Category: Friday Forensic
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![Indignant Pharma CEO explains why the Lower Drug Costs Now Act is a terrible thing]()
Indignant Pharma CEO explains why the Lower Drug Costs Now Act is a terrible thing
“Americans spend more on prescription drugs than anyone else in the world,” states Bloomberg, “It’s true that they take a lot of pills. But what really sets the U.S. apart from most other countries is high prices.” Cancer drugs in the U.S. routinely cost $10,000 a month. The cost for old drugs has spiked, as…
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Dionymed (DYME.C) gives investors a checklist for disaster, and Invictus (GENE.V) is ticking a lot of boxes
Dionymed Brands (DYME.C) is – sorry, was – the low hanging fruit of the cannabis bubble burst. It was always a goner for anyone who looked hard enough, but in a market where aspiration was rewarded more than perspiration, Dionymed sent out all the right news releases to keep the joke going longer than it…
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Emerald Health (EMH.V) shareholder call goes somewhat poorly, as JV death spiral looms
The partnership between Emerald Health (EMH.V) and Village Farms (VFF.V) was never going to be smooth sailing, glittery rainbows, and under-taint kisses until the end of time. Let’s face it, brothers will always fight, especially when money is involved. However, a betting man might have thought the partnership between these two would make it through…
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Deathwatch: Beleave (BE.C) has less money than you do
Beleaguered Canadian cannabis company Beleave (BE.C) just posted financials after the close of trading on a Friday, which is, as we well know, ‘Friday news dump’ time. True to form for a company that’s never posted good news to my recollection, these financials are absolute toilet. As of September 30, 2019, Beleave had $133,000 to…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) management pulls baller financing move, fights off shorters
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) CEO Anthony Brown told a reporter yesterday he was looking to raise money for acquisitions and growth, with a $2 million raise announced a few days ago. Nothing weird about that. What was maybe a little weird was the flex Brown was pulling in the announcing of that financing. With his stock heading…
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CannTrust (TRST.T) sacks workers, calls it ‘commitment to regulatory compliance’
There’s an old damage control routine that goes, instead of admitting you have a problem, you focus on how you’ve fixed the problem you had, so the interested observer focuses on your fix and not your initial incompetence. CannTrust is at that chapter in their Damage Control 101 textbook. In a news release titled, “Canntrust…
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Former Zenabis (ZENA.T) CEO flushing stock hard: 1 million shares down, 23 million to go?
Zenabis (ZENA.C) has four cannabis grow facilities. And it has four licenses. And it says it’s building out 2.75 million square feet of grow space. Amazing. All of those things are things you’d like to see a cannabis company doing. So why is the stock chart this? Well, most cannabis companies are having at least…
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TSX.V, CSE: Canadian venture capital markets declare “Trudeau Ethics Scandal” weak sauce!
Reading this week’s political headlines, you’d think the media had just unearthed hidden-camera footage of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Shanghai strip bar – pockets bulging with gold coins – giving a hand-job to the CEO of the China Petroleum Corporation (中国石油天然气集团公司). “Will Trudeau take responsibility for ethics breach?” – Ottawa Citizen. “Trudeau violated…
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Invictus MD Strategies (GENE.V) parts ways from KISS’ Gene Simmons, because duh
In news that will shock nobody who has been paying even the smallest sliver of attention, rock n’roll legend, KISS guitarist, and reality show nimrod Gene Simmons has stepped down from his position as Invictus MD Strategies’ (GENE.V) Chief Evangelist Officer, wishing the company whose stock he has probably finished selling off, a fond farewell.…
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Supreme Cannabis (FIRE.T) goes on unexpected slide as ETFs re-calibrate, jump CannTrust (TRST.T) 50%
One of the big lessons both a public company CEO and a public company investor have to learn and remember always is, sometimes the market will take you out back and shoot you in the head and it’s not actually your fault, the gods determined that it just had to be done. Supreme Cannabis (FIRE.T)…
