Josh Kesselman built Raw rolling papers into a $200 million brand but along the way he’s been deceitful about where and how his products are made and also told little green lies about a nonexistent charitable foundation. Inside the cannabis industry’s strangest smoke-and-mirrors show. nApril 2020, as Covid spread across the world and businesses were forced to close operations, Joshua Kesselman, the 52-year-old founder of Raw rolling papers, proudly announced that his factory in a small town in Spain was churning out paper. “Alcoy, Spain, where we make Raw paper, is still open,” Kesselman told Forbes during an interview at the time. “Alcoy is insulated; we’re up in the mountains, not down where the Covid really is in Spain. We’re one of the few real businesses in Alcoy.” There was, however, one very real problem with Kesselman’s factory in Alcoy—it didn’t exist. Amid a legal battle between Raw’s parent company, HBI International, and rolling paper rival Republic Technologies (which...