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Randy:

Verano Enters Cannabis Beverage Category with Debut of Easy Landings, Company’s First National Beverage Brand Featuring Four Delicious Flavors and All-Natural Ingredients

Verano Holdings Corp. ($VRNO) (“Verano” or the “Company”), a leading multi-state cannabis company, today announced the launch of Easy Landings, the Company’s first dedicated beverage brand. Easy Landings will initially be available for purchase starting August 21 at Verano’s Zen Leaf dispensaries and third-party partners in four core Verano (VRNO) markets – Arizona, Illinois, Nevada, followed by New Jersey on August 28 – with plans to scale across additional states in 2026 and beyond.

Designed to bring precision, flavor and flexibility to any occasion, Easy Landings beverages are crafted to be mixed seamlessly into any drink for a custom mocktail or enjoyed on their own. Initially launching in four delicious flavors including Lemon Lime, Watermelon, Mango and Black Cherry, Easy Landings beverages optimize taste, adaptability and simple dose control in a portable and flexible format. Each 2 oz (60 ml) bottle of Easy Landings contains 100 mg of fast-acting THC, curated flavors and formulas to induce a predictable experience, with a capful measuring 5 mg of THC per serving.

Cont’d:

Easy Landings aims to engage a variety of consumers by tapping into existing demand for THC beverages and capitalizing on multiple trends, including the continued decline in alcohol consumption and growing popularity of macrodose edibles products. In 2025 alone, full year cannabis beverage dispensary sales grew 13%1 across all markets in which the Company operates, with non-carbonated beverages and shots experiencing the highest rate of growth. Given the category’s ongoing growth and the pending closure of the 2018 Farm Bill loophole that unintentionally created a multi-billion dollar hemp-derived THC beverage market, Easy Landings is well positioned to capitalize on existing demand as a brand new, all-natural alternative for consumers seeking cannabis beverages that are delicious, safe, tested and regulated.

Leveraging consumer trends favoring alternative and macrodose cannabis products, THC drinks and alcohol-free options, Easy Landings 100 mg single serve beverages feature four delicious flavors with all natural, vegan and gluten free ingredients designed for sipping straight or mixing into the beverage of your choice

Positions: Long VRNO (S/M)

My Tweet of the Day (Part Deux)

* The number of over-confident fugazis are multiplying

Position: None

AI Vey!

Another guy saying Anthropic ARR disappointed — and saying same thing, rushing to dump it on the public, same reason why the hypesters sound desperate:

Position: None

Abby Normal 

* The markets, that is…

From the ridiculous:

Dr Frankenstein: Now that brain that you gave me, was it Hans Del Brooks?

Igor: No.

Dr. Frankenstein: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?

Igor: Abby someone.

Dr. Franksenstein: Abby, who?

Igor: Abby Normal – I am almost sure that was the name.

Dr. Frankenstein: Are you saying I put an abnormal brain into a 7 1/2 foot long, 54 inch wide gorilla?  

– Young Frankenstein Abby normal scene – YouTube

To the sublime:

“Something is rotten in Denmark.”

– Grandma Koufax

The market’s (daily and intraday) volatility and absence of memory from day to day suggests, to me, that something is awry. At the very least, the inconsistency and lack of predictability of the market (again from day to day), feels like the markets are becoming more casino-like.

Amazon ($AMZN), up $5+ yesterday, down $5+ today. Or Walmart ($WMT) -$11 (the consumer is faltering as I suggested in my Diary this week — and wasn’t the investment case that WMT is positioned ideally for AI advances?). And, of course, the daily gyrations of memory and chip stocks. 

This backdrop is great for opportunistic traders, not so great for the buy-and-hold crowd. 

I have been wrong about the markets, but I have little interest in gambling with my Limited Partners’ hard earned capital — even if there are continued opportunity costs — as I feel the wheels might fall off of the U.S. stock market at any time. 

Position: None

Subscriber Comment of the Day

As I have suggested, cannabis companies are uplisting and aggressively buying back shares.

From Randorama:

Randy

TerrAscend (TSNDF) ‘s board authorized the company to renew and replenish its normal course issuer bid for up to $10 million of its common shares, the cannabis company said Thursday.

The bid represents an attractive use of capital and creates long-term value for shareholders, TerrAscend (TSNDF) said.

TerrAscend (TSNDF) can repurchase shares starting Aug. 24, 2026, until Aug. 23, 2027

Position: Long TSNDF (VS)

Back in Action

After ANOTHER trip to the Vet I am back in the office.

Getting my sealegs back.

Positions: None.