As of today, the federal ban on synthetic hemp products is in effect. The rest of the intoxicating hemp market has one month to live. Read about how companies in the $38B industry are dealing with the looming extinction level event @Forbes
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Jim Higdon is planning for the best Black Friday of his life. It may also be the last for his company. Inside Cornbread Hemp’s 25,000-square-foot gummy factory in Louisville, Kentucky, the lines are running full and the warehouse is filling up for the biggest sales day of the year. Two weeks after that, on Dec. 11, a federal ban on hemp-derived THC takes effect. If it holds, Cornbread’s record $65 million in revenue this year ends, and so does most of the $38.5 billion industry around it.
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As cannabis prices crash, struggling cannabis companies w big industrial sites outfitted w power, fiber, water and HVAC systems thought they had a golden ticket to the AI race. But moratoriums, NIMBYISM and power constraints crushed most of their dreams. forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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Toms Founder Pledged $100 Million To Psychedelics. Now He Says The Trip Isn’t The Treatment @Forbes
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Blake Mycoskie still believes in psychedelic medicine. But when it comes to his own recovery, he says he wouldn’t have gotten better without therapy. Read more here: forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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Great story by @SchwabKatharine and @_IainMartin
EXCLUSIVE: Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to make more money.
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Casino influencers like @itsvegasmatt @FrancineMarie, Mr. Hand Pay and other high-stakes players make millions filming themselves betting thousands in Sin City. Meet gambling’s high-risk, high-reward creators who win even when they lose. @Forbes forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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NEW: Trump is pushing to delay a ban on intoxicating hemp products that experts warn can be dangerous.
Among the beneficiaries is @SusieWiles' son-in-law.
Bret Worley runs a company that sells intoxicating hemp gummies & vapes w/ names like “Trainwreck” nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/po…
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He Sold His Sports Equipment Company To New Balance. Now He’s Changing The Cannabis Game forbes.com/sites/willyakowic… (📸: Ryan Garza for Forbes)
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Once an elite lacrosse player, David Morrow took what he learned at Warrior Sports and built Lume into the biggest cannabis company in Michigan, with a plan to go national. “They’re not ready for this knife fight.”
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Glass House Brands is now trading on the NYSE, becoming the second U.S. cannabis co to uplist to a premier exchange after Trulieve. Read my feature @Forbes about how Glass House became a $1B (market cap) company trading on the Big Board almost a year after a deadly ICE raid.
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From a deadly ICE raid to trading on the NYSE, @forbes takes a look inside America's biggest cannabis greenhouse @GlassHouseBR.
Graham Farrar, inside one of Glass House's 6 greenhouses, which collectively contain 1M pot plants, says Glass House is betting on interstate commerce, which would super charge the company's margins. It already has one of the low production costs in the industry w $111 per lbs
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Read my feature in @Forbes about how Glass House became a $1B (market cap) company ready to trade on the NYSE just a year after a deadly ICE raid. forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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America’s Biggest Cannabis Greenhouse Wants To Become ‘The Sunkist Of Weed’ @Forbes
A year after a deadly ICE raid on its massive cannabis farms and months after the Trump Administration reclassified medical marijuana, Glass House is preparing to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, harvest 1 million pounds of weed and export its product all over the world.
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