Tag: CBD
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How Plus Products’ (PLUS.C) CEO Jake Heimark conquered California – and what he’s gonna do next
While the Noveau-riche cannabis bosses partied with company credit cards, Plus Products put its head down, did the researching, the strategizing, eventually building products that sold like hotcakes.
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Gaia Grow (GAIA.V) sends a truck load of biomass to hemp processor
On January 22, 2020 Gaia Grow (GAIA.V) announced that “one of the largest hemp processors in Canada” has initiated a purchase order for “a truck load of biomass”. This is the second stage in a three-part courtship. A few weeks ago, the hemp distributer ran tests on a single bale. “Provided another successful run, the…
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Plus Products (PLUS.C) sheds short-term gain for long-term profitability in CPG segment
Plus Products (PLUS.C) is a proponent of the hyper-specialization approach in a sector which, at least once upon a time, prided itself on vertical integration across a wide swathe of products. The company operates in California and Nevada, selling their consumer packaged goods (CPG) edible products which include gummies, mints and more. A respectable cash…
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![The Tinley Beverage Company (TNY.C), weed drinks and its plans for world domination]()
The Tinley Beverage Company (TNY.C), weed drinks and its plans for world domination
“California is North America’s largest beverage market. Plus it’s the continent’s largest cannabis market,” says the founder and CEO of The Tinley Beverage Company (TNY.C). Tinley knows drinks. Raspy and dry as a Manhattan, the CEO rattles off factoids about sticker placement and the importance of shelf height which would seem more at home in…
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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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![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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Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR.NYSE): beautiful chart, beautiful biz model
“A journalist who has sworn to tell the good AND the bad – brings an extra level of legitimacy.” – Equity Guru principal Chris Parry. “The cannabis bubble is not yet bursting, but the likelihood that it will go by the time you read this is high,” stated Parry in an August 28, 2019 midnight…
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Gaia Grow (GAIA.V): big hemp acreage, tiny market cap
Snap quiz: Name a hemp company with the following characteristics: Stumped? Meet Gaia Grow (GAIA.V) a little-known, new entry to the hemp space, with 1,494 acres growing in southern Alberta. If you believe in omens, GAIA received an early agricultural blessing when its first crop experienced warm intermittent rains, accelerating the growth rate of the…
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Lexaria (LXX.C) recieves a…R&D license?
Earlier this week, a subsidiary of Lexaria Bioscience (LXX.C) received a R&D license from Health Canada, prompting the question, ‘we have those?’ “You were as surprised as we were,” said Alex Blanchard, communications manager for Lexaria. Lexaria isn’t your average grower. The company is much more of a tech-play, developing new delivery systems for nicotine, vitamins,…
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![Chemesis (CSI.C) smacks another double]()
Chemesis (CSI.C) smacks another double
Ichiro Suzuki – a recently retired major league baseball player – hit only 117 home runs in 9,934 career at bats. That’s a 1.2% home run success ratio. Yet Suzuki is considered one of the most effective batters ever to play the game. Why? Because he specialised in singles, doubles and triples (short, sharp, surgical…
