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HOW CALIFORNIA’S CANNABIS LOBBY RESHAPED THE INDUSTRY
HOW CALIFORNIA’S CANNABIS LOBBY RESHAPED THE INDUSTRY
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California promised justice under Prop 64—but Sacramento’s lobbyists tilted the table. Axiom Advisors, Glass House & Carp growers scaled to mega-farm status while small sungrown operators faced bankruptcy. Supporters call... Read more...
MARC EMERY: PRINCE OF POT
MARC EMERY: PRINCE OF POT
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Marc Emery turned seeds into war chests, smoke-ins into protest, and jail time into headlines. From Hemp BC to Emery Seeds, Pot TV to Cannabis Culture, he built Canada’s loudest... Read more...
DENNIS PERON: FATHER OF MEDICAL CANNABIS
DENNIS PERON: FATHER OF MEDICAL CANNABIS
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Dennis Peron, Castro activist & cannabis pioneer, turned personal loss into policy. From San Francisco’s Buyers Club to Prop 215, he made medical cannabis a legal reality & forever tied... Read more...
THE KING OF CANNABIS: NEVIL’S SEED EMPIRE
THE KING OF CANNABIS: NEVIL’S SEED EMPIRE
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Nevil Schoenmakers, born in Australia, built the world’s first true cannabis seed bank in 1984 from a Dutch castle. By stabilizing Skunk, Haze & Northern Lights for indoor HID grows,... Read more...
SEEDS AND SINSEMILLA: HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE WORLD’S CANNABIS GENETIC HUB
SEEDS AND SINSEMILLA: HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE WORLD’S CANNABIS GENETIC HUB
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From coffeeshop loopholes to global catalogs, amsterdam turned gray-area tolerance into a genetic empire. nevil’s seed bank, skunkman sam’s refugees, & sensi’s mega-library made holland the world’s cannabis hub—where strains... Read more...
CASH, CANNABIS AND CRUELTY: THE 2012 KIDNAPPING THAT SHOOK CALIFORNIA’S WEED SCENE
CASH, CANNABIS AND CRUELTY: THE 2012 KIDNAPPING THAT SHOOK CALIFORNIA’S WEED SCENE
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In 2012, a newport beach dispensary owner survived one of the most sadistic pot-related crimes in u.s. history—kidnapped, mutilated & left for dead in the mojave. the case exposed prop... Read more...
THIS BETTER BE 30% THC OR I’M NOT BUYING IT. HOW THC NUMBERS TOOK OVER SHELVES.
THIS BETTER BE 30% THC OR I’M NOT BUYING IT. HOW THC NUMBERS TOOK OVER SHELVES.
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From turkey bags to qr codes, thc testing reshaped cannabis. steep hill gave it numbers, weedmaps turned them into menu metrics, and california locked them in law. now 30%+ isn’t... Read more...
SHE’S A BRICK..HOUSE: HOW MEXICO BUILT AMERICA’S WEED HABIT
SHE’S A BRICK..HOUSE: HOW MEXICO BUILT AMERICA’S WEED HABIT
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From the ’70s through the ’90s, mexico supplied up to 95% of america’s weed. compressed bricks—cheap, seedy, harsh—moved by the ton across tunnels, trucks & boats. for millions, price beat... Read more...
SNAP PACKS: HOW SNAPCHAT BECAME THE NEW PLUG
SNAP PACKS: HOW SNAPCHAT BECAME THE NEW PLUG
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By the late 2010s, snapchat had replaced trap corners with trap apps. disappearing chats, snap maps & emoji menus let plugs scale global empires—until fentanyl infiltration, dea pressure & lawsuits... Read more...
Gummies And Greed: The Kushy Punch Black Market Scandal
Gummies And Greed: The Kushy Punch Black Market Scandal
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In 2019, Kushy Punch was caught running a secret, unlicensed gummy line out of a hidden warehouse. A state raid uncovered $21M in illicit goods, millions in off-book edibles, and... Read more...
30% THC or Bust Numbers don’t lie—unless a lab prints them.
30% THC or Bust Numbers don’t lie—unless a lab prints them.
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Since 2018, California’s weed game has been ruled by lab-tested THC—but without standardized methods, inflated numbers became currency. Labs faked results, brands shopped for 30%, and truth got sidelined. Legal... Read more...
High by Definition How Hemp Became Weed
High by Definition How Hemp Became Weed
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The 2018 Farm Bill defined hemp by Δ9 THC—but ignored THCA. That loophole let high-THCA flower move nationwide as “hemp,” fueling a billion-dollar gray market. From CBD fields to real... Read more...