Author: Alan Brochstein, CFA
Montel Williams, a long-time medical cannabis advocate who has used it to help manage his Multiple Sclerosis since 2000, has created a company that is trying to address a...
BNN hosted the CFOs of Canopy Growth (TSX: WEED) (OTC: TWMJF), its partially owned subsidiary, Canopy Health Innovations, and Emblem (TSXV: EMC) (OTC: EMMBF) on Money Talk on May...
General Cannabis (OTC: CANN) is one of the 26 cannabis-related companies I follow most closely at 420 Investor as part of my Focus List, and I continue to be cautious on...
The cannabis industry continues to attract new entrants every day, with many starting their own businesses and others joining established ones. Just yesterday, for example, KIND Financial announced that...
A current marketing campaign by start-up media publisher Civilized strikes us as remarkably irresponsible. The company, which recently raised $1mm in a Series A round, appears to be violating Canadian...
Canadian LP Aphria (TSX: APH) (OTC: APHQF), which purchased a 6mm share stake in Canabo Medical Corp (TSXV: CMM) (OTC: CAMDF) at $1.40 per share in December, has sharply reduced...
Readers of New Cannabis Ventures likely recall how we alerted to the huge opportunities in Canada last June, and the Canadian market continues to evolve as a leader in the...
After filing its preliminary prospectus for its pending IPO last month, MedReleaf revised it on May 9th, sharing a lot more information. The Canadian cannabis deal, underwritten by GMP...
Exclusive Interview with Cannabis Wheaton CEO Chuck Rifici With Canada potentially facing a substantial undersupply of cannabis product next year as the market becomes legal for adults, licensed producers...
Following the success of the first cannabis-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (TSX: HMMJ) (OTC: HMLSF), which has quickly exceeded C$120mm in assets since...
Australia is a small but emerging medical cannabis market that has captured a lot of investor attention recently. Several publicly-traded companies have been rallying in 2017, and the first...
One of the big challenges for those investing in the cannabis industry or joining it as an entrepreneur or service provider is getting up to speed with the critical...
Last summer, New Cannabis Ventures reported on a crowdfunding cannabis company in California, Cultivation Technologies, Inc., making bold claims about a project in Coachella that it was touting as...
Texas, which signed its Texas Compassionate Use Act on June 1, 2015, has awarded three conditional licenses to cultivate, process and dispense low-THC cannabis to intractable epilepsy patients. Of...
The National Cannabis Industry Organization (NCIA) opened voting today for its Board of Directors. The Board has twenty-two Directors, each of whom serves a two-year term, and each year NCIA members...
While Health Canada, which provided an update on April 24th, continues to get the official data out to the public very slowly, the patient enrollment growth in the ACMPR...
In advance of ABcann Global (TSXV: ABCN) trading publicly in the very near future, we hosted CEO Aaron Keay to discuss the company. Keay began by reviewing the corporate...
Ontario-based MedReleaf filed its preliminary prospectus ahead of its planned Initial Public Offering and has engaged GMP Securities to lead the deal. Most of the Canadian licensed producers have gone...
10-K season just came to an end for cannabis stocks. Actually, to be precise, extra innings came to an end, as the filings were due 03/31 for companies with years ending...
We have been monitoring the over-the-top marketing efforts of Agora Financial over the past several months as it has been promoting get-rich-quick schemes for traders in cannabis penny stocks....
The cannabis industry faces several significant burdens, though perhaps none as onerous as 280E, an antiquated tax rule that prohibits companies that grow, process or sell cannabi from deducting...
The first week of trading for the new Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (TSX: HMMJ) (OTC: HMLSF) has been a tremendous success. While Tuesday saw its first decline...
With Canada set to make history this week by tabling legislation to make the nation the first G-7 country to legalize cannabis for adult use, many investors are focusing...
Canopy Growth (TSX: WEED) (OTC: TWMJF) CEO Bruce Linton has sold about 10% of his holdings in the company, disposing of 350K shares in two transactions on March 29th...
Startups struggle to raise capital generally, but for cannabis startups it’s even more difficult given stigma issues and federal illegality, which reduce the number of investors willing to consider...
