This Pharma Billionaire Is Developing A Cannabis Painkiller To Replace Dangerous Opioids @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Why Cheech And Chong’s $100 Million Cannabis Empire Is No Joke @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Meet The Ex-NASA Engineer Training Robots To Make Pre-Roll Joints More Potent @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

With Federal Legalization Stalled, Cannabis Companies Are Finding A New Green Rush In Europe @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

The Irish drone delivery upstart Manna has raised $30 million to fund an ambitious expansion, taking on deep-pocketed competitors like Amazon, Alphabet's Wing and the unicorn Zipline. It's bidding to be the first to scale a mass drone delivery operation. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

Zyn, But With Weed: The Pouch Craze Hits The Cannabis Industry our @forbes.com Daily Briefing (with reporting by @willyakowicz.bsky.social) youtu.be/FCYD8fSvyLE

The good news: @forbes.com ramped up the number of bargaining sessions in 2025. The bad news: We've seen no change in tone at the bargaining table, just the same old, same old. Very disappointing.

New: El Segundo is getting its own military tech accelerator, with eyes on Y Combinator. a16z, Point72, Lux + others have backed a stream of companies emerging from Disciplus Ventures in the past year (it's led by a 21-yo who has raised his own fund) www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

Casino Billionaire Phil Ruffin Is Ready To Sell Las Vegas’s Circus Circus @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Forbes has a scoop on the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni scandal today. Those “It Ends with Us” costars have gotten most of the attention in the escalating dispute, but another defendant in Lively's case—who's preparing to sue her back as soon as today—is the billionaire Steve Sarowitz.

Great story from @simonemelvin.bsky.social: "RxBar cofounder, Peter Rahal, sold his first company to Kellogg's for $600 million in 2017. Now free from a five-year-long non-compete agreement, his new David bar aims to be the ultimate health supplement." www.forbes.com/sites/simone...

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I spent Election Day eve with Tucker Carlson. Instead of talking about Trump, who he campaigned for, he was pitching his new business, a nicotine pouch brand named Alp. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

How Zyn Conquered America @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Honor Thy Father: The Saga of a Drug Smuggler’s Son @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Magic mushroom edibles made with Amanita muscaria are on the rise thanks to a legal gray area. Meet the entrepreneurs bringing hallucinogenic treats to a smoke shop—or mailbox—near you. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Prophet of Shroom: David Hodges founded San Francisco’s Church of Ambrosia on the belief that psychedelic mushrooms are a sacrament that can reveal life’s true purpose. Inside America’s largest—and trippiest—megachurch. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

The Billionaire And The Con Artist, a tale about a man posing as the son of deceased casino mogul Sheldon Adelson www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

The Godfather of Cannabis Strain Sour Diesel Returns To New York www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Weed Kills: How Investing In Cannabis Almost Took Down Scotts Miracle-Gro www.forbes.com/sites/willya...

Why President Biden Needs Weed in 2024 www.forbes.com/sites/willya...