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As February comes to a close, we’re ecstatic to bring back our March Dankness bracket, but we need your help to pack the perfect lineup. ⛹️ Shoot your shot and help us build the bracket by voting for who would be in your dream b!unt rotation! 🏀 Your picks could be anyone—real or fictional, dead or alive. Nominate your dream team at the link in bio. 🔗

We’re proud to spotlight another incredible Black-owned business on LeafLink: Dash Distro, a social equity micro business based in Oakland, California.

With brands like , their expertly hand-rolled h@sh hole, and , a flower brand specializing in exotic smalls from top-tier California cultivators, Dash Distro is setting a new standard in boutique manufacturing and statewide distribution. Committed to quality over margins, they ensure their brands maintain the highest level of integrity.

Dash Distro CEO Armande Milhouse emphasizes that their products should stand on their own merit rather than just being recognized for their social equity license: “In my opinion, this has done more for the term social equity than anything else. When people find out that I am the founder, they are often surprised that I am at the events or doing in-store demos. I feel as though we present more like larger brands and in doing so, give the term social equity the spotlight it deserves.”

Dash Distro continues to redefine what it means to be a social equity business by leading with innovation, excellence, and authenticity.

To support Distro Dash and other Black-owned brands using Social Identity Badges or to add a Social Identity Badge to your business profile, visit the link in bio. 🔗

This July in Chicago, our own Director of Public Policy, Rodney Holcombe, will be speaking at the about why market structure matters in the creation of an equitable market! If you’re in the area, be sure to get tickets to the show.

We had a blast at the Buyers Club show yesterday in Hudson, New York. It was great to see a packed show filled with the leaders in the New York cannabis market!

When you love your job, you learn from it.

In honor of Cannabis Awareness Month, we asked over 100 cannabis employees why they love our industry and what they think the rest of the world needs to know about working in cannabis. Their answers may surprise even the most seasoned connoisseur — check it out now and share what keeps you going in this growing industry in the comments!

We Asked Cannabis Professionals Why They Love the Industry: Here Are… LeafLink is the unified B2B cannabis platform, defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers do business.

Thank you to all who participated by listing deals and shopping products, we look forward to celebrating 3.20 together again next year 🎉

March was a big month for wholesale cannabis operators as they geared up for 4/20. Here are just a few highlights from our Flash report:

• Massachusetts grew the fastest at 133% compared with the same period a year ago.

• Edibles & Ingestibles saw the largest drop in platform market share (-1.22 percentage points) from February 2022 to March 2022.

• Buyers and Sellers: During March 2022, average sales per seller fell 5% YoY and average spend per buyer grew 11% YoY.

• Cartridges was LeafLink’s fastest growing category, gaining 1.4 percentage points to reach 24.6% of total sales through LeafLink.

Learn more in the Flash, a monthly report from LeafLink’s data & analytics engine – https://www.leaflink.com/blog/april-flash-highlights-cartridges-gain-market-share-concentrates-get-more-expensive

Women are instrumental to the growth of the cannabis industry. But in order to learn, we have to listen.

Learn how you can be supporting women in the cannabis industry by checking out our 12 Crucial Lessons from Today's Leading Women in Cannabis blog – live now

12 Crucial Lessons from Today’s Leading Women in Cannabis 12 Crucial Lessons from Today’s Leading Women in Cannabis

As we celebrate 4/20, we encourage our industry as a whole to recognize the progress in regards to the legalization and decriminalization in recent years, but the fight to repair the lasting effects of the War on Drugs remains far from over.

This year we wanted to shine light on organizations such as Defy Ventures, Last Mile, and Last Prisoner Project, who are doing the work to uplift the communities continuously impacted by the War on Drugs. In honor of today's holiday, let's remember to support the mission-driven groups that are taking meaningful action.

If you missed our March Social Equity spotlight with Tiana Woodruff of Queen Marry, here’s your sign to check it out 😉

Social Equity Brand Spotlight: Queen Mary LeafLink is the unified B2B cannabis platform, defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers do business.

Edibles & Ingestibles was LeafLink’s fastest growing category in February, gaining .34 percentage points to reach 19% of total sales through LeafLink.

Learn more in the Flash, a monthly report from LeafLink’s data & analytics engine: https://www.resources.leaflink.com/monthly-flash-march-2022