Category: Agriculture
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Sol Global (SOL.C): The only weed company I know that lists ‘divestments’ on its website
Andy DeFrancesco is the devil. Just ask anyone. The worst guy in the weed business, the archangel of bad asset deals, the shell master of Florida. He’s got investigative journalists who write about nothing other than him, he’s got shareholders at various companies that have bought things from him screaming at him for taking their…
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Heritage Cannabis’ (CANN.C) subsidiary Endocanna Health licenses DNA kits for Empower Clinics (CBDT.C)
Endocanna Health, a subsidiary of Heritage Cannabis (CANN.C), has agreed to manufacture and license its patent-pending Endocannabinoid DNA Test Kits to Empower Clinics (CBDT.C). Imagine a product tuned in directly to your specific DNA to give you exactly what you need when you need it. That’s what Endocanna’s test kits offer. Endocanna’s kits provide personalized…
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New hemp listing Gaia Grow (GAIA.V) plants 1,494 acres in Canada
Gaia Grow Corp. (GAIA.V) (formerly Spirit Bear Capital) announced that effective August 1, its shares will be trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. Gaia Grow has 200.2 million shares outstanding. A July, 2019 capital raise was completed at $0.10, bringing its market cap to $20.2 million (about 124.7 million, or approximately 62%, of outstanding shares are locked up in various escrow…
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Vapen MJ Ventures (VAPN.C) CBD inhalers offer an alternative
Vapen MJ Ventures (VAPN.C) knows that inhalers are a perfect alternative to ingesting cannabis for people who cannot stand smoking weed, and that’s why they’ve released their line of CBD-inhalers this week. Traditionally, inhalers are associated with asthma and other respiratory ailments, but Vapen has taken the technology and bent it to their will. And…
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Marijuana update: No, the market isn’t getting killed… we’re just not rewarding bullshit anymore
Top tip: You guys out there whining about ‘the market’ being down are finding excuses for the wrong problem. Folks be running about with their hair on fire right now, pointing to a sky that for sure is falling because a few of their favourite weed stocks have come off absurd highs and what if…
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Hemptown Organics opens financing to non-accredited investors
A few years ago, we wrote one of our defining pieces at Equity.Guru, an article that opened a new world up for a variety of investors, and introduced them to a pre-public listing deal that, for a change, was opening up to the little guy. So you missed Canopy/Tweed coming to the market. You stood…
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Hot grill summer: Is Beyond Meat (BYND.Q) a Tilray (TLRY.Q) in the making?
Beyond Meat (BYND.Q), the vegan burger maker we all know and love, has partnered with Dunkin’ Brands’ Group (DNKN.Q) to add its plant-based sausages to Dunkin’ Donuts menus in Manhattan, but the plant-fed party may be coming to a close come October. The Beyond Sausage Breakfast Sandwich is just BYND’s latest offering. Despite only going public in…
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Berz-Erka: Livewell unhalts after 8 months as Eureka 93 (ERKA.C), rolls back 15:1, loses 90% of its value
We talked to the folks behind Livewell a lot, back in the day. Seemed a good deal, certainly a team that talked a good game. Even bought a little personally. But there was always a coda attached. The projections and plans were big. Maybe too big. Here’s me, the first time I covered them. Little…
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Hemptown buys FDA-approved plant with $6 mil/year existing revenue
I once consulted with a veteran CEO (potash, lithium, tech, gold) who told me, “Before I take a company public, I’ve got 60 press releases written in my head”. Since the man had created over $1 billion in enterprise value, I wasn’t going to argue with his roll-out template. His idea: you don’t take a…
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Marijuana update: Where the blood runs hard, look for the guys with swords
“There are times […] when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a…