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.

This shit has officially crossed into performance art. Starting March 31, Texas is banning smokable hemp. No joints, no THCA flower, no “totally legal but definitely weed” loophole products that have been quietly keeping half the state relaxed and the other half pretending not to notice.

This shit has gone on way too fucking long in cannabis already, but unfortunately somewhere in America right now a cannabis “marketing team” is pitching what they believe is the boldest brand name ever conceived.

MISSOURI — National vape brand Stiiizy has reportedly exited the Missouri cannabis market faster than a guy doing Olympic level math after hearing the phrase “I’m not on birth control.” The California powerhouse entered the state with the usual national brand playbook. Big reputation. Big marketing confidence. Big assumption that if a brand dominates shelves in Los Angeles, it will naturally dominate shelves everywhere else.

PHOENIX, AZ - Arizona lawmakers are considering a bill that would make “excessive cannabis smoke” a misdemeanor, creating what experts are calling the nation’s first legal framework where a cloud of cigarette smoke is patriotic, but a whiff of weed is criminal activity.

In a development that can only be described as aggressively convenient, the good people over at Ganjapreneur report that Missouri’s cannabis program has officially been deemed “fair” by the state auditor. Fair. Despite minor details like widespread licensing disputes, lawsuits, injunctions, accusations of scoring inconsistencies, and a courtroom conga line of disappointed applicants. But relax. It’s fair now. Because paperwork says so.

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.

Let’s clear something up immediately: weed didn’t do this. A dispensary didn’t “accidentally” become a fentanyl rinse cycle. A person did. Specifically, Carolina Correa, a Rhode Island businesswoman who looked at her boyfriend’s fentanyl profits and thought, “I know exactly where this should go - inside a cannabis investment.” Not offshore. Not buried in shell companies. Not laundered through fine art or crypto or literally anything smart. Straight. Into. The books.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma’s Governor visited his first licensed cannabis dispensary this week, was told to take 2.5mg, took 25mg instead, and within hours concluded that the safest course of action was to shut down the entire cannabis industry statewide.

Donald Trump has reportedly secured a New York adult-use cannabis license and-within hours-filed a lawsuit against the U.S. federal government for not making weed federally legal. The lawsuit, filed before the ink on the license paperwork dried, alleges that the federal government’s continued prohibition of cannabis is “bad for business,” “extremely unfair,” and “honestly kind of embarrassing for a country this powerful.”

In a bold legal maneuver straight out of the “Please Stop Looking at That” playbook, Trulieve is reportedly suing Ganja Leaks for $750,000 in defamation after videos surfaced showing mold in Trulieve grow facilities, allegedly filmed by a former employee who, crucially, did not invent the mold.

Fabuloso has officially entered the weed business. The reason? Market research. Specifically: every dispensary already smells like it. After decades of accidentally becoming the unofficial fragrance sponsor of retail cannabis, Fabuloso executives reportedly realized they weren’t entering a new industry, they were simply acknowledging one they already dominated aromatically.

COLUMBUS, OH - After years of insisting cannabis marketing resemble a hospital pamphlet written by a risk-averse insurance adjuster, Ohio regulators have officially announced that cannabis advertising may now look “recreational.”

Welcome to Utah, where cannabis is strictly medical, aggressively regulated, and somehow still tastes like someone dissolved a Jolly Rancher in a gas station slushy machine. Utah lawmakers will swear, hand on scripture, that vape pens here are for patients, not pleasure. Which is wild, because if these are medical devices, then NyQuil should come in Mango Gelato. So we ran a little test. Call it science. Call it journalism. Call it the Utah Vape Pen Pepsi Challenge™.

In what experts are calling “the most honest cannabis branding of the decade,” Kash Patel has reportedly partnered with a cannabis edible company to launch a new line of gummies engineered to make your eyes look exactly like his. 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 access to “unused, und

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

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.”

Berlin did it. Germany legalized cannabis, shook hands with modernity, and briefly looked like it might join the rest of the developed world in treating adults like adults. Then Bavaria cleared its throat. Within weeks of legalization taking effect, Bavaria’s conservative leadership began publicly campaigning to roll it back, citing concerns about youth, morality, public health, social order, and whatever else you say when your entire political identity is screaming “nein” at

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.

Missouri didn’t just legalize cannabis. It legalized shortcuts. From day one, the state built a system where vertical integration dominates, cultivation, manufacturing, and retail bundled together under the same ownership umbrellas. On paper, it was supposed to create efficiency. In practice, it created a closed circuit where shelf space is decided long before a customer ever walks through the door.

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.

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.

After a court ruled her firing unlawful, Shannon O’Brien was reinstated as CCC Chair — only to be suspended again on appeal. Massachusetts cannabis regulation has officially turned into compliance theater with billion-dollar stakes.

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.

New York’s cannabis regulators admitted they’ve been measuring the school buffer wrong for three years — now 152 operators face shutdowns, a $15M fund skips existing stores, and compliance has devolved into spreadsheets, lawsuits, and Form 6399-FU.