Dustin WalshJanuary 2, 2024
The state should easily eclipse $3 billion in total sales for the year.
Tag: Crain’s Detroit
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Skymint management’s feet never seemed planted on the ground.
Dustin WalshNovember 22, 2023
This story was republished with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by Dustin Walsh. What’s in a name? An aging hippie from Texas hill country and a mainstay in the “Outlaw Country” music synonymous with weed culture is, perhaps to no surprise, a growing cannabis brand name in Michigan. Willie’s Reserve, a marijuana licensing company […]
Dustin WalshOctober 16, 2023
Lawyers revel in legal conundrums on both sides of break even.
Dustin WalshOctober 5, 2023
This story was republished with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by Dustin Walsh. Amid 120 acres of decaying cornstalks and scarecrows along County Road 665 north of Paw Paw, rows and rows of lush green trees rise into the sky. Expensive trees. Trees that make up the next crop of marijuana growing at Grasshopper […]
StaffSeptember 15, 2023
This story was reprinted with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by Dave Eggert. Among the bribes paid to top marijuana regulator Rick Johnson was $2,000 so he could have sex with a sex worker multiple times, federal prosecutors said Thursday as they requested that he be sentenced to a minimum of nearly six years […]
StaffSeptember 8, 2023
This piece was reprinted with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by David Eggert. The lawyer for a Detroit-area businessman who pleaded guilty to bribing a top marijuana regulator is disputing a recommended prison sentence range and asking that a federal judge give John Dawood Dalaly a lighter punishment regardless. In a motion filed Wednesday, […]
Dustin WalshAugust 25, 2023
This story was republished with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by Dustin Walsh. Cannabis cultivators take great care. Transferring a seedling from its mother plant to new pots. It joins its siblings in a highly-controlled room. Twelve hours of light, 12 hours of darkness. Its vegetative state is critical to its maturation. Temperature, humidity, […]
Dustin WalshAugust 18, 2023
This story was reprinted with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by Dustin Walsh. Weed. Jazz cabbage. Ganja. Jolly green. Righteous bush. Sin spinach. Regardless of the name, Michiganders fully embraced marijuana’s legalization and commercialization. Michigan is now the top marijuana market in the country — based on per capita spending. Through the first seven […]
Dustin WalshJuly 31, 2023
This story was republished with permission from Crain’s Detroit and written by Dustin Walsh. Michigan’s marijuana industry is among the most competitive industry in the state. With basement-low wholesale prices, the industry is becoming increasingly more vertically-integrated. The most profitable way to do business in weed is for growers to be sellers, realizing margins on […]
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