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CHICAGO — Chaos erupted Tuesday morning at the Ignite Cannabis Capital Conference after multiple attendees reported seeing what experts believe may be the last remaining active cannabis investor in North America. Witnesses say the sighting occurred near the coffee station inside the Marriott Magnificent Mile shortly after 9:00 a.m., where a man wearing a navy blazer and carrying what appeared to be actual deployable capital was briefly observed attempting to enjoy a complimen

For the better part of a decade, the cannabis industry has been building what it believed was the future. Thousands of dispensaries. Billions of dollars in licenses, real estate, cultivation facilities, marketing campaigns, loyalty programs, mobile apps, rewards clubs, customer journeys, educational content, menu integrations, online ordering systems, curbside pickup programs, and enough SMS messages to qualify as psychological warfare. The pitch was simple: If co

Japan has banned CBN, a cannabinoid associated with relaxation and sleep, after regulators reportedly identified calmness as an emerging threat to productivity.

Massachusetts regulators are auditing cannabis THC potency testing after years of increasingly impossible lab results turned dispensary menus into radioactive fantasy novels masquerading as science.

There’s a special kind of poetry in cannabis branding. The kind where everyone is “family,” everything is “hand crafted,” and the flower is supposedly kissed into existence by moonlight, good intentions, and a mission statement nobody can afford to question.

In today’s episode of You Can’t Make This Shit Up, a cannabis CEO proudly declared, “I don’t use cannabis very often, but I think our vapes are the absolute best,” instantly earning the admiration of investors, LinkedIn thought leaders, and absolutely no one who’s ever actually inhaled anything besides flavored air.

In a stunning display of government competence (don’t get used to it), New Jersey authorities shut down a network of illegal weed vending machines this week, not because they were unsafe, but because they were making licensed dispensaries look like the DMV with mood lighting.

In an inspiring commitment to educational mediocrity, the University of New England announced the launch of its new cannabis industry program, a bold academic initiative staffed almost entirely by people whose résumés read like a Craigslist section titled Jobs I Almost Had.