Media

Q13 Fox Seattle, a Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate, botched its coverage of former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch’s new Dodi Blunts product line, mistakenly reporting that the blunts were infused with actual 24-carat diamonds.

Weedmaps is set to go public with a Nasdaq listing. The deal values the company at approximately $1.5 billion.

This podcast features Noel and Graham Abbott, the brothers who first created Ganjapreneur as a small, independent blog in 2013.

High Times has suspended the publication of DOPE and Culture magazines during the coronavirus outbreak; all employees have been temporarily furloughed.

Cannabis media company Leafly laid off 54 employees, about 18 percent of its workforce, in an effort to align its business operations “with the market realities of the technology and cannabis sectors.”

The 16 employees at the cannabis lifestyle magazine Civilized have been laid off following the magazine’s recent acquisition by cannabis analytics company New Frontier Data.

High Times CEO Kraig Fox confirmed the restructuring in an email to Ganjapreneur. Going forward, DOPE’s content will be produced at the High Times Los Angeles headquarters.

The DEA is carefully monitoring and sometimes modifying interviews by its personnel — and other representations of the agency — as part of a larger media effort to control how it appears in documentaries, reality shows, and dramas.