As I mentioned in a previous post, legalized recreational marijuana is coming to Oregon this summer. As data on the topic are easy to access, I decided to make a graph on what the local economy offers.

I scraped strain and price data for 850 items from 22 dispensaries in Portland, OR. This plots tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content against cannabidiol (CBD) content. Prices for these strains range from $4/gram to $14/gram (proportional to the width of each bubble). Plotting either of the compounds against price yields no significant correlation (r^2<0.1). I’ve included data on the same strain sold at multiple stores; in some cases, the price varies, or the percent of the compounds is different.

The second graph is identical to the first, but I used a log scale on the y-axis so that you can see the details within the blob of high-THC, low-CBD strains.

Data source: https://www.leafly.com/