Tag: medical
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Bionxt Solutions (BNXT.C) shows how pivots don’t have to mean resets
Several years back, Hugh Rogers was in my office talking about his cannabis company. Way back then, the plan was to grow in Germany and be first on the continent, using an old wartime bunker as a ‘safe growing facility’. Those plans morphed quickly as the reality of the cannabis space became clear. The cannabis…
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Perimeter Medical Imaging AI (PINK.V): After 3 years, it’s half-priced, AI-based, and in FDA trials
If you’ve been around here for a while, like going back three years or so ago, you may recall a former client company in Perimeter Medical Imaging (PINK.V). I really loved repping PINK, because sometimes it’s nice to be able to say that you really ARE trying to cure cancer, and make some profit while…
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Canntab Therapeutics (PILL.C): The Canadian weed sector is struggling, but new consumer products have room to scale
If we’re honest about it – if we’re REALLY honest about it – Canada has fumbled its advantage in the cannabis sector. First to market, first to raise hundreds of millions in financing, first to legalize, first to recreationalize (not a word but I’m on a roll), and it’s all really been for naught. In…
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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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Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T) comes out on top in Italian tender, but debt looms heavy
Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T) has been named as the sole winner in the Italian medical cannabis tender process, an announcement tempered by worries over the company’s mounting debt and disappointing revenue. On July 18, Aurora fell 1.2% after Bank of America (BAC.NYSE) downgraded the stock’s rating to “neutral” from “buy.” Bank of America analyst, Chris Carey, described Aurora…
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Khiron Life Sciences (KHRN.V) is still the only Colombian company with revenue from legal cannabis
Khiron Life Sciences (KHRN.C) is the only Colombian cannabis company generating revenue from legal production. We checked. After the acquisition of ILANS and the launch of the cosmeceutical brand, Kuida, Khiron is in a league of its own. There is an endless stream of cannabis companies trying to establish market share in Latin America, including…
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Vitalhub (VHI.V): Undervalued health tech player is following RHT’s well worn path
About a year back, I told you guys about a telemedicine company called Reliq Health Technologies (RHT.V). You didn’t pay much attention because it was little and new and ‘telemedicine’ sounds like a Home Shopping Channel show at 2am that sells Acai supplements. But this is what happened soon after. A $5000 bet on the…