The “defamatory crusade” that cannabis mega-grower Glass House Brands says its critics are waging appears likely to continue, with the California company’s initial accuser predicting a “long, protracted fight” that’s ultimately intended to yield secret state regulatory data.
The legal mudslinging began in mid-June, when Elliot Lewis, the CEO of Southern California-based retail dispensary chain Catalyst Cannabis Co., alleged in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that Glass House is “one of the largest, if not the largest, black marketers of cannabis in the State of California, if not the country.”
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That lawsuit repeated earlier claims Lewis made in May in videos posted to Instagram and LinkedIn.
On June 20, Glass House struck back.
In a suit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the company and its executive accused Catalyst, Lewis and Lewis’ co-founder, Damian Martin, of running a “systemic defamatory social media
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