Wikileaf, Weedmaps Cutting Off Illicit Businesses

Weedmaps has come out as the latest online cannabis dispensary directory to purge its website of unlicensed shops in a move that Wikileaf CEO and Founder Dan Nelson calls continued growing pains for an industry that is constantly becoming more mainstream. Weedmaps announced Aug. 21 that it will no longer allow illicit businesses to advertise on its platform in a move projected to undercut California's vast illegal cannabis market, according to a CTV News report. Nelson and the Wikileaf team ma...