We're not hiring. We're assembling.
Writers. Reviewers. Researchers. Retail veterans. Industry survivors. People who still believe consumer trust matters.
If you've worked in cannabis long enough to develop pattern recognition and mild psychological damage, you'll probably fit right in.
People with knowledge, perspective, and something to say.
You have experience covering an industry — any industry — with honesty and clarity. You know how to find a story, verify it, and write it so a real person wants to read it. Cannabis experience is welcome. Good journalism habits are required.
You buy your own cannabis. You have opinions grounded in experience, not marketing. You can describe what a product actually does without reaching for words that belong on a wine label.
You have spent time behind the counter. You know what customers actually ask, what they get confused by, and what the industry gets wrong about the people it is supposed to serve. Your perspective is the one most cannabis media ignores.
You care about accuracy. You can read a study and explain what it actually says, not what someone's marketing team wishes it said. You believe education should empower, not patronize.
You can make cannabis look like it belongs in a documentary, not a stock photo library. Visual storytelling that treats the subject with the same respect the writing does.
What Contributors Get
A byline on an independent publication that is not owned by the companies it covers. Editorial support from people who care about getting it right. A community of writers, reviewers, and researchers who take the work seriously and take themselves slightly less seriously.
The Collective is building something real. We are pre-launch, which means the people who come in now help shape what this becomes. That is not a recruitment pitch. That is the actual situation.
We launch July 1, 2026. If you are reading this before then, you are early. Good.
No cover letter required. Just tell us who you are.
We read every submission. No auto-replies. No algorithms.
