5 January 2025

Category: Hemp

The Curious Case of Maple Leaf Green World (MGW.C)

Long time readers will remember the weird ass name of Maple Leaf Green World (MGW.C) from several years back in the cannabis space, when a group arrived from China determined to make their riches in the North American weed fields, only to end up in a small, dank, broken down greenhouse in Nevada, under a…

10 June 2024
Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C) finds multiple research options moving forward

In Canada, if you look backwards over the timeline, you’ll often find public companies have been other things back in the day. Risen, fallen, tapped out, rolled back, reemerged as a whole new thing. Sometimes this happens several times before a business model catches. Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C) is that rare Canadian smallcap that, while it…

30 November 2023
Cannabis memory lane: Who’s sticking it out, who’s dead and dying

I was feeling every ounce of my chest cold, the thing everyone apparently has, the one that’s going around, the one that’s not covid but who could tell. I was also standing on a stage at the Richmond Chamber of Commerce awards gala, blinking at stage lights and peaking over the shoulders of some very…

24 November 2023
Shroom Digest: Mushroom moves from MindMed, Yield Growth, New Wave, Yukoterre, Silo, EGF Theramed

This week’s digest of mushroom moves is a mixed bag of trash and glory, with the shrooms sector increasingly looking like the early days of the cannabis rush.

20 June 2020
Fair trade: Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD.T) does the hard, sensible things required to reset

Because this story is about The Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD.T) and cannabis investors bear grudges, the vast majority of people reading it will already be saying the words, “Fuck Parry, you’ll pump anything for money.” So let’s get some things out of the way before we start. 1) TGOD isn’t paying for this story, and…

27 May 2020
The Inflection Point: It’s now or never for Plus Products (PLUS.C)

When weed legalized in Canada, I wasn’t a consumer participant. Smoking up has never been my jam. I know some like the ritual of it all, but I see having to prep and grind and smoke as being similar to driving stick – I mean, why not also stop your car by cutting two holes…

22 May 2020
Tilray (TLRY.Q) financials are nightmare fuel: Quarterly net loss down 16% to ‘just’ $184m

If Tilray (TLRY.Q) will leave any sort of legacy on the Canadian cannabis landscape, it will be that, for a short time and by virtue of a well-timed and paper-lined public listing, the CEO was the highest paid CEO in North America. For a hot minute, Americans bought in by the truckload and drove the…

12 May 2020
Speakeasy (EASY.C) completes $2m loan with interest rate just 5% shy of what’s considered loan sharking

I break laws sometimes. I speed on the highway. I possess more than the 30 gram legal limit of weed products. I sneak food into the cinema, or used to when the cinema was a thing we did in polite society. I’ve been drunk and disorderly, broken noise bylaws on a Saturday night, and I…

5 May 2020
Gaia Grow (GAIA.V) sells hemp, buys cannabis stores

The deal proposes that Gaia will acquire “all of the share capital of 1202465 B.C. (Nelson store) and Patriot Cannabis Brands (2 Powell River stores) from Blackhawk.

4 March 2020
2020 Gravitas Securities Growth Conference lines up seriously interesting deals, even in weed

Respect where it’s due, I haven’t been to an investor conference in a long time where I came away interested in most of what I saw, let alone *everything* I saw, but this year’s Gravitas Securities Growth Conference lineup absolutely hit it out of the park. The GSGC isn’t the biggest show around, but they…

22 February 2020