Revelry Marks 10 Years With Two Major New York Cannabis Events
A decade in, one of New York’s most important cannabis gatherings is doubling down. New York’s cannabis industry doesn’t have many constants. Markets shift, regulations change, and operators come and go. But for the past decade, one thing has remained steady: Revelry. Now, the platform behind some of the state’s most recognizable cannabis gatherings is…
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Inside Hypno World and the Push Toward High-THC Cannabis Genetics
Cannabis brands don’t usually build worlds. They build catalogs, menus, drops. Hypno Seeds has been moving in a different direction—treating cannabis less like a product and more like a system of ideas, visuals, and experiences. That direction takes a more literal form with Hypno World, an interactive extension of the brand that expands its identity…
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Psychedelic Reform Is Spreading Faster Than Anyone Expected. The Movement Is Trying Not to Blow It.
Psychedelic legislation is moving through more state capitols simultaneously than at any point in history. The question is not whether reform is coming. It is whether it will be done right. In March 2026, Oregon signed into law significant modifications to its psilocybin services program, the first regulated psychedelic access system in the country, now…
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‘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…
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Two Legends, Two Dispensaries: Snoop Dogg and Xzibit Expand Their Cannabis Brands in California
Two West Coast rap legends are opening cannabis dispensaries in California within weeks of each other. Xzibit goes first. Snoop comes home. West Coast hip-hop has always had a complicated, generative relationship with cannabis. Two of its most enduring figures are now making that relationship literal — and building businesses around it. Xzibit opens the…
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Alabama Took Five Years to Open Its First Cannabis Dispensary. It’s Finally Happening.
Five years after Alabama legalized medical cannabis, the state’s first dispensary is finally opening. The commission that got it here just received one of the most critical audits in the program’s history. Alabama is about to make history. Callie’s Apothecary in Montgomery is set to serve its first patient on May 4, becoming the first…
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Thailand Kills Adult-Use Cannabis After Leading Asia’s Weed Boom ¿What Happened?
The ending feels almost tragic, especially for a story that, when it came to adult-use cannabis, once seemed destined to succeed. In 2022, Thailand made history by becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to decriminalize adult-use cannabis, removing flower from the narcotics list and expanding a liberalization process that had begun in 2018 with…
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Most Cannabis Brands Still Post Like It’s 2018. The Internet Moved On Without Them.
While much of the industry kept chasing polished marketing and safe social templates, cannabis culture on X stayed fast, funny and deeply online. Parker Beck and Swaroop Suri built Canna Connect by understanding that gap, and they think most brands still haven’t caught up. Cannabis brands love talking about culture. Online, most of them still…
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What Growers Really Talk About When No One’s Watching
Most of the real lessons about growing cannabis never happen in public. They happen in grow rooms while someone points at a plant and says, “See that?” They happen late at night after the lights shut off, when cultivators start talking about the mistakes that taught them the most. The kind of knowledge that rarely…
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Inside Sweetlife NYC’s Elevated Cannabis Experience
A Different Kind of Dispensary Lands on the Upper East Side New York’s cannabis scene is still finding its rhythm. Some shops lean transactional, others try to mimic legacy culture, and a few attempt to split the difference. Then there’s Sweetlife NYC, a licensed dispensary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that’s taking a different route…
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