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Michigan cannabis is having a rough year. These brands want you to judge them anyway
Best in Grass is back, and in a market this beat up, it might be the most important thing happening in Michigan weed right now. Let’s set the scene. Cannabis sales are down. A 24% …
This is what union busting looks like up close
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Michigan’s cannabis industry has developed a disturbing pattern of crushing union drives. I heard from a lot of people after that piece but what stuck with …
The sheriff who wants to save Michigan’s cannabis industry
Chris Swanson is not the kind of politician you expect to be talking about cannabis. He’s a sheriff. He’s spent three decades in Genesee County law enforcement, doing narcotics, human …
The green industry’s dirty little secret: It hates unions
Cannabis was supposed to be different. Ask the budtenders at Exclusive Brands how that worked out. When Emily Hull, a budtender at the Ann Arbor dispensary of the Livonia-based chain with seven …
Can new CEO Bryan Lloyd wash the ‘corporate’ off Skymint?
Lansing’s cannabis district is used to a little haze, but as we slog through the end of March, the fog over the local market is getting thick. For years, Skymint (formerly Green Peak) was the …