Does going vertical make sense in Calif.?

The country’s biggest and most successful cannabis operators, have built their empires on vertical integration. By controlling cultivation, factories and retail in multiple states, players like Curaleaf, Trulieve, Green Thumb Industries have grown quarterly sales well into the nine figures while continuing to expand their geographic footprints and sometimes even turn a profit.

As the California market has struggled with a raft of challenges, major west coast players like Eaze,