Jerry Garcia’s Cannabis Brand Returns To California
Garcia Hand Picked left California once. Now it is coming home, tying Jerry Garcia’s name to the small sun-grown farms of the Emerald Triangle at a moment when much of the state has run the other way, toward scale, efficiency and cheap weed. This time, the return feels different. Garcia Hand Picked, the cannabis brand […]
Doja Pak Takes on Europe: The Cali Brand Known for Elite Genetics Enters Regulated Medical Markets
Doja Pak helped popularize Permanent Marker, contributed to the rise of Zoap and RS11, and spent years building one of the most respected names in California cannabis culture. Now it is moving into the regulated European medical market — and it has a specific complaint about what it is finding there. The brand, founded by […]
‘Cannabis Is a Tool, Not an Escape.’ Two Iraqi-American Brothers Built a $180 Million Brand Around That Idea.
Ali and Muha Garawi built Muha Meds from a $15,000 startup into one of cannabis’s most dominant brands — without outside money, without losing the culture and without losing each other. “A lot of people wait for the right moment or for some perfect circumstance,” says Muha Garawi, “but when you have a background like […]