Category: Team Pump
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This is an actual MedMen (MMEN.C) news release
When a cannabis company loses a lot of money every quarter, and has to sell real estate, cancel acquisitions, lay off staff, renegotiate existing financing to higher interest rates and offer stock to new financiers at a discount to the market price, all to stay afloat, one might expect their newsflow to show bold new…
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Update: Fisticuffs at Hollyburn as high society calls out Bridgemark pair
The Father Daughter Dance at West Vancouver country club Hollyburn is usually a fairly tame affair, where the city’s well-to-do dress up, eat steak, and dance with their little girls in a tony family friendly setting where everyone is home by bed time. Production-wise, it’s quite the show. Hollyburn doesn’t do anything by halves, so…
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MedMen (MMEN.C) yearly loss was $1m more than Supreme Cannabis’ (FIRE.T) entire market cap
“Fiscal 2019 was a transformative year for Medmen, with over two million completed retail transactions to date and revenues increasing 227% year-over-year,” said Adam Bierman, Medmen co-founder and chief executive officer in a news release that should see the company gutted on the markets Tuesday. Despite Bierman’s attempts at turd polishing, you don’t have to…
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CannTrust (TRST.T) cannabis sales license suspended by Health Canada, and the clock is ticking
Turns out running an illegal drug operation out of your legal, licensed drug operation isn’t such a good business model. Health Canada announced today what many had long assumed was coming, when they suspended CannTrust’s (TRST.T) license to sell and process cannabis in the wake of ongoing allegations of illegal behaviour. When TRST stock was…
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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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E-sports is starting to run, but let’s use some common sense here
Over the last few days, as cannabis took another face plant into the toilet bowl, a ton of money has been looking for somewhere else to go. That should have been great news for the resource sector, though they haven’t yet figured out how to get cannabis investors interested in what they do. And it…
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Abattis Bioceuticals (ATT.C): A grift building over several years until regulators couldn’t ignore it anymore
Several years ago, when Equity.Guru boss Chris Parry was writing at Stockhouse, he was called out to a new client – a company called Abattis Bioceutical (ATT.C). Abattis execs had just signed a marketing deal with Stockhouse to help tell their story to investors, and were excited for what might follow. As Parry tells it,…
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Wayland Group (WAYL.C) crumbles, to RTO with illiquid crypto company, CEO Ben Ward dumped
Canadian licensed cannabis producer The Wayland Group (WAYL.C), formerly Maricann, currently halted for not being able to get their financials through three different audit teams, has succumbed. Long halted at $0.74 in Canada, though still trading on the US OTC at C$0.26, Wayland announced late Friday night, when most people were either asleep or into…
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GONE: CannTrust (TRST.V) execs bounced by board after 3 Stooges-like revelations of stupidity
We may never know whether it was the brazen hubris of doing a promotional video in front of an unlicensed grow room filled with illegal plants, or if it was the email trail the Globe and Mail discovered yesterday that showed top brass at CannTrust (TRST.V) were not only aware the company was growing illegal…