Chris Silva

Taxes, elections and federal wildcards are upending Michigan’s wild-west weed market

Croptober meets the wholesale tax squeeze Can Michigan’s sun-grown market survive the harvest?

He wanted to build the Jack Daniels of cannabis and left a vision bigger than most people dared to dream

Welcome to MSU. Leave your weed at the border

Gold Crown extracts are hitting Pure Options shelves — and if you know, you know.

Michigan’s cannabis market is booming, so why is everyone going broke?

 Lansterdam: BOOGIEZ Grow is bringing craft cannabis to Michigan — and it’s the real deal

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 …