The Cannabis ‘Shit List’: Where Vendors Are Naming California’s Lowest-Rated Operators
Whitney Economics says U.S. cannabis operators carried more than $3.8 billion in delinquent receivables at the end of 2023, projected to top $4.2 billion in 2024. California’s legislature has tried twice to mandate timely vendor payments. Both bills died. A public credit-scoring platform is now filling the gap. The cannabis industry has a payment problem. […]
High Times Publisher Josh Kesselman Just Made the Forbes Cannabis List. It Started With a Magazine Smuggled Under His Jacket at 16.
Josh Kesselman bought his first copy of High Times at 16, smuggled it under his jacket out of a New York City shop and read it cover to cover twice. Forty years later, he owns it, and Forbes just named him one of the 42 people shaping the legal cannabis industry. You can tell the […]