Author: Alan Brochstein, CFA
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...
GW Pharma (NASDAQ: GWPH) (LON: GWP) will soon announce the results from the first of four Phase 3 clinical trials for Epidiolex, its antiepileptic drug targeting seizure reduction for patients with...
David Drake, the CEO of Cannabis Reports (formerly Smoke Reports), presented at the Seed Series in San Francisco on March 2nd. The company, which provides data analytics and has now created special...
Med-X reported an update on its crowdfunding effort today in a sponsored post published by MJIC Media in front of the MJIC California Cannabis Conference to be held from...
One of the most compelling aspects to the legal cannabis industry growth story is that the vast majority of the growth will come from migrating the black market. In...
The Snoop Dogg deal with Canopy Growth’s (TSXV: CGC) subsidiary Tweed generated significant interest when it was announced earlier this month. The details were a bit limited at the...
Ackrell Capital, based in San Francisco, is an M&A advisory and financing firm that will soon be launching a venture fund targeting the cannabis industry. Shannon Soqui, its Head of...
After waiting more than six months, cannabis producers Tilray, which is owned by Privateer Holdings, Tweed, a subsidiary of Canopy Growth (TSXV: CGC), and Whistler Medical, partially owned by...
Earlier this month, Colorado-based GoFire LLC was named as one of the eleven companies included in the inaugural class of TechrIoT XLR8, an accelerator program focused on the Internet of Things (IoT)....
Health Canada’s website today reflects the granting of two new licenses to cultivate medical cannabis. Green Relief, based in Ontario, and THC Biomed (CSE:THC) (OTC:THCBF), based in British Columbia, received the 28th...
Two years ago, Growlife (OTCBB:PHOT) was the most widely held and actively traded cannabis stock, commanding a market cap of hundreds of millions of dollars. It had already peaked...
Leafly, one of the three core holdings of Privateer Holdings, has moved forward since the departure of founder Cy Scott, who left last year to form Headset. At the recent Cannabis...
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference & Festivals, a major gathering in Austin, TX that will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, is known for allowing attendees to discover the...
Earlier today, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) posted 8 warning letters issued to marketers of products containing cannabidiol (CBD). Two of the companies receiving the letters were criticized for claims...
Similar to a year ago, when the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to six companies, the FDA issued several warning letters to marketers of products with cannabidiol...
This management team is asking $15mm for 21% of its company. Med-X, based in Los Angeles, is actively pursuing a crowd-funding campaign, the first cannabis-related company to do so via a...
Foria received tremendous acclaim for its first product, Foria Pleasure, a cannabis-infused vaginal lubricant that launched in California in 2014 and in Colorado in 2015, and it has kicked off...
