Author: Alan Brochstein, CFA
Mackie Research Capital Corporation (MRCC), one of Canada’s largest independent full service investment firms with roots back to 1921, has issued its premier report on the Canadian cannabis market. The report’s...
Legalized cannabis opens up all types of entrepreneurial activivities, but 420 Tours Las Vegas, which helps get out-of-state visitors access to a “top-shelf” experience when visiting, provoked a letter from the...
MassRoots (OTCMKTS:MSRT) surged almost 23% today, with the 1.61mm shares traded setting a record. Over the past year since it began trading on April 9, 2015, the prior high...
On the heels of a massive move in its stock so far in 2016, Terra Tech (OTC: TRTC) has filed a preliminary proxy and a preliminary prospectus with the...
Following controversy regarding the accuracy of mandated cannabis lab tests and a public call for action by Steep Hill, Washington State Liquor & Cannabis Board (WSLCB) has imposed emergency...
Strainz, based in Nevada, has raised $8mm and announced its first three states of operations, including Colorado, Nevada and Washington. It named its partners, the Bronnor Corporation in Colorado...
Ben Larson, one of the founders of cannabis industry incubator Gateway in San Francisco, spoke at Valley in Berlin, a one day conference in Germany bringing together interesting Silicon Valley speakers with...
Access to capital is critical for any industry. The state-legal cannabis industry struggles in this area for several reasons, including federal illegality, stigma issues that reduce the investor base,...
Colorado Harvest Company has been a leading cannabis company in Colorado since 2009, using natural growing methods for the products that it sells in its two Denver stores and its retail-only store in...
Alan Brochstein, CFA, presented “3 Years Later, Only a Few Cannabis Stocks Appear Capable to Deliver” at the MoneyShow’s Cannabis Investing Virtual Event on March 29th. For those not immersed yet...
Colorado-based Mary’s Medicinals, which has established itself as a leading provider of topical cannabis products and has extended its brand into other states with licensing agreements, has filed suit...
Terra Tech (OTC: TRTC), one of the more actively traded public cannabis companies, filed its 10-K with the SEC and reported a year-end review and outlook after the close....
Following through with a promise delivered on StockTwits last week, “The Vega Group” has published a negative report on GW Pharma (NASDAQ: GWPH) (LON: GWP). The stock had reacted...
On January 28th, MedWest, a highly-regarded cannabis wholesale distributor in California that provided Bhang-branded and other products extracted from CO2 to state-legal businesses, was suddenly raided by local police in San Diego. Two...
Investing in cannabis stocks remains perilous, as I will discuss in a presentation at MoneyShow’s Cannabis Investing Virtual Event on March 29th. With that said, there are a few...
Canopy Growth (TSXV: CGC) announced that it sold 4.35mm shares at a $2.30 offering price to a group of underwriters led by Dundee Securities. The “bought deal” means that CGC...
In September, the New York Times reported that THC can be produced from yeast. It turns out that not only THC but many of the cannabinoids as well as terpenes...
Supreme Pharma (CSE:SL) (OTCMKTS:SPRWF) received its license from Health Canada to begin cultivating cannabis on March 11th. Based in Kincardine, Ontario, the company owns a large hybrid greenhouse facility,...
Chris Van Hook, Founder and Director of Clean Green Certified, discussed his company in an extended interview with Cannabis Reports. Van Hook, a medical cannabis compliance attorney in California,...
The Stanley Brothers, producers of the Charlotte’s Web oils featured in Sanjay Gupta’s Weed in 2013, which opened the world’s eyes to the promise of cannabidiol (CBD), announced an...
GW Pharma is trading near $74 following the issuance of a press release detailing the first of four late-stage clinical trials for its epilepsy drug, Epidiolex. The stock has...
Last week, Leafly, which bills itself as the “world’s largest cannabis information resource,” suddenly locked out developers in the cannabis industry from its application program interface (API). The API gave access...
The medical cannabis program in Illinois is off to an absolutely horrendous start, and, absent radical changes in the next two years before the pilot program is scheduled to...
CBC Biotechnologies, Inc., a Florida-based biopharmaceutical company focused on the use of synthetic biology to produce cannabinoids, has raised $7mm from investors that include NYC-based Tuatara Capital, which is focused...
Smaller licensed producers in Canada have tried to partner with publicly-traded companies in order to raise capital to compete with more established and better capitalized companies like Aphria, Canopy...
