The company behind Edible Arrangements is aptly expanding into a different type of edible.

In addition to their festive fruit baskets, Edible Brands, which had $500 million in annual sales last year, recently launched an e-commerce site for hemp-derived THC products . Marijuana remains illegal federally, but the firm is focusing on THC products made from less-potent hemp—though they can still get you high.

“We’re already called ‘edible’, right?” Edible Brands CEO Somia Farid Silber told Forbes . “We know that sometimes there’s even a little bit of an expectation from a customer for [cannabis] products.”

There’s an even bigger industry for hemp than for marijuana: Hemp product sales hit $28 billion in 2023, compared to over $26 billion for marijuana.

FIRST UP

The biggest sports sale in U.S. history is moving forward , as a group led by investor Bill Chisholm and private equity firm Sixth Street agreed to buy the NBA’s Boston Celtics at a $6.1 billion valuation . The price tag of a sports franchise has sharply risen over the last two decades, and Forbes ranked the Celtics the fourth-most valuable NBA franchise in 2024, though the team’s outgoing owner acknowledged last year it was “losing money.”

DOGE head Elon Musk is set to visit the Pentagon today , Trump Administration officials confirmed, while vehemently denying a New York Times report of the billionaire being briefed about the U.S. military’s plan in the event of a war with China. The report noted that the Pentagon’s war plans against adversarial nations are among the military’s “most closely guarded secrets,” and Musk’s knowledge of the plan could raise questions about the billionaires' various conflicts of interest over his companies’ U.S. military contracts and business interests in China.

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BUSINESS + FINANCE

A lifeline for small businesses is on the chopping block as part of an executive order from President Donald Trump to slash federal programs. The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund is a small but long-running program in the U.S. Treasury that helps finance small businesses in underserved areas . For fiscal year 2025, the CDFI has $324 million available for grants, and advocates for the program estimate more than $2.5 billion in economic impact from that investment.

DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts are affecting government contractors , too, and shares of consulting giant Accenture sank 7% to an eight-month low on Thursday as its CEO Julie Sweet noted new government business acquisition has “slowed.” Revenue from work for the federal government accounted for 8% of Accenture’s $65 billion in global revenue in its most recent fiscal year. DOGE has specifically homed in on contracts with firms like Accenture and its rivals Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte.

American businesses will get a temporary reprieve from the latest batch of tariffs, as the European Union delayed its retaliatory tariffs against some U.S. imports—including a 50% tax on American whiskey—until mid-April. The levies, announced in response to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, are expected to hit $28 billion of U.S. imports to the EU.

TECH + INNOVATION

The outlook for Tesla on Wall Street continues to get worse. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, one of the most optimistic analysts covering the EV maker, said a “crisis” is forming at the company , and urged CEO Elon Musk to take a step back from his work at DOGE. Tesla shares have fallen 52% from their peak in December.

MORE: Ives’ note alluded to the widespread vandalism and protests at Tesla showrooms, and on Thursday, the Justice Department charged three people responsible for vandalizing and destroying Tesla cars, dealerships or charging stations in three separate states. Attorney General Pam Bondi said “the swarm of violent attacks on Tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism.”

MONEY + POLITICS

A judge blocked DOGE’s access to personal data from the Social Security Administration, the latest legal setback for Trump and DOGE’s controversial efforts to slash government spending. The judge said DOGE must “disgorge and delete” any non-anonymized data it has obtained from the SSA since Trump took office, though it can still access data from the SSA that has been redacted or anonymized.

President Donald Trump signed an order that will shrink the Department of Education , though fully dismantling it as he has long promised would ultimately require Congressional approval. The order does keep some “critical functions” under federal control, such as Title 1 funding to schools in low-income areas and student loans, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

TRAVEL + LIFESTYLE

London’s Heathrow Airport halted operations early on Friday and will remain closed throughout the day after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused a power outage, a move likely to impact hundreds of thousands of passengers and disrupt global travel. Heathrow, one of the biggest travel hubs in the world, warned that it expects “significant disruption over the coming days.”

TRENDS + EXPLAINERS

A federal judge suggested the Trump Administration violated his order forbidding the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador Saturday, which raises a key question: What are the consequences for defying court orders? Judges could hold Trump officials in contempt of court , though Trump’s Justice Department is unlikely to prosecute any of the administration’s own officials for contempt. Civil contempt of court, however, can’t be addressed with a presidential pardon, and one expert told Forbes that could make it the only effective remedy for contempt.

DAILY COVER STORY

After Hurricane Milton peeled the roof off Tropicana Field last fall, the Tampa Bay Rays were able to find a temporary home for the 2025 season in the New York Yankees’ much smaller minor league ballpark . But they had just four months to get ready for Opening Day, next Friday against the Colorado Rockies.

That meant rebuilding their ticketing infrastructure and coordinating with Major League Baseball to get Steinbrenner Field ready for national television broadcasts. The Rays would also have to rejigger sponsorships—which, at best, typically take three months to come together, and sometimes years—to fit their new inventory of signage space. They would have to adjust to a new concessions operator, speeding up a process that took them a year and a half the last time they switched vendors, and decide whether they needed trailers or additional cold storage space. They had to figure out how to ship merchandise from their warehouse at the Trop and start planning for kiosks on the stadium concourse to compensate for the smaller footprint of the team stores.

“It was almost like standing up a new business, frankly, in the span of a few months,” says Bill Walsh, the Rays’ chief business officer.

Even with all of that effort, there will be no avoiding a revenue impact as the team moves from Tropicana Field—which had been configured to hold roughly 25,000 fans since 2018, with 54 luxury suites—to a 10,046-seat park with 13 suites. That’s more bad news for a franchise that ranked 27th of 30 on Forbes’ 2024 list of MLB’s most valuable teams at $1.25 billion, with estimated revenue of $301 million. But the Rays are confident that their busy offseason will minimize the disruption—and even lead to some new money-making opportunities.

WHY IT MATTERS “The Rays’ future is uncertain —they pulled out of a plan to build a new stadium, repairs still haven’t begun on Tropicana Field, and their owner is being pressured to sell the team—but they’re surprisingly optimistic about 2025,” says Forbes assistant managing editor Brett Knight.

“The season-ticket base has grown, some corporate partners are spending even more than they did last year, and the location of the new home field in Tampa is allowing the Rays to experiment with new types of sponsorships and promotions. There’s still work to do—for one thing, mounting more than 3,000 signs around the ballpark next week—but Tampa Bay’s front office is making the best of a bad situation.”

FACTS + COMMENTS

STRATEGY + SUCCESS

AI is critical in every profession, not just tech roles, and learning how to use it can help you stay competitive in the job market . But understanding AI is more than just utilizing a chatbot like ChatGPT, so be curious and think about how AI can help make your job easier . Some critical AI-related skills to pick up include: learning how to optimize a prompt, as well as knowing how to question AI and spot potential biases.

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