Category: Agriculture
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![Speakeasy (EASY.C) completes $2m loan with interest rate just 5% shy of what’s considered loan sharking]()
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…
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Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C): Kicked around, called a fraud, gets FDA approval of Phase 3 COVID-19 trials
“Let them say what they want, we know what we’re doing, and we’re doing the work,” Michael Frank told me a month ago, as he put out news claiming his little pharma company, which had built a reputation for chasing aggressively into new pharmaceutical fields, had found some IP that might be useful in the…
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Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C) warned about overhype, but up 26% on clinical trial news
Oddball pharmaceutical player Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C) found itself on the back end of a warning by the BCSC this week, that certain German players in the smallcap promotion space had over-hyped the mushroom/cannabis/biotech deal and promised big wins inappropriately for anyone who invested. As a marketing partner of Revive, I got a few panicky texts…
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Revive Therapeutics (RVV.C) finds pharma asset under the couch that may treat COVID-19
When new sectors emerge, as cannabis did in 2013 and psychedelics are doing right now, microcap companies that have struggled in other sectors will often pivot into new business. Miners become weed companies, then biotech companies, then shroom companies, as boards and management pursue new opportunities that might one day prove better than the last.
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![How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)]()
How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)
“I’m practicing as much social distancing as I possibly can” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Director of Disease, “I’m working on getting the boss [Trump] to do this. I may not be successful, but we’re working on it.”
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AMPD, PAT, MTA, HIVE, MILE: Contrarian investing as the zombies climb over the walls
Okay, so the world is burning, the Russians and Saudis are pouring low-cost fuel over it, the Americans are shocked that a reality TV show host with a penchant for scams didn’t make a clever President, Italy is in total lockdown, the Japanese are thinking of holding a spectator-free Olympics, Israel is putting anyone coming…
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Shroom stocks go nuts: First movers SHRM, MMED, RVV up hard as gamblers gamble
Today was a day that daytraders have been looking forward to for some time; the day that shroom stocks finally gripped the road and took off. Mind Medicine (MMED.E) ripped 90% to $0.77 on the back of 15m shares traded, reminding anyone who’d listen that ex-Canopy CEO Bruce Linton and pretend billionaire Kevin O’Leary were on…
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![Gaia Grow (GAIA.V) sells hemp, buys cannabis stores]()
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.
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![2020 Gravitas Securities Growth Conference lines up seriously interesting deals, even in weed]()
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…
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1933 Industries (TGIF.C) blows up, jumps 35% preceding California harvest announcement
You’ve gotta love it when a plan comes together: 1933 Industries (TGIF.C), which has been banging the same ‘we’re grownups, we’re doing it right, hang tight’ drum for several years now, dropped news this February 14 that will make any Valentine’s heart swell with joy. “Following the completion of a combined 20,000-square-foot expanded cultivation, extraction,…
