
Cannabis Marketing Pioneers: What the Early Campaigns Taught the Category
Cannabis marketing's first commercial decade produced a handful of campaigns that worked — and many that didn't. The pioneers built the templates the category still uses: Cannabis Cup, Leafly strain discovery, Charlotte's Web medical narrative, Weedmaps dispensary platform, MedMen premium retail, Eaze delivery, Kiva edibles, Pax hardware. Several of these brands later collapsed for unrelated reasons. The campaign mechanics still teach the category.









