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Don’t Be A Cherrypicker

Don’t Be A Cherrypicker

“Offense wins games… defense wins championships.” -Bear Bryant Cherrypickers used to drive me nuts. They’d get cheers from the crowd, pictures on the front page of the paper, and they’d rack up their scoring statistics. Unlike soccer or hockey, water…

Picks and Shovels in Guyana

Picks and Shovels in Guyana

Opening up shop in mid-1854, his store shelves were originally stocked with dry goods that he imported from his brothers, who were based out of New York City. Bedding, clothing, toiletries, and dozens of other accessories kept a steady stream…

Catching The Wave To Acquisition

Catching The Wave To Acquisition

As many of you know, I am an avid surfer who often plans business, travel, and events around locations where I might be able to get come great waves. That said, it pains me to make the analogy of ‘Catching…

Scarcity Mindset Investing

Scarcity Mindset Investing

Last week, I was in Hong Kong to give a presentation about investing and building companies in the cannabis industry. The majority of the people that I spoke with had no clue about the traction that the market has gotten….

Investing in Living Longer

Investing in Living Longer

From the late 1700s to the late 1800s, the global average life expectancy was less than 35 years old. With child birth complications, disease, and war, someone who lived into their 50s was considered very old at the time.  Today,…

Three Lessons From A Business Enemy

Three Lessons From A Business Enemy

(Cannabis Industry Listen Up!) It was Spring of 2011, and for the first time in my life I had some money in the bank that I could actually go out and use. It wasn’t a huge sum, but enough to…

Psychological Revolution

The Next Psychological Revolution – Psychedelics

With an annual cost of nearly a quarter trillion US dollars, treating depression in the United States is big business. Internationally, that number is even bigger, which has created entire industries around ‘treating’ those who suffer from chronic depression. Perhaps…

last laugh cannabis

Having The Last Laugh About Cannabis

About two years ago, I was in San Diego, California having a drink with a friend. We were sitting at a bar in the Gaslamp Quarter the night before a trip down into Baja. While we were trying to solve…

double digit buildings cali

Double Digit Buildings in Cali

I returned from Colombia on Tuesday of this week with the intention of immediately sitting down to write something. So, I sat down at my desk and stared at my computer screen. I thought to myself, “How in the world…

CannArbitrage

CannArbitrage

That’s the opportunity in the cannabis industry right now – it’s an arbitrage play. On one side of the fence, you have government laws. On the other side of the fence, you have a landslide of momentum and support for…