Category: Agriculture
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![Big Tobacco player Altria (MO.NYSE) lobbying hard for hemp, but is it the magic bullet Congress is counting on?]()
Big Tobacco player Altria (MO.NYSE) lobbying hard for hemp, but is it the magic bullet Congress is counting on?
Tobacco giant, Altria Group (MO.NYSE), is lobbying in the United States for “matters pertaining to hemp and crop insurance,” among other things, seemingly aiming to pivot away from vaping amidst a national health emergency. A lobbying report filed by The Russell Group listed its income for the quarter on behalf of Altria as $60,000, a…
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Navigating the cannapocalypse through value picks: Don’t be swayed by optimists or cynics
Yesterday, weed stocks were generally green. The day before too. This brought about a load of folks on social media talking about how ‘cannabis is back!’ and ‘the bear market is over!’ Ugh. Seriously, you guys. It’s not over. Not by a long shot. Currently, Canopy Growth Corp (WEED.T), the big bellwether of the cannabis…
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![Crosspost: RethinkX, the end of beef and how to eat our way out of climate change]()
Crosspost: RethinkX, the end of beef and how to eat our way out of climate change
RethinkX, a think tank which analyzes industry-disrupting technologies, has published a report about new sources of protein at a time when hamburgers may be costlier than advertised. Methane from livestock, estimated at 34 times more detrimental than carbon dioxide, is a significant contributing factor to global warming: A single dairy cow produces as much greenhouse…
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Beyond Boobs: Else Nutrition (BABY.V) is the plant-based baby formula alternative, and it’s a big deal
The scene: Late 2005, a run down pharmacy in East Vancouver. It’s early on a Sunday morning, raining heavily outside, and I haven’t slept for three days other than in half hour spurts, usually on the couch, or even on the floor. The reason? My newborn son is screaming. He’s hungry, but he’s chewed his…
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![Gaia Grow (GAIA.V): Hemp grown right, business run right, market cap insane]()
Gaia Grow (GAIA.V): Hemp grown right, business run right, market cap insane
I have to admit, the cannabis markets right now are pretty awful. That’s no newsflash, it’s happened before, but usually there’s a distraction sector around where, when the weed stocks are resting, one can shoot their money to for alt profits. Think blockchain, crypto, cobalt, lithium… Right now, a lot of investors aren’t diverting their…
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![CBD Investor Alert: antelopes, hail and disease are destroying hemp crops]()
CBD Investor Alert: antelopes, hail and disease are destroying hemp crops
Investor Alert: Buying shares in a “vertically integrated hemp company” means that you are now in the farming business, subject to the whims of Mother Nature. Recent events in Nevada, Hawaii and Oregon, remind us what a bitch she can be. Hemp – and its expensive derivative CBD – has moved from health fad, to…
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Chemesis (CSI.C) adds 3 dispensaries and a hemp cultivation license
Some of our clients are too quiet. They’ll go months without putting out a press release. When we call to verify that there’s still someone in the office, we’ll receive a riveting impromptu verbal update. Other clients are too noisy. Yes – it’s good to keep the name of your company in the news. But…
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A ‘growing’ concern: With the cannabis bubble bursting, are mushrooms the next gold rush?
“Cannabis is dead; long live cannabis.” Mushrooms, mark my words.. –Ancient potstocks proverb Seriously though, folks, the cannabis sector is in trouble. Take a look at the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, a basket of some of the largest cannabis stocks on the market. Here is equity.guru founder, Chris Parry’s take on how the growing pains of…
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Vapen (VPN.C) drops financials showing another quarter of actual profits
I’ll say it. Vapes aren’t as fashionable on the cannabis investor markets as they once were. Right now you guys really like, well, nothing, but a few years back, if you went to Alibaba Express and got a shipping container of pink vapes sent over by the guy who usually does fidget spinners, the markets…
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Tilray (TLRY.Q), TGOD, Acreage (ACRG.U) post awful Q2 financials, but who doesn’t? Canadian system is built to underperform
We’re in the middle of financial season, and that’s proving to be a real rollercoaster. Among companies releasing financials today, Acreage Holdings (ACRG.U), Flower One Holdings (FONE.C), Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD.T) and Tilray. Tomorrow is Aleafia (ALEF.C), the hideous CannTrust (TRST.T), Charlotte’s Web (CWEB.T), Neptune Wellness (NEPT.T), Trulieve (TRUL.C), and the monster that is Canopy…
