Chase Shut Our Bank Account, Roger Stone Wants to Save Cannabis & NY's Brand Winners

Описание: A smaller crew this week, but a bigger news cycle. Jay Rosenthal and Jeremy Berke (Cultivated) are joined by Marc Hauser (Cannabis Musings) for a jam-packed Friday — including a story that hit way too close to home.

This week: Roger Stone is publicly asking who's holding up Trump's cannabis rescheduling order — and the DEA's own court filings suggest the answer might be: nobody's in a hurry. Then, Cultivated got debanked. Jeremy returned from an international flight to find Chase had flagged and frozen the company's business account — no recourse, no explanation, just an algorithm. He tells the full story, including how a LinkedIn post got the Chase executive office on the phone within hours. We also dig into the March 2026 New York Brand Power Rankings from our partners at Lit Alerts — the top of the market is stabilizing, and it's almost all New York brands. And Edible Arrangements' hemp THC spinoff just opened a brick-and-mortar store in Atlanta, despite the federal hemp ban deadline looming in November. Marc Hauser has theories.

Plus: a clip from our new CSE partnership series featuring SNDL CEO Zach George, and a preview of what 4/20 week is shaping up to look like.

In this episode:

Roger Stone on rescheduling — and why it should worry the industry that he's the one asking
Cultivated gets debanked by Chase: what happened, how it got fixed, and what it means for the industry
NY March 2026 Brand Power Rankings: ayrloom holds #1, but New York-grown brands dominate the top 3
Edible Arrangements opens a hemp THC store in Atlanta — Mark has thoughts
SNDL CEO Zach George clip from our new CSE partnership series
Weedmaps delists from Nasdaq
4/20 preview

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🕐 Chapters
00:00 – Welcome & introductions
00:30 – Roger Stone asks who's blocking cannabis rescheduling
02:30 – DEA still stalling: what the court filings actually say
03:45 – NY March 2026 Brand Power Rankings (Lit Alerts)
08:45 – Edible Arrangements opens hemp THC store in Atlanta
15:30 – Cultivated gets debanked by Chase
22:30 – SAFER Banking: still waiting on Congress
23:00 – New CSE partnership: SNDL CEO Zach George clip
24:15 – Weedmaps delisting from Nasdaq
24:45 – 4/20 preview & sign-off

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