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Vireo just bought Cannabist's assets in five states — for up to $35 million
Up to 25 dispensaries, a grow, and a production plant change hands as Vireo picks through another restructured MSO — and becomes the country's second-largest dispensary network on paper.
The Crushed Desk · yesterday · 4 min read
Four of the biggest MSOs each wrote a $2.5 million check to a Trump-linked PAC
New FEC filings show Trulieve, Curaleaf, Verano, and a Green Thumb subsidiary put $11.5 million into America First Agriculture Action in June — pushing industry money to Trump-connected committees past $15 million.
4d ago · 4 min read
Greenlight just hit Ohio's dispensary ceiling — and brought its own factory with it
Four new stores and an in-state manufacturing buildout take the Kansas City operator to the max eight licenses Ohio allows any single company to hold.
5d ago · 4 min read
Ascend Wellness is next in line for the reverse-split-to-uplist playbook
Shareholders vote August 28 on a split as wide as 1-for-50, the same move Curaleaf and Trulieve just ran to get onto a major U.S. exchange.
1w ago · 4 min read
Trulieve's coming to Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio this fall
The Florida MSO is opening three medical dispensaries in Texas this September under the state's Compassionate Use Program.
1w ago · 4 min read
Only two weed companies made Time's Best Companies list — you can guess who
Trulieve and Green Thumb Industries are the lone cannabis names on Time's America's Best Companies 2026 ranking of 1,000 U.S. employers.
1w ago · 4 min read
Tilray just shipped its first medical cannabis product into Panama
A CBD oral solution made in Portugal is now sitting on pharmacy shelves in Panama City, and it's the clearest sign yet of where the next wave of MSO growth is actually coming from.
1w ago · 4 min read
Cannabis's biggest bankruptcy yet: how AYR's collapse is reshaping three states
AYR Wellness handed Florida, New Jersey, and Nevada to its creditors. TerrAscend just lost Michigan. Vireo Growth is picking up the pieces.
2w ago · 5 min read
Cannabis stocks are pricing in a rescheduling win — here's what happens if they're wrong
The MSOS ETF is up 103.7% over the past year with the DEA's July 15 deadline bearing down. That's a lot of hope baked into one ruling.
2w ago · 4 min read
An Illinois dispensary chain's co-founder just traded his cannabis license for a prison sentence
David Berger booked private jets with cocaine cash for a Mexican trafficker — now he's out at Ivy Hall and headed to federal prison.
2w ago · 4 min read
Cannabis stocks are up 103% this year — and it's all riding on one hearing
The MSOS ETF hit its 2026 high as investors position ahead of the DEA's rescheduling decision, with Trulieve's NYSE debut leading the way.
2w ago · 5 min read
Wall Street is finally taking the call: Glass House cleared for the NYSE
Weeks after Trulieve became the first U.S. plant-touching operator to list on the Big Board, Glass House Brands got the nod too.
3w ago · 5 min read
How live rosin went from connoisseur flex to the fastest-growing category
Solventless was a niche. The sales data says it is now a mainstream concentrate — and the price is finally coming down.
3w ago · 5 min read
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