Exposés

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A polished corporate CBD executive in a blazer sits in an interrogation room surrounded by “THC-Free” bottles taped like evidence. The wall behind him reads “RICO,” scrawled across an old hemp marketing poster.

Civil RICO for Dummies: How a Supreme Court Case Just Made Every CBD Brand a Crime Family

The Supreme Court just made the hemp industry’s worst nightmare come true: mislabeling “THC-Free” can now count as racketeering. Boof du Jour breaks down how a mislabeled bottle turned every CBD brand into a crime syndicate with better stationery.

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A Curio Wellness manager stands in front of the camera as a Greenlight sales floor is slowly transformed with a beige tone and stale design elements. The vibe is sterile and awkward — a visual eulogy for weed culture.

From Gas to Gratitude Journals: A Trap House Rebrand

Curio Wellness, Maryland’s corporate mindfulness brand, just bought Missouri’s loudest weed shops and is repainting the trap-house vibe into taupe. Boof du Jour covers the culture clash between real weed people and the PowerPoint prophets trying to fix what wasn’t broken.

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Photojournalistic image showing a MoCann Trade lawyer collecting cannabis license applications from small Missouri business owners, while behind a MoCann-branded curtain, corporate executives secretly alter and claim the licenses — symbolizing corruption in Missouri’s cannabis equity program.

MoCann, Mo’ Problems: The Lawyer Who Built the Loopholes

Missouri’s cannabis industry didn’t just eat itself — it hired its own lawyer to cook the corpse. Meet Eric Walter, general counsel for the Missouri Cannabis Trade Association (MoCann Trade). The same guy who helped draft Missouri’s 2022 cannabis amendment and shaped the so-called “social equity” program is now the centerpiece of the state’s latest corruption circus — writing 22 of the contracts that regulators just called predatory and used to revoke licenses. You can’t spe

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Indonesian police display boxes of cannabis gummies labeled “869 grams” at a press conference, highlighting the absurdity of Jarred Shaw’s arrest and the country’s harsh drug laws.

Cop Math: How 132 Gummies Turn Into “Almost a Kilo” — and Maybe a Death Sentence

132 cannabis gummies. $400 in value. 869 grams on the police scale. A U.S. basketball player in Jakarta now faces life or death because of “Cop Math” — the global farce where a box of candy weighs more than human rights.

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Eaze dispensary reopening in San Francisco with a sad ribbon-cutting — tiny crowd clapping, delivery driver holding a “cash only” sign, and novelty scissors from Spirit Halloween — symbolizing the failed comeback after bankruptcy.

Eaze 2.0: From Billion-Dollar Hype to Haight Street Hospice

Eaze was once the “Uber of weed.” After bankruptcy and a fire sale, the brand has reappeared in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. But the comeback feels less like a rebirth and more like a hospice wing for a unicorn that investors already buried.

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Massachusetts town hall chaos as residents debate a ballot petition to end the $1.6B adult-use cannabis market, with protest signs and petitions visible.

Massachusetts Wants to Cancel Weed: $1.6 Billion on the Ballot

Massachusetts just certified a ballot petition to nuke its $1.6B adult-use cannabis industry. If it makes the ballot, every dispensary, cultivator, and brand in the state could be gone overnight. Welcome to the dumbest economic experiment since prohibition.

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Dimly lit Ohio Marijuana Card office with unsecured medical records on a computer screen and patient files scattered on the floor, symbolizing data leak negligence.

Ohio Marijuana Card Leaks Patient Data: A $200 Gatekeeper With a Dropbox Addiction

Ohio Marijuana Card, a $200-a-visit medical card mill, left sensitive patient records exposed online. Our exposé uncovers Dropbox idiocy, leadership failures, and regulatory silence — a perfect case study in cannabis compliance theater and corporate weed rot.

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Cannabis lab with falsified test data and audit documents, symbolizing the Assured Testing Labs scandal and Massachusetts regulatory failure.

DRY‑LABGED & PROBATIONED: ASSURED TESTING’S REINSTATEMENT ISN’T REFORM — IT’S A RIGGED COMEBACK

Assured Testing Labs buried 7,000+ contaminated samples, got caught, paid $300K, and now they’re back — with biweekly check-ins and a PR audit team. Trust the system? Hell no. This isn’t oversight. It’s regulatory damage control.

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