---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001903596-25-000105"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000945617"
company_name: "American Cannabis Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T12:27:35.402921+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Ellis Smith resigns; board rejects rescission attempt

## Summary
- Ellis Smith resigned effective February 27, 2025; resignation accepted March 2, 2025.
- Smith attempted to rescind resignation on March 3, 2025; board has not and will not accept.
- No replacement director named; company remains under sole director/CEO Joseph Cleghorn.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001903596-25-000105
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000945617
- company_name: American Cannabis Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945617/000190359625000105/0001903596-25-000105-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945617/000190359625000105/ammj_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001903596-25-000105
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001903596-25-000105.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001903596-25-000105.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ellis Smith resigned as Director at American Cannabis Company, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: The February 27, 2025, resignation of Ellis Smith was accepted by the Board at this meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945617/000190359625000105/0001903596-25-000105-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.