Crain’s Detroit recently published several op-ed articles from folks in the commercial cannabis business and the CRA. These were thinly veiled attempts to form public opinions about things like: why social equity doesn’t work; illicit cannabis sales; taking the Wild West out of cannabis; cracking down on bad actors in the licensed cannabis market; and the new top cop of cannabis in Michigan, Brian Hanna. This caught the attention
of Michigan cannabis activists, particularly because of the rate of successive releases, almost daily, in early December. In 2021, Crain’s bought the Green Market Report, a website that at the time got over 100k online views per month by providing content focused on the emerging commercial cannabis industry.
