Break the Cypher: Season 2

“The Trapdoor”

What happens when a state-licensed cannabis business is forced to choose between telling the truth — and losing everything?

Season 2 of Break the Cypher dives into the legal, constitutional, and personal fallout of a licensing question that shouldn’t exist. Set in Telluride, Colorado, this season follows the real-time battle of Alpine Wellness as it faces regulatory pressure to admit to a federal crime — just to stay in business.

From public hearings to ignored legal motions, from small-town coercion to statewide silence, we expose how a single checkbox threatens everything legalization was supposed to protect.

This isn’t a story about taxes.
It’s a story about power.