I'm filing a formal complaint with the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation against Swade Rolla. Here's why, and it's also a correction to my own post. A while back I reported that Swade Rolla had resolved a lab-data problem I raised. Their GM pulled the real COA, confirmed my package label was accurate, and committed to a manual verification process before listings went live. I took them at their word and said so publicly. I was wrong to call it resolved. Yesterday I drove an hour to Swade Rolla for a strain whose listed numbers were exactly what I was looking for. I asked to see the COA. The THC was two percent lower than advertised, and the terpenes weren't close — the listed values were down in the single decimals on the actual document. Here's what changed. They're not posting the COA anymore. They're typing values onto the site. That means someone is entering those numbers by hand, and they don't match the lab's own paperwork. The GM I dealt with is no longer there. I don't know why. I was told before that a hard copy of the COA would be available on request. It wasn't. The budtender looked surprised I asked, and all I got was a look at their laptop screen. I couldn't take anything with me. This isn't a hard problem to solve. I went to KEY Cannabis and their COAs matched exactly. They told me they have staff who verify every one, that it's a real process, and that they take pride in getting it right. I've checked High Profile in St. Robert a couple of times too, and they've been accurate as well. So it can be done. Patients pick medicine off those numbers. Terpene profiles are the whole reason some of us choose one strain over another. Getting them wrong isn't a website bug, it's telling someone they're buying something they aren't. Check the COA before you buy, and ask for the actual document, not a screen.

We all need to be aware. This is bad and its happening now. They're Not Predicting Crime. They're Predicting You. DHS has a unit that reads your bank account and decides if you look like a criminal. No warrant. No crime. Just an algorithm nobody's allowed to inspect, deciding your spending "resembles" a pattern — then handing your name to local cops with instructions to find a reason to pull you over. They found one for Kyle Olson. He worked at a licensed California cannabis farm, driving legal product home to Wisconsin — edibles, cuttings, hash oil. Flagged by his finances. Pulled over on a fake pretext. Blood drawn on the roadside. Charged with DUI and intent to distribute. For doing his job. He's not alone. Alek Schott took a drive in Texas, got flagged, had his car dismantled by deputies searching for something that wasn't there. Lorenzo Gutierrez Lugo got stopped for going 5 over, arrested for the cash in his pocket — no charges ever filed, $20,000 in legal fees just to walk away clean. Zero for three. That's the track record of a system DHS refuses to explain, refuses to audit, refuses to prove works at all — because "operational security" is what you say when the truth is it doesn't. Here's what should stop you cold: your state can legalize this plant. Your bank account doesn't care. A model trained to flag "patterns associated with narcotics" doesn't check your state's laws before it flags your name. Fully licensed, fully compliant — still treated like a suspect, because your money moved in a way a black box didn't like. This is exactly why we exist. Everyone else built their systems to treat this industry as guilty by default — banks, processors, and now, apparently, predictive-policing software running on vibes. We didn't build this platform because we're paranoid. We built it because the alternative is trusting your freedom to an oracle nobody can question. Watch the Flock and the bank views. Then ask yourself who's really being predicted here.

UPDATE: 9-11 12:26, Patrick of Swade called and they were glad this was discovered as they take pride in their products. They are implementing a manual check so it is fixed temprorarily as they design a permant fix. This is the responsiveness we need. Know what's in your batch — and hold your dispensary to it. Bought Lemon Royale flower from a Rolla dispensary this week and noticed the terpene and THC numbers on the physical label didn't match what was listed on their website at time of purchase. As a medical cardholder who shops terpene and cannabinoid profiles specifically for symptom management, that's not a small thing — it's the difference between a product that does what you need and one that doesn't. Filed a complaint. Within hours the GM had pulled and sent over the full Certificate of Analysis, matched it against the METRC tags on the physical package, and confirmed the label on the bag was accurate — the website listing was the outdated one. He's following up directly to walk through how the discrepancy happened and get the site corrected. That's how this should go. Ask for the COA. Check the METRC batch and testing tags on your label against what's posted online. A good dispensary will have that documentation ready and will own a mistake when the numbers don't line up — this one did. We'll follow up once the site's fixed.