments.  Indoor cannabis cultivation is likely...

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