Editor's Note
Editor's Note No. 1: Why a software company is starting a newspaper.
Nobody counts what dispensary websites do to their visitors. We scan them for a living, so we are going to publish the count, in the open, every quarter.
Headset publishes what sells. Leafly counts the jobs. Nobody publishes what a dispensary website does to the people who visit it: which tags load before anyone is asked, how many visitors leave without a name, and which stores are getting sued over it.
We happen to measure exactly that. The Sell More Cannabis scan loads a homepage in a real browser, watches what fires before a visitor can answer, reads the privacy policy, and models the traffic. Every store that runs the scan gets its own report, privately. Run enough of them and a picture of the whole industry appears. That picture is the Record.
What we will publish
Six desks, each with a plain job.
- Missing Persons Desk covers the 98 in 100 who browse the menu and leave without a name.
- The Docket tracks the privacy and consent suits, from the filings, in plain language.
- The Leak Index is the quarterly count: what fires before consent, by state and by platform.
- Shop Floor is playbooks for the stack you already run and for the big weekends.
- Staff Cartoon is one panel a week.
- Editor’s Note is this: the founders building the thing in public, circulation numbers included.
The rules we set for ourselves
Aggregates only. No store’s result goes on a page unless the store asks for it. Modeled numbers are labeled modeled, every time. Every stat carries its sample size, its date, and a link to how it was made. Allegations on the Docket are allegations. Nothing here is legal advice.
And one more, because a privacy publication that leaks would be a joke: this site asks before anything runs. Scan it and see.
Where we are today
Twenty-five sites in the first scan set, drawn from eight cities in eight legal states. A small set, so the numbers are directional. Circulation: zero. First edition of The Late Edition goes out Thursday. If you run a dispensary site, the fastest way to be part of the count is to run the scan.
Aaron, for Andy, Jason, and Stefan.
Edited by Andy. Corrections to hello@greenleadsource.com.