Debra & Forbes Are Being Sneaky

Debra took cannabis financial analyst Alan Brochstein's advice and made an "amendment" to her lazy article. It appears when I visit Debra'a suspect article now on the Forbes website, some changes have been made to make it less focused on the claim of Terra Tech being the first publicly traded dispensary. I'm not surprised that an extremely messy way to deal with a correction has been chosen. This is just funny to me at this point. Debra, you are an amazing journalist, you didn't have to make a stupid correction. Maybe I went just far enough when I tweeted to Forbes CEO Steve Forbes about journalistic integrity.

The cut and paste job of Terra Tech's boastful press release and it's CEO's claim to the "title" is still part of Debra's article.

The original article's first paragraph, which I quoted directly on May 16th using cut and paste, said:

"Investors can now buy shares in the first publicly traded marijuana dispensary that handles the product from cultivation to storefront"

Now the article reads:

"Investors can actually buy shares in a publicly traded marijuana dispensary that handles the product from cultivation to storefront."

Followed by the aforementioned cut and paste of Terra Tech's false claim in a press release.

So now (January of 2016) we can actually buy shares in a publicly traded dispensary? But before now we couldn't?

Except we could.  We could have bought shares of Kaya Holdings in 2015, which was actually the first publicly traded fully integrated cannabis producer.

The funniest part now is how they tried to sneakily change some wording instead of just making a correction to the article.  The URL stayed the same too. See:

The URL still says: terratech-becomes-the-first-publicly-traded-marijuana-dispensary.  The full URL is: http://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2016/01/12/terratech-becomes-the-first-publicly-traded-marijuana-dispensary/#51017d25d955

Sneaky change in the text that appears to have actually been written by Debra, that's it. Still contains false facts by a CEO supposedly constrained by a skeptical media.