Field Dispatch

New York finally enforced the billboard rules everyone pretended not to read. The signs came down quietly. Ownership panicked loudly. Marketing took the blame, as tradition demands.

Dutchie this week unveiled its long-awaited All-In-One POS / Marketing / E-commerce / Intelligence Platform, and for once the product actually did everything leadership promised. It transformed. During a rollout demo at a midsize dispensary, witnesses report that after a Monster Energy drink was accidentally poured across a tablet register, the system entered what Dutchie later described as “a hardware-forward innovation state.”

An ICE officer in Minnesota learned the hard way that America’s culture war hits different when it comes in a slim aluminum can with tasteful typography. After finishing a shift spent aggressively interpreting paperwork, Officer Bradley “Brad” Stonewall stopped at a local liquor store to grab what he believed was a normal, patriotic seltzer. Clear can. Minimalist design. No screaming weed leaves. Just hydration, liberty, and plausible deniability.

Dateline: Emergency Rooms in Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, and Illinois It’s 2:17 a.m. The ER doors slide open. A nurse sighs. Another man steps forward, sweating, clutching a clipboard, eyes wide with regret and pride in equal measure. The waiting room is quiet in the way only medical crises get, except for the unmistakable posture. The stance. The problem.

We set out with noble intentions. Real journalism shit. Different dispensaries. Different brands. Different vibes. We wanted variety. Terps. Personality. Maybe, god forbid, weed that tastes like it was grown this decade. Instead, we accidentally speedran The Good Day Farm Cinematic Universe.

Somewhere off a two-lane highway, behind a “No Trespassing” sign that hasn’t worked since Obama. Boof du Jour has located the source of your state’s most “exclusive,” “small-batch,” “hand-trimmed,” “top-shelf,” “award-winning” flower.

What began as a routine “solidarity outreach” event between UFCW Local 21 organizers and cannabis workers ended Tuesday afternoon in chaos, confusion, and a fully sanctioned strike - against the union itself - after several organizers reportedly tried weed for the first time and immediately realized they were the problem.

A Michigan dispensary got caught giving away nearly 2,000 grams of concentrate under a fake name — so in a last-ditch PR stunt straight out of a fever dream, they hosted a statewide gathering of every real Chris Peterson they could find. It didn’t prove innocence, but it did prove how far the cannabis industry will go to avoid admitting it screwed up.