DOJ’s best bud: The Tipline for 25 March 2022

Cresco Labs says its proposed $2 billion purchase of a cannabis rival aims to give its products the same kind of brand recognition as Coca-Cola and Miller High Life. The US antitrust agencies are overwhelmed with such a high volume of complex deals rolling in – but luckily for consumers, if there are competition concerns, no antitrust enforcer is better at getting into the weeds than the Department of Justice’s antitrust division.