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Senior writer @Forbes covering cannabis, gambling, psychedelics and billionaires. Previously @Inc

NYC
Joined July 2013
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How Zyn Conquered America @forbes forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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From Dope to Data: Inside The Weed Industry’s AI Data Center Pipe Dream @Forbes
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As cannabis prices crash, struggling cannabis companies w big industrial sites outfitted w power, fiber, water and HVAC systems thought they had a golden ticket to the AI race. But moratoriums, NIMBYISM and power constraints crushed most of their dreams. forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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Toms Founder Pledged $100 Million To Psychedelics. Now He Says The Trip Isn’t The Treatment @Forbes
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Great story by @SchwabKatharine and @_IainMartin
EXCLUSIVE: Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to make more money. Read more: forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/… Illustration: Philip Smith for Forbes
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Casino influencers like @itsvegasmatt @FrancineMarie, Mr. Hand Pay and other high-stakes players make millions filming themselves betting thousands in Sin City. Meet gambling’s high-risk, high-reward creators who win even when they lose. @Forbes forbes.com/sites/willyakowic…
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NEW: Trump is pushing to delay a ban on intoxicating hemp products that experts warn can be dangerous. Among the beneficiaries is @SusieWiles' son-in-law. Bret Worley runs a company that sells intoxicating hemp gummies & vapes w/ names like “Trainwreck” nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/po…
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He Sold His Sports Equipment Company To New Balance. Now He’s Changing The Cannabis Game forbes.com/sites/willyakowic… (📸: Ryan Garza for Forbes)
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Once an elite lacrosse player, David Morrow took what he learned at Warrior Sports and built Lume into the biggest cannabis company in Michigan, with a plan to go national. “They’re not ready for this knife fight.” Read more: forbes.com/sites/willyakowic… Photo: Ryan Garza for Forbes
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Glass House Brands is now trading on the NYSE, becoming the second U.S. cannabis co to uplist to a premier exchange after Trulieve. Read my feature @Forbes about how Glass House became a $1B (market cap) company trading on the Big Board almost a year after a deadly ICE raid.
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From a deadly ICE raid to trading on the NYSE, @forbes takes a look inside America's biggest cannabis greenhouse @GlassHouseBR.
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Graham Farrar, inside one of Glass House's 6 greenhouses, which collectively contain 1M pot plants, says Glass House is betting on interstate commerce, which would super charge the company's margins. It already has one of the low production costs in the industry w $111 per lbs
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America’s Biggest Cannabis Greenhouse Wants To Become ‘The Sunkist Of Weed’ @Forbes
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A year after a deadly ICE raid on its massive cannabis farms and months after the Trump Administration reclassified medical marijuana, Glass House is preparing to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, harvest 1 million pounds of weed and export its product all over the world.
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