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Is This the Largest Cannabis Grow Bust Ever, or Another Example of Regulatory Overreach?

NASTASIC / GETTY IMAGES The plant that produces the flowers you smoke to get all high and stuffโ€”which we will call “cannabis”โ€”differs in appearance from the hemp plant that doesn’t get you high but is capable of producing the CBD that’s going to fix everything wrong with you. It doesn’t differ by much, but it […]

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Know Your Bro-wer: MedMen, Poster Child for Excess

A shot from MedMen’s “The New Normal” commercial. Iโ€™ve recently written about the downward trend in cannabis stocks, looking primarily at Canadian cannabis companies. The amount invested into their brands is literally in the billions of dollarsโ€”staggering amounts for the average cannabis brand. My favorite cannabis brands are craft cannabis, and like most craft commodities, […]

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LA’s Cannabis License Rollout Questioned by Social Equity Advocates

nattrass / Getty Images A crucial component of any medical or recreational cannabis program should be the concept of โ€œsocial equity.โ€ Much like the terms โ€œorganic,โ€ โ€œnatural,โ€ and โ€œsocial media influencer,โ€ it can be overused and void of any real meaning, but in general, social equity in cannabis is the idea that support and preference […]

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