Field Notes
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Field Notes
Who Is Cann? A Brand File on the Celebrity-Backed THC Drink
The best-selling THC beverage in California publishes some of the most rigorous lab reports in the business — and still got hit with a prosecutor's settlement for selling drinks whose THC didn't match the label. Both things are true, and you should know both.
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Who Is Wyld? A Brand File on America's Best-Selling Edible
Wyld makes the #1 cannabis gummy in the country, it's bootstrapped, and it's made entirely in the US — genuinely impressive. So why does the brand that dominates the edibles aisle make its own lab reports so hard to actually see?
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Who Is Hometown Hero? A Brand File on the Veteran-Owned Delta-8 Fighter
The Austin company that grows its own Texas hemp, publishes full-panel batch lab tests, and literally took the state to court to keep delta-8 legal. It's one of the more transparent brands we've examined — with a couple of honest asterisks.
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Who Is Mood? A Brand File on the 'Pick-a-Feeling' Hemp Giant
One of the largest hemp-THC catalogs you can buy from a single site, run by a traceable founder and tested by named labs — but it won't say who actually manufactures its products, and an unproven lawsuit makes a serious claim we cover carefully.
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Who Is 3Chi? A Brand File on the Delta-8 Pioneer
The company widely credited with starting the hemp delta-8 boom makes its own product in an audited GMP lab and hides almost nothing about who runs it — but its workplace reviews and customer ratings tell a rockier story. Here's the receipts-first reality.
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How We Score Cannabis Brands: The Kind Buds Brand Transparency Score
An open, point-by-point methodology for grading the companies behind your hemp and THC products — who makes it, what's in it, who's testing it, and who's behind the LLC. We score what a brand will show you, and we never invent what it won't.
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