Category: Kane
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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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CIBC’s (CM.T) cannabis coverage: is this Canadian bank a hot mess?
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CIBC (CM.T) – a $48 billion company with 11 million clients and 40,000 employees – just released a statement declaring that other cannabis industry analysts are lying or deluded about how much weed it is going to sell in the next two years. “Sales estimates for the legal cannabis…
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AMPD Technologies, Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V), Riot Games, Louis Vuitton and the dawn of e-sports investing
For many people of my vintage, the concept of being entertained by watching other people play video games is confounding. But make no mistake, competitive e-sports is a thing. Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V) recently completed a merger with Aquilini Game Co and Luminosity to become a Global e-sports and gaming Leader. The merged company has $22…
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![Equity.Guru podcast: Andrea Dobbs – a Vancouver rec weed-seller spills the beans]()
Equity.Guru podcast: Andrea Dobbs – a Vancouver rec weed-seller spills the beans
In 2014, Andrea Dobbs walked into a Vancouver cannabis dispensary and tried to talk to a 21-year-old male “budtender” about treating her peri-menopausal symptoms. The conversation was not illuminating. She saw a business opportunity. A year later, Dobbs opened a retail cannabis store in Kitsilano, catering to people…like her. The Village Bloomery offered “a boutique…
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Aurora Cannabis (ACB.NYSE) shareholders are true winners
“Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser,” stated Vincent Lombardi (1913-1970), head coach of the NFL team, the Green Bay Packers. Inverting this logic, bad losers must be winners. Which means Aurora Cannabis (ACB.NYSE) shareholders are the biggest winners in the world. Because they are extremely ungracious in defeat. “Aurora is…
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Plus Products (PLUS.C) partners with a Legend
“John Legend is getting into the cannabis business with a new brand partnership with San Mateo-based Plus Products” stated The Hollywood Reporter on September 17, 2019, “As an investor, the EGOT winner will advocate for the company’s new hemp CBD products, which launch nationwide on Tuesday. Being an “EGOT winner” is a reminder that God…
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Are CNN’s Chinese reporters playing dumb?
“China’s economic slowdown keeps getting worse,” wrote CNN reporter Laura He on September 16, 2019, “That could give the country incentive to repair its trading relationship with the United States.” Indeed, it could. It could also give China incentive to ban ping-pong or mandate the eating of cheeseburgers on Tuesdays. If China is “slowing down”,…
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![Ontario Cannabis Czar “retires” just before financial shit-show hits fan]()
Ontario Cannabis Czar “retires” just before financial shit-show hits fan
The head of Ontario’s government cannabis agency, Patrick Ford, strategically retired just days prior to the revelation that the agency lost an astonishing $42 million on $64 million revenue this fiscal year. The “Ontario Cannabis Store” (OCS) oversees the provinces’ online and retail cannabis outlets. Ontario’s consolidated financial statements show the OCS racked up expenses…
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![CopperBank (CBK.C): China 2.0 – how innovation is changing the game]()
CopperBank (CBK.C): China 2.0 – how innovation is changing the game
It’s easy to look down on people who are more disciplined but less creative than you are. For decades, that’s how we’ve viewed the Chinese. Plodding industrious imitators. I went to China for the first time in 2012, an embedded journalist traveling with a gaggle of mining and energy executives looking for strategic Chinese partners.…
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![1933 Industries (TGIF.C) guidance predicts Q4, 2019 rev. of $5.2 million]()
1933 Industries (TGIF.C) guidance predicts Q4, 2019 rev. of $5.2 million
On September 12, 2019, 1933 Industries (TGIF.C) provided guidance for Q4, 2019 – the quarter ended six weeks ago on July 31, 2019. 1933 Industries owns cannabis cultivation, extraction, processing and manufacturing assets, along with a portfolio of brands including: AMA flower and AMA concentrates, CBD-infused Canna Hemp, Canna Hemp X, and Canna Fused. “Guidance” refers to…
