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What’s the “Secret ‘$50 Marijuana Stock Blueprint'” Pitched by Technology Profits Confidential

In which Travis says, "OK, Fine, we'll look at Ray Blanco's pot stocks teaser"

Today’s article is a lightly updated revision of one that appeared on November 3, 2016, when an earlier “pre-election” version of the same ad was running. The hints about individual stocks are the same in the ad today, as is much of the rest of the language, though back then it was an urgent “pre-election” push and now Ray Blanco is pushing this as something that requires action by July 1. I’ll post some charts about how the stocks have done at the bottom (and yes, a couple of these stocks were closer to being guesses, given the limited clues).

What follows has not been updated since early 2017, though we’ve checked to see that the clues in the ad that’s circulating now remain unchanged so our answers, including guesses, remain the same. I’ve left all the original comments appended, some of which suggest better possible answers for your consideration.

I’m a little bit of a fuddy daddy when it comes to marijuana stocks — not because I’m necessarily against legalization or recreational use by adults, but because I don’t like being in the middle of wild stock bubbles where there’s no rational justification for valuations.

With that buzzkill out of the way — what is the secret “$50 marijuana stock blueprint” that Ray Blanco is selling as a way to get subscribers to his Technology Profits Confidential newsletter? Let’s dig in and see what they say.

Here’s a bit of intro from Blanco:

“… there are over 4,000 companies that trade on the stock market…

“Exactly 350 of them are pot plays…

“And I’ve run every single one of those 350 companies through my five-part filtering system…

“And based on my stringent five-part assessment of the companies in the marijuana industry, I’ve pinpointed exactly four penny pot stocks…

“That can eventually make you a millionaire.”

The “$50 Blueprint” part is a taste of absurdity, that’s based on his “Real Life Example” of how you could have turned $50 into $2.7 million using a few pot stocks — that’s one of the ridiculous penny stock chains you see touted every now and again, where $50 turns into $1,300 in a few months because you ride one explosive marijuana stock, then turning that $1,300 into $40,0000 on another pot stock that jumped by 3,000%, then put that $40,000 into one final stock that jumped by 7,000% in a few days and presto! It turns into $2.7 million in a little less than two years.

He does make a point of saying, “Although it’s improbable you’d ever ride a profit wave just like this, it’s NOT impossible…” but that doesn’t really mean anything. It’s also “not impossible” that you’ll win the billion-dollar Powerball lottery, but it’s awfully close to impossible. And with that, he’s already planted the idea of ridiculous riches in your head… so, as the ad copywriter wants, you’re drooling a little bit and primed to get out your credit card.

The real driver of all of this chatter about marijuana is the notion that marijuana production, retailing and consumption will create a much larger marijuana industry, and that the growth of this industry will allow some companies to flourish. Since legalization started out small and risky, the companies are pretty much all tiny — and a great many of them are private… but there are also hundreds of publicly traded stocks that have some connection to marijuana… almost all of them are penny stocks that trade over the counter, including those that change their corporate focus anything there’s a new hot stock market sector… though there are a few larger ones, mostly biotech companies that have been around for a while and are trying to develop drugs that are derived from or somehow related to cannabis (which, as I’ll reiterate, means legalization doesn’t mean much for them — they’re generally using marijuana as a raw material source for drugs that are in clinical trials, not trying to sell marijuana itself).

And yes, the legal marijuana business is becoming larger — five states had recreational marijuana votes on the ballot, and it won everywhere but in Arizona, so Massachusetts, California, Nevada and Maine now are legalizing recreational possession and use to at least some degree, and probably adding to the tipping point that forces a real change in federal law and more easing from other states in the future… if only because California tends to lead the nation and swing a big stick thanks to their gigantic population (medical marijuana was first legalized in California, 20 years ago now).

Those wins for recreational marijuana were not a surprise, nor were the wins for medical marijuana in Florida, North Dakota, Montana and Arkansas (now more than half of the states have medical marijuana laws, speaking of tipping points), and President Trump has not been particularly anti-marijuana, so there’s no indication just yet that the federal government will be much more aggressive (marijuana possession and distribution is still illegal under federal law, and marijuana is still a Schedule 1 drug according to the DEA, making it officially one of the most dangerous narcotics they control).

So that’s the big claim from Technology Profits Confidential (and others): Marijuana legalization will keep expanding to new states, and riches will flow. Though it’s clear even from the ads that they know there’s not yet really any fundamental basis for making guesses about the size of these markets or the potential profitability of any of the companies… the pitch was largely that the votes would drive investor interest and create huge spikes in some of these stocks and give you a chance to get rich, much like the pot stocks spiked for the last wave of state legalization votes.

And I’ll also note that most of the penny pot stocks, including the ones in the “$50 to $2.7 million Blueprint” Blanco noted, fell roughly as fast as they rose after their respective price spikes in the past, so you would have had to be quite nimble to make a profit… and extraordinarily nimble, or lucky, to make a huge profit.

And while almost all the pot stocks went up in the Fall in anticipation of the election, many have not done particularly well post-election, which makes sense — the catalyst is past, many speculators “sold on the news,” and now they have to stand up as real businesses and justify themselves based on revenue or earnings or brand value or whatever unique assets or products they can offer. Or, of course, they have to wait for the next catalyst — more legalization votes that get everyone jazzed up, or M&A in the sector, or changes to Federal law, or whatever.

But with that, let’s look into what specific stocks Blanco likes. Here are the clues about the first one:

“… today’s painkillers are derived from drugs like opium… and morphine.

“Which make them very dangerous, too.

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“According to the Centers for Disease Control, the United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic.

“The truth is opioids killed more than 28,000 people in 2014, more than any year on record.

“You see, serious pain drugs are a horrible trade-off — a deal with the devil, if you will.

“You take the drug and your unbearable pain goes away… but you may end up addicted (just ask Rush Limbaugh or Brett Favre), homeless or even dead from an overdose.

“And that’s exactly why this tiny, publicly traded marijuana biotech firm is so exciting.

“You see, they’ve already developed the “next generation” painkiller medication.

“I’m talking about a medication that could be just as effective as opioid-based pain drugs… but without all of the nasty side effects.”

That might sound a bit familiar to you, but let’s check the other clues to be sure:

“… this next-generation painkiller has already cleared Phase 1 and Phase 2 testing with the FDA.

“And as you can imagine, in the case of prescription medicines, it’s the first company to market that will hit the largest jackpot….

“… this same company has three other drugs in the pipeline… which are being tested as we speak.

“You see, what this company has discovered — through new research — is something called the endogenous system… which is directly linked to a number of physiological processes including pain and inflammation. And a special chemical found in marijuana can regulate the effects of acute and chronic pain.

“In fact, according to Roger Pertwee, a pharmacologist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, we’re talking about ‘a potential wonder drug.'”

So yes, that’s almost exactly the same language he used to pitch a stock for its “marijuana patents” a few months ago… so I’ll repeat what I wrote back then in a Friday File for the Irregulars:

That’s a reference to cannabidiol, abbreviated CBD, which is the non-psychoactive compound in marijuana that has has at least a few researchers interested for decades — there’s growing speculation and some evidence that it might really be CBD, not the better-known THC (which causes that “altered consciousness” from smoking pot), that is the “wonder drug” with potential to help with pain and lots of different kinds of diseases. Without harnessing you to your couch with a bag full of Cheetos and the sudden desire to sit through a Woody Woodpecker marathon.

Which stock is this hinting at? There are two reasonable candidates, Cara Therapeutics (CARA) and GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH) … so the Thinkolator can’t be 100% sure on this one, but I suspect CARA is likely the stock Blanco is focused on here. It’s a $300 million company with a lead product in Phase III for post operative pain (CR845), they had a bit of a hiccup with an FDA clinical hold earlier in the year but that was apparently not particularly serious and was listed and the trial continues enrollment. I’m not sure when they will have results, but they are reporting their quarterly earnings after the close today so it seems very likely that they’l provide an update then on the status of the various trials currently underway.

There are lots of other pain drugs that are attempting to get rid of the worst side effects of opiates, and one thing that has apparently been pretty consistent for most of the pain drugs/opiate replacements is that they’ve had sticky moments in their clinical trials. I don’t know how CARA will do, but I do think recreational marijuana is largely irrelevant to their prospects… and, as you might expect, the stock is not really moving up into the election like all the sketchier pot stocks are.

GW Pharma does have more of a connection to pot legalization trends, at least in the eyes of investors, partly because they have gotten some credit for developing their own strains of the marijuana plant as part of their drug development, and it does get mentioned in almost every mainstream marijuana article because it’s by far the biggest company in the business, with an approved licensed drug and a $2.5 billion market cap. There’s also some notion that marijuana legalization just makes it easier to do research on marijuana-related drugs, since that would mean less regulatory control of the research process (doing R&D with schedule 1 narcotics is more strenuous than with other compounds, and, bafflingly, marijuana remains a schedule 1 drug despite widespread legal medical use — schedule 1 is supposed to mean that there’s no safe or medically advisable way to use the drug, which might make sense with heroin or MDMA but seems silly for marijuana). I don’t buy it, you may be interested in GWPH because of their drug development pipeline (which happens to use compounds derived from cannabis), but whether their drugs are safe and effective is the big deal — marijuana legalization would perhaps have some potential to be bad for them, but I don’t see any big reason why it would be particularly good in a meaningful financial way.

By “legalization being bad” for either Cara or GW Pharma, I just mean that it creates some competition in the pain med space… would your doctor suggest taking legal over the counter marijuana, or using a prescription drug derived from marijuana? Would you maybe not even go to the doctor for pain meds if you could get marijuana legally, cheaply and easily? That doesn’t mean cannabis-derived drugs or synthetic cannabinoids can’t be wonderful, and they would certainly be much more predictable and controlled and specific, in terms of dosage of specific chemicals, than recreational marijuana, it’s just that I don’t see a positive impact from legalization for the cannabis drug developers and I do see a possible negative impact.

The other company that you might plausibly throw into the mix there, interestingly enough, is Insys Therapeutics (INSY), which has an opioid pain drug called Subsys (a version of fentanyl) that’s currently in use but is also developing some cannabis-related medications. That’s a stretch, and it looks like INSY is actually nervous enough about the negative impact of marijuana on its business that it is the major backer of the “no” vote on recreational pot in Arizona.

What else is hinted at in the ad?

“The complete details of a company that was recently voted one of the fastest-growing companies in America…
They’re based in California, and they’ve quickly become America’s premier supplier of packaging, accessories and branding solutions for the legal cannabis industry.

“In just the past two months, share prices have climbed over 212%… but if California votes to legalize recreational marijuana (and the latest polls are showing it will)… this is just the beginning.

“This company is still in the infancy stage of growth. I wouldn’t be shocked to see share prices skyrocket by 500% or more beginning November 8.”

That’s a little company called Kush Bottles (KSHB), which sells mostly packaging (like child-resistant packages to meet regulatory requirements) and branding — which is interesting, because I don’t think we’ll see the rise of “real” marijuana companies until regional branding really starts to kick in.

And yes they are a fast growing company (they made the Inc. 5000 list last year), and they do have an actual business that’s making sales. They even have a patent application for a particular variety of childproof bottle — though I wouldn’t overstate the impact of that, there are hundreds of different successful, in-the-market designs for childproof bottles and packages in the pharmaceutical industry. They have been roughly breaking even in recent quarters, with revenue growing pretty dramatically, so the business looks reasonably sustainable but would probably need more capital to grow dramatically… and, of course, the market is valuing the company as if they will grow dramatically.

Right now, according to their latest financial press release that came out today, Kush Bottles has good revenue growth, still growing about 100% year over year (slower growth than in past quarters, but still good), and they probably have pretty strong revenue growth potential, largely because of the expected approval of recreational marijuana in California, where they already have a toehold in the medical marijuana packaging business. But they’re also a packaging company, which means I would expect their profit margins to contract considerably as the business gets larger, and they have a market cap of about $175 million dollars. That’s a hugely rich valuation for a “real” company with $8 million in annual sales and a breakeven income statement, even if they’re going to double sales every year for the next several… so you probably really need to assume that they will get a windfall of business from the next wave of legalization that grows their revenue dramatically faster, or you have to assume that they will become the dominant provider of branded marijuana packaging and that many more of the current producers will go to Kush Bottles over their competitors.

I assume that’s the goal of the company, but there’s also tons of competition and a rapidly shifting regulatory environment, so there is a bit of a race among the packaging companies to get to scale and try to build a dominant market position. I have no idea whether Kush is doing better than competitors like Cannaline or Funksac or Cooljarz or any of the others, since most of the competitors are not publicly traded. Being the only publicly traded company in a sector is not the same as being the only company in a sector — being publicly traded might give you easier access to capital, but it tends to give some investors the mistaken impression that they’re buying into a monopoly just because there are no other stock tickers in that particular segment of the business… so be careful.

Kush Bottles may well soar if California votes “yes”, I’m not sure, and they could even grow into a strong company if they’re able to take a lot of market share for a growing sector and hold onto it nice and tight — but I can’t convince myself to buy a $175 million packaging company with sales of only $7 million, even if they have good growth.

Another one?

“There is another tiny, marijuana biotech firm that recently crossed my radar…

“Because of the small size of this company… and the unique angle they’ve taken with medical marijuana, I can’t go into much detail right now.

“However, I can tell you that they were just awarded a medical marijuana sublicense to a patent from the U.S. government… and they have 20 more marijuana patents currently under review.

“This small firm — that currently trades for around $1 per share — could easily become a global leader in marijuana biotech.

“And I’m not the only one who thinks so…

“Some of the largest investment groups on Wall Street are buying huge swaths of shares.

“Because of their unique medical marijuana patent, shares of this tiny biotech firm could jump 1,022% in as little as three months.”

This one I can’t be completely certain about, but the best guess from the Thinkolator is that he’s teasing 22nd Century Group (XXII), which is an agricultural biotech company developing new strains of both tobacco (lower nicotine, etc.) and marijuana (lower THC, higher cannabidiols, other customization). The clues fit pretty well, it trades around a dollar and has some institutional ownership (unlike most of the penny stocks), and it did recently (two years ago) license one patent and 20 patent applications from Amanda Laboratories that have to do with the expression of four different genes in the cannabis plant.

They would like to use this license to develop strains of marijuana that are either very high in THC or other cannabinoids, for the medical marijuana market, or very low in THC as they hope to build a market for hemp products that can escape government marijuana regulation. They explain this basic plan and their cannabis/hemp technology here, but they also announced an expansion of this business in September (the various “Projects” of their Bontanical Genetics subsidiary are listed here). Part of the plan is that they intend to produce cannibinoids in tobacco plants, not marijuana plants, which they say might speed up the commercial timeline considerably.

The renenue-generating part of the business, however, is low-nicotine cigarettes, including those sold under their Magic, Red Sun and Moonlight brands. They’re trying to build this business, both with their own manufacturing and with licensing their ultra-low-nicotine tobacco to other producers, and sales have ramped up pretty dramatically over the past year (more than doubling), but their revenue doesn’t yet cover the cost of goods (let alone the R&D or overhead costs) so they clearly need much more scale. I don’t really know what the uptake potential is — what would really be meaningful for XXII is a regulatory push to require much lower nicotine cigarettes, or to ban high nicotine cigarettes, so they talk a lot about those regulatory possibilities around the world. They have raised about $15 million over the past few months with two equity sales, so their balance sheet is better than it looks in the last reported quarter, but I have no idea how long it will take for them to really get to commercial scale with their lower-nicotine cigarettes… and the marijuana stuff is still in the lab, so that’s not going to have a meaningful impact within the next year or two (at least).

I’m not at all sure that XXII is the match for those clues, but it’s the most reasonable match we’ve got today. And it is, at least, a real and functioning R&D company that has some marginal possibility of a substantial medical marijuana business in the future. I can’t see how more legalization votes would have a direct impact on their business, but generally it should be good for them, in the long run, if medical marijuana becomes more widespread. The stock did pop higher in the early 2014 run that tool all medical marijuana stocks higher, so who knows, maybe that will happen again… but beyond any optimism about the growth of their cigarette business there isn’t any real fundamental reason for the stock to pop higher at the moment, unless you want to bet on them being able to develop some great new cannabis plant strains (or cannabinoid-producing tobacco strains) over the next few years that will enjoy tremendous commercial success.

And there was one more stock hinted at, though the hints aren’t enough for me:

“You’ll also discover the details of a penny pot company that specializes in ‘indoor marijuana growing.’
You see, as any marijuana aficionado will tell you, growing marijuana indoors offers a number of key benefits. It allows you to closely regulate light, temperature and humidity. It also offers an element of privacy and protection.

“As marijuana becomes legalized across the country, the market for indoor growing accessories will explode… and this penny pot company is the industry leader.

“This company is the smallest of the four penny pot stocks I’m profiling in my newest report.”

OK, so I have no idea which stock this is. But I take some solace in the fact that any argument for whatever stock it is seems likely to have no fundamental basis whatsoever, though you never know what will happen to a stock during a speculative bubble.

Hydroponics and indoor growing equipment has been a growing business for decades, and there are lots and lots of private companies and large agricultural suppliers selling indoor grow equipment — including some who have gotten their marketing and website technology out into the lead and no longer look like online gardening catalogues from the 1980s… but there is nothing proprietary in any of this and I think it’s about as likely that there will be one dominant, fortune-making “indoor growing” company as it is that there will be a one dominant home brewing company for beer enthusiasts. Small indoor agriculture suppliers aren’t going to win the business of any potential massive new (legal) pot growing operations in California, I would assume, any more than Tractor Supply Co. sells baby chicks and bags of fertilizer to Perdue or Tyson farmers… and hobbyist growers have lots of providers to choose from.

See, I told you I was going to be skeptical and a little bit grumpy!

We did, however, get a clue this time around that we didn’t get before the election — we got this from the email introducing the ad:

“This $0.39 Marijuana Stock Expected to Announce ‘Record-Breaking Quarter’….

“… it was recently revealed that they are expected to deliver “the best quarter on record” to shareholders.

“All three segments of operations — construction, wholesale and retail — are being reported as profitable and self-sustaining.

“Not only that, but they could be getting ready to deliver some REALLY BIG NEWS…”

That doesn’t really mean all that much, of course — it’s a brand new industry, at least legally, so if you’re a marijuana-related company that benefits even indirectly from either medical or recreational marijuana legalization and growth, the business should be growing fast enough that just about every single quarter at this point should be “the best quarter on record.” There’s no point in being in this business if you’re not growing at breakneck speeds — just about no one seems to be really making money, they’re all desperately trying to build market share.

And if we assume that they’re still focusing on the same four stocks, then logic argues that this clue must relate to that unidentified (by me, at least) fourth one they’re talking about in the email — none of the others have been anywhere near 39 cents a share in the recent past.

So what does the Thinkolator say? Well, without any great certainty we do get pointed at a likely candidate: mCig (MCIG), which until 2013 or so was called Lifetech.

Why is it a match? Well, MCIG does have those three divisions — construction, wholesale and retail… though they are renaming their operating segments construction, CBD, and e-Cig operations as of this next quarterly report. And they did pre-announce a record quarter just last week (their quarter ended on January 31, they say they’ll be filing their 10Q before their conference call on February 28).

And yes, the price clue matches — their average share price over the past month or so has been in the 39-cent neighborhood (it was at 10-15 cents around the time of the election).

There isn’t a particular April 15 connection here that I’ve noticed, but otherwise MCIG is the best solution we have for the available clues.

And it has done better than most such stocks since the election — this is now a $100 million company, believe it or not (the market cap was under $10 million as recently as September), and they imply that they are (just barely) profitable off of their roughly $2 million in annual sales, though that seems largely to be because their high-level employees are being paid primarily in stock.

The construction business is new, started last year, and that’s the “growing” part — they help build pot farming operations. That division loses money so far. The CBD business is basically cannabis e-cigarettes, and the third division is VitaCig, which is a wholesaler of leaf-based e-cigarette stuff.

From my skimming of the financials, it looks like they’re now making a little money … but that there’s no rational way, at least in my book, to say that this company should be worth $100 million, the assumptions about growth are just too high.

They did announce early in 2017 that they’re trying to reduce their outstanding share count by converting some “major shareholder” shares into preferred stock with two-year lockups, so that might be a good thing (I don’t know what the terms are for the preferred shares, and haven’t gone back to see if they actually did what they planned).

If you’ve got an “indoor marijuana growing” company you’d like to present to the class as a better match, please do so with a comment below — and, of course, we’d all like to hear if you have favorite stocks in the marijuana space either as “real” investments or as speculative trades on another bubble forming that echoes the previous spikes of the marijuana penny stocks. I can’t seem to get myself enthused about any of them, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t… so feel free to spread your enthusiasm below. Thanks for reading!

P.S. I promised those charts — here’s what those four stocks have done since the first instance of this ad, pre-election:

CARA Chart

CARA data by YCharts

And here’s what they’ve done since February of 2017, the last time we looked at this ad and added mCig to the list of possibles:

CARA Chart

CARA data by YCharts

That purple line is the S&P 500, so you can see that Kush and 22nd Century have done well recently, Cara and mCig not so much but they did well for periods earlier… and they’re all quite volatile. Enjoy!

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Tom Bailey
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Tom Bailey
September 19, 2017 2:49 am

Heeeeeyyyy duuude What’s all this revenue stuff mean anyway man?

Stellablue
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Stellablue
September 19, 2017 8:56 pm

Does anybody have any recommendations or references for these pot stocks? Don’t really want to pay $3000 to anybody after bad experience with Rick Rule Alliance and Money Map Press. I can’t believe they take advantage of people the way they do.

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airedale
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October 6, 2017 2:04 pm
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Look at EVIO formerly SGBY – testing company – all 420 products both rec and medical will need to be tested prior to commercial sales starting in 2018
Company just did a reverse split before name change – look for long term growth

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October 24, 2017 11:13 pm
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Airedale – there are MANY labs that test weed. 🙂 medicalmaryjane website has a very long list. Not sure how many are on the stock market – but I’m sure some of them are! Happy Trading! 🙂

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March 25, 2018 5:07 pm
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Airedale
Just a friendly heads up with vbio
They have numerous paid for misleading articles . I’m a little more than ocd through and after a lot of reasearch they do not hold any patient(at all) they had claimed they could Make all canabios work better threw there patented process of delivery system that allows them to get into your system to get the full therapeutic effect I actually called them and they are a 4 person company working out of what appears to be a very small apartment like make shift office one scientist four years out of a community collage like all marijuana related stocks they will go up the weeks leading up to the vote date from the hype value but too many better companies that actually have useful patents and will get a much bigger increase from the hype value but they are still on there way down inmed is a much better choice they can extract and produce a exact formula break down for anyone doing research but they can get what’s needed from the plant in minutes on the first shot companies have been just starting to use them saving time and money by being able to their patented program of extraction. They are as well sending there own medical innovations for phase one and two and have had several meetings with large investment companies they do drop from time to time under leading up to the vote . Not stealing you to imlf just giving a friendly heads up with vbio after going threw the info that has been surfacing .

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4lllls
March 25, 2018 6:03 pm
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I bought 10000 shares ended up with ten. Not happy. Seems fishy to me.

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4lllls
May 8, 2018 1:16 am
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My 10000 shares turned into ten. I am not happy signal bay did same should be illegal.

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Lee
May 25, 2018 10:05 pm
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yea my 10,000 shares turned into 10 shares!!

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October 24, 2017 10:49 pm
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Hello Dear Stellablue! You must be a Deadhead! Me too! 🙂 I’m so sorry you spent that money! I’m broke & can’t afford to pay anyone – so I “google” everything. You can just copy what they say, then paste it into google – and usually get the answer. That’s what I do. It annoys me to see people that say they make a fortune on the stock market – then ask us for money. When is enough – enough? Why be greedy? Why not just share to help fellow human beings? Good Luck To You Dear Stellablue!! ( ‘-‘ ) Oh – by the way – if you just google medical marijuana stocks – a whole list of them will come up. ( ‘-‘ )

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Tom Steele
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February 13, 2018 9:14 am
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In my experience, people who made a ton of money in the market and are now asking you for money to find out how to invest like they did – DIDN’T REALLY MAKE A TON OF MONEY in the stock market.

They just make their money selling “information” about how to invest.

OR, they made their money by buying stocks, then hyping them and selling them after a bunch of people bought their hype and then selling those stocks while the people they conned into buying them are left holding the bag.

Not all are like that, but a great, great many are.

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August 12, 2018 7:38 pm
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They haven’t made a ton of money in the pot market except for the money you sent them for stock advice when pot stocks for the most part work completly different and reading the charts and buying when you missed the buy in dates for the vote to come they got rich of giving you advice on something they don’t understand.
Just like sunniva when it came the ipo route and now the same people are making the same mistake with tilray I feel badly for all following such horrible advice and paying for it is even more painful. Time to learn from your mistakes and get yourself squared away for oct threw November and the news surrounding the November primaries which will start the pot hype gains up for what may be the last of the easiest money you can make in your lifetime best of fortune to all always

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January 18, 2018 4:06 pm
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I already belong to AGORA for well over 12 years, and while I literally got rich from just one stock 10 yrs ago, I just don’t trust Blanco, every time he recommends a company it seems to tank, my portfolio is down 20 g’s on 5 of his reco’s…pot stocks are the exception…he has been spot on in 4/5 reco’s. That said most of the analyst / writers that I followed in Agora, have moved on to do their own thing. christian DeHaemer, Lou Basenese, Zach Scheidt. I still follow their twitter feeds and these guys are the real deal. The pot stox above are XXII, CARA, KSHB, and MJNA…Travis you are inspirational in your deductions. the one you can’t figure out is TRTC, and that is way too volatile to touch in my opinion

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February 25, 2018 4:27 pm
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Is the Agora you belong to the same as the Technology Profits Confidential by this Ray Blanco? I Googled “Technology Profits Candidential” and one comes up about AGORA and its get negative reviews. So, are you saying that the Ray Blanco TPC isn’t good? It seems like they are the same as when I Google Ray Blanco the AGORA Financial pops up as well.

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May 8, 2018 1:19 am
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They are also being investigated for thwir dishonest bs.

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June 18, 2018 11:03 pm
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Agora is in the same group of the Technology Profits Confidential

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April 20, 2018 7:09 pm
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Hi JDV…I’ve only got $2000 to invest. I’ve been reading everything The Outside Club is putting out. Motley Fool & The Marijuana Manifesto as well. For their recommendations they ask for $2000. I can’t do it. I truly wish to invest at this time, I’m a newbie, so I can build up a nest egg. I’m disabled from a car wreck & sadly was put on assistance. I hate it! Was raised to stand on my own 2feet!
If you could help me with recommendations, I would surely give back. Please reach out on FB? I’m another JDV…Jill Voll. I thank you in advance for any feedback!!
I look forward to speaking with you! Thanks…Jill

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May 8, 2018 2:35 am
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Hey Jill V – I can help you invest in medical marijuana & I don’t charge. I invested last June & I’m willing to help. my email is lyndagrand@comcast.net. Looking forward to helping you!!
Lynda

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May 13, 2018 12:46 am

Hi Lynda, If you wouldn’t mind I would love some help also. I just started investing about a month ago and am around 10% down already. I need to get to making a profit, my hubby is 65 and retirement isn’t looking possible anytime in the future. I’m disabled so I’m trying to help out with our finances. Thanks, please let me know if you can help me. My email is suericker@twc.com. Thanks again.
Sue

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May 28, 2018 3:11 am
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Hey Sue – I just saw your message. I’ll get to you tomorrow! Lynda

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May 28, 2018 11:45 am
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Hi Lynda, Thank you, looking forward to hearing from you. Sue

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May 30, 2018 12:35 pm
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Hi Lynda, I would love to talk with you. Please get a hold of me. Thanks

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August 17, 2018 7:00 pm

HEy LYnda
IM just reading this thread. I would love some advice as well. I just emailed you.

TomN
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August 17, 2018 9:36 pm
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$CVSI MJ.. One stock that has done very well for me is CV Sciences.. ticker CVSI.. It’s one of the few that has continued to go up since the beginning of the year. No investment advice intended, only sharing personal experience. I’m also invested in ACBFF, APHQF, KSHB and LDSYF – all of which are down since my initial investment 7 months ago. Just cashed out on CGC on the recent pop. Interesting times ahead !

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August 20, 2018 2:30 pm
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$CVSI – Update!!.. It figures. I’m not sure what’s going on but the following tweet caused a big drop in CVSI today.. Some feel it might be a short attack.. https://twitter.com/CitronResearch/status/1031592091543982081

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February 4, 2019 6:15 pm
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Lynda, Sue, and Brandy are you all still talking and working together on stocks. If so I’l love to join. Today is 2-4-19 and I started investing 2 weeks ago. Did REALLY well. Profit on 6 marijuana stocks roughly $1.500 on the 6 stocksm in two weeks. I was up $1,700 today then I noticed it was down to $1,500 so I sold two today after major ups as I was afraid they may start back down. Anyway I’m here if any of you want to talk.
joanc4892@gmail.com Just say you know me from stock gumshoe.

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March 30, 2019 4:59 pm

Lynda, are you still helping people with marijauana? Do you have a facebook page?

Normally Dubious
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May 23, 2018 4:25 pm
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I’ve had Reasonable success with Motley fool stock advisor. They are good at describing stars some of which are going up now but some of which will go up in a couple years. That was the case with ANET – not much action when they first recommended it , but now it is up four times. but get only stock advisor from Motley don’t buy any of the others programs they try to also sell you.

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idrea_ramaci
May 23, 2018 5:20 pm
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With only 2Gs to invest, I would buy 1 AMZN and 2 BABA.

Jill
May 23, 2018 10:41 pm
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I’m sorry about your car wreck. Went through a bad one in the 80’s and had a brain injury. Still have short term memory issues. Regarding investing . . . first you need emergency money (6 months living expenses). If that is in place, then you need to decide how scared you will be if you put the $2,000 into investments that are high risk and they tank to zilch. Once you evaluate your ability to tolerate risk, you also need to figure out how disciplined you are. You should invest in things you know and like. Your investments should be diversified (don’t put all your eggs in one basket, i.e., one stock). With high risk can come high reward BUT you can lose every penny, sometimes in a very short time. I had a stock drop $14 in minutes — while I was at lunch. Ouch! So no more than 10% of your money should be invested in high risk stocks. The rest should be medium risk and low risk investments. As your abilities grow, then you can change your percentages. No more than 5% of your money should be in any one stock. If you buy a fund, let’s use BRKB as an example (it’s not a fund per se, but it holds many different investments in many different types of companies), then that percentage of your money is diversified. You don’t want to then buy 5% of one of the stocks that the fund holds. It used to be that legally only a licensed person could give you investment advice. I don’t hold a license, and I don’t know if that is still true, but I presume so. NEVER give anyone else the right to invest your money for you. By the way, my name is also Jill! Hope this is helpful.

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August 5, 2018 3:21 pm
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How did this turn out for you looking out for something legit

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srpsloan
September 18, 2018 3:39 pm
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Also disabled and have 4 grandchildren living with us on a very limited budget so each penny invested or traded must be done so carefully. Based on several sources have purchased a few shares each of CGC, CRON, IIPR, and BLOZF. All but BLOZF have done great! Wish I could have bought more. Wish u well.

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Normally Dubious
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May 23, 2018 4:22 pm
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Sounds like you feel aboutBlanco the way I feel about Zack’s – whatever they recommend, do the opposite. Luckily one can make money with puts.

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jebby001
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February 10, 2018 5:09 pm
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Glance Technologies is PayPal for marijuana in Canada I have a position in GLNNF and TRTC sells everything growers need those are my two

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roberthebel
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March 25, 2018 5:30 pm
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Jenny
A friendlyinfo on Glnnf as well as any one hoping to be the preferred payment now that the Canadian govt has paid Shopify to set up all purchases and companies based in Canada to have their companies go threw Shopify right down to even dispensaries which will make the forever all cash business regulated seed to sale . Not to say that everyone that has anything to do with pot won’t gain 100 Pct for a brief period if purchased at their lowest price since the last round anyone being the PayPal facebook Priceline are going to take a big hit this time three Shopify besides making a killing coming this summer and being a great company solved the primeminsters biggest non legal hurdle it will immediately run smoothly for Canada solving a lot of issues from skimming and being cheated out of tax dollars . You have plenty of time to choice a company that besides being solid and well know by the Canadian investors will give you a much bigger hype gain Pct wise which is what this long profitable run that was a blessing and made a lot more money than everyone imagined and this being the last of and what is shaping up to be the biggest and longest period with most gains that were at 200 Pct can add a extra 100 Pct just due to the importance with the USA vote so close together
Again just a friendly suggestion a lot better angles to play if your looking for who will be the next of anything in the pot game that changedmy life in ways I never imagined possible.
Best of luck this time threw

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June 10, 2018 7:12 pm
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ALL THAT DISCUSSION REALLY LEFT THE OUTFIELD EMPTY AND FULL OF HOLES TO ME! I AM NOT SAYING THAT TO BE MEAN JUST REALLY CONFUSED AT THE AMOUNT OF WORDS USED TO GET WHERE YOU WHERE GOING. NOW IT WOULD BE NICE TO JUST HAVE A COUPLE LOWER END STOCKS THAT YOU FEEL HAVE A GOOD CHANCE TO POP UP BIG AND THEN A COUPLE THAT YOU KNOW WILL BE THERE REGARDLESS AND WILL KEEP GOING UP GRADUALLY WITH SOME GOOD JUMPS UP ON OCCASION! YOU DEFINITELY HAVE WAY MORE EXPERIENCE THAN I SO WHAT YOU SAY WILL BE TAKEN TO HEART THANK YOU ROBERTHEBEL!

SoGiAm
June 11, 2018 11:05 pm
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Dora
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Dora
March 25, 2019 6:35 pm
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Cathy & others looking for a low cost investment ….. look at Sproutly based in Canada. They are ready with water infused drinks to hit the shelves once Canada legalizes beverages & edibles, late 2019. I believe that Gumshoe has written something on Sproutly. I think that they are 0.31 (Can) on the TSX.
The interesting thing about their beverages is that they have perfected the onset at 5 minutes with the offset being 60 or 90 minutes (can’t remember exact offset time). All other beverages are 4-5 hr duration which really demands a chunk of the drinkers day. Don’t buy in and expect it to move upwards super fast.
Beverage & edible distribution is still to be determined in Canada.
Full disclosure:
I do not work for this company & today own none of the stocks-but am likely to buy this week. Good luck everyone!
Here’s their investment desk link:
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cfd5ac3be5a5bb59ccfdc14dc/files/f67f6aaa-7e71-457a-89ac-3b073e884895/Sproutly_Corp_Presentation_January_2019.pdf

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August 8, 2018 6:26 pm
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TerraTech (TRTC) has been good to me, and they seem to really be lining up their ducks, so to speak. Maybe I’m a little partial since they have a great presence in NJ (originally a Jersey Guy), with their Edible Garden subsidiary which supplies local grown hydroponic produce to the likes of Shop Rite, Walmart, Aldi, Meijer, Kroger, Stop & Shop and others nationwide. Think of what may happen when NJ goes legal next year. I’m thinking… cannabis is much more profitable than lettuce, no? 🙂

Livehope
Livehope
January 30, 2019 3:00 am
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Hi CastleBuilder,
I have TRTC since Jan 2017 and invested $3K for 10,000 shares and now have 667 shares and worth $376.. What did I do wrong? How can you say TRTC has been good to you? I can use some investing advice! Can you and Colleagues help me? Please respond at onehope@comcast.net with some advice for me.

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February 12, 2018 1:44 am
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Hi Stella, Look at Marajuana Business Daily, they have excellent articles, they are a much better point to start than Ray Bianco the CON…

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4lllls
March 25, 2018 6:02 pm
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I hope you put in for refunds. You will get your money back. If they refuse tell them you are going to the ttc and atty general’s office and report them. They seem to do a one time refund as a courtesy ..

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May 24, 2018 6:35 pm
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Will they do a one time refund on a non refundable subscription?

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May 25, 2018 10:25 pm
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Archner did. They didn’t want to because they say no refunds. If you start looking they are legally supposed to as you have a 3 day window with anything over $25.00. I told them these is nothing of value that will increase my money, and it was up to them but the Federal Trade commission frowns upon deceptive business practices. They refunded my $800.00 immediately!! Stop buying in to these news letters. They all do the same thing and Agora is the most dishonest that I can think of. If we stop letting them use our money we might make some money. Stick with stock gum shoe.

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August 8, 2018 6:43 pm
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YES!!! Gum Shoe is great! And they make you think a bit for yourself as they actually “teach” you things. Love them. I’ve been trading MJ stocks for about three years now. With some of Gum Shoes’ help on a couple, I’ve been able to put together a number of stocks that I now own for FREE! Yes… FREE! I was able to buy right, got lucky, and cashed out half or more of my original investment when they shot up.
Here are just some of them… and they are all still around. Like money in the bank. 🙂 Cronos, Canopy, Namaste Tech, Axim, Pot Network, Future Farms, Abattis, GB Sciences, Lexaria, and others. It can be done. 🙂

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sylrog
January 22, 2019 2:00 pm
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I paid $300 to Jason Bond Picks recently when I was a total newbie (still am actually) and would like a refund but they do say that their subscriptions are non-refundable. Do I have any recourse and if so, how do I go about it?

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August 8, 2018 6:30 pm
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They’ll probably offer you a refund “credit” to be used towards one of their other newsletters. Lucky you?

Normally Dubious
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May 23, 2018 4:19 pm
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MMP Is the worst -sign up for any one of them – Bill Patalon seems reasonable compared to Robinson for example, but then you get pitches from that one you signed up with, for every other one of their other hucksters claims like Money Calendar from that clown Franco

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July 11, 2018 1:05 pm

You’re 100% correct. We’re soooo sick of that! Spend half my time deleting emails.

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Holly
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August 30, 2018 10:15 pm
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Am I so uninformed that I’m signing up for newsletters and never getting to the “meat” of thing ? Seems I join these newsletters with a promise of a great tip every week then when it comes up it’s yet another promo to enroll in another newsletter. I don’t want to be negative and I want it to work out but I don’t seem to get anywhere with i. After joining the first financial publication then its only about all the rest they can sell you. it seems like a bad chain letter. Again, am I missing something?

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September 18, 2018 4:29 pm
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Hi Holly — No, you are not missing anything about these newsletters. You get the pitch for the “incredible offer” of only $99 or $79 or even just $49, and you sign up because of the great tease for this or that,. These are written by accomplished, skillful copywriters, who push the limits of truthfulness to the brink, and often over it. So now you have a year’s subscription to the entry level newsletter, and now you are on their mailing list of suckers, er, investors. And then the floodgates open and you become inundated with offers for this or that higher priced “special” newsletter, that “only X number of people will be able to subscribe to”. And this onslaught of pitches for more and more expensive newsletters won’t stop until you cancel your subscription. Its been said many times here, and it is so true, that these people make most of their money from subscriptions, not from the investments they pitch.

BTW, I have seven pot stocks, down from ten, and today, with small buys of just 100 to 400 shares, am up a modest $3,550. Best performers for me are Canopy Growth, Aurora Cannibis, and Cronos.

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May 23, 2018 4:28 pm
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I am invested in HEMP Inc. Ticker (HEMP) it’s really cheap 2-3 cents and has a lot of potential with their veterans programs to grow and harvest hemp for other products. $2000 @ .02 cents would get you 100,000 shares. Every penny it goes up gets you $1,000 profit. It has gone up as high as 6 cents in the past year and as they grow their company it should go much higher. I’m not a fan of the cannabis stocks but I think Hemp will do better.

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May 25, 2018 10:31 pm
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It might be possible, two did reverse stock splits and I am still down. Be careful. Signal bay I had 10,000 shares after the split I had 10 shares. The new deal will have to go way up to make any money. I think they might all do this so I am not buying anything till I see movement. Any mention of reverse stock split and I am selling!!

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May 27, 2018 11:17 am
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GWPH

amdeist1
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January 24, 2019 2:11 pm
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There are many companies in the hemp industry that have positive earnings, are selling below their book value and some like PKE are being made offers for a takeover.

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February 20, 2019 4:29 am
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Hi
I hate to tell you , but I’ve used several of thesec groups and it seems as though when something big comes out, they want around 1200.00 to keep you in the loop . And this is a service you’re already paying for.
I cancelled my subscription with agora financial two days ago for that very reason.
If you can follow Tim Sykes with the penny stocking, you can make some money. But it requires some work.

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September 21, 2017 3:50 pm

I pay 42 dollars for s premuim pot service , it was founded and created by a real wall street fund manager
I consider him to be as aithrntic ss travis
420investor.com
Hopefully
This will help
An absolute littany of info
Joe

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Frederick
December 5, 2017 12:08 pm
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very informative web site!

lee
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October 7, 2017 7:51 am

My signal bay went from 1000 shares to 10 shares. Thanks all you pot stock pushers. None taughted have done well. I am thinking pump n dump. Now I am thinking class action suit. Anyone with me on this? I am tired of these taughted hiding behind disclaimers. We need to stop them. Pure scams.

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Stella Blue
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October 7, 2017 12:15 pm
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I’m down. Spent $3000 for advice to pick 6 stocks, $2000 dumped in each and at the end of the day, I’m out $18,000. Pure scam indeed.

lyndagrand
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October 24, 2017 4:24 pm
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I’m so sorry Stella Blue! (I’m a Deadhead too). I refuse to pay anyone that goes on & on about a stock, but refuses to give the name unless they get paid. This is what I write to them – “You brag about huge profits you made on stocks. If true, why do you need my money? Why can’t you just be KIND & share your info for free? Seriously – if you’re already raking in big bucks on stocks – why be greedy? In the 60s we called that “GREED IN AMERICA” and it’s not pretty.” Of course I never hear back because they know there are plenty of people willing to pay them. You don’t need their help – just spend time researching everything you can find. I LOVE Travis & this site because he’s not greedy & he’s willing to share some of what he knows. “When all the cards are down
There’s nothing left to see
There’s just the pavement left
And broken dreams
In the end there’s still that song
Comes crying like the wind
Down every lonely street
That’s ever been.”

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December 2, 2017 2:15 pm
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Of all the pot stocks in the article, XXII has performed the best since Feb. 2017. I like, based on a google search on Pot stocks, Aurora, ACBFF, that I decided to buy because of the likelihood of Canada’s legalizing “recreational pot” in 2018. XXII, caught my eye, because of this article and now given FDA’s interest in reducing nicotine in cigarettes and XXII’s patents with producing low nicotine tobacco – and low THC hemp (refer to recent UVA study) – I thought/think it is a good investment – please do your own DD. I am just an individual investor – not promoting any stocks or newsletters – which is why I really like stock gumshoe – so, so, sick of all the teaser rip-off scams. GL all!

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December 3, 2017 9:30 pm
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hey birches i need some coaching

roberthebel
roberthebel
March 25, 2018 6:41 pm
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Xxii is one of the few that will be worth losing onto solely because of the patent for the ability to lower nicotine to a exact level depending on anyone’s buy in price it will be up in the air if it’s a sell and buy back after the hype gains with the up and coming vote and the fda’s timeline that was announced about 6 months from April 2018 only issue after reading the patent if any of big tobacco already has had the ability to grow the tobacco which they have always responded with no definitive answer they possibly can grow and lower nicotine to the fda”s number they will not infringe on xxii patent but more likely than not xxii will get a nice couple of large bumps upward they claimed it would be impossible to patent a specific strain of marijuana early on in the marijuana game which proved to be wrong patents were issued however the slickest adjustment that they are able to make now will make the patients not as valued as most would believe gw Pharm holding and protecting with additional Criss patents with their strain which has proved to be the most important strain in the marijuana industry and is the primary reason they have broken the 100 dollar plateau. Recreational however with oils becoming the new preferred way to smoke pot for the high involved. Xxii has had that patent for awhile and a lot of people were able to buy in before the patent was made official making it a definite hold knowing that xxii will not come back under a dollar again if there patent hold up I missed them as well before being to busy with the marijuana game which they only a few years ago entered in strictly because of their patented ways of manipulating the levels.

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Normally Dubious
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May 23, 2018 4:28 pm
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Had a lot of highly regarded ACBFF and in six months it basically went down from 9 to 6 (times a factor of hundreds)

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jnsesq48
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May 23, 2018 8:31 pm

Norm, I firmly believe in Aurora as a long term play. I think it and Canopy will be the powerhouses in the industry so don’t be alarmed at the present value. (Though dilution has me pulling my shaved head clean of stubble.)

I have 15,000 shares, the first 2,000 I got at $2.71 and waited too long to commit to the play and so am down slightly. (It got up as high as $11.00 and I fully expect it to burst through that and keep climbing but perhaps not in the too-near term.)

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August 26, 2018 8:55 pm
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Normally Dubious and jnesq48, Yep, you were right jnsesq48 about Aurora and Canopy; hope you still hold those shares!! I made some Comments you might be interested in at Stock Gumshoe article of August 22, 2018 “What’s “The Pot Stock of the Decade” pitched by The Wealth Advisory?”

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May 25, 2018 10:35 pm
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You really need to report this. Immediately!! File a complaint with the FTC your state atty generals office I think there is a trade commission to report deceptive business practices. Also remember there is no statues of limitations on fraud!!

lyndagrand
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lyndagrand
October 24, 2017 11:17 pm
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lee – the best thing to do before buying – google the company and research. Then come to this page and put the name of the company in the search bar – and see what comes up. There’s a lot of ways to protect yourself. However – I DO agree with you – we should have a law suit to stop them! I bought 200 shares of Mentor Capital @ .589 cents/share & it went up to .70 cents/share. Then someone wrote a bad review of Mentor, so I sold my shares. The next day the stock went up to .80 cents/share! Grrr – it’s the “pump n dump people & again YES, let’s sue them! There has to be a way to protect ourselves from idiots.

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Stella Blue
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October 27, 2017 12:02 pm
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Sorry, Linda. THAT sucks. I anticipate one day we (the suckers) will get a letter in our in box regarding a lawsuit for these companies (fingers crossed). Until then, I agree, this is one of the best and most informative sites (and friendly) that I’ve found. As a newbie, thank you ALL for your guidance, honesty and most of all, INTEGRITY. Much ❤️

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4lllls
March 25, 2018 6:19 pm
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The only way to get a class action started is by complaining. They get enough complaints and bingo a lawyer will call you to see if you are serious about filing. You get a much bigger cut for filing the suit and doing what you need to do ie keep track of the ads, and if you subscribe keep a copy of the transaction. Your card bill and any emails or texts from them. You build the case. The lawyers provide legal work and usually the cos will accept responsibility to keep from having to go to trial and possibly owe more in the long run. Hope this helps. Anyone wanting to join the suit after it is filed can do so but in the meantime keep all the info and print it out. This is a long process but it will stop these leaches from your wallet.

Richard VEDDER
Richard VEDDER
May 23, 2018 5:17 pm
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They may be crooks but not idiots.

jebby001
jebby001
February 10, 2018 5:16 pm
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Started in GLNNF at 13 cents went to 2.90 back down to 1.00 but Canada’s legal marijuana law kicks in in July. All stocks are speculative Im not a financial advisor. Do your due diligence. I can only tell you what I’m doing thinking. Also TRTC a company that sells growing equip lights etc. These stock are extremely volatile and not for the feint of heart. Good luck.

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moresby
February 12, 2018 1:48 am
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Lee sadly, your story is all to familiar… I would be happy to join you in an action suit.. Maybe the other CON;s besides Ray Bianco would learn and move on…

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4lllls
February 26, 2018 5:55 am
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Have you reported them to the atty general’s office, federal trade commission, and signed up for the class action site? They have the class actions and there is a area asking if you would like to file a investigation. This is how we start. After so many complaints are filed the attorney will contact you and will ask if you are willing to file. You get a bigger chunk of the money being the instigator of the class action. Hope this helps.
Lee

roberthebel
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March 25, 2018 5:51 pm
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Especially now this being the biggest and final round of free money over pure hype . Being in this since the very first vote I noticed even more than last round Jan. 1st still having no ability to legally advertise except threw places like leefly dmo and many others they are instead of advertising they worst of the group have been bending the truth from hinting of patents or upcoming phase 1 trials that just don’t exist. The latest exposed has been vbio they claimed to have and be able to do things that are very useful but false and they will continue to do so being the regular advertising not available to a very dishonest practice . So defiantly be aware that the angle of what a company has to offer in the future or currently that put them on peoples radar waiting for the right time to buy in know what the company has been doing and what they have invested back in to grow and be able to survive is of coarse the main reason for added them the hype part of the votes are what makes the 1.00 stock go up to 4.00 for a short period of time will always be and Haas been 90 Pct of the gains on the buy and sell after the hype value starts to head back down to the actual value of every company involved and once Shopify “s contract with the Canadian govt kicks in all the legit companies that have the ability to make profits will remain and smooth out what the publicly traded companies are actually worth
The rule in the early rounds that has worked for me has been if you can’t get anyone on the phone to tell you about their company then scratch them off the list there will not be as many companies that haven’t profited a single dollar yet doubling and tripling this time around.
Best of luck to all

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May 25, 2018 10:32 pm
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10,000 not 1,000 shares. Sorry

greenfire67
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October 27, 2017 11:46 am

Frankly you (we) would all be better off just following other readers recommendations on the gumshoe. I personally bought APHQF, CNNRF, & may get into EMHTF shortly. Up 50& 60% in just a few months. Trust yourself is what I’ve learned, mostly the hard way. Do your own DD even with recs from a reputable source. Avoid anything with “dirt” & I don’t mean soil!

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Frederick Stamey
December 5, 2017 11:46 am

With pot legal in CA 1/1/18 which companies have marketed and have set up infrastructure for their products to CA market? I have bought BLOZF @ .50 because there no Fed banking issues in the US. CA will be the largest market until Canada fully legalizes it? Love this web site!!

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CCollins
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CCollins
December 18, 2017 3:49 pm

Can you provide any info on where I can start with this?

janis
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janis
December 19, 2017 3:26 pm

where can I find a stock broker that will in vest my money into the marijuana market?

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moresby
February 12, 2018 1:52 am
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Hi Janis, I use Think or swim… Interactive Brokers I believe are very good.. Perhaps Tradestation.. All would be able to vest your money

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newt1322
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newt1322
December 30, 2017 10:33 am

does anyone know what canadian company has dev. the breathilizer for marijuana?

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birches
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birches
January 17, 2018 8:41 pm
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Cannabix Technologies Inc. (BLOZF)

Indaknow
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Indaknow
January 1, 2018 10:41 am

FULL disclosure. I am Canadian, so all the Pot stocks I am going to talk about are Canadian. I have been able to take my initial investment and quadruple it. I thought they were going to talk about TBP tetra bio-Pharma which is a penny stock on the cusp of getting both FDA and Health Canada approval and will soon have insurance companies paying for it. It sits at $1 per share, whereas GW Pharma sits at $132 per share. Abattis is another one as well. Sits at .51 cents a share and getting ready to jump. Canada’s legislation is mandating any licensed producer have third party testing done. Abattis owns two of twenty of the certified labs that all these growers have to go through. SYMBOL C.ATT and there are a number of others. I use Stockhouse.com and review their billboards but you will have to wade through paid bashers and jumpers to find meaningful posts, but they also give you hints. Kush bottles I have been reading about and will be investing in. One I would jump on right away is LDS lifestyle delivery systems which is California based but trades on the Canadian stock exchange. THEY make sublingual cannabis strips which are geared towards the medical market. THEY are legal for sale as of today. THEY will be producing 1 million strips per day. .80 cents profit on each. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Enjoy and always do your own due diligence.

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January 17, 2018 5:17 pm
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Hello Indaknow, Im interested to invest but i dont know where to start investing. what penny stocks web site or do i need a broker to do it? Please reply thanks

Lynda
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Lynda
January 18, 2018 2:35 am
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Hello Jen! I can help you. I invested in 35 companies and have over 160,000 shares in various pot related companies. I use Ameritrade. Feel free to contact me – at – lyndagrand@comcast.net

Mark
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Mark
February 27, 2018 7:08 am
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Hi Lydia. I use Ameritrade as well but don’t know which pot stocks to trust

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saint stephen
February 27, 2018 7:57 am
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My diverse marijuana portfolio has dropped from $110K to $78K in the last month. I’m counting on it rebounding when Canada legalizes it.

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February 27, 2018 8:30 am
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May 24, 2018 7:48 am
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Hi Lynda,

I just recently started investing in AmeriTrade to help pay school. I don’t know where to start. I feel lost.

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Eliahu
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June 13, 2018 9:02 pm
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Hi Indaknow, Thanks for your interesting, informative post on 1-1-18. I am a newbie, senior, and am in recovery from a couple of bad auto accidents, trying to put things back together again as much as possible. I’m wondering, what’s been your experience over the past 5 1/2 months with LDS lifestyle delivery systems, and Abattis (C.ATT)? Do you still recommend them? Do you have other recommendations you’re willing to share. Wishing you the very best!

srpsloan
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srpsloan
June 27, 2018 4:53 pm
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What is LDS Lifestyle ticker symbol?

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catherine
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June 27, 2018 5:36 pm
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$LDSYF

Today you could buy it for $.605, which is down about 38% from the time our guest Indaknow mentioned it above. Most of my pot stocks are down right now though, so I’m certainly not advising you on stock purchases, just answering your question.

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WRC
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WRC
August 4, 2018 1:42 pm
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C.ATT?

catherine
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August 5, 2018 3:43 pm
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$C.ATT
You don’t give us much to go on, WRC. What is it you’re asking about Abattis? Idaknow has given lots of information above, but you might need to click on “Read More”.
You could also do a Yahoo Finance search for more info, or ask the Gumshoe community a specific question.

Pete
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January 17, 2018 4:47 am

Strange that I M L F F (InMed) has never come up in any of these discussions. They claim they have ability to synthetically produce all of the 80-90 medicinal compounds found in MJ plants. They took the former Assistant Medical Director of GWPH on board who is now their medical director …

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May 23, 2018 5:47 pm
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IMLFF, OMHE, CBWTF, and MJNA all ought to be mentioned here as well. Undervalued and lagging the broader market, so they all have a much more enticing risk/reward profile compared to the other high-flyers. Never buy into a hockey stick stock chart.

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Zizzy
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Zizzy
January 17, 2018 7:20 pm

I think the 4th company is GrowLife (PHOT)

Lynda
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Lynda
February 10, 2018 8:04 pm
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I’m VERY HAPPY that I bought PHOT. ( ‘-‘)

cyberpitboss
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cyberpitboss
February 25, 2018 5:28 pm
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PHOT is looking very impressive over the past 12 months. Me thinks to grab up 2,500 shares while I can still do it for 5o bucks! Thanks for sharing!

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Eliahu
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Eliahu
June 13, 2018 9:16 pm
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Hi Cyberpitboss, thanks for you 2-25-18 post about PHOT. Have you bought it? If so, what’s been your experience with it? And do you recommend buying it at this point? Best to you!

Eliahu
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Eliahu
June 13, 2018 9:17 pm
Reply to  Lynda

Hi Lynda, thanks for your 2-10-18 post about PHOT. Are you still happy you bought it? And, do you recommend it at this point? Best to you!

Shannon O'Dell
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January 19, 2018 12:03 pm

SO are the pot stocks listed, the 5 big ones, stillborn a good buy in? Or did the train leave the station? Many thanks!

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jebby001
jebby001
February 10, 2018 5:07 pm

GLNNF TRTC ARE MY POT BETS

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moresby
February 12, 2018 1:42 am

Hi All, Dont touch Ray Bianco or his organisation, they are a CON

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robertsnow
February 14, 2018 8:21 am

I have tried several of the teaser newsletters and can personally tell you that i have found one newsletter that is worth the money as far as pot stock picks and that is “cannabis stock trades” with michael vodicka,, none of the bs, he simply tells you what he is buying or selling and when, he is an honest person and his portfolio is up 120ish% in the last year,, portfolio is on the website to view anytime, check him out

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Jon
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Jon
February 19, 2018 11:46 pm

Thank you for clearing up the fogginess. I knew I didn’t want to sign up for their newsletter but I thought the information may be valid. The BBB has some interesting information about this company that one should look at. I will continue to read your articles before making any moves. Again, Thank You!

cyberpitboss
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cyberpitboss
February 25, 2018 5:34 pm

Looks like Ray Blanco is giving it away today. 49 bucks for a year does not seem like highway robbery to me. I am going to give it a shot. 14 cents a day is a no brainer for me. The extra bonuses and money back guarantee are not my deciding factors, they are just icing on the cake. I see where many of you have paid thousands for advice and lost. My recommendation for you is to stop looking for the Holy Grail of advisers and get some affordable information to use in doing your DD.

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Jabster
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March 11, 2018 10:26 am
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Hi Cyberpitboss – how have you been enjoying the Blanco advisories thus far? Does his research actually make sense and have you found some new insights and value from his prophecies? Many thanks!

4lllls
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4lllls
March 25, 2018 5:59 pm

Anyone bought CBIS? Wondering how you are doing with it. Too many of the penny stocks do reverse stock splits which seem to eventually cut your hopes of cashing in big time. Any thoughts?

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Carlo Grant
Carlo Grant
May 31, 2018 3:41 am
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I bought CBIS about a year ago @.06 and it was up and down a penny or 2 like a yoyo. It went down to .02 and I bought 10000 more shares and later it went to .12 and I sold the 10000 and did well. I still own 4000 shares and it is still around .06. If it goes down to .02 I will buy it again. Hopefully it will go up in July.

Jill V.
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Jill V.
April 20, 2018 7:31 pm

I’ve spent the last few months researching & self teaching myself on the Pot Stocks. I’m where I started. I don’t know what to look for, except a company that does several departments in this genre.
Where do I look or turn to for guidance? Or just plain HELP?! I’ve got my eye on CBIS & MJNA. There’s got to be a site somewhere that helps out other investors with no expectations to pay for information or advice. If not, one should be made. I hope everyone is fruitful in their picks!!

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April 20, 2018 10:48 pm
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Jill V.
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Jill V.
April 24, 2018 4:59 am
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Thank you Grt8ful…I’ll check it out. I hope I too can contribute to anyone here someday soon! As a newbie, I thank you in advance if others share any other good information.
Hugs y’all

jeanniebme
May 23, 2018 4:09 pm
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I have invested in CBIS and feel that it’s worth the wait…Their CEO was just presented with a prestigious award from Harvard…details if you look at CBIS news.
Lots of research being done with trials in Africa….
CBIS also jusr opened thieir first 2 retail pharmacies in CA this past month. My 20000 shares are down about $300..cross your fingers…
Thanks to Travis for this blog….more educational than the hyped ones..

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Lynda Grandinetti
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Lynda Grandinetti
May 24, 2018 2:13 am
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Jill V. – I have both CBIS & MJNA & they’re doing relatively well. So is PHOT & POTN. The Hemp stocks are up and down. Good Luck. ( ‘-‘ )

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john
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May 7, 2018 7:36 pm

how to get started whealing dealing with the penny stock especially weed

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