Are you a dispensary budtender who can write. A chronic pain patient who has tried everything on the shelf and has the receipts. A chemist who actually understands nano-emulsion absorption. A nurse who has helped older patients sleep through chemo nausea. We want to hear from you.
EdibleRank covers cannabis edibles the way Wirecutter covers blenders and Examined covers supplements. Rankings backed by actual dosing math, brand reviews with prices and milligram counts pulled off a dispensary shelf this week, dosing guides for people using edibles to manage sleep onset, chronic pain, anxiety, and other medical conditions. The editorial position is plain. Edibles as medicine, not lifestyle. We assume the reader is an adult making a deliberate decision and we give them the math.
What we publish
State and city dispensary guides. If you live in Detroit, Phoenix, or Boston and you actually shop at three or four dispensaries on rotation, you can write a guide that beats anything currently ranking on Google for that city. We want specifics. Which dispensary has the best gummy selection, which one prices Wyld competitively, which one has rotating deals that matter.
Brand reviews. A real review reads like a friend told you what is on their shelf. Not a press release. If you have tried Kiva Camino at multiple dose levels, you can write the review that beats the brand's own marketing copy. Include the price you paid, the COA you checked, the actual experience at the dose listed on the package.
Condition specific dosing pieces. Sleep onset, menopausal night sweats, chemotherapy nausea, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome. Anything where edibles are being used for a specific medical reason and the existing internet content is generic or wrong. These pieces need real research, real citations, and ideally a real patient or clinician perspective.
News and regulatory pieces. State law changes, dispensary openings and closures, the hemp ban timeline, recalls. If you cover a state legislature for a living or you work in the industry and you see news before it lands on Marijuana Moment, pitch it.
What makes a pitch land
A clear point of view in the first two sentences. We are not running balanced both-sides explainers that say nothing. If your pitch is “the best CBN gummies for sleep,” that is a search term, not a pitch. If your pitch is “most CBN sleep gummies underdose because they are sold to people who have never felt 10mg, and the three that actually work share one thing in common,” that is a pitch.
Specifics that prove you know the subject. Prices, brand names, dose amounts, sourced studies, your own observed experience. A pitch that names three dispensaries and two brand SKUs in the first paragraph reads completely differently from one that talks about the cannabis space.
A reason you are the right person to write it. Wirecutter does this well. They want a cookbook author writing about kitchen equipment, not a generalist content writer who would file the same piece on any topic for any client. We want the same. A dispensary worker, a long-term medical patient, a research scientist, a journalist with a real cannabis beat. Tell us who you are.
What we are not looking for
Anything written for SEO first and people second. Listicles padded to 2000 words. The phrase “in the world of cannabis.” Lifestyle pieces about the best edibles to pair with a hike. Recreational framing where the takeaway is “this gets you high in a fun way.” Press release rewrites. AI drafts that you have not heavily edited. We can tell. So can the reader.
Also not looking for: pitches built around the phrase “the cannabis space,” articles that begin with a dictionary definition, conclusion paragraphs that restate the introduction, em dashes (a non-negotiable house style rule), and anything that uses the word “journey” to describe taking a 10mg gummy.
How to pitch
Email hello@ediblerank.com with the subject line “Pitch: [your topic].” So we can find it.
Include four things. A two or three paragraph summary of the piece, including the angle and what makes it different from what already exists. Two or three links to your strongest published work, anywhere on the internet, paid or unpaid. A short paragraph on who you are and why this particular piece is yours to write. A working title and a word count estimate.
We respond to every pitch within 24 hours. If we want the piece, we will say so and discuss timing. If we do not, we will tell you why so you can pitch us something else.
A note on compensation
EdibleRank does not post freelance rates. Compensation, where it applies, is discussed individually with regular contributors after we have worked together on a piece or two. The goal is to build relationships with a small number of writers who genuinely care about the subject, not to run a content mill.
For most first-time contributors, the value is the byline. EdibleRank pieces are linked from the homepage, indexed on Google for the keywords they target, and shared on our growing Instagram and newsletter audience. If you are building a portfolio in cannabis writing, this is a clip worth having.
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Send the pitch. We read everything.