Founder, Publisher and Contributing Editor at The Bluntness, Inc.
Harrison is also the founder and CEO of Wise Collective, an award-winning integrated marketing communications agency that works across the Cannabis, Tech, Sports, Media and Entertainment industries. Harrison has been involved in the Cannabis industry since 2015 when he and his agency launched MedMen. They have since worked with and counseled countless businesses and brands in the cannabis industry, including but not limited to Stiiizy, Shryne Group, Cloudponics, MCR Labs, Chil, Hemptown USA, Happy Valley MA and Greatest Hits Cannabis Co. among others. For more information visit: www.wisecollective.co.
While 2024 set a new annual record of $4.4 billion in state cannabis taxes, California's decision to raise rates from 15% to 19% exposes the death spiral threatening legal markets nationwide
From Stonewall to dispensary laws, queer advocacy helped legitimize cannabis as medicine and ignited a broader movement for justice, health, and dignity. Their impact is visible in today’s ongoing progress toward cannabis access and LGBTQ+ rights.
TL;DR: In 2025 Meta ended its U.S. third-party fact-checking and began rolling out Community Notes across Facebook, Instagram and Threads, changing how “borderline” posts are handled. On paper, Meta’s Restricted Goods & Services rules allow debate and education about high-risk drugs while banning sales coordination. In practice, cannabis and psychedelics educators and nonprofits continue to report takedowns, suspensions, and “not eligible for recommendations” labels, even as other sensational content is frequently visible. The problem isn’t only “censorship”; it’s uneven, error-prone enforcement that undermines legitimate health and science discourse.
Three years after legalization, New York’s cannabis market is finally finding its footing — and Revelry Buyers’ Club continues to be the connective tissue helping to fuel its success.
Despite crossing $1 billion in sales, New York’s cannabis market reveals a fragile ecosystem where equity ambitions, high taxes, and regulatory drag threaten to blunt its full potential.
The closure of Nevada’s first state-licensed cannabis lounge, Smoke and Mirrors, highlights the crushing weight of regulation, taxes, and lack of banking support in legal cannabis. Here's what needs to change.
New York State regulators are investigating some of America’s biggest cannabis companies after receiving complaints that they have been selling marijuana to New York dispensaries that comes from unauthorized sources or is grown out of state, an illegal practice that has been called the industry’s open secret.