On February 8, Leafly took a different step in listing on NASDAQ. The Seattle-based cannabis company went public via a SPAC merger with Merida Merger Corp. The merger and listing marked a new beginning for the cannabis marketplace which was founded in 2010. Leafly’s CEO Yoko Miyashita left a lucrative career as an attorney for Getty Images to found a cannabis marketplace. When asked by GeekWire why, she answered:
“Leafly has always been on a mission to help people discover cannabis. We believe that this is a magical plant with the potential to transform really almost every facet of what we’re facing, whether that’s economic development of communities that have been ravaged by the war on drugs, or people who have found untold relief through cannabis. And everyone else just looking for a new way to just relax.”
