Cannabis
2 guides tagged Cannabis
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Who Is Cookies? A Brand File on the Iconic Cannabis Lifestyle Brand
Berner's Cookies is one of the most famous names in cannabis — a global lifestyle and licensing empire. It's also a different kind of company than the hemp brands we usually grade, and on our consumer-transparency rubric it scores low: testing lives at the dispensary level, not the brand's, and its public record is dominated by a thicket of (unproven) partner and investor disputes.
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Who Is STIIIZY? A Brand File on America's Best-Selling Cannabis Brand
The #1-selling US cannabis brand is a real, regulated, vertically integrated company with named founders — genuinely more accountable than the anonymous operators we usually grade. But on transparency and record it's weighed down by a confirmed pesticide recall, a major data breach, and a thin voluntary-COA trail, especially on its hemp line.
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