The Full Boof

Kentucky's Jason Nemes wants physicians and businesses prosecuted for following expanded qualifying conditions. The only problem? Every medical cannabis state in America has been following the exact same script for years.

After years of raids and promises to shut down illegal dispensaries, Los Angeles may have stumbled upon a simpler strategy: if you can't eliminate the black market, maybe it's time to send it an invoice.

After ignoring operators, economists, neighboring states, and basic arithmetic, Michigan officials are now investigating why their wholesale cannabis tax generated exactly the outcome everyone predicted.

DENVER, CO — According to industry insiders, cannabis operators across America are entering a new phase of strategic planning. It's called: "Getting Acquired Before We Run Out of Money." For years, cannabis executives gathered at conferences and investor meetings to discuss ambitious growth plans, market dominance, national expansion, and becoming the future of consumer packaged goods. Today, many of those same executives are spending their time cleaning up inventory records,

NEW YORK, NY — New York’s legal cannabis market is celebrating a major milestone after licensed dispensaries reportedly surpassed $5 million in daily sales. That would be great news if the illicit market wasn’t allegedly doing closer to $50 million per day. Which means New York’s legal cannabis industry is celebrating a full day of sales that the black market reportedly handles in about 2.4 hours.

n today’s episode of Corporate Delusion Olympics, a bargain-bin startup proudly strutted onto LinkedIn to announce a “DREAM JOB ALERT” for a marketing role… while offering a salary that screams, “We don’t respect your profession and we think exposure is a valid currency.”

There are a lot of ways to mess up cannabis. You can overprice it. You can under-trim it. You can package it like it’s trying to win a minimalist design award in 2016. But allegedly shipping THC that doesn’t match the label, plus mold, plus E. coli? That’s not a mistake. That’s a full-blown operational philosophy.

There are bad business decisions. There are dumb business decisions. And then there’s whatever the hell Tilray Brands allegedly thought it was doing here. Because according to a fresh lawsuit, the Bob Marley Estate is coming for roughly $11 million in unpaid royalties. Not in a friendly “let’s sort this out” way. More like a direct hit. Let’s be clear about something. This isn’t just any licensing deal. This is Bob fucking Marley.

Somewhere in America right now, a cannabis marketing platform is confidently telling a dispensary owner they can increase average order value. Not by a little. Not by accident. By design. With science. With AI. With a proprietary system nobody is allowed to ask questions about.

SEATTLE - After years of politely presenting velocity charts that no one read, margin reports that no one understood, and reorder recommendations that were described internally as “interesting but we’re going to go with our gut,” Headset’s newly integrated A.I. has reportedly taken decisive action.

Somewhere, a regulator is high-fiving himself in a windowless office because he “protected consumers” from the terrifying danger of a 25mg gummy. Meanwhile, Chad from accounting is on his ninth 10mg cube and chewing like a livestock animal. Welcome to the 10mg edible cap. The policy equivalent of putting a shot glass limit on tequila and acting shocked when everyone orders twelve.

In a stunning development that absolutely no one outside a cannabis executive Slack channel saw coming, several multi-state operators are now being sued by the Ohio Attorney General for allegedly doing the one thing capitalism is extremely clear about: Agreeing on prices. Together. On purpose.

In a move that legal experts are calling “technically impossible” and cannabis executives are calling “worth a shot,” Donald Trump announced today the creation of a brand-new immigration program specifically for cannabis license holders: the Greener Card™. Unlike the traditional Green Card, which requires paperwork, time, and a basic understanding of reality, the Greener Card fast-tracks licensed cannabis operators directly to Venezuela, where they are granted immediate ac

Wall Street is popping champagne. Hamilton Beach is popping circuit breakers. The appliance company just posted shockingly strong earnings, not because America rediscovered smoothies, but because the cannabis industry has once again entered its most sacred season: Annual Holiday SKU Destruction Month.

The cannabis sector rallied this week after Washington whispered the word “rescheduling” again, an event that reliably sends weed stocks sprinting into traffic like a neglected dog hearing keys jingle. Within hours, analysts were back on television explaining, earnestly, solemnly, with charts, that this time is different. Capital flooded in. Group chats lit up. Retail traders dusted off brokerage apps they swore they’d deleted in 2022. Somewhere, a junior analyst updated a Po

In a landmark transaction that will fundamentally change nothing except the font on the bag, Wyld has officially acquired Grön, creating the cannabis industry’s first fully interchangeable gummy ecosystem. The press release calls it “a major industry transaction. ”Budtenders call it “the moment my job officially became improv theater.”

This week, Vireo Growth announced it’s acquiring Eaze for $47 million, officially confirming two things: Weed delivery is “back,” according to executives with slides. Nothing in cannabis ever truly dies, it just gets recapitalized. If you felt a strange chill when you read the headline, that was the sound of a thousand former Eaze users checking their phones to make sure the app wasn’t already reinstalled.

Trump “Rescheduling” Cannabis: What This Actually Does (And Who It Screws Anyway)

Missouri’s cannabis scene looks like a pawn shop with a license. Licenses flipping, staff erased, logos changing faster than eighths on 4/20. Boof du Jour digs into how the state’s market went from garage band to corporate elevator music in five years flat.

California cut its cannabis excise tax from 19% to 15%, a supposed lifeline for a $4B market already on life support. Will this revive legal weed—or just delay the obituary?