You Went Legal. The Federal Government Rewarded You With a 70% Tax Rate.
Legal cannabis operators paid $2.24 billion in excess federal taxes in 2025. The illicit market paid zero. That is not a coincidence. […]
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Big Finance Found A New Way To Go After Cannabis: By Policing Speech
In Transaction Denied, Rainey Reitman argues that cannabis was never merely underbanked. It was pushed to the margins by a financial system […]
Five Years In: What New York Cannabis Got Wrong—and What’s Finally Going Right
By Sasha Nutgent, VP of Cannabis Retail at Housing Works Cannabis Co Five years after New York created the Office of Cannabis […]
Meet California’s New Director of Cannabis Control
California’s medical cannabis market began in 1996 when voters passed Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Use Act), making it the first state to […]
New York’s Cannabis Boom Is Real, But So Are the Risks
The Most Exciting US Market No cannabis market in the United States has experienced a more compelling growth trajectory over the past […]
How to Kill the California Cannabis Industry
A Field Manual for the True Believer. An inversion in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: confronting hard truths head-on by following bad […]
[Video] Corporate Weed Has a Problem. This Maine Field Might Be the Answer
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A 15-minute film follows one season of sun-grown cannabis in Maine and a partnership built to survive outside the corporate model. In […]
What Happens When a Weed Nerd Runs the Numbers
Make Great Weed. Know Your Numbers. Pay Your Debts. By Nicholas Sosiak via Cannabis Confidential In 2018, Canadian cannabis was supposed to […]
Sherbinskis Was Dying. PrimeTime Took the Risk.
For years, Sherbinskis occupied a rare place in cannabis culture. The brand was widely associated with premium flower, cultural relevance, and one […]
$1.3 Billion/Month Later: What Cannabis Banking Has Really Taught Us
A decade ago, most banks wouldn’t touch a cannabis business. Whenever banking access came up, the discussion stopped almost immediately. People said […]