The Full Boof

Trulieve, Curaleaf, Verano, a Green Thumb subsidiary, an AYR-linked holding company, and Ascend gave $11.5 million to a Trump-linked PAC, finally revealing who corporate cannabis thinks deserves social equity funding.

Michigan processor GCM Waypoint agreed to close after regulators alleged interstate cannabis transport, missing cartridges, empty tagged boxes, untagged material and major inventory failures.

Spirit Halloween has launched a cannabis incubator for companies with national ambitions, unpaid vendors and roughly 90 days before the lenders take the furniture. The faculty includes executives from Cannabist, PharmaCann, AYR, TerrAscend and FLUENT.

SACRAMENTO, CA — California regulators announced this week that they have officially opened an investigation into one of the cannabis industry's greatest unsolved mysteries: How does California weed keep showing up absolutely everywhere outside California?

An Ohio cannabis candy fraud case inspires the industry’s most honest edible yet: Investor Gummies, infused with projections, delusion, and the sudden urge to wire money before asking questions.

Missouri's next microbusiness licensing round is meant to expand access. Boof investigates the rich white cannabis hopefuls, consultants, and “hardship” experts turning equity into a two-day costume rehearsal.

A cannabis executive's elaborate plan to secure future social equity eligibility collapses when police refuse to issue charges after reviewing the quality of his own flower.

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.

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.

MISSOURI — In a move described by industry insiders as “efficient” and “completely unnecessary if you’re actually good at your job,” Good Day Farm is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it quietly built an illegal monopoly across Missouri’s cannabis market, effectively eliminating the need to compete on product quality, retail strategy, or basic competence.

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.

The Invitations No One Wanted to Receive No one admits how nervous they were when the invites went out. They’ll joke about it now. Post about it. Laugh it off in Slack threads and group chats. But when those envelopes first landed, no return address, no branding, just a matte black card that read “You’ve been nominated. Attendance strongly recommended.”, people checked the categories twice. Some checked with legal. Others checked their last three product launches.

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.

Urban-gro just pulled off one of the most impressive magic tricks in modern cannabis: They made their problems disappear by making the entire business disappear.

Ohio looked at low-dose THC drinks, saw a calm, predictable experience, and said, “absolutely not.” Then they turned around and greenlit an entire aisle of alcoholic beverages that look like they were designed during a sugar rush at Chuck E. Cheese.

Somewhere deep inside Sacramento, a group of regulators looked at California’s collapsing cannabis tax structure, billions in unpaid liabilities, and operators bleeding out in slow motion… and decided the solution was finally here. Not lower taxes. Not enforcement reform. Not fixing the supply chain. No. Fingers.