As far as the Ganjier bullshit, it was a great stoner idea gone terribly wrong once profit was involved.
I watched all those podcast episodes and I did learn some stuff - but that's all it was supposed to be about.
But someone had the idea that they could bash homegrows as unsafe, and maybe get the gubmint to require Ganjier training for all dispo employees. Like ACE Mechanic certs. And they could make the owners pay, or have it gubmint subsidised - no matter, they get paid.
So - they fuck up weed storage in a competition, blame the growers that had multiple tests done already, and Wendy Kornberg, the bitch from hell, says almost all the samples had mold, except one of their sponsors entries - who got the win. No conflict of interest there...
Now we have Bitch Wendy out on a limb of her own choosing, and she could either be bannished and reprimanded, or they could do what hippies always do - hug and get over it... Fuck that. They didn't disown her - now they own her and everything she said.
To top it off, the Cowboy Cup people did the same exact thing. They could have washed their hands of it, but they stood behind her. Turns out those two talking heads from the cup are basically event planners - not weed people. No fucking clue.