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Reggaeton Pioneer Randy Wants to Beat California at Its Own Game With a Puerto Rican Weed Brand

Jowell & Randy member Randy is expanding into cannabis with La Zaza, a brand built around Caribbean identity, premium positioning…

4 days ago

Jamaica’s Cannabis Reform Opens a New Path for Small Growers

Jamaica has introduced two new special permits designed to help traditional growers and small farmers enter its regulated cannabis industry…

5 days ago

I Got Sick Spraying Pesticides on Weed. Now I Think All Farming Should Test Like Cannabis.

What cannabis is teaching us about pesticides and modern agriculture. By Micah Anderson. An earlier version of this article appeared…

6 days ago

Better Call Saul: Weed Is Legal Here, Illegal There. These Lawyers Live in the Gap.

Cannabis lawyers operate in a legal world full of contradictions, where state permission, federal prohibition, tax burdens, weak trademark protections,…

6 days ago

Dispensaries Are Throwing Real Parties Now. Here’s What Separates a Good One From a Balloon by the Door.

Dispensaries hosted more events in the first six months of 2026 than in all of 2025. What works, what flops…

7 days ago

Cannabis Costs $15 in One State and $52 in Another. Bourbon Doesn’t.

Four states that have never traded a gram with each other all charge about $18. Everywhere else, the difference is…

2 weeks ago

Ecuador’s Hemp Market Is Growing Fast—and It’s Not Just About Cultivation

Ecuador’s hemp sector is projected to approach or surpass $20 million in 2026 as companies move beyond raw biomass into…

3 weeks ago

Chain vs. Indy: Which Dispensaries Do People Prefer?

Chains reorder every two weeks and earn twice the discounts. Independents stock the same breadth of product and win on…

3 weeks ago

Beware of the Chads

Berner has a word for the guys who show up with a term sheet and no feel for the plant.…

1 month ago

In 40 Years, MAPS Partnered With Universities, Clinicians and the Pentagon. It Just Signed Its First Deal With a Weed Shop.

MAPS has spent four decades running clinical trials, lobbying regulators and building the case for psychedelic medicine. It had never…

1 month ago