More Equipment Won’t Fix Your Yield Problems
The head grower at a 100,000-square-foot facility was getting hammered over flat yields. Investors wanted “efficiency,” the CEO wanted a silver bullet, and everyone wanted a clean story to explain why the numbers would magically go up next quarter. Under that pressure, leadership did what struggling operations often do: they switched nutrients and bought a […]
Legal Weed Didn’t Fix South Africa’s Cannabis Problem
High Times reporter John Veit traces South Africa’s turbulent cannabis landscape with activists Myrtle Clarke and Trenton Birch, highlighting the human cost of contradictory laws, police chaos, and an export-first legalization model that sidelines legacy growers. Blending personal tragedy with policy analysis, it shows how private clubs, medicalization, and ingenuity persist in a legal gray […]