Black Market Thrives in Morocco’s Rif Mountains
Cannabis resin world capital Morocco is struggling to reconcile its historical but illegal cannabis production region with the emerging legal market. According to the United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime, the northern Rif Mountains region is the world’s top producer of cannabis resin. Cannabis has been tolerated in Morocco’s kingdom for hundreds of […]
Trulieve’s $25M Lawsuit Against Ohio Cannabis Companies Heats Up, Black Female Owners Respond – Trulieve Cannabis (OTC:TCNNF)
A contentious situation between cannabis giant Trulieve Cannabis Corp. TCNNF and Black-owned Harvest of Ohio and Harvest Grows is heating up. Last week, less than two years after a “billion-dollar merger,” Trulieve filed a civil lawsuit against Harvest of Ohio and Harvest Grows alleging unpaid debts to the tune of nearly $25 million. What Happened Trulieve and Harvest Health & Recreation (HHR) wrapped up a billion-dollar merger in October […]
Black Mirror Is Back with Another Series of Bad Trips
A little over a year ago, I reviewed an Oscar-nominated short from Mexican-American screenwriter and director K.D. Dávila titled Please Hold, about an alternative (read: potential) future in which someone gets arrested by a drone for an undisclosed crime and placed in a fully-automated holding cell where a malfunctioning computer screen prevents him from communicating […]