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High Times on the hook for $5m in unpaid rent at failed Union Square dispensary space

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Press Room June 13, 2022
Updated 2022/06/13 at 8:09 PM
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High Times magazine’s foray into cannabis dispensaries has been fraught with troubles, and a judge just ruled they have to pay up the $5 million in back rent they’ve racked up on the former John Varvatos space in Union Square.

SFist smelled something funny back in April 2020, when High Times magazine announced they were buying up 13 California cannabis dispensaries, including one in San Francisco, in a deal supposedly valued at $80 million. Parent company Hightimes Holding Corp.’ executive chairman Adam Levin bragged to Bloomberg at the time, “We will literally be next to a Chanel store.”

That tipped SFist off that he was referring to Union Square’s former John Varvatos space, a proposed Have a Heart dispensary that Chanel had actually battled, before both sides came to a “private agreement,” as we reported in February 2020.

The whole thing smelled skunky to us, because High Times was proposing to pay this $80 million primarily in Hightimes stock  — stock which did not even exist. Hightimes stock was supposed to IPO on the NASDAQ index, but they couldn’t pull that together, so in January 2020 settled for a penny-stock index called OTCQX, soliciting money from  longtime readers and small investors. According to their latest SEC filing, that Hightimes IPO still has not happened, and to this day, there is still no such thing as Hightimes stock.

And now we learn that rent has not been paid on the former John Varvatos space at 152 Geary Street the whole time since this “transaction” was announced. Industry trade publication Cannabis Business Law reports that a California Superior Court judge has ruled that High Times must pay $5 million in back rent to the company that owns the space, Thor Equities.

“California Superior Court judge Harold Kahn said the High Times owned subsidiaries owed: $4,726467.20 in unpaid rent and $626,256.94 in late charges on that rent, $564,235.92 in real estate taxes and $74,761.38 late fees on those taxes for a total of $5,991,721.44,” Cannabis Business Law reports. “But since Thor equities had a secured asset of a credit line from the defendants and drew down on $1,050,000 that amount would come off the judgment.”

“The total judgment rendered on May 31st 2022 was $4,941,721.44,” the publication notes.

To Read The Rest Of This Article By Joe Kukura on SFist

Published: June 09, 2022

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