The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a full, un-redacted letter recommending the rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III. This recommendation, made in response to a review ordered by President Biden, could bring significant benefits, including the removal of 280e tax restrictions and potential implications for uplisting to major exchanges. […]
KEY Investment Partners Portfolio Company BDSA Forges A New Strategic Partnership Founded in 2015, BDSA is the premier source of market research and analytics for the cannabis industry. BDSA has recently entered into a partnership with Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA), a provider of innovative analytics and data-driven solutions for Fortune 500 companies. The strategic […]
The Cannabis Investment Podcast from Seeking Alpha Visit the podcast on Seeking Alpha How should cannabis investors ride the wave of depressed valuations? Tiby Erdely, who came to cannabis from Goldman Sachs and co-founded KEY Investment Partners, talks about why consolidation is coming. We also discuss why investors should get deep into companies’ income statements […]
Cannabis industry is facing economic aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic after experiencing unprecedented sales during lockdowns The Effect of COVID-19 on Investments in Recent Years COVID-19 will be ranked as one of the deadliest public health emergencies in history, and rightfully so. This virus spread viciously and rapidly across the world, leaving death and economic destruction […]
By Jordan Youkilis, founding partner of KEY Investment Partners For the first time in 40 years, U.S. investors are navigating crushing inflationary pressures as they seek to protect their investments while concerns about recession grow. However, just as there are investment strategies and tactics to deploy during a strong economy, the same holds true during […]
By Tiby Erdely, founding partner of KEY Investment Partners There is an uninformed myth that claims the earliest investors in the regulated cannabis industry were all unsophisticated cowboys, or earthy folks that believed cannabis was good for society as well as an untapped source of medical innovations. While this is at least a partially accurate […]
The MJ Bulls: Raising Cannabis Capital Podcast features public companies, investors and cannabis companies that are raising capital to fund their growth. This year, the Series will feature eighteen of the cannabis industry’s top investors, reviewing the previous 12-months and sharing their 2022 investment strategies. KEY Investment Partners founding partner, Pete Karabas, was featured here […]
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The Endocannabinoid System (“ECS”) is an essential regulator of bodily function, responsible for maintaining homeostasis among all organ systems. There are few physiological processes that are not affected by it to some degree – so it is quite surprising to realize that the ECS was virtually unknown up until the turn of the century[1]. Despite […]
The upcoming US election on November 3rd could have a far-reaching impact on the speed and direction at which federal cannabis legalization occurs. The two key outcomes driving which path the industry moves are (i) whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins the presidential election and (ii) whether the Democrats win or the Republicans retain control of the Senate. We’ve laid out expectations for how each of four scenarios are expected to impact the pace of cannabis legalization, in ascending order of favorability. For simplicity and based on current polling data, we assume the Democrats retain control of the House of Representatives in all four scenarios.
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