
The Cost of Being Small in Cannabis
Small cannabis brands are celebrated rhetorically and punished structurally — praised for craft and authenticity, then operating at severe disadvantage when it comes to cannabis marketing. The infrastructure was built for categories that can advertise. The asymmetry, why scarcity distorts strategy, why copying big brands backfires, and why the GEO citation layer is the one paid-media alternative that doesn't require a platform's permission.









