Articles tagged with "legacy market"
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New York dispensary owners are collaborating for a better future
Amelia Williams and Calvin Stovall - Published on November 7, 2024Read moreMeet NYCRA: the coalition of dispensary owners united and ready to thrive in New York’s legal market.
NYC bud crawl: Rating New York’s legal & legacy cannabis strains
Mikhail Harrison, Amelia Williams, and Calvin Stovall - Published on April 3, 2023Read moreWe blazed through the best and worst flower from all corners of the Big Apple’s bud scene for classics like Haze and Sour, plus new favs.
Voices of cannabis: Tahir Johnson
Leafly Staff - Published on April 1, 2023Read moreThis Trenton, NJ native is opening his town’s first adult-use cannabis dispensary later this year.
![Did you know "muggle" once referred to joints? Read the history of the word "muggle" and how it went from marijuana to magic. (Warner Brothers)]()
Charting Harlem’s long history as a hotbed for cannabis culture
Dan Reagans and Calvin Stovall - Published on February 9, 2023Read moreFor more than a century, Harlem has helped define New York City’s world famous cannabis scene. From 1920s Jazz pioneers to the legal legends of today, Leafly honors the neighborhood’s deeply rooted influence on pot culture.
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28 grams of game: Shiest Bubz is legend
Mikhail Harrison and Calvin Stovall - Published on February 3, 2023Read moreIn New York cannabis, no name carries more weight than Smoker’s Club co-founder Shiest Bubz. Learn how the Harlem native became NYC’s “Willy Wonka of Weed” in Leafly’s latest 28 grams of game.
![Brooklyn dispensary applicant Alex Norman spoke to Leafly about his past as a dealer, and plans for the future of legal weed in New York. (Calvin Stovall / Leafly)]()
28 grams of game: Budega NYC’s Alex Norman
Amelia Williams and Calvin Stovall - Published on December 28, 2022Read moreAlex Norman followed his instincts, and the lyrics of New York rap greats, to success in various fields. His legacy-to-legal cannabis journey now lives on for those hoping to take a similar path.
![From 1971 to 1986, South Carolina smugglers kept the East Coast high, supplying weed from Florida to Massachusetts.]()
28 grams of game: The Gentlemen Smugglers
Calvin Stovall - Published on December 9, 2022Read moreIn 28 grams of game, Leafly breaks down the story of how South Carolina cannabis smugglers moved 170 tons of grass, 60 tons of hash, and served the Drug War’s first kingpin sentences.
![28 grams of game Leafly profiles Atlanta's legacy cannabis Kings including Sharklato's Yung Marley, Real 1's JR The Director, and GasHouse's Felix Murray and Kingston.]()
Atlanta’s cannabis kings: Sharklato, Real 1, GasHouse
Mikhail Harrison and Dan Reagans - Published on November 29, 2022Read moreMeet the CEOs behind the dirty south’s dankest cannabis brands. For the ‘28 grams of game’ series, these Atlanta weed pioneers show Leafly how they went from underground legends to legal operators.
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How Vic Mensa brought premium legal gas to Chicago dispensaries
Shawn Grant and Tay Tousana - Published on October 26, 2022Read moreVic and his team took Leafly under the hood of his new legal weed venture, 93 Boyz, which happens to be Illinois’ first licensed Black-owned cannabis brand.
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28 grams of game: Sakara Barnes
Mikhail Harrison and Dan Reagans - Published on October 20, 2022Read moreSakara Barnes is a legacy NYC seller who became a licensed operator in California. Here’s how she did it, in 28 steps.
