Boston-based Ascend Wellness began trading ($AAWH) on the Canadian Securities Exchange yesterday, and Forbes is calling it “the most anticipated cannabis IPO of the year” (although they also note the IPO was just announced in April).
At #MJBizCon2019, Business of Cannabis joined MNP, MGO Ello, Aird + Berlis and the Canadian Securities Exchange inside their Canada’s Cannabis Scene booth to conduct conversations about the state of the industry.
At #MJBizCon2019, Business of Cannabis joined MNP, MGO Ello, Aird + Berlis and the Canadian Securities Exchange inside their Canada’s Cannabis Scene booth to conduct conversations about the state of the industry.
Bruce Linton is the co-founder and former CEO of Canopy Growth Corporation, the world’s largest cannabis company.
Andrew Grieve is the CEO of Zenabis and he joined Business of Cannabis to talk about their agreement to grow Tantalus Labs genetics on contract as well as their stock offering to current shareholders – which has been the topic of conversation among those that follow publicly traded cannabis companies.
Peter Aceto took over as CEO of CannTrust in late 2018. He joined Business of Cannabis for the first time to discuss how CannTrust approaches the day-to-day operations post-legalization as well as how the focus on patients provides an advantage to the company.
MediPharm Labs is a Barrie, Ontario-based company focused solely on extraction. Since last we connected with MediPharm leadership, they have gone public, signed a series of supply agreements with Canada’s largest cultivators and been included in the Horizon ETF. We connected with CEO Pat McCutcheon.
With the recent acquisition of Cub City in Sonoma County, California, BofC wanted to connect with Afzal Hasan of Origin House to talk about the acquisition, what it meant for their footprint in California and the learnings that Origin House, and others, can take from the California market.
