CLSICS is a San Diego rosin company that calls itself "the art company that sells weed." Founder and CEO Mathew Trautt launched it in April 2020 with rosin-infused pre-rolls and a lobby art show at a San Diego dispensary. The catalog has since grown into live rosin vapes, gummies, tinctures and hash pre-rolls.
Vapes carry the business now. Headset put CLSICS at No. 15 in California vape pens for August 2026, with 56.6% of its sales in the category.
Opening day at Mankind on Miramar Road
Trautt, a San Diego native, started the company to fill a gap for a consumable cannabis extract made without solvents. At launch he called the pre-rolls "first-of-their-kind products" for San Diego. The first line went on sale at Mankind, 7128 Miramar Road, where a pop-up art installation opened on April 17, 2020.
Three products made the debut: a 1.3-gram pre-roll with 1 gram of flower and 0.3 grams of rosin, a 0.7-gram mini with 0.5 grams of flower and 0.2 grams of rosin, and a four-pack of the minis. "CLSICS represents the San Diego cannabis community and culture really well," Mankind vice president John Ziegler said at launch.
BB Bastidas and the art of rosin
Trautt tapped long-time friend and San Diego artist BB Bastidas to shape the brand. Bastidas made the original artwork and filled the Mankind lobby for a six-week exhibition built around what the pair called "the Art of Rosin." The launch release framed CLSICS as a lifestyle brand rooted in Southern California and open to consumers from all walks of life.
The art never left. The Circle in Long Beach describes CLSICS as an art company that uses rosin as its medium, under the motto "Today Just Got Better." San Diego retailer Wellgreens points to an art-collab packaging program that treats retail moments as canvases.
Drops keep the art side moving. On September 5, 2025, CLSICS paired a seven-design HEX merch drop with a Spellbound OG strain release.
Ice, water, heat and pressure
Everything starts with solventless extraction. The company lists its only inputs as ice, water, heat, pressure and cannabis, with no butane or CO2, and partners with California cultivators for fresh-frozen flower. The Circle breaks the extracts into ice-water hash and cold-cure rosin, and the all-in-one vapes are built around rosin's viscosity.
On its Weedmaps page, CLSICS says it created the first rosin-infused, strain-specific pre-roll line. Products are handcrafted in San Diego under state distribution license C11-0001355-LIC and manufacturing license CDPH-10004614.
Kiva Sales and Service takes it statewide
In September 2021 CLSICS signed a distribution partnership with Kiva Sales and Service, the California distributor from the team behind Kiva Confections. KSS took on four categories: live rosin concentrate, rosin-infused pre-rolls, live rosin vapes and live rosin gummies.
KSS co-founder Scott Palmer credited the CLSICS team with a "farm to flame" family of rosin products. Trautt, in turn, called KSS an industry leader in California cannabis over the past decade. KSS pitched itself as one distributor running a brand's entire California strategy.
Pre-rolls from 0.3 to 1.3 grams
The pre-roll shelf now runs 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 grams, a 1-gram hash pre-roll, a 1.2-gram Trifecta and the original 1.3-gram. Vapes come as all-in-one pens and cartridges, gummies as two-, ten- and twenty-packs, and live rosin in Tier 2 and Tier 3 grades, alongside tinctures.
The homepage lineup includes Ghost Vapor and Blue Crack cartridges at 75% and 73% THC and Mountain Berry and Sour Limeade Loadout gummy two-packs at 20 mg. It also features Tropicana Cherry Tier 3 live rosin at 71% THC and a 1,000 mg Midnight Cereal tincture. The Weedmaps catalog adds ground infused flower and batteries. Wellgreens stocks a Ghost Vapor hash-infused pre-roll and a 100 mg Cereal Crunch live rosin edible with a 1:2 THC-to-CBN ratio.
339 California stores in 2026
Headset tracked CLSICS in 339 licensed California dispensaries in its September 6, 2026 snapshot, with 178 SKUs. For August 2026 it ranked the brand No. 12 in tinctures and sublinguals, No. 15 in vape pens, No. 17 in edibles, No. 18 in concentrates and No. 36 in pre-rolls.
The top sellers were 1-gram Cereal Milk and Blue Crack live rosin disposables, followed by a CBD, CBN and THC Blueberry Milk live rosin gummy. Pre-rolls, the launch format, made up 17.4% of sales, edibles 14.4%, concentrates 9.3% and tinctures 2.2%. Average price slipped to $23.85, down 8.3% year over year, and total sales ran 20.9% below August 2025. Concentrates grew 3.8% month over month, while vapes slipped 1.2%. Wellgreens in San Diego listed 25 CLSICS products in September 2026.
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