- SING targets the large and rapidly growing multi-billion dollar retail cannabis sales industry
- New agreement provides efficient and easy-to-apply solution to critical unmet need
- Purchasing model opens door to additional opportunities for investor profit in cannabis
An iPod interview with SinglePoint president Wil Ralston (http://nnw.fm/pi9GN) covers the significant advantages that the company’s recently announced joint venture with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (OTC: BITCF) represents for the cannabis industry. In a study of 20 U.S. jurisdictions by Greenwave Advisors, legal marijuana represented $6.5 billion in retail sales by May 2017, as reported by Forbes (http://nnw.fm/zs8S6). At the current level of growth, industry experts project that, by 2021, the legal cannabis retail market may grow to $30 billion. Marijuana is legal in many states for either medicinal and/or recreational purposes. The challenge, therefore, isn’t market reach, but restrictions at the federal level, particularly in the banks. Federal guidelines restrict transactions related to cannabis, but SinglePoint (OTC: SING) has found a way around this by forming its first joint venture – with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (OTC: BITCF).
The joint venture allows dispensaries and other businesses to use Bitcoin payments rather than traditional cash transactions. This combination of SinglePoint’s acquisition and distribution history and Bitcoin’s payment system and block chain technology is already serving the cannabis industry well. The system is being used to enable customers to visit dispensaries and make purchases using a debit or credit card. The transaction goes through Bitcoin first, with the dollar conversion completed afterward. A streamlined purchasing model is expected to help smooth out the supply chain process, so shareholders and investors in SinglePoint can find additional opportunities to profit and contribute to the fast-growing cannabis industry.
The value of Bitcoin has gone up 236 percent in just one year. It is also recognized as a legal currency in Japan. Being adopted on a wide scale, the technology can also allow SING to reach a global market. In the iPod interview, company president Wil Ralston reveals that there are now 290,000 retail stores in Japan accepting Bitcoin payments. In the U.S., payments can be converted to U.S. currency, according to Ralston, without waiting for the banking system to accept the legal status of cannabis. Ralston said he’s been “waiting for the banks to open up, but we don’t have to wait any longer with this new product. I think this is one of the most exciting things to happen in SinglePoint’s lifespan.”
In addition to a blockchain supply chain management solution, the joint venture is incorporating initial coin offerings through First BitCoin Capital. SinglePoint has also launched SingleSeed.com, which will provide web design and online marketing services to cannabis dispensaries. It’s expected to soon complete a variety of acquisitions as well, leading to anticipated growth in revenue.
The company’s strategy has opened up a vast network of financial and technology partners. This has enabled it to expedite the execution of deliverables. Plus, the cannabis and other high-risk markets don’t have to wait for changes in federal banking guidelines. At the rate Bitcoin payments are catching on, cannabis dispensaries can adopt a point-of-sale solution that allows them to meet growing demand.
In fact, adopting the technology of First Bitcoin Capital and SinglePoint only requires downloading an application onto any point-of-sale machine. Learn more by going to www.SinglePoint.com or www.SingleSeed.com.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Future Farm Technologies, Inc. (CSE: FFT) (OTCQB: FFRMF) Launches Its New and Expanded Interactive Website
- LED lighting producer and leading indoor plant growth solutions provider
- Focused on efficiencies for the legal cannabis industry
-Website is now SEO-optimized, providing an easier way to order product
Future Farm Technologies, Inc. (CSE: FFT) (OTCQB: FFRMF) has fully updated and SEO-optimized its e-commerce website (www.LEDCanada.com) in response to rising consumer demand for LED grow lights. The new and expanded site has gone live, and the LED product line can be viewed on LEDCanada.com.
The site now contains a number of social media buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. The LEDCanada.com website will be updated with the newest content from the company, such as blogs, client announcements, newsletters, and specific stories about client successes.
Based in Vancouver, the company is a Canadian LED manufacturer of residential and commercial lighting, fixtures, lamps, and more. It is also a leading indoor plant growth technology company specializing in LED lighting, mobile applications, and vertical farming solutions for the legal cannabis industry.
“Our goal with the updated website is to provide our customers with an easier way to order and learn about Future Farm’s LED grow light services and solutions by allowing them to browse information and order lights based on their own preferences,” William A. Gildea, chairman and chief executive officer of Future Farm, stated in a news release. “The website is now optimized for mobile devices, is interactive, and provides better access to information about LEDCanada.”
For more information, visit www.FutureFarmTech.com
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- Focused on efficiencies for the legal cannabis industry
-Website is now SEO-optimized, providing an easier way to order product
Future Farm Technologies, Inc. (CSE: FFT) (OTCQB: FFRMF) has fully updated and SEO-optimized its e-commerce website (www.LEDCanada.com) in response to rising consumer demand for LED grow lights. The new and expanded site has gone live, and the LED product line can be viewed on LEDCanada.com.
The site now contains a number of social media buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. The LEDCanada.com website will be updated with the newest content from the company, such as blogs, client announcements, newsletters, and specific stories about client successes.
Based in Vancouver, the company is a Canadian LED manufacturer of residential and commercial lighting, fixtures, lamps, and more. It is also a leading indoor plant growth technology company specializing in LED lighting, mobile applications, and vertical farming solutions for the legal cannabis industry.
“Our goal with the updated website is to provide our customers with an easier way to order and learn about Future Farm’s LED grow light services and solutions by allowing them to browse information and order lights based on their own preferences,” William A. Gildea, chairman and chief executive officer of Future Farm, stated in a news release. “The website is now optimized for mobile devices, is interactive, and provides better access to information about LEDCanada.”
For more information, visit www.FutureFarmTech.com
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Net Element’s (NASDAQ: NETE) North American Business Up 40 Percent in First Quarter
- North American business up 40 percent in Q1
- Track record of phenomenal domestic growth with international growth plan in place
- Zach’s pegs NETE at $3.12 per share once profitable
Currently trading at 65 cents a share, Zach’s Small Cap Research just pegged Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE) at $3.12, five times current market value, once it reaches profitability (http://nnw.fm/wV8IN). The highly respected research firm noted that Net Element’s U.S. business growth was up a phenomenal 40 percent in the first quarter, while the company’s overseas operations and expansion were currently dragging down growth. However, global expansion has been a cornerstone of Net Element’s long term growth plans.
Growth, the elixir of Wall Street, is no stranger to Net Element. Just last year, the company was recognized by the South Florida Business Journal as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United States, and, in 2012, the company’s Unified Payments division was named the fastest-growing private company in America by Inc. Magazine. To become an industry leader, investing, opening and expanding into new markets is imperative to sustain growth trajectories over time.
A technology-driven mobile payments and transactional services company, Net Element’s products and services include mobile payments, value-added services, marketing solutions and business analytics. Through its wholly owned group of companies, Net Element’s global divisions support electronic payments acceptance in an omni-channel environment spanning across point-of-sale, e-commerce and mobile devices. The company provides turn-key services, including the technology and services required for cashless transactions, to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States and in select international markets.
Known for its dynamic marketing efforts, Net Element’s North American Unified Payments division continued its strong growth in Q1 2017 as the company added a record 1,500 merchants to its customer base. The company is aggressively adding new North American customers, and rapid customer acquisition is continuing into Q2.
Net Element’s international game plan is to spur global growth where it already has a substantial footprint by leveraging its omni-channel platform to deliver flexible offerings to select emerging markets with diverse banking, regulatory and demographic conditions, such as the UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. Net Element has already launched initiatives is these locations.
Given Net Element’s historic track record of phenomenal domestic growth, there’s no reason to doubt the company’s ability to grow internationally. Once Net Element kicks revenue in its international markets into high gear, profitability should be around the corner and Zach’s target of $3.12 per share should easily be in reach.
For more information, visit www.NetElement.com
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- Track record of phenomenal domestic growth with international growth plan in place
- Zach’s pegs NETE at $3.12 per share once profitable
Currently trading at 65 cents a share, Zach’s Small Cap Research just pegged Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE) at $3.12, five times current market value, once it reaches profitability (http://nnw.fm/wV8IN). The highly respected research firm noted that Net Element’s U.S. business growth was up a phenomenal 40 percent in the first quarter, while the company’s overseas operations and expansion were currently dragging down growth. However, global expansion has been a cornerstone of Net Element’s long term growth plans.
Growth, the elixir of Wall Street, is no stranger to Net Element. Just last year, the company was recognized by the South Florida Business Journal as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United States, and, in 2012, the company’s Unified Payments division was named the fastest-growing private company in America by Inc. Magazine. To become an industry leader, investing, opening and expanding into new markets is imperative to sustain growth trajectories over time.
A technology-driven mobile payments and transactional services company, Net Element’s products and services include mobile payments, value-added services, marketing solutions and business analytics. Through its wholly owned group of companies, Net Element’s global divisions support electronic payments acceptance in an omni-channel environment spanning across point-of-sale, e-commerce and mobile devices. The company provides turn-key services, including the technology and services required for cashless transactions, to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States and in select international markets.
Known for its dynamic marketing efforts, Net Element’s North American Unified Payments division continued its strong growth in Q1 2017 as the company added a record 1,500 merchants to its customer base. The company is aggressively adding new North American customers, and rapid customer acquisition is continuing into Q2.
Net Element’s international game plan is to spur global growth where it already has a substantial footprint by leveraging its omni-channel platform to deliver flexible offerings to select emerging markets with diverse banking, regulatory and demographic conditions, such as the UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. Net Element has already launched initiatives is these locations.
Given Net Element’s historic track record of phenomenal domestic growth, there’s no reason to doubt the company’s ability to grow internationally. Once Net Element kicks revenue in its international markets into high gear, profitability should be around the corner and Zach’s target of $3.12 per share should easily be in reach.
For more information, visit www.NetElement.com
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ChineseInvestors.com (CIIX) Achieves Exciting Firsts in the Global Cannabis Market
- Launched world’s first Chinese language online CBD health products store
- Launched world’s first Chinese language mobile cannabis navigation app
- Positioned to become first company in China to use CBD oil in treating epilepsy and Alzheimer’s
Pursuing its aim of becoming the leading publicly traded Chinese medical marijuana company, ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX) continues its focus on investing in distribution and R&D of cannabidiol-based (CBD) medicines and health products targeted at Chinese-speaking clients throughout the world.
Marijuana use is currently illegal in China, but cannabis-based oils, including hemp-based CBD, are legal, giving CIIX access to a market of almost two billion potential customers in that country. CIIX is also expanding its footprint to other countries and recently incorporated CBD Biotechnology Inc. in British Columbia, Canada, which will focus on R&D and distribution of health products, including hemp-based CBD, food and beverage products there.
Additionally, CIIX officially launched a CBD online store, ChineseCBDoil.com, in December 2016 in the free-trade zone of Shanghai, China. The site went live on January 31 and is the very first CBD health products Web store to be launched in the Chinese language, offering various CBD nutritional products, such as soft gels, capsules and concentrates. The company further plans to market a line of nutrition and food products through a brick-and-mortar store in San Gabriel, California — a predominantly Chinese-speaking area and the company’s home market (http://nnw.fm/0Box5).
Concurrent with the launch of ChineseCBDoil.com, CIIX also launched the very first Chinese language mobile cannabis navigation app, which is a Yelp-style social media app containing a database of cannabis dispensaries and marijuana strains. The app also features a platform for reviewing and discussing cannabis products, maps showing marijuana dispensary locations, and summary reports of cannabis businesses in Los Angeles and other large cities. This app has already been approved by the Apple store.
CIIX’s other cannabis-related endeavors include striving to become the very first company in China to employ CBD oil as a treatment to relieve suffering for epilepsy and Alzheimer’s patients. The company plans to continue studying CBD oil’s efficacy as a treatment for these diseases and intends to invest in CBD drug R&D enterprises, with an end goal of developing a variety of CBD drugs to treat epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ChineseInvestors.com
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- Launched world’s first Chinese language mobile cannabis navigation app
- Positioned to become first company in China to use CBD oil in treating epilepsy and Alzheimer’s
Pursuing its aim of becoming the leading publicly traded Chinese medical marijuana company, ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX) continues its focus on investing in distribution and R&D of cannabidiol-based (CBD) medicines and health products targeted at Chinese-speaking clients throughout the world.
Marijuana use is currently illegal in China, but cannabis-based oils, including hemp-based CBD, are legal, giving CIIX access to a market of almost two billion potential customers in that country. CIIX is also expanding its footprint to other countries and recently incorporated CBD Biotechnology Inc. in British Columbia, Canada, which will focus on R&D and distribution of health products, including hemp-based CBD, food and beverage products there.
Additionally, CIIX officially launched a CBD online store, ChineseCBDoil.com, in December 2016 in the free-trade zone of Shanghai, China. The site went live on January 31 and is the very first CBD health products Web store to be launched in the Chinese language, offering various CBD nutritional products, such as soft gels, capsules and concentrates. The company further plans to market a line of nutrition and food products through a brick-and-mortar store in San Gabriel, California — a predominantly Chinese-speaking area and the company’s home market (http://nnw.fm/0Box5).
Concurrent with the launch of ChineseCBDoil.com, CIIX also launched the very first Chinese language mobile cannabis navigation app, which is a Yelp-style social media app containing a database of cannabis dispensaries and marijuana strains. The app also features a platform for reviewing and discussing cannabis products, maps showing marijuana dispensary locations, and summary reports of cannabis businesses in Los Angeles and other large cities. This app has already been approved by the Apple store.
CIIX’s other cannabis-related endeavors include striving to become the very first company in China to employ CBD oil as a treatment to relieve suffering for epilepsy and Alzheimer’s patients. The company plans to continue studying CBD oil’s efficacy as a treatment for these diseases and intends to invest in CBD drug R&D enterprises, with an end goal of developing a variety of CBD drugs to treat epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ChineseInvestors.com
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Algae Dynamics Corp. (ADYNF) Continues Cannabis Oil Research as Potential Marijuana Shortage Looms in Canada
- A 1,000-fold increase in the Canadian cannabis oil extraction market is expected, with growth from C$1 million in 2015 to an expected C$1.7 billion by 2020
- The Canadian market is expected to see a conversion rate of 45 percent, which is similar to trends in Colorado, based on a Mackie Research Capital study
- The Government of Canada expects to fully legalize marijuana nationwide on or before July 2018
Investors have had their eyes on Algae Dynamics Corp. (OTCQB: ADYNF), which has partnered with various Canadian universities (including the University of Waterloo and Western University) for access to research and to boost its cannabis extraction expertise. The company is now positioned to serve the medical and recreational marijuana markets. However, many are surprised to learn that, as legalization of recreational marijuana is set for July 2018, Charles Sousa, Ontario’s finance minister, has warned of a possible supply shortage.
The company has had at the core of its product development strategy the extraction of Omega-3 fatty acids from certain strains of algae with high concentrations of DHA, which is an important nutrient for brain, eye, and heart health, as well as the creation of various associated nutraceutical products. In light of the many demonstrated health benefits of other botanical oils, most notably cannabis oil, the company has developed a strategy aimed at developing new products combining the health benefits of algae and cannabis oils.
In a Bloomberg Politics article (http://nnw.fm/DfXQ2), an analyst suggested a supply shortage could give the government an excuse to delay the country’s marijuana program, even as the cannabis oil extraction market grows toward the billion-dollar mark. Government officials, however, have made it clear they want a supply that’s able to accommodate demand to bring down organized crime and illicit drug use. The initial plan is expected to allow sales of cannabis online and via mail.
The reasons for a potential shortage include difficulty in stocking enough inventory nationwide, expanding patient lists, and producers selling out of strains or refusing to take on new clients. In Canada, the number of registered medical marijuana users tripled in one year, and the medical market is already seeing shortages. Health Canada announced in May that it would expedite the license approval process. New licenses have been issued, but it can take a year or more for businesses to build up production. Recent studies have shown a 45 percent conversion rate (users of dry marijuana switching to cannabis oil products) in Colorado, which is anticipated in Canada as well. Licensing and expertise will be needed to meet this demand.
Despite uncertainties, demand and research and development in the cannabis market continue to surge. As Algae Dynamics aims to be the leader in cannabis oil research in Canada, it continues to pursue the compound as a treatment for conditions such as colorectal, breast, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, and for other conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. The company itself will submit a licensing application to Health Canada, so it can produce medical marijuana and sell cannabinoid-derived products. Its knowledge and cultivation know-how enables production of an algae biomass that is free of contaminants and high in healthy Omega-3 fatty acids.
The management, fundraising, process, and commercialization experience of the Algae Dynamics team has positioned the company for rapid growth. Despite the threat of a legalized marijuana supply shortage, the company is working hard with researchers, developers, and investors in a market that encompasses all of Canada and that extends well beyond the country’s borders.
For more information about the company’s research efforts and development process, go to www.AlgaeDynamics.com
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- The Canadian market is expected to see a conversion rate of 45 percent, which is similar to trends in Colorado, based on a Mackie Research Capital study
- The Government of Canada expects to fully legalize marijuana nationwide on or before July 2018
Investors have had their eyes on Algae Dynamics Corp. (OTCQB: ADYNF), which has partnered with various Canadian universities (including the University of Waterloo and Western University) for access to research and to boost its cannabis extraction expertise. The company is now positioned to serve the medical and recreational marijuana markets. However, many are surprised to learn that, as legalization of recreational marijuana is set for July 2018, Charles Sousa, Ontario’s finance minister, has warned of a possible supply shortage.
The company has had at the core of its product development strategy the extraction of Omega-3 fatty acids from certain strains of algae with high concentrations of DHA, which is an important nutrient for brain, eye, and heart health, as well as the creation of various associated nutraceutical products. In light of the many demonstrated health benefits of other botanical oils, most notably cannabis oil, the company has developed a strategy aimed at developing new products combining the health benefits of algae and cannabis oils.
In a Bloomberg Politics article (http://nnw.fm/DfXQ2), an analyst suggested a supply shortage could give the government an excuse to delay the country’s marijuana program, even as the cannabis oil extraction market grows toward the billion-dollar mark. Government officials, however, have made it clear they want a supply that’s able to accommodate demand to bring down organized crime and illicit drug use. The initial plan is expected to allow sales of cannabis online and via mail.
The reasons for a potential shortage include difficulty in stocking enough inventory nationwide, expanding patient lists, and producers selling out of strains or refusing to take on new clients. In Canada, the number of registered medical marijuana users tripled in one year, and the medical market is already seeing shortages. Health Canada announced in May that it would expedite the license approval process. New licenses have been issued, but it can take a year or more for businesses to build up production. Recent studies have shown a 45 percent conversion rate (users of dry marijuana switching to cannabis oil products) in Colorado, which is anticipated in Canada as well. Licensing and expertise will be needed to meet this demand.
Despite uncertainties, demand and research and development in the cannabis market continue to surge. As Algae Dynamics aims to be the leader in cannabis oil research in Canada, it continues to pursue the compound as a treatment for conditions such as colorectal, breast, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, and for other conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. The company itself will submit a licensing application to Health Canada, so it can produce medical marijuana and sell cannabinoid-derived products. Its knowledge and cultivation know-how enables production of an algae biomass that is free of contaminants and high in healthy Omega-3 fatty acids.
The management, fundraising, process, and commercialization experience of the Algae Dynamics team has positioned the company for rapid growth. Despite the threat of a legalized marijuana supply shortage, the company is working hard with researchers, developers, and investors in a market that encompasses all of Canada and that extends well beyond the country’s borders.
For more information about the company’s research efforts and development process, go to www.AlgaeDynamics.com
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American Energy Partners, Inc. (XFUL) Offers a Trifecta of Opportunity Sourcing and Supplying Water
HCPA (subsidiary) possesses the technical expertise to source, implement, and distribute at-profit reclaimed water.
AES (subsidiary) provides off the shelf and custom designed treatment technologies across customer base that contribute to HCPA’s business model of low-cost treatment and distribution.
Gilbert (subsidiary) eyeing investment opportunities within the Marcellus and Utica regions (PA, OH, and WV areas). With Gilbert as an owner and producer of energy sources in the region, it and each competitor is a potential customer for AEPI services.
Converde Energy USA, Inc. (OTC: XFUL), d/b/a American Energy Partners, Inc., may not be walking on water, but its management has created a business model that looks likely to pull off a miracle. Based in Pennsylvania, American Energy Partners, Inc. (AEPI) and its subsidiaries together comprise an integrated vertical that sources, scrubs, and supplies water to mining, oil and gas, power and other industrial concerns. Now producing half of oil output and two-thirds of gas output in the U.S., fracking is an industry that undoubtedly will require large volume providers like AEPI to keep its head above water.
Water plays an essential role in hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and a typical well requires about 4.4 million gallons. That’s the amount used by 11,000 American families every day. Most of that water (63%) comes from surface sources such as rivers; another substantial amount (20%) is purchased from public water utilities that source surface supplies and wells; almost as much (15%) is recycled treated flowback water from previously fracked wells; while the rest (2%) are the ‘active fracking ingredients’, consisting of proppants and chemicals. Proppants are the suspensions of sand that keep bedrock fissures open, allowing gas and oil to flow out. With about 4,475 locations still to be drilled between the Marcellus and Utica regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, AEPI’s future as a water provider looks rosy. “The Utica and Marcellus shale natural gas plays based respectively in Ohio and Pennsylvania have provided 85-90% of U.S. shale gas production growth since start of 2012,” according to Forbes (http://nnw.fm/1f3lA).
AEPI’s triple play, comprising Hydration Company of PA (HCPA), American Energy Solutions, LLC (AES) and Gilbert Oil & Gas Company (Gilbert), integrates proprietary interests in water sources, design and treatment solutions, and marketing opportunities and business alliances.
The HCPA model implementation begins when hydrological studies are carried out to locate the largest pools of non-potable water, i.e., water that is not safe for drinking. Negotiations are then initiated with the current owners to gain access to these pools. After additional hydrological and engineering studies are performed and the required permits obtained, a filtration system is installed. Lastly, a dynamically-adjustable, turn-key platform goes online, allowing HCPA to distribute as required.
HCPA’s hands-on execution is backed up by sister subsidiary American Energy Solutions (AES). AES provides the technologies that HCPA uses to implement its strategy of providing cost-effective water treatment and distribution. AES plans to develop an in-house team with the ultimate aim of building market share in treatment technologies and the design of distribution methodologies. Meanwhile, AEPI plans to use Gilbert’s broad industry valuation experience to source drilling, operating, and partnership opportunities in the upstream oil and gas space. With so much going for it, AEPI seems to be offering investors in need of comfort a bridge over troubled water.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanEnergy-Inc.com
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AES (subsidiary) provides off the shelf and custom designed treatment technologies across customer base that contribute to HCPA’s business model of low-cost treatment and distribution.
Gilbert (subsidiary) eyeing investment opportunities within the Marcellus and Utica regions (PA, OH, and WV areas). With Gilbert as an owner and producer of energy sources in the region, it and each competitor is a potential customer for AEPI services.
Converde Energy USA, Inc. (OTC: XFUL), d/b/a American Energy Partners, Inc., may not be walking on water, but its management has created a business model that looks likely to pull off a miracle. Based in Pennsylvania, American Energy Partners, Inc. (AEPI) and its subsidiaries together comprise an integrated vertical that sources, scrubs, and supplies water to mining, oil and gas, power and other industrial concerns. Now producing half of oil output and two-thirds of gas output in the U.S., fracking is an industry that undoubtedly will require large volume providers like AEPI to keep its head above water.
Water plays an essential role in hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and a typical well requires about 4.4 million gallons. That’s the amount used by 11,000 American families every day. Most of that water (63%) comes from surface sources such as rivers; another substantial amount (20%) is purchased from public water utilities that source surface supplies and wells; almost as much (15%) is recycled treated flowback water from previously fracked wells; while the rest (2%) are the ‘active fracking ingredients’, consisting of proppants and chemicals. Proppants are the suspensions of sand that keep bedrock fissures open, allowing gas and oil to flow out. With about 4,475 locations still to be drilled between the Marcellus and Utica regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, AEPI’s future as a water provider looks rosy. “The Utica and Marcellus shale natural gas plays based respectively in Ohio and Pennsylvania have provided 85-90% of U.S. shale gas production growth since start of 2012,” according to Forbes (http://nnw.fm/1f3lA).
AEPI’s triple play, comprising Hydration Company of PA (HCPA), American Energy Solutions, LLC (AES) and Gilbert Oil & Gas Company (Gilbert), integrates proprietary interests in water sources, design and treatment solutions, and marketing opportunities and business alliances.
The HCPA model implementation begins when hydrological studies are carried out to locate the largest pools of non-potable water, i.e., water that is not safe for drinking. Negotiations are then initiated with the current owners to gain access to these pools. After additional hydrological and engineering studies are performed and the required permits obtained, a filtration system is installed. Lastly, a dynamically-adjustable, turn-key platform goes online, allowing HCPA to distribute as required.
HCPA’s hands-on execution is backed up by sister subsidiary American Energy Solutions (AES). AES provides the technologies that HCPA uses to implement its strategy of providing cost-effective water treatment and distribution. AES plans to develop an in-house team with the ultimate aim of building market share in treatment technologies and the design of distribution methodologies. Meanwhile, AEPI plans to use Gilbert’s broad industry valuation experience to source drilling, operating, and partnership opportunities in the upstream oil and gas space. With so much going for it, AEPI seems to be offering investors in need of comfort a bridge over troubled water.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanEnergy-Inc.com
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
ORHub, Inc. (ORHB) Proves Its Value at Hoag Orthopedic Institute with Transformative Medical Software Developed on Microsoft Azure
ORHub is a cloud-based health care software that can help medical providers achieve cost efficiencies of 20-40% and drive closure of reimbursement gaps
In real time, through Azure intelligence and analytics, it can analyze procedures, offer predictive analysis, and enable efficient procurement for hospital administrators
It can develop fair pricing on bundled payments for providers and payers
ORHub, Inc. (OTC: ORHB), a health care software-as-a-service company, is primed to play an important role in delivering both cost reduction and actionable resource analytics tools in surgeries such as spinal, hip, knee, and cardiac catheter procedures, offering greatly improved resource allocation, real time monitoring of surgery, and predictive analysis using cloud-based software that delivers fact-based cost targets. The result: ORHub can help achieve cost reductions of from 20-40% in health care.
The value of this revolutionary system is illustrated by the experience of the Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI) in using ORHub to advance orthopedic care (http://nnw.fm/2iGHh). HOI is successfully using the system to improve teamwork, automate manual processes, and better understand resource allocation in its spinal surgeries. The system, which runs on the Microsoft Azure platform, can play a critical part in achieving value-based models of health care. In spinal surgeries, it enables hospital administrators, through Azure intelligence and analytics, to offer real time digital review and reconciliation. In can generate accurate records which can be sent electronically to multiple entities, including medical device companies, hospital procurement, materials management, and billing departments. ORHub is on the frontline of new health care IT delivery. It is seen as both agile and scalable.
Wesley Mitchell, chief technology officer at ORHub, said, “When we have 50,000 procedures in the system, we can start to effect change in the healthcare world. That includes introducing predictive analysis that hospitals can use to anticipate what resources are necessary for a given type of procedure. This can also help healthcare providers and payers coordinate fair pricing on bundled payments.”
Mitchell added that the introduction of ORHub’s software into the medical field could result in cost reductions of from 20-40%. That’s significant, because U.S. health care costs are at more than $3 trillion annually, or 17% or the American GDP, per ORHub calculations.
“If we can achieve that with the cost of surgeries across the U.S. health system, that equates to USD $250-$350 billion saved every year. That’s greater than the gross domestic product of Finland,” Mitchell said.
He added that he started the project after being contacted by a surgeon about wanting software to help analyze resource allocation for surgical procedures. According to ORHub’s research, hospitals spend between 48-50% of their overall revenue on surgery. Mitchell’s interest was piqued, and the project was initiated.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ORhub.com
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In real time, through Azure intelligence and analytics, it can analyze procedures, offer predictive analysis, and enable efficient procurement for hospital administrators
It can develop fair pricing on bundled payments for providers and payers
ORHub, Inc. (OTC: ORHB), a health care software-as-a-service company, is primed to play an important role in delivering both cost reduction and actionable resource analytics tools in surgeries such as spinal, hip, knee, and cardiac catheter procedures, offering greatly improved resource allocation, real time monitoring of surgery, and predictive analysis using cloud-based software that delivers fact-based cost targets. The result: ORHub can help achieve cost reductions of from 20-40% in health care.
The value of this revolutionary system is illustrated by the experience of the Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI) in using ORHub to advance orthopedic care (http://nnw.fm/2iGHh). HOI is successfully using the system to improve teamwork, automate manual processes, and better understand resource allocation in its spinal surgeries. The system, which runs on the Microsoft Azure platform, can play a critical part in achieving value-based models of health care. In spinal surgeries, it enables hospital administrators, through Azure intelligence and analytics, to offer real time digital review and reconciliation. In can generate accurate records which can be sent electronically to multiple entities, including medical device companies, hospital procurement, materials management, and billing departments. ORHub is on the frontline of new health care IT delivery. It is seen as both agile and scalable.
Wesley Mitchell, chief technology officer at ORHub, said, “When we have 50,000 procedures in the system, we can start to effect change in the healthcare world. That includes introducing predictive analysis that hospitals can use to anticipate what resources are necessary for a given type of procedure. This can also help healthcare providers and payers coordinate fair pricing on bundled payments.”
Mitchell added that the introduction of ORHub’s software into the medical field could result in cost reductions of from 20-40%. That’s significant, because U.S. health care costs are at more than $3 trillion annually, or 17% or the American GDP, per ORHub calculations.
“If we can achieve that with the cost of surgeries across the U.S. health system, that equates to USD $250-$350 billion saved every year. That’s greater than the gross domestic product of Finland,” Mitchell said.
He added that he started the project after being contacted by a surgeon about wanting software to help analyze resource allocation for surgical procedures. According to ORHub’s research, hospitals spend between 48-50% of their overall revenue on surgery. Mitchell’s interest was piqued, and the project was initiated.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ORhub.com
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Blastgard International, Inc. (BLGA) Provides Technologies in Line with SAFETY Act Standards
Compliant, protective, and blast-proof products can reduce damage at federal, state, and local facilities
Barriers, revetments, fuel tank jackets, and blast protection equipment are suitable for customers in commercial and military market sectors
New products or retrofits are available to customers requiring powerful blast protection and fire suppression systems
Blastgard International, Inc. (OTC: BLGA) is a manufacturer of proprietary blast mitigation products that meet the requirements of the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002 (SAFETY Act). Used by commercial, law enforcement, government, and military customers, the company’s blast-resistant and fire-suppressing materials provide the anti-terrorism protection specified under the Department of Homeland Security’s SAFETY Act. The legislation calls for technology that can be immediately deployed at public and private facilities, limit liability of anti-terrorism technology providers, and prevent a large-scale loss of life and economic impacts.
In addition, Blastgard’s products have been approved by the General Services Administration (GSA). This qualification streamlines procurement in that several federally-mandated contracting requirements are met. Being approved by the GSA means products such as BlastWrap® are differentiated in the market, so public and private agencies can have improved access to them. BlastWrap is on the DHS’s “Approved Products List for Homeland Security” and provides protection against strong explosions, ballistic materials, and fragments. Working indoors and outdoors, in wet/dry conditions and vented/unvented locations, it can protect property and people against solid explosives and fires caused by flammable liquids.
BlastWrap materials can be used in the cargo holds and containers of commercial aircraft, as building walls (to protect against vehicle bombs), and around fuel tanks to suppress explosions and fireballs. They have also been used on naval vessels and merchant ships, minimizing the impact from mines, torpedoes, and cruise missiles. Suitable as dividers on aircraft, ships, and offshore platforms to suppress fuel mist explosions and fireballs, the products have also been used in explosives manufacturing and handling facilities, propellant manufacturing plants, and fireworks plants as partitions and separators. Also, the company’s products have been implemented in underwater applications and entertainment industry sound stages.
The company also manufactures the Blastgard MTR Series of trash receptacles. These triple-wall containers can withstand improvised explosive devices, their fragments, and fires. Weatherproof and corrosion-resistant, the 35-gallon capacity receptacles can be customized with colors, artwork, logos, and powder coating. Each unit can resist over 4,000 pounds of horizontal and vertical force.
Usable in just about any industry, Blastgard’s products are in demand at a time when terror attacks occur on a regular basis. Recent events in Europe, including a bomb explosion at the Brussels Central train station on June 20 (http://nnw.fm/GaT2J), warrant methods of protecting personnel and civilians with equipment that can withstand explosions and fires. The incident occurred just months after terror attacks killed over 30 people in the city. Additional events and heightened alerts demonstrate the need for protection when such potentially devastating incidents cannot be avoided.
For more information about BlastGard International, BlastWrap technology, and blast-proof products for commercial, military, law enforcement, and government segments, go to www.BlastgardIntl.com
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Barriers, revetments, fuel tank jackets, and blast protection equipment are suitable for customers in commercial and military market sectors
New products or retrofits are available to customers requiring powerful blast protection and fire suppression systems
Blastgard International, Inc. (OTC: BLGA) is a manufacturer of proprietary blast mitigation products that meet the requirements of the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002 (SAFETY Act). Used by commercial, law enforcement, government, and military customers, the company’s blast-resistant and fire-suppressing materials provide the anti-terrorism protection specified under the Department of Homeland Security’s SAFETY Act. The legislation calls for technology that can be immediately deployed at public and private facilities, limit liability of anti-terrorism technology providers, and prevent a large-scale loss of life and economic impacts.
In addition, Blastgard’s products have been approved by the General Services Administration (GSA). This qualification streamlines procurement in that several federally-mandated contracting requirements are met. Being approved by the GSA means products such as BlastWrap® are differentiated in the market, so public and private agencies can have improved access to them. BlastWrap is on the DHS’s “Approved Products List for Homeland Security” and provides protection against strong explosions, ballistic materials, and fragments. Working indoors and outdoors, in wet/dry conditions and vented/unvented locations, it can protect property and people against solid explosives and fires caused by flammable liquids.
BlastWrap materials can be used in the cargo holds and containers of commercial aircraft, as building walls (to protect against vehicle bombs), and around fuel tanks to suppress explosions and fireballs. They have also been used on naval vessels and merchant ships, minimizing the impact from mines, torpedoes, and cruise missiles. Suitable as dividers on aircraft, ships, and offshore platforms to suppress fuel mist explosions and fireballs, the products have also been used in explosives manufacturing and handling facilities, propellant manufacturing plants, and fireworks plants as partitions and separators. Also, the company’s products have been implemented in underwater applications and entertainment industry sound stages.
The company also manufactures the Blastgard MTR Series of trash receptacles. These triple-wall containers can withstand improvised explosive devices, their fragments, and fires. Weatherproof and corrosion-resistant, the 35-gallon capacity receptacles can be customized with colors, artwork, logos, and powder coating. Each unit can resist over 4,000 pounds of horizontal and vertical force.
Usable in just about any industry, Blastgard’s products are in demand at a time when terror attacks occur on a regular basis. Recent events in Europe, including a bomb explosion at the Brussels Central train station on June 20 (http://nnw.fm/GaT2J), warrant methods of protecting personnel and civilians with equipment that can withstand explosions and fires. The incident occurred just months after terror attacks killed over 30 people in the city. Additional events and heightened alerts demonstrate the need for protection when such potentially devastating incidents cannot be avoided.
For more information about BlastGard International, BlastWrap technology, and blast-proof products for commercial, military, law enforcement, and government segments, go to www.BlastgardIntl.com
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India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE: IGC) at the Threshold of a Potential Alzheimer’s Breakthrough
Alzheimer’s is the most ominous and expensive disease in the U.S.
IGC is the first and only NYSE MKT-listed pharmaceutical company to develop cannabis-based Alzheimer’s therapies
IGC’s patent pending phytocannabinoid therapies to enter clinical trials for potential Alzheimer’s breakthrough
A pioneer in the development of innovative cannabis-based combination therapies, India Globalization Capital (NYSE MKT: IGC) is creating new classes of phytocannabinoid pharmaceuticals with broad therapeutic applications for both humans and animals. IGC’s pipeline of patent pending therapeutics include treatments for pain, cachexia, neurologic disorders, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. IGC plans to enter clinical trials this year on its primary pipeline of four major therapeutics that address large market maladies. These trials include a potential cannabis-based blockbuster treatment for Alzheimer’s, America’s most ominous and expensive disease.
Alzheimer’s disease has no cure, no means of prevention and no long-term disease-modifying treatments. It’s a fatal, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. It’s the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., following cancer and heart disease. More than 5.3 million Americans and over 46 million people worldwide are currently suffering from Alzheimer’s, and, frighteningly, this number is expected to triple within a few decades. Alzheimer’s is also the most expensive disease in the nation. In 2016, costs totaled $236 billion for the U.S., and global costs exceeded $600 billion. These figures will skyrocket if the disease continues unchecked.
Bolstering its portfolio of patent pending cannabis-based pharmaceuticals, IGC recently acquired exclusive rights to a novel THC-based treatment for Alzheimer’s disease from the University of South Florida (http://www.igcinc.us/alzheimers-disease/). Under the definitive license agreement with the university, IGC is the exclusive licensee of a patent filing for the use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as a potential therapeutic agent for Alzheimer’s. The patent claims discovery of a new pathway in which low doses of THC bind to amyloid beta plaques and prevent those plaques from aggregating on neurons, which is exactly what occurs in Alzheimer’s disease and causes cognitive decline.
This new pathway holds immense potential in treating Alzheimer’s, and IGC will own the rights to this unprecedented therapeutic pathway if the patent is granted and proven. Acquiring this patent further supports IGC in protecting its proprietary formulation IGC-AD1, which includes low-doses of THC and is intended to disrupt the buildup of amyloid beta plaques and alleviate some of the worst symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Several clinical studies are currently underway to address the ravages of Alzheimer’s, but later this year IGC will become the first and only company to utilize cannabis-based therapies for the treatment of the disease. Even though there are about a dozen publicly traded cannabis pharmaceutical stocks on the market, none have patent filings to a potential Alzheimer’s breakthrough.
Should IGC’s clinical studies show promise on Alzheimer’s or any of its primary pipeline of phytocannabinoid therapeutics, it could not only trigger a major shift in national medical marijuana policy but also dramatically impact the company’s market capitalization and stock price to the upside.
For more information, please visit http://www.igcinc.us
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IGC is the first and only NYSE MKT-listed pharmaceutical company to develop cannabis-based Alzheimer’s therapies
IGC’s patent pending phytocannabinoid therapies to enter clinical trials for potential Alzheimer’s breakthrough
A pioneer in the development of innovative cannabis-based combination therapies, India Globalization Capital (NYSE MKT: IGC) is creating new classes of phytocannabinoid pharmaceuticals with broad therapeutic applications for both humans and animals. IGC’s pipeline of patent pending therapeutics include treatments for pain, cachexia, neurologic disorders, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. IGC plans to enter clinical trials this year on its primary pipeline of four major therapeutics that address large market maladies. These trials include a potential cannabis-based blockbuster treatment for Alzheimer’s, America’s most ominous and expensive disease.
Alzheimer’s disease has no cure, no means of prevention and no long-term disease-modifying treatments. It’s a fatal, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. It’s the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., following cancer and heart disease. More than 5.3 million Americans and over 46 million people worldwide are currently suffering from Alzheimer’s, and, frighteningly, this number is expected to triple within a few decades. Alzheimer’s is also the most expensive disease in the nation. In 2016, costs totaled $236 billion for the U.S., and global costs exceeded $600 billion. These figures will skyrocket if the disease continues unchecked.
Bolstering its portfolio of patent pending cannabis-based pharmaceuticals, IGC recently acquired exclusive rights to a novel THC-based treatment for Alzheimer’s disease from the University of South Florida (http://www.igcinc.us/alzheimers-disease/). Under the definitive license agreement with the university, IGC is the exclusive licensee of a patent filing for the use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as a potential therapeutic agent for Alzheimer’s. The patent claims discovery of a new pathway in which low doses of THC bind to amyloid beta plaques and prevent those plaques from aggregating on neurons, which is exactly what occurs in Alzheimer’s disease and causes cognitive decline.
This new pathway holds immense potential in treating Alzheimer’s, and IGC will own the rights to this unprecedented therapeutic pathway if the patent is granted and proven. Acquiring this patent further supports IGC in protecting its proprietary formulation IGC-AD1, which includes low-doses of THC and is intended to disrupt the buildup of amyloid beta plaques and alleviate some of the worst symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Several clinical studies are currently underway to address the ravages of Alzheimer’s, but later this year IGC will become the first and only company to utilize cannabis-based therapies for the treatment of the disease. Even though there are about a dozen publicly traded cannabis pharmaceutical stocks on the market, none have patent filings to a potential Alzheimer’s breakthrough.
Should IGC’s clinical studies show promise on Alzheimer’s or any of its primary pipeline of phytocannabinoid therapeutics, it could not only trigger a major shift in national medical marijuana policy but also dramatically impact the company’s market capitalization and stock price to the upside.
For more information, please visit http://www.igcinc.us
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Bitcoin and Hydroponics Present Prime Investment Opportunities in the Legal Cannabis Space
NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: In increasing volume, investment opportunities in the legalized marijuana industry are being added to the portfolio of many enterprising investors. Amid the numerous categories of investment options offered within this burgeoning industry, two sectors stand out: bitcoin, a digital currency that can facilitate the transfer of funds free of banks and government regulation, and hydroponics, an industry standard method of growing plants without soil. Companies like SinglePoint, Inc. (SING) (SING Profile), Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (BITCF), Scott’s Miracle-Gro Co. (SMG) and Terra Tech Corp. (TRTC) are currently forging paths in these increasingly popular areas, demonstrating the diverse nature of the marijuana industry.
Among other cannabis-centered ventures, SinglePoint (SING) is developing a bitcoin payments solution for cannabis businesses and, through its recently acquired Discount Indoor Garden Supply (DIGS Hydro) subsidiary, also provides hydroponics products and other supplies and services.
An ongoing roadblock for legal marijuana enterprises has been a lack of banking options, which forces these businesses to conduct cash transactions. SinglePoint has identified bitcoin digital currency as an ideal solution to the numerous challenges of the “unbankable” marijuana industry (http://nnw.fm/8fk1B) and is creating a proprietary bitcoin payment solution that can be implemented in any point-of-sale machine through a simple download, enabling cannabis dispensaries and other marijuana businesses to conduct debit and credit card transactions independent of banks and the FDIC.
SinglePoint, Inc. (SING) also participates in another high-interest area of the marijuana industry through its acquisition and 90 percent ownership of DIGS Hydro. Through DIGS Hydro, SinglePoint is now able to offer soil and supplies, including hydroponics products, to legal cannabis growers. It also offers consulting services relating to indoor growing and hydroponics. This acquisition has positioned SinglePoint to become a leader in online products, retail stores, cannabis consulting and equipment in California, which is home to thousands of marijuana-related businesses.
As announced earlier this week (http://nnw.fm/X4PoS), DIGS Hydro has received a “major” purchase order from Premier Biomedical and has therefore generated an additional revenue stream for SinglePoint.
“This opportunity for both SinglePoint and DIGS Hydro is fantastic. We have been working very hard on making acquisitions and inside sales to boost revenues. To have this subsidiary execute on its business plan and generate major revenue for SinglePoint is exactly what we want to see. We are very excited about the second quarter financials and showing the significant revenue increase,” SinglePoint CEO Greg Lambrecht stated in the news release.
SinglePoint also describes its strategy to increase revenues through the remainder of the year, leveraging the strength of its acquisition-based growth strategy.
Such acquisitions are part of SinglePoint’s diversified approach to operating within the marijuana industry without ever touching the plant. Earlier this year, the company began funding Convectium, which is a provider of equipment, branding and packaging solutions to the marijuana industry and is the developer of the very first cartridge and vape pen oil-filling machines for wholesale distribution to cannabis dispensaries. Convectium’s 710Shark and 710Seal machines, currently sold through the EquipCanna.com website, are capable of filling and packaging over 100 cartridges or disposable vape pens in only 30 seconds. Additionally, Convectium operates a consumer brand that includes BlackoutX and HazeSticks products.
SinglePoint also operates www.SingleSeed.com, which is focused on the online sale of cannabis products to dispensaries and has become a hub for dispensaries seeking merchant payment processing solutions and other business tools. SinglePoint offers mobile marketing services as well as payment solutions for marijuana businesses through SingleSeed payments, including cashless ATM, Pay-by-Text™ and text message marketing.
Regarding its most recent endeavor, SinglePoint recognizes growing demand and application of digital currency on a global scale. The growth and potential of this segment is evidenced in the activities of companies like Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which is the first publicly quoted bitcoin investment vehicle.
Bitcoin Investment Trust is a U.S.-based, open-ended grantor trust sponsored by Grayscale Investments that is invested exclusively in bitcoin, and its shares are the first publicly quoted securities solely invested in and deriving value from the price of bitcoin. Bitcoin Investment Trust has enabled investors to gain exposure to bitcoin’s price movement through a traditional investment vehicle without the challenges of buying, storing and safekeeping bitcoins. Bitcoin Investment Trust was recently named to OTC Markets Group’s “OTCQX Best 50” for 2017. Bitcoin digital currency has already been named an official method of payment in Japan, and it is being accepted by more and more major retailers in the United States. The achievements of Bitcoin Investment Trust are furthering the acceptance of bitcoin’s presence as a valid payment method in the U.S.
Another key bitcoin player, First Bitcoin Capital (BITCF), has partnered with SinglePoint to leverage the growing demand for digital currency in the cannabis space. To advance this payment solution, SinglePoint recently raised $1 million in funding (http://nnw.fm/G8dn5), allocated in part to the development of a bitcoin payment solution for the marijuana industry. First Bitcoin Capital is the first publicly traded cryptocurrency and blockchain-centered company focused on developing digital currencies, proprietary blockchain technologies and the digital currency exchange www.CoinQX.com. The company’s suite of financial solutions for medical marijuana businesses includes merchant processing and point-of-sale solutions, such as automated check-cashing kiosks offered to medical marijuana dispensaries in California.
To understand the importance of hydroponics to the marijuana industry, look no further than leading lawn and garden care products manufacturer Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), which has been heavily investing in hydroponics via supplies to legal cannabis growers. Scotts has emerged as one of the biggest traditional business players to step foot in the cannabis industry, and, through its wholly-owned The Hawthorne Gardening Company subsidiary, has been busily acquiring various leading firms in hydroponics areas, including soil, lighting and nutrients. Other acquisitions are also reportedly in the hopper for Scotts and are expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Vertically-integrated cannabis-focused agriculture company Terra Tech (TRTC) is employing hydroponics cultivation techniques as a direct provider of medical cannabis. The company operates several subsidiaries in medical marijuana and is focused on cultivating and providing the highest quality medical cannabis and revolutionizing cannabis cultivation through cutting-edge practices in a controlled, modern greenhouse environment. Terra Tech has an industry-exclusive moving table hydroponic growing system that boasts an increase of up to 30 percent in annual harvest yield. The company is positioned to operate medical cannabis cultivation facilities throughout the U.S., and Terra Tech’s growth strategy includes expanding its hydroponic cannabis cultivation efforts across the country. Terra Tech’s current growth plan specifically includes acquiring cannabis dispensaries in California, completing cannabis facilities in Nevada, and cultivating cannabis in its existing company-owned greenhouse in New Jersey once cannabis cultivation has been legalized in that state.
Whether an investor is looking for marijuana play through a hands-on-the-plant company or one offering ancillary services, more and more opportunities are cropping up all the time. Bitcoin and hydroponics are two of the hottest investment areas within the marijuana market right now, and the named companies offer prime opportunities for investing in both.
For more information on SinglePoint please visit: Singlepoint (SING) or www.SinglePoint.com
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Among other cannabis-centered ventures, SinglePoint (SING) is developing a bitcoin payments solution for cannabis businesses and, through its recently acquired Discount Indoor Garden Supply (DIGS Hydro) subsidiary, also provides hydroponics products and other supplies and services.
An ongoing roadblock for legal marijuana enterprises has been a lack of banking options, which forces these businesses to conduct cash transactions. SinglePoint has identified bitcoin digital currency as an ideal solution to the numerous challenges of the “unbankable” marijuana industry (http://nnw.fm/8fk1B) and is creating a proprietary bitcoin payment solution that can be implemented in any point-of-sale machine through a simple download, enabling cannabis dispensaries and other marijuana businesses to conduct debit and credit card transactions independent of banks and the FDIC.
SinglePoint, Inc. (SING) also participates in another high-interest area of the marijuana industry through its acquisition and 90 percent ownership of DIGS Hydro. Through DIGS Hydro, SinglePoint is now able to offer soil and supplies, including hydroponics products, to legal cannabis growers. It also offers consulting services relating to indoor growing and hydroponics. This acquisition has positioned SinglePoint to become a leader in online products, retail stores, cannabis consulting and equipment in California, which is home to thousands of marijuana-related businesses.
As announced earlier this week (http://nnw.fm/X4PoS), DIGS Hydro has received a “major” purchase order from Premier Biomedical and has therefore generated an additional revenue stream for SinglePoint.
“This opportunity for both SinglePoint and DIGS Hydro is fantastic. We have been working very hard on making acquisitions and inside sales to boost revenues. To have this subsidiary execute on its business plan and generate major revenue for SinglePoint is exactly what we want to see. We are very excited about the second quarter financials and showing the significant revenue increase,” SinglePoint CEO Greg Lambrecht stated in the news release.
SinglePoint also describes its strategy to increase revenues through the remainder of the year, leveraging the strength of its acquisition-based growth strategy.
Such acquisitions are part of SinglePoint’s diversified approach to operating within the marijuana industry without ever touching the plant. Earlier this year, the company began funding Convectium, which is a provider of equipment, branding and packaging solutions to the marijuana industry and is the developer of the very first cartridge and vape pen oil-filling machines for wholesale distribution to cannabis dispensaries. Convectium’s 710Shark and 710Seal machines, currently sold through the EquipCanna.com website, are capable of filling and packaging over 100 cartridges or disposable vape pens in only 30 seconds. Additionally, Convectium operates a consumer brand that includes BlackoutX and HazeSticks products.
SinglePoint also operates www.SingleSeed.com, which is focused on the online sale of cannabis products to dispensaries and has become a hub for dispensaries seeking merchant payment processing solutions and other business tools. SinglePoint offers mobile marketing services as well as payment solutions for marijuana businesses through SingleSeed payments, including cashless ATM, Pay-by-Text™ and text message marketing.
Regarding its most recent endeavor, SinglePoint recognizes growing demand and application of digital currency on a global scale. The growth and potential of this segment is evidenced in the activities of companies like Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which is the first publicly quoted bitcoin investment vehicle.
Bitcoin Investment Trust is a U.S.-based, open-ended grantor trust sponsored by Grayscale Investments that is invested exclusively in bitcoin, and its shares are the first publicly quoted securities solely invested in and deriving value from the price of bitcoin. Bitcoin Investment Trust has enabled investors to gain exposure to bitcoin’s price movement through a traditional investment vehicle without the challenges of buying, storing and safekeeping bitcoins. Bitcoin Investment Trust was recently named to OTC Markets Group’s “OTCQX Best 50” for 2017. Bitcoin digital currency has already been named an official method of payment in Japan, and it is being accepted by more and more major retailers in the United States. The achievements of Bitcoin Investment Trust are furthering the acceptance of bitcoin’s presence as a valid payment method in the U.S.
Another key bitcoin player, First Bitcoin Capital (BITCF), has partnered with SinglePoint to leverage the growing demand for digital currency in the cannabis space. To advance this payment solution, SinglePoint recently raised $1 million in funding (http://nnw.fm/G8dn5), allocated in part to the development of a bitcoin payment solution for the marijuana industry. First Bitcoin Capital is the first publicly traded cryptocurrency and blockchain-centered company focused on developing digital currencies, proprietary blockchain technologies and the digital currency exchange www.CoinQX.com. The company’s suite of financial solutions for medical marijuana businesses includes merchant processing and point-of-sale solutions, such as automated check-cashing kiosks offered to medical marijuana dispensaries in California.
To understand the importance of hydroponics to the marijuana industry, look no further than leading lawn and garden care products manufacturer Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), which has been heavily investing in hydroponics via supplies to legal cannabis growers. Scotts has emerged as one of the biggest traditional business players to step foot in the cannabis industry, and, through its wholly-owned The Hawthorne Gardening Company subsidiary, has been busily acquiring various leading firms in hydroponics areas, including soil, lighting and nutrients. Other acquisitions are also reportedly in the hopper for Scotts and are expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Vertically-integrated cannabis-focused agriculture company Terra Tech (TRTC) is employing hydroponics cultivation techniques as a direct provider of medical cannabis. The company operates several subsidiaries in medical marijuana and is focused on cultivating and providing the highest quality medical cannabis and revolutionizing cannabis cultivation through cutting-edge practices in a controlled, modern greenhouse environment. Terra Tech has an industry-exclusive moving table hydroponic growing system that boasts an increase of up to 30 percent in annual harvest yield. The company is positioned to operate medical cannabis cultivation facilities throughout the U.S., and Terra Tech’s growth strategy includes expanding its hydroponic cannabis cultivation efforts across the country. Terra Tech’s current growth plan specifically includes acquiring cannabis dispensaries in California, completing cannabis facilities in Nevada, and cultivating cannabis in its existing company-owned greenhouse in New Jersey once cannabis cultivation has been legalized in that state.
Whether an investor is looking for marijuana play through a hands-on-the-plant company or one offering ancillary services, more and more opportunities are cropping up all the time. Bitcoin and hydroponics are two of the hottest investment areas within the marijuana market right now, and the named companies offer prime opportunities for investing in both.
For more information on SinglePoint please visit: Singlepoint (SING) or www.SinglePoint.com
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Invictus MD (OTC: IVITF) (TSX.V: IMH): A Cannabis Company Living Up to its Name
Canadian Cannabis Valuations up 200% in two years
250 acres of cultivation space stretching from Alberta to Ontario
Paid out $1,000,000 in Dividends representing $0.07 per Share
It might just be that Invictus MD Strategies Corp. (OTC: IVITF) (TSX.V: IMH) (FRA: 8IS) has adopted as a motto the elevating penultimate line from William Ernest Henley’s immortal poem Invictus: “I am the master of my fate”. Canada’s Cannabis Company appears completely unafraid as it ploughs ahead with its strategy to become a dominant company in Canada’s cannabis space. That boldness is paying off; Invictus is one of only a handful of cannabis companies declaring dividends. Now, with 250 acres of cultivation space stretching from Alberta to Ontario under management, Invictus is poised to deliver product to Canada’s medical and recreational marijuana markets, as Ottawa reiterates its determination to implement a legal framework for adult use by July 2018 (http://nnw.fm/a9CPC).
In executing that market domination strategy, Invictus’s management has pulled off some savvy deals since the company went public, under the symbol IMH, on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) in December 2014. In March 2015, Invictus took up a 20 percent stake in hydroponic service company Future Harvest Development (FHD). Just four months later, it quickly increased that investment to acquire a majority holding and then sold off FHD’s Sunblaster Lighting division in February 2016. Those breathtaking developments provided a 216% return on investment; Sunblaster, sold for $2,850,000, had an acquisition cost of $900,000. Invictus now holds 82.5% of FHD.
Cannabis Health Sciences was another successful exit. The company, which publishes the Cannabis Health Journal, was bought for $45,000 and later sold for $230,000, earning Invictus a hefty return of 411 percent.
Invictus’ current portfolio companies have equal potential. Wholly-owned Acreage Farms of West-Central Alberta is currently valued at $34.5 million. The division received its cultivation license under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) on March 29, 2017, and is already operational. A 6,800 sq ft purpose built concrete and steel facility has already been constructed, and a planned expansion of 27,400 sq ft on the 150-acre property is imminent. Cultivation started in May 2017, and the unit is expected to reach output of 3,000 kg in 2018, 10,000 kg in 2019 and 25,000 kg by 2020.
In addition, together, associated companies AB Laboratories and AB Ventures are likely to do even better. Their joint production capacity is planned, by 2018, to hit 5,000 kg before climbing to 15,000 kg in 2019 and a level of 25,000 kg in 2020. AB Laboratories already has a cultivation license, received on October 21, 2016. The company, in which Invictus has a one-third stake, expects to get its sales license very soon and is currently valued at $30 million. Its facility in Hamilton, Ontario, covers about 16,000 sq ft.
AB Ventures is Invictus’s “startup” operation. The division closed a 100-acre acquisition in May 2017 and has filed an ACMPR pre-license application for that planned facility. It is aiming to develop 100,000 sq ft (about 2¼ acres) of cultivation and production space by 2019. The unit, in which Invictus also has a one-third stake, is valued at $22.5 million.
There is no doubt that halcyon days are ahead for Invictus. Valuations of cannabis companies have risen over 200 percent over the past two years, with some high fliers crossing the 300% mark. Valuations of ancillary businesses, those that supply services and equipment to the cannabis industry, are rising on the swell, too. Invictus was able to pay out a $1 million dividend to shareholders on December 5, 2016, representing $0.07 per share, because of its divestment of Sunblaster Lighting. With the Canadian recreational cannabis market projected to reach $6 billion, Invictus, now listed on the TSX-V under the symbol IMH, has a fate that looks decidedly promising.
For more information, please visit www.Invictus-MD.com
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250 acres of cultivation space stretching from Alberta to Ontario
Paid out $1,000,000 in Dividends representing $0.07 per Share
It might just be that Invictus MD Strategies Corp. (OTC: IVITF) (TSX.V: IMH) (FRA: 8IS) has adopted as a motto the elevating penultimate line from William Ernest Henley’s immortal poem Invictus: “I am the master of my fate”. Canada’s Cannabis Company appears completely unafraid as it ploughs ahead with its strategy to become a dominant company in Canada’s cannabis space. That boldness is paying off; Invictus is one of only a handful of cannabis companies declaring dividends. Now, with 250 acres of cultivation space stretching from Alberta to Ontario under management, Invictus is poised to deliver product to Canada’s medical and recreational marijuana markets, as Ottawa reiterates its determination to implement a legal framework for adult use by July 2018 (http://nnw.fm/a9CPC).
In executing that market domination strategy, Invictus’s management has pulled off some savvy deals since the company went public, under the symbol IMH, on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) in December 2014. In March 2015, Invictus took up a 20 percent stake in hydroponic service company Future Harvest Development (FHD). Just four months later, it quickly increased that investment to acquire a majority holding and then sold off FHD’s Sunblaster Lighting division in February 2016. Those breathtaking developments provided a 216% return on investment; Sunblaster, sold for $2,850,000, had an acquisition cost of $900,000. Invictus now holds 82.5% of FHD.
Cannabis Health Sciences was another successful exit. The company, which publishes the Cannabis Health Journal, was bought for $45,000 and later sold for $230,000, earning Invictus a hefty return of 411 percent.
Invictus’ current portfolio companies have equal potential. Wholly-owned Acreage Farms of West-Central Alberta is currently valued at $34.5 million. The division received its cultivation license under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) on March 29, 2017, and is already operational. A 6,800 sq ft purpose built concrete and steel facility has already been constructed, and a planned expansion of 27,400 sq ft on the 150-acre property is imminent. Cultivation started in May 2017, and the unit is expected to reach output of 3,000 kg in 2018, 10,000 kg in 2019 and 25,000 kg by 2020.
In addition, together, associated companies AB Laboratories and AB Ventures are likely to do even better. Their joint production capacity is planned, by 2018, to hit 5,000 kg before climbing to 15,000 kg in 2019 and a level of 25,000 kg in 2020. AB Laboratories already has a cultivation license, received on October 21, 2016. The company, in which Invictus has a one-third stake, expects to get its sales license very soon and is currently valued at $30 million. Its facility in Hamilton, Ontario, covers about 16,000 sq ft.
AB Ventures is Invictus’s “startup” operation. The division closed a 100-acre acquisition in May 2017 and has filed an ACMPR pre-license application for that planned facility. It is aiming to develop 100,000 sq ft (about 2¼ acres) of cultivation and production space by 2019. The unit, in which Invictus also has a one-third stake, is valued at $22.5 million.
There is no doubt that halcyon days are ahead for Invictus. Valuations of cannabis companies have risen over 200 percent over the past two years, with some high fliers crossing the 300% mark. Valuations of ancillary businesses, those that supply services and equipment to the cannabis industry, are rising on the swell, too. Invictus was able to pay out a $1 million dividend to shareholders on December 5, 2016, representing $0.07 per share, because of its divestment of Sunblaster Lighting. With the Canadian recreational cannabis market projected to reach $6 billion, Invictus, now listed on the TSX-V under the symbol IMH, has a fate that looks decidedly promising.
For more information, please visit www.Invictus-MD.com
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BlastGard International, Inc. (BLGA) Provides Body Armor and Blast Protection as Terrorist Incidents around the World Multiply
Unique proprietary technology meeting growing and compelling global need
HighCom Security division is the first company in the world to achieve BA 9000 certification
Strong connections and sales history with DOD and DHS, as well as with law enforcement and commercial entities around the world
The rising incidence of terrorist attacks around the world is not being taken lying down. America’s police departments have taken note and are gearing up, literally, to defend the homeland. To do so, to protect their officers, they are relying increasingly on body armor and blast protection products, like those from BlastGard International, Inc. (OTC: BLGA). The Florida-headquartered company has developed a line of products to protect people and property from explosive blasts. It also provides products that offer protection from projectiles. BlastGard’s protective gear includes shields, helmets, vests and plates, which provide police with the protective gear they need to do their jobs.
With an estimated 750,000 police officers, America’s 17,000 law enforcement agencies require a lot of body armor, which, typically, has a life cycle of about five years. Combining this statistic with an average 10 percent attrition rate in law enforcement (about one in 10 officers leave every year) means that, every year, approximately 30 percent of body armor purchases are repeated. That results in a steady, vibrant market for BlastGard. In July 2014, its HighCom Security division, responsible for body armor, became the first company in the world to achieve BA 9000 certification. BA 9000, released in January 2012, extends ISO 9001 requirements to manufacturers of body armor vests for federal, state, local, tribal law enforcement and corrections bodies.
BlastGard’s HighCom Security business unit is a leader in advanced ballistic armor manufacturing. Operating from a 32,865 square foot manufacturing and distribution facility located in Columbus, Ohio, the division can handle large scale, time-sensitive global supply needs. Directed from the logistics center in Florida, the unit serves customers in North America, such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, local law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, municipal authorities and large corporations, as well as others throughout the world. Past sales have been to Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
BlastGard’s body armor range is wide. It includes Type IIA body armor, which offers basic protection against smaller caliber handgun threats; Type II body armor, which provides protection against larger handguns, including many common smaller caliber pistols with standard pressure ammunition and against many revolvers; Type IIIA body armor, which can resist heavy pistol calibers including most law enforcement ammunition and many higher powered revolvers, and Type III and IV body armor, which provides protection against rifle rounds, generally only used in tactical situations.
BlastGard expects that, as police departments become more militarized, demand for its products and services will grow. As threats of all kinds multiply, there is mounting evidence of the emergence of a new kind of police officer, the Warrior Cop, resulting from the integration of tactical, SWAT, and special operations within the law enforcement environment. This trend is likely to fuel demand for body armor with higher protection levels and lower areal densities and designs that provide more mobility and comfort, including helmets. Areal density gives an indication of the energy absorption capability of the protective material and is computed as the weight of the armored panel in grams per square meter divided by the protection area of the panel.
The BlastGard Defense division offers BlastWrap®, a product that defuses the power of explosions and helps to suppress any fires caused by those explosions. The technology is composed of two integrated flexible films arranged one over the other and joined by a plurality of seams filled with attenuating filler material (volcanic glass bead or other suitable materials) with an extinguishing coating. It works by slowing the dissipation of energy triggered by an explosion, reducing the force of the blast and, consequently, the likelihood of fatalities. BlastGard is not only in the business of providing protection for individuals and property; it’s also in the business of saving lives.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.BlastGardIntl.com
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HighCom Security division is the first company in the world to achieve BA 9000 certification
Strong connections and sales history with DOD and DHS, as well as with law enforcement and commercial entities around the world
The rising incidence of terrorist attacks around the world is not being taken lying down. America’s police departments have taken note and are gearing up, literally, to defend the homeland. To do so, to protect their officers, they are relying increasingly on body armor and blast protection products, like those from BlastGard International, Inc. (OTC: BLGA). The Florida-headquartered company has developed a line of products to protect people and property from explosive blasts. It also provides products that offer protection from projectiles. BlastGard’s protective gear includes shields, helmets, vests and plates, which provide police with the protective gear they need to do their jobs.
With an estimated 750,000 police officers, America’s 17,000 law enforcement agencies require a lot of body armor, which, typically, has a life cycle of about five years. Combining this statistic with an average 10 percent attrition rate in law enforcement (about one in 10 officers leave every year) means that, every year, approximately 30 percent of body armor purchases are repeated. That results in a steady, vibrant market for BlastGard. In July 2014, its HighCom Security division, responsible for body armor, became the first company in the world to achieve BA 9000 certification. BA 9000, released in January 2012, extends ISO 9001 requirements to manufacturers of body armor vests for federal, state, local, tribal law enforcement and corrections bodies.
BlastGard’s HighCom Security business unit is a leader in advanced ballistic armor manufacturing. Operating from a 32,865 square foot manufacturing and distribution facility located in Columbus, Ohio, the division can handle large scale, time-sensitive global supply needs. Directed from the logistics center in Florida, the unit serves customers in North America, such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, local law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, municipal authorities and large corporations, as well as others throughout the world. Past sales have been to Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
BlastGard’s body armor range is wide. It includes Type IIA body armor, which offers basic protection against smaller caliber handgun threats; Type II body armor, which provides protection against larger handguns, including many common smaller caliber pistols with standard pressure ammunition and against many revolvers; Type IIIA body armor, which can resist heavy pistol calibers including most law enforcement ammunition and many higher powered revolvers, and Type III and IV body armor, which provides protection against rifle rounds, generally only used in tactical situations.
BlastGard expects that, as police departments become more militarized, demand for its products and services will grow. As threats of all kinds multiply, there is mounting evidence of the emergence of a new kind of police officer, the Warrior Cop, resulting from the integration of tactical, SWAT, and special operations within the law enforcement environment. This trend is likely to fuel demand for body armor with higher protection levels and lower areal densities and designs that provide more mobility and comfort, including helmets. Areal density gives an indication of the energy absorption capability of the protective material and is computed as the weight of the armored panel in grams per square meter divided by the protection area of the panel.
The BlastGard Defense division offers BlastWrap®, a product that defuses the power of explosions and helps to suppress any fires caused by those explosions. The technology is composed of two integrated flexible films arranged one over the other and joined by a plurality of seams filled with attenuating filler material (volcanic glass bead or other suitable materials) with an extinguishing coating. It works by slowing the dissipation of energy triggered by an explosion, reducing the force of the blast and, consequently, the likelihood of fatalities. BlastGard is not only in the business of providing protection for individuals and property; it’s also in the business of saving lives.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.BlastGardIntl.com
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Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) Poised to Profit from China’s Transformation
China’s economy is now world’s 2nd largest – set to overtake the U.S. this century
695 million+ mobile internet users create new Chinese consumer
Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) platforms convert online users to retail customers
The roots of modern capitalist China are curiously and inexorably linked to the 1949 foundation of the People’s Republic of China by communist revolutionary Mao Zedong. In spite of horrific atrocities, Mao is still credited for modernizing China and building it into a world power as China’s population grew from around 550 million to over 900 million under his leadership. Mao seized control of China after a brutal civil war and held power until his death in 1976. Many of his socialist policies such as promoting the status of women, improving education and health care, and increasing life expectancy actually integrate and underpin today’s Chinese economic model. Since inception, the People’s Republic of China has surreptitiously and steadily embraced the tenets of capitalism, especially since economic reforms were enacted in 1978.
Succeeding Mao, Deng Xiaoping, a Communist Party veteran, was eager to adopt capitalist methods and reforms to try to stimulate economic growth and restore confidence in the party. Deng launched several economic reforms that allowed private sectors to start and operate their own businesses again. He also established four special economic zones along the coast of China with intentions of attracting foreign investments. Due to the reforms Deng put in place, China has gone from being a country that opposed capitalism to one that embraces property rights, profits and free market competition.
Today, China’s economy is the second-largest in the world and is likely to overtake the U.S. sometime this century. The country is in the process of transforming itself from a global center of low-tech manufacturing into a major hub of innovation and consumption.
Computer usage in China has exploded. There are now over 730 million internet users in China and over 95 percent, 695 million+, use mobile devices for internet access. This massive increase of computer users in China creates both challenges and opportunities.
To capture the immense new opportunities in China’s changing consumer market, companies must become more strategic in targeting income segments, product categories, and retail channels. To succeed, it’s imperative that companies take into account rapid shifts in consumer consumption patterns. Serving the businesses that feed Chinese consumer demand, Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is poised to profit from the long and vast economic transition in China.
Moxian provides small and medium-sized businesses cutting edge turnkey solutions to attract and maintain customers. The company’s strategy is to drive consumer traffic from online to brick and mortar business customers. Moxian operates a captivating social network which integrates social media and business into a single platform that offers products, features and services that appeal to consumers, keeping them engaged, coming back and even referring new customers.
The company’s online platforms and mobile applications, the Moxian+ User app and the Moxian+ Business app, allow businesses to interface with both existing and new customers. These interactions provide each business the data to analyze consumer likes, dislikes and trends. Moxian’s platform gives businesses the ability to create, manage and promote individualized customer loyalty programs, targeted advertising campaigns and special promotions. These interactions between users and Moxian’s merchant clients give businesses the ability to study consumer behavior and tailor offerings to customers. Moxian is leveraging technology to drive business in the new Chinese consumer economy and offers an opportunity to profit from China’s transformation from communism to consumerism.
For more information, visit www.Moxian.com
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695 million+ mobile internet users create new Chinese consumer
Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) platforms convert online users to retail customers
The roots of modern capitalist China are curiously and inexorably linked to the 1949 foundation of the People’s Republic of China by communist revolutionary Mao Zedong. In spite of horrific atrocities, Mao is still credited for modernizing China and building it into a world power as China’s population grew from around 550 million to over 900 million under his leadership. Mao seized control of China after a brutal civil war and held power until his death in 1976. Many of his socialist policies such as promoting the status of women, improving education and health care, and increasing life expectancy actually integrate and underpin today’s Chinese economic model. Since inception, the People’s Republic of China has surreptitiously and steadily embraced the tenets of capitalism, especially since economic reforms were enacted in 1978.
Succeeding Mao, Deng Xiaoping, a Communist Party veteran, was eager to adopt capitalist methods and reforms to try to stimulate economic growth and restore confidence in the party. Deng launched several economic reforms that allowed private sectors to start and operate their own businesses again. He also established four special economic zones along the coast of China with intentions of attracting foreign investments. Due to the reforms Deng put in place, China has gone from being a country that opposed capitalism to one that embraces property rights, profits and free market competition.
Today, China’s economy is the second-largest in the world and is likely to overtake the U.S. sometime this century. The country is in the process of transforming itself from a global center of low-tech manufacturing into a major hub of innovation and consumption.
Computer usage in China has exploded. There are now over 730 million internet users in China and over 95 percent, 695 million+, use mobile devices for internet access. This massive increase of computer users in China creates both challenges and opportunities.
To capture the immense new opportunities in China’s changing consumer market, companies must become more strategic in targeting income segments, product categories, and retail channels. To succeed, it’s imperative that companies take into account rapid shifts in consumer consumption patterns. Serving the businesses that feed Chinese consumer demand, Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is poised to profit from the long and vast economic transition in China.
Moxian provides small and medium-sized businesses cutting edge turnkey solutions to attract and maintain customers. The company’s strategy is to drive consumer traffic from online to brick and mortar business customers. Moxian operates a captivating social network which integrates social media and business into a single platform that offers products, features and services that appeal to consumers, keeping them engaged, coming back and even referring new customers.
The company’s online platforms and mobile applications, the Moxian+ User app and the Moxian+ Business app, allow businesses to interface with both existing and new customers. These interactions provide each business the data to analyze consumer likes, dislikes and trends. Moxian’s platform gives businesses the ability to create, manage and promote individualized customer loyalty programs, targeted advertising campaigns and special promotions. These interactions between users and Moxian’s merchant clients give businesses the ability to study consumer behavior and tailor offerings to customers. Moxian is leveraging technology to drive business in the new Chinese consumer economy and offers an opportunity to profit from China’s transformation from communism to consumerism.
For more information, visit www.Moxian.com
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Monday, June 26, 2017
InMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CSE: IN) (OTCQB: IMLFF) Targeting Blockbuster Therapeutics
The medical efficacy of cannabinoids to treat a multiplicity of maladies is no longer in doubt. Two recently published scientific studies dispelled any apprehensions about cannabis-based therapies. The highly respected New England Journal of Medicine published a peer reviewed article that proved in a controlled study that cannabidiol dramatically reduced the number of convulsive seizures in children stricken with a severe epileptic disorder (http://nnw.fm/i0X0D). The results of this study follow a comprehensive report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine which confirmed that cannabinoids are effective at treating chronic pain and for providing relief from nausea and vomiting related to chemo treatments. Multiple other medicinal marijuana therapies are undergoing scientific review, including two potential blockbuster therapies in development by InMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CSE: IN) (OTCQB: IMLFF) for glaucoma and epidermolysis bullosa, a devastating genetic skin disease that afflicts up to 20 million newborns in varying degrees of severity.
Utilizing its proprietary bioinformatics assessment tool, InMed’s unique research approach can expedite identification of bioactive compounds that have the potential to significantly impact specific diseases. Using comprehensive algorithms and extensive databases, the company’s exclusive computer-based program can scrutinize, analyze and identify novel cannabinoids to determine potential new drug candidates that maximize therapeutic benefit and minimize adverse effects. InMed’s unique bioinformatics assessment tool holds significant promise for a profusion of future drug discoveries.
InMed is also developing a robust, high-yield biosynthesis process for manufacturing all 90+ naturally-occurring cannabinoids. This proprietary process will provide pharmaceutical consistency and reliability required for drug accuracy, efficacy, and safety.
With areas of research in dermatology, ocular indications, pain and inflammation, central nervous system disorders, and respiratory and metabolic diseases, InMed’s current pipeline is targeting unmet medical conditions utilizing disease-specific formulations. InMed’s INM-750 may become the first therapy to modulate disease activity and alleviate symptoms of epidermolysis bullosa, an orphan disease with no approved treatments and significant unmet medical need. InMed’s INM-085 glaucoma treatment is a multi-target, multi-mechanism of action therapy, utilizing multiple cannabinoids for optimal efficacy in treating one of the leading causes of blindness in the developed world.
InMed’s proprietary bioinformatics drug and disease screening tool, coupled with the company’s proprietary cannabinoid manufacturing system, will provide the unique ability to rapidly produce exceptional targeted results with expedited and cost effective drug development timelines.
The company’s systems and future hold such promise that Dr. Ado Muhammed, MD, DPM, MFPM, who was instrumental in leading GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH) through development and approval of one of the world’s first cannabis-based drugs, is now chief medical officer for InMed Pharmaceuticals. GW Pharmaceuticals saw its shares rise from less than $9 in 2013 to more than $100 today, and it now has a market value of more than $2.5B. With all the upside opportunity, a share price of only 30 cents and a market cap of about $34 million, InMed seems to be a real opportunity to profit from what may become the next success story in the ongoing quest to cure and mitigate disease with cannabinoid-based therapeutics.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.InMedPharma.com
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Utilizing its proprietary bioinformatics assessment tool, InMed’s unique research approach can expedite identification of bioactive compounds that have the potential to significantly impact specific diseases. Using comprehensive algorithms and extensive databases, the company’s exclusive computer-based program can scrutinize, analyze and identify novel cannabinoids to determine potential new drug candidates that maximize therapeutic benefit and minimize adverse effects. InMed’s unique bioinformatics assessment tool holds significant promise for a profusion of future drug discoveries.
InMed is also developing a robust, high-yield biosynthesis process for manufacturing all 90+ naturally-occurring cannabinoids. This proprietary process will provide pharmaceutical consistency and reliability required for drug accuracy, efficacy, and safety.
With areas of research in dermatology, ocular indications, pain and inflammation, central nervous system disorders, and respiratory and metabolic diseases, InMed’s current pipeline is targeting unmet medical conditions utilizing disease-specific formulations. InMed’s INM-750 may become the first therapy to modulate disease activity and alleviate symptoms of epidermolysis bullosa, an orphan disease with no approved treatments and significant unmet medical need. InMed’s INM-085 glaucoma treatment is a multi-target, multi-mechanism of action therapy, utilizing multiple cannabinoids for optimal efficacy in treating one of the leading causes of blindness in the developed world.
InMed’s proprietary bioinformatics drug and disease screening tool, coupled with the company’s proprietary cannabinoid manufacturing system, will provide the unique ability to rapidly produce exceptional targeted results with expedited and cost effective drug development timelines.
The company’s systems and future hold such promise that Dr. Ado Muhammed, MD, DPM, MFPM, who was instrumental in leading GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH) through development and approval of one of the world’s first cannabis-based drugs, is now chief medical officer for InMed Pharmaceuticals. GW Pharmaceuticals saw its shares rise from less than $9 in 2013 to more than $100 today, and it now has a market value of more than $2.5B. With all the upside opportunity, a share price of only 30 cents and a market cap of about $34 million, InMed seems to be a real opportunity to profit from what may become the next success story in the ongoing quest to cure and mitigate disease with cannabinoid-based therapeutics.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.InMedPharma.com
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BlastGard International, Inc. (BLGA) Offers Proprietary Blast Mitigation Products for Military and Commercial Sectors
BlastGard International, Inc. (OTC: BLGA) manufactures proprietary blast mitigation products for the military, commercial sector, government agencies, and law enforcement. It also provides products in the Blastgard MTR Series for personal protective gear and offers products such as mitigated trash receptacles.
The company is doing business as BlastGard Defense Group and HighCom Security. It manufactures BlastWrap® technology proprietary blast materials to mitigate blast effects and post-blast fires. Its primary market focuses on clients operating in the military, commercial sector, government agencies, and law enforcement. It also offers personal protective gear through HighCom Security.
Industry applications for its technology products include suppressing fireballs and explosions. Its products are designed for naval vessels and merchant ships and to minimize damages from breaching blasts, and to protect buildings from vehicle bombs. BlastWrap has been named a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology and placed on the “Approved Products List For Homeland Security.” In January of 2017, the designation and certification for BlastWrap was extended until November 2021. The company’s products are also in the General Services Administration system.
The Blastgard MTR Series is a collection of triple-wall mitigated trash receptacles designed to reduce lethal threats from the detonation of an improvised explosive device, including primary and secondary fragments and any resultant post-blast fires. The products have triple-wall technology to achieve that ability to withstand explosions. This is a Colorado corporation operating out of offices in Clearwater, Florida, with a manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio. It generates 99% of sales from HighCom Securities, Inc.
Simultaneously, the company serves several different markets. As it serves the military and government agencies, it is also replacing existing technologies with products for commercial needs, including entertainment industry location sets (such as Hollywood sound stages), mining extracting and processing, building demolitions, and reinforcement of masonry buildings. Other markets include underwater blast isolation units, coastal construction, monitoring stations for law enforcement, and blast protection shields for low observable camouflage properties.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.BlastGardIntl.com
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The company is doing business as BlastGard Defense Group and HighCom Security. It manufactures BlastWrap® technology proprietary blast materials to mitigate blast effects and post-blast fires. Its primary market focuses on clients operating in the military, commercial sector, government agencies, and law enforcement. It also offers personal protective gear through HighCom Security.
Industry applications for its technology products include suppressing fireballs and explosions. Its products are designed for naval vessels and merchant ships and to minimize damages from breaching blasts, and to protect buildings from vehicle bombs. BlastWrap has been named a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology and placed on the “Approved Products List For Homeland Security.” In January of 2017, the designation and certification for BlastWrap was extended until November 2021. The company’s products are also in the General Services Administration system.
The Blastgard MTR Series is a collection of triple-wall mitigated trash receptacles designed to reduce lethal threats from the detonation of an improvised explosive device, including primary and secondary fragments and any resultant post-blast fires. The products have triple-wall technology to achieve that ability to withstand explosions. This is a Colorado corporation operating out of offices in Clearwater, Florida, with a manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio. It generates 99% of sales from HighCom Securities, Inc.
Simultaneously, the company serves several different markets. As it serves the military and government agencies, it is also replacing existing technologies with products for commercial needs, including entertainment industry location sets (such as Hollywood sound stages), mining extracting and processing, building demolitions, and reinforcement of masonry buildings. Other markets include underwater blast isolation units, coastal construction, monitoring stations for law enforcement, and blast protection shields for low observable camouflage properties.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.BlastGardIntl.com
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SinglePoint’s (SING) $1M Promissory Note Furthers Efforts to Offer Bitcoin Payment Solution for Cannabis Businesses
Furthering its efforts to innovate solutions for the cannabis industry, SinglePoint, Inc. (OTC: SING) has taken a step forward in its endeavor to offer a bitcoin payments solution for cannabis businesses through its partnership with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (OTC: BITCF). SinglePoint recently announced (http://nnw.fm/dS8l3) it has successfully closed a $1 million convertible promissory note with an institutional investor — the proceeds from which will be used to fund the company’s bitcoin payments endeavor and will enable SinglePoint to move quickly in developing a cryptocurrency solution and continuing its acquisitions activities in the cannabis space.
A lack of banking options for legalized marijuana businesses in the United States currently poses a significant obstacle for these cannabis enterprises, forcing them to conduct cash transactions because they do not have the cooperation of banks or the FDIC to accept credit and debit cards. Seeing bitcoin technology as a potential solution for this problem, SinglePoint recently partnered with First Bitcoin Capital to develop a proprietary bitcoin payment solution that can be implemented in any point-of-sale machine through an easy download and will allow customers to purchase cannabis products using debit and credit cards without the backing of banks or the FDIC.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that enables the transfer of funds in a way that is unregulated by governments and is conducted independent of banks. It is growing in popularity and even recently became an official payment method in Japan. As a potential solution for currently “unbankable” cannabis business, SinglePoint’s bitcoin solution is an exciting prospect.
Four developments have been planned by SinglePoint and First Bitcoin Capital based on bitcoin, ethereum and blockchain technology, and SinglePoint recently acquired the rights and domain name for www.SingleCoin.com as part of a planned potential initial coin offering (ICO), which would specifically support transactions for the marijuana industry and other high-risk industries.
In addition to its bitcoin payment solution development activities, SinglePoint has also created and is releasing a Web development and online marketing solution for cannabis dispensaries and plans to use some of the recent funding to launch a proprietary marketing system to attract new customers to SingleSeed.com, which has become a prime resource for dispensaries seeking merchant payment processing solutions and other business tools. SinglePoint offers payment solutions to cannabis businesses through SingleSeed payments, including mobile marketing and payment solutions such as Pay-by-Text™, cashless ATM and text message marketing.
Having made various acquisitions in its efforts to take a diversified approach in the cannabis industry without actually touching the plant, SinglePoint’s portfolio includes a majority stake in Discount Indoor Garden Supply, which immediately positioned the company to become a leader in online products, retail stores, cannabis consulting and equipment in California. The company additionally started funding Convectium in 2017. Convectium is a provider of equipment, branding and packaging solutions to the cannabis industry and is the developer of the first cartridge and vape pen oil-filling machines offered through wholesale distribution to cannabis dispensaries. Convectium’s 710Shark and 710Seal machines, currently sold through the EquipCanna.com website, are capable of filling and packaging more than 100 cartridges or disposable vape pens in 30 seconds. Convectium further operates a consumer brand that includes BlackoutX and HazeSticks products.
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A lack of banking options for legalized marijuana businesses in the United States currently poses a significant obstacle for these cannabis enterprises, forcing them to conduct cash transactions because they do not have the cooperation of banks or the FDIC to accept credit and debit cards. Seeing bitcoin technology as a potential solution for this problem, SinglePoint recently partnered with First Bitcoin Capital to develop a proprietary bitcoin payment solution that can be implemented in any point-of-sale machine through an easy download and will allow customers to purchase cannabis products using debit and credit cards without the backing of banks or the FDIC.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that enables the transfer of funds in a way that is unregulated by governments and is conducted independent of banks. It is growing in popularity and even recently became an official payment method in Japan. As a potential solution for currently “unbankable” cannabis business, SinglePoint’s bitcoin solution is an exciting prospect.
Four developments have been planned by SinglePoint and First Bitcoin Capital based on bitcoin, ethereum and blockchain technology, and SinglePoint recently acquired the rights and domain name for www.SingleCoin.com as part of a planned potential initial coin offering (ICO), which would specifically support transactions for the marijuana industry and other high-risk industries.
In addition to its bitcoin payment solution development activities, SinglePoint has also created and is releasing a Web development and online marketing solution for cannabis dispensaries and plans to use some of the recent funding to launch a proprietary marketing system to attract new customers to SingleSeed.com, which has become a prime resource for dispensaries seeking merchant payment processing solutions and other business tools. SinglePoint offers payment solutions to cannabis businesses through SingleSeed payments, including mobile marketing and payment solutions such as Pay-by-Text™, cashless ATM and text message marketing.
Having made various acquisitions in its efforts to take a diversified approach in the cannabis industry without actually touching the plant, SinglePoint’s portfolio includes a majority stake in Discount Indoor Garden Supply, which immediately positioned the company to become a leader in online products, retail stores, cannabis consulting and equipment in California. The company additionally started funding Convectium in 2017. Convectium is a provider of equipment, branding and packaging solutions to the cannabis industry and is the developer of the first cartridge and vape pen oil-filling machines offered through wholesale distribution to cannabis dispensaries. Convectium’s 710Shark and 710Seal machines, currently sold through the EquipCanna.com website, are capable of filling and packaging more than 100 cartridges or disposable vape pens in 30 seconds. Convectium further operates a consumer brand that includes BlackoutX and HazeSticks products.
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For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SinglePoint.com
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Friday, June 23, 2017
American Energy Partners (XFUL) Extends Water Treatment to the Industry and Energy Sectors
Converde Energy USA, Inc. (OTC: XFUL), d/b/a American Energy Partners Inc., has diversified its energy services portfolio following a successful rebranding effort. The Allentown, Pennsylvania-based company operates through various subsidiaries that have their own energy operations. Hydration Company of Pennsylvania (HCPA) focuses on water exploration and treatment with applications in multiple industries; American Energy Solutions (AES) is an industrial waste stream treatment company; and Gilbert Oil & Gas Company focuses more on generating value in the upstream gas and oil space through operating, drilling, and partnership opportunities. Overall, American Energy Partners hopes to significantly expand operations through involvement in hydrological projects and sourcing water supplies.
The ability to attract capital, form strategic alliances, and achieve sustained growth is helping American Energy Partners serve a diverse customer base. These assets are also attracting investors. Recently, it entered an agreement with GPL Ventures LLC, which may purchase stock valued at up to $3 million. Additionally, the company retained Minivest as a business advisor, to which it issued a Convertible Promissory Note valued at $100,000. Among other things, the agreement allowed access to Minivest’s online marketing platform to help XFUL strengthen its online advertising.
Competent subsidiaries are key contributors to the growth and success of XFUL. A technical workhorse, HCPA can source, implement, and distribute reclaimed water and work in a diversity of geographies, storage conditions, and water quality. It’s also able to augment existing water flow. This allows it to provide a consistent supply, even when levels are low and drought conditions affect a region.
An expert in performing hydrological studies and contracting with mine owners, HCPA possesses the hydrological and engineering know-how to maximize filtration, treatment, and distribution of water resources. Its low-cost treatment and distribution model involves locating, procuring, treating, and distributing water while preserving the environment. The subsidiary can serve a range of applications, including oil and gas, utilities, mining, pipelines, industry, and local municipalities.
HCPA’s patent-pending proprietary water conveyance system is a key component of the subsidiary’s treatment and distribution model, which it plans to implement together with AES, to begin with, by remediating pools of non-potable water. Its recent contract with the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (“EPCAMR”) to engage the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (“SRBC”) in a study of the Mocanaqua Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) Tunnel will serve as a starting point for the new model, proving its efficacy and validity.
Providing off the shelf and custom water treatment solutions, AES is devoted to serving the industrial waste sector. It offers remediation of superfund sites. Also, it can remedy coal ash, acid mine draining, and various other industrial processes. Flowback and produced waters, as well as drill cuttings, can be managed. Specializing in project design and managing strategic partnerships with established water treatment providers, AES can offer performance evaluation and aims to generate market share.
Gilbert is an energy source producer operating in the Marcellus and Utica region. As such, the subsidiary and its competitors represent potential XFUL customers. The market itself is a driver for potential growth of the company and its subsidiaries. Much water is utilized in hydraulic fracturing, including that purchased from public utilities. Flowback and treated wastewater from existing wells are significant. Aside from these water-intensive industrial processes, water use is a major aspect of irrigation, aquaculture, thermoelectric power, mining, and domestic use. In Pennsylvania, thermoelectric power alone consumes 6.43 billion gallons of water per day, and public water supplies use 1.42 billion gallons each day, demonstrating the size of the market XFUL can reach.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanEnergy-Inc.com
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The ability to attract capital, form strategic alliances, and achieve sustained growth is helping American Energy Partners serve a diverse customer base. These assets are also attracting investors. Recently, it entered an agreement with GPL Ventures LLC, which may purchase stock valued at up to $3 million. Additionally, the company retained Minivest as a business advisor, to which it issued a Convertible Promissory Note valued at $100,000. Among other things, the agreement allowed access to Minivest’s online marketing platform to help XFUL strengthen its online advertising.
Competent subsidiaries are key contributors to the growth and success of XFUL. A technical workhorse, HCPA can source, implement, and distribute reclaimed water and work in a diversity of geographies, storage conditions, and water quality. It’s also able to augment existing water flow. This allows it to provide a consistent supply, even when levels are low and drought conditions affect a region.
An expert in performing hydrological studies and contracting with mine owners, HCPA possesses the hydrological and engineering know-how to maximize filtration, treatment, and distribution of water resources. Its low-cost treatment and distribution model involves locating, procuring, treating, and distributing water while preserving the environment. The subsidiary can serve a range of applications, including oil and gas, utilities, mining, pipelines, industry, and local municipalities.
HCPA’s patent-pending proprietary water conveyance system is a key component of the subsidiary’s treatment and distribution model, which it plans to implement together with AES, to begin with, by remediating pools of non-potable water. Its recent contract with the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (“EPCAMR”) to engage the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (“SRBC”) in a study of the Mocanaqua Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) Tunnel will serve as a starting point for the new model, proving its efficacy and validity.
Providing off the shelf and custom water treatment solutions, AES is devoted to serving the industrial waste sector. It offers remediation of superfund sites. Also, it can remedy coal ash, acid mine draining, and various other industrial processes. Flowback and produced waters, as well as drill cuttings, can be managed. Specializing in project design and managing strategic partnerships with established water treatment providers, AES can offer performance evaluation and aims to generate market share.
Gilbert is an energy source producer operating in the Marcellus and Utica region. As such, the subsidiary and its competitors represent potential XFUL customers. The market itself is a driver for potential growth of the company and its subsidiaries. Much water is utilized in hydraulic fracturing, including that purchased from public utilities. Flowback and treated wastewater from existing wells are significant. Aside from these water-intensive industrial processes, water use is a major aspect of irrigation, aquaculture, thermoelectric power, mining, and domestic use. In Pennsylvania, thermoelectric power alone consumes 6.43 billion gallons of water per day, and public water supplies use 1.42 billion gallons each day, demonstrating the size of the market XFUL can reach.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanEnergy-Inc.com
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
InMed Pharmaceuticals (CSE: IN) (OTCQB: IMLFF) Takes Additional Step toward Clinical Trials for INM-750
Moving toward offering the very first therapy for treating epidermolysis bullosa (EB), InMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CSE: IN) (OTCQB: IMLFF) recently announced it has signed an agreement with Pharmaseed Ltd. (http://nnw.fm/4lZzC) to develop a final formulation for INM-750, InMed’s lead compound, which is being developed as a therapy for EB and for other potential dermatological and wound-healing applications.
EB is a group of inherited connective tissue diseases sharing a common manifestation of very fragile skin that is prone to easily blistering or tearing. An orphan disease that currently has no approved treatments and has significant unmet medical need, EB results from a defect in anchoring between the dermis and the epidermis and is most commonly caused by the absence of specific keratins in the skin. In addition to its effects on the skin, EB can also affect bodily systems and internal organs.
InMed’s INM-750 is a proprietary topical product candidate that includes multiple cannabinoids as its active ingredients, which were chosen to modulate keratin levels in EB patients in anticipation of having a disease-modulating effect. A secondary reason for selecting these cannabinoids was to address EB symptoms, including inflammation, wound healing, skin regeneration, itching and pain. In development as a topical application, INM-750 is designed to optimize penetration of the cannabinoids to the skin’s epidermal/dermal junction.
Through the agreement with Pharmaseed, which is the largest GLP-certified preclinical contract research organization in Israel, InMed is taking another step toward moving INM-750 to its first clinical trial. Under the terms of the agreement, Pharmaseed will develop a final formulation for INM-750 for ongoing R&D, including IND-enabling pharmacology and toxicology studies and eventual clinical studies. The contract also includes the development of assay methods for manufacturing, stability, quality assurance and other methods of analysis.
A preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, InMed specializes in the research and development of cannabinoid-based prescription drug therapies that utilize novel drug delivery systems. For its product candidates, the company conducts research, discovery, preclinical, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing and commercial development activities. InMed’s primary value drivers are its proprietary bioinformatics database assessment tool, biosynthesis manufacturing process and drug development programs.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.InMedPharma.com
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EB is a group of inherited connective tissue diseases sharing a common manifestation of very fragile skin that is prone to easily blistering or tearing. An orphan disease that currently has no approved treatments and has significant unmet medical need, EB results from a defect in anchoring between the dermis and the epidermis and is most commonly caused by the absence of specific keratins in the skin. In addition to its effects on the skin, EB can also affect bodily systems and internal organs.
InMed’s INM-750 is a proprietary topical product candidate that includes multiple cannabinoids as its active ingredients, which were chosen to modulate keratin levels in EB patients in anticipation of having a disease-modulating effect. A secondary reason for selecting these cannabinoids was to address EB symptoms, including inflammation, wound healing, skin regeneration, itching and pain. In development as a topical application, INM-750 is designed to optimize penetration of the cannabinoids to the skin’s epidermal/dermal junction.
Through the agreement with Pharmaseed, which is the largest GLP-certified preclinical contract research organization in Israel, InMed is taking another step toward moving INM-750 to its first clinical trial. Under the terms of the agreement, Pharmaseed will develop a final formulation for INM-750 for ongoing R&D, including IND-enabling pharmacology and toxicology studies and eventual clinical studies. The contract also includes the development of assay methods for manufacturing, stability, quality assurance and other methods of analysis.
A preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, InMed specializes in the research and development of cannabinoid-based prescription drug therapies that utilize novel drug delivery systems. For its product candidates, the company conducts research, discovery, preclinical, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing and commercial development activities. InMed’s primary value drivers are its proprietary bioinformatics database assessment tool, biosynthesis manufacturing process and drug development programs.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.InMedPharma.com
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ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (CIIX) Raises Profile, Increases Revenues from Investor Relations Activity
ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX) has been closely monitored for its upside as it competes in the hemp-derived cannabis market. CIIX has launched a cannabidiol (CBD) online store in the free-trade zone of Shanghai and soon it plans to open a brick-and-mortar store in its home market of San Gabriel, California, to market a line of food and nutrition products. However, the bulk of its existing business remains in investor relations, which is growing as the company invests more in personnel and advertising, successfully raising its profile.
CIIX offers a variety of consulting services to Chinese-speaking clients and companies. It offers real-time financial information and educational services in Chinese language character sets. It also provides consulting services to smaller companies seeking to go public. It has clients on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and OTCQB markets. During the quarter ended February 28, 2017, the bulk of the company’s revenues were from its investor relations activities.
The development of new roadshows and multimedia presentations has helped CIIX grow public company clients, building the company’s brand and reputation. CIIX said its gain in investor relations for the period was due to its hiring of more professionals to service public company clients and improve its service quality. The company increased the amount of its advertising to raise its visibility in different cities and languages.
For the three and nine months ended February 28, 2017, the company reported sharp increases in its sales within investor relations, tripling and doubling its revenues for the three-month and nine-month periods, respectively. A SeeThruEquity Report on CIIX of March 2017 (http://nnw.fm/mpU0C) positively noted the gain in CIIX’s high margin investor relations business.
One factor in its higher profile has been the airing of its weekly TV show via Phoenix Television, which broadcasts the program on its Phoenix North America Chinese Channel. This is a popular, subscriber-only media platform aimed at the Chinese-speaking community in the U.S.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ChineseInvestors.com
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CIIX offers a variety of consulting services to Chinese-speaking clients and companies. It offers real-time financial information and educational services in Chinese language character sets. It also provides consulting services to smaller companies seeking to go public. It has clients on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and OTCQB markets. During the quarter ended February 28, 2017, the bulk of the company’s revenues were from its investor relations activities.
The development of new roadshows and multimedia presentations has helped CIIX grow public company clients, building the company’s brand and reputation. CIIX said its gain in investor relations for the period was due to its hiring of more professionals to service public company clients and improve its service quality. The company increased the amount of its advertising to raise its visibility in different cities and languages.
For the three and nine months ended February 28, 2017, the company reported sharp increases in its sales within investor relations, tripling and doubling its revenues for the three-month and nine-month periods, respectively. A SeeThruEquity Report on CIIX of March 2017 (http://nnw.fm/mpU0C) positively noted the gain in CIIX’s high margin investor relations business.
One factor in its higher profile has been the airing of its weekly TV show via Phoenix Television, which broadcasts the program on its Phoenix North America Chinese Channel. This is a popular, subscriber-only media platform aimed at the Chinese-speaking community in the U.S.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ChineseInvestors.com
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Hydration Company of PA (XFUL) Innovates Exciting Water Reclamation Solution Amid Global Water Crisis
In view of the current global water crisis, which has reportedly left approximately 783 million people without access to clean, safe water (http://nnw.fm/t6RAM), the existence of a process for reclaiming previously unavailable water would be quite a game-changer, and it just so happens that one company has pioneered just such a process.
Hydration Company of PA (HCPA), a subsidiary of Converde Energy USA, Inc. (OTC: XFUL), d/b/a American Energy Partners, Inc., is focused on sourcing, implementing and distributing reclaimed water at a profit. HCPA has a competitive edge in its pure volume of reclaimed water and its access to low-cost treatment with high flow rates and highly concentrated solids through technologies from XFUL’s partners.
HCPA offers a pioneering solution for locating, procuring, treating and distributing water using a patent-pending process that results in cleaner water and a safer environment. This innovative process can alleviate drought conditions by enabling access to water that was previously unavailable.
Due to the volume and flexibility of the model HCPA has established through its patent-pending methodology and conveyance procedures, the company is poised to immediately and effectively gain market share, since large corporations desire access to a single source that can provide massive amounts of reclaimed water in spite of drought conditions.
The exciting applications for HCPA’s solution include oil and gas, pipelines, mining, utilities, municipalities and landowners. The company plans to operate out of a number of predetermined sites within the United States, which will vary in terms of geography, storage and water quality. These sites will facilitate augmentation or the ability to mitigate during pass-by conditions, and the augmentation of existing water flow will allow the company to supply everyday water as well as providing additional waters to the system in low-flow conditions. This represents a particularly valuable piece of HCPA’s model, as customers will have the ability to consume at their intake up to the maximum docketed withdrawal regardless of how long or severe a drought may be, giving the customers pass-by exemption.
This is how HCPA’s model works:
Region-wide hydrological studies are conducted to identify the largest pools of non-potable water
Access and control are gained to these mines through contracts with current owners
Final hydrology and engineering studies are performed
A filtration system is installed with all the needed permits
A dynamically adjustable turnkey system is deployed, allowing HCPA to execute its treatment and distribution model through the company’s proprietary conveyance system
The ability to tap into previously unusable sources of water is certainly an exciting prospect, and one that could address and solve limitations in a variety industries and areas.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanEnergy-Inc.com
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Hydration Company of PA (HCPA), a subsidiary of Converde Energy USA, Inc. (OTC: XFUL), d/b/a American Energy Partners, Inc., is focused on sourcing, implementing and distributing reclaimed water at a profit. HCPA has a competitive edge in its pure volume of reclaimed water and its access to low-cost treatment with high flow rates and highly concentrated solids through technologies from XFUL’s partners.
HCPA offers a pioneering solution for locating, procuring, treating and distributing water using a patent-pending process that results in cleaner water and a safer environment. This innovative process can alleviate drought conditions by enabling access to water that was previously unavailable.
Due to the volume and flexibility of the model HCPA has established through its patent-pending methodology and conveyance procedures, the company is poised to immediately and effectively gain market share, since large corporations desire access to a single source that can provide massive amounts of reclaimed water in spite of drought conditions.
The exciting applications for HCPA’s solution include oil and gas, pipelines, mining, utilities, municipalities and landowners. The company plans to operate out of a number of predetermined sites within the United States, which will vary in terms of geography, storage and water quality. These sites will facilitate augmentation or the ability to mitigate during pass-by conditions, and the augmentation of existing water flow will allow the company to supply everyday water as well as providing additional waters to the system in low-flow conditions. This represents a particularly valuable piece of HCPA’s model, as customers will have the ability to consume at their intake up to the maximum docketed withdrawal regardless of how long or severe a drought may be, giving the customers pass-by exemption.
This is how HCPA’s model works:
Region-wide hydrological studies are conducted to identify the largest pools of non-potable water
Access and control are gained to these mines through contracts with current owners
Final hydrology and engineering studies are performed
A filtration system is installed with all the needed permits
A dynamically adjustable turnkey system is deployed, allowing HCPA to execute its treatment and distribution model through the company’s proprietary conveyance system
The ability to tap into previously unusable sources of water is certainly an exciting prospect, and one that could address and solve limitations in a variety industries and areas.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanEnergy-Inc.com
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Diverse Opportunities Aplenty for Investors Interested in the Marijuana Market
NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: Within the exploding legalized marijuana industry, new innovations and investment opportunities are cropping up all the time; no matter what sector you have interest in, there is likely an investment option to be explored. Among enterprising companies looking for innovative ways to profit within the blossoming marijuana market, SinglePoint, Inc. (SING) (SING Profile), First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (BITCF), Kush Bottles, Inc. (KSHB), Medical Marijuana, Inc. (MJNA) and Solis Tek, Inc. (SLTK) offer diverse opportunities for savvy investors interested in a marijuana-related play.
The growth of the legal marijuana market has been bigger and faster than the growth of the dot-com industry in its heyday, experts say. In North America, cannabis sales grew by 30 percent in 2016, reaching $6.7 billion; marijuana sales in North America, including Canada, have been projected to surpass $20.2 billion by the year 2021, assuming a CAGR of 25 percent1. The rapid growth within this developing market is constantly creating new opportunities as laws change, new cannabis enterprises open up, and service needs emerge for those businesses. There are plenty of prime investment opportunities—both in companies that handle the marijuana plant and in companies that don’t.
One increasingly recognizable marijuana play is SinglePoint (SING) which plays a role in a variety of sectors, including payments, technology, hydroponics and gardening, and more. Among its present endeavors, SinglePoint recently announced (http://nnw.fm/7XlMo) an initiative to develop a bitcoin payment solution for cannabis businesses, which due to federal restrictions and bank reluctance, are currently “unbankable” and must deal in cash only. SinglePoint has partnered with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (BITCF) to create a proprietary bitcoin payment solution that can be easily implemented in any point-of-sale machine via a simple download, enabling marijuana users to purchase cannabis products using credit and debit cards independent of banks and the FDIC.
SinglePoint has also made various acquisitions as part of its efforts to take a diversified approach (http://nnw.fm/zD4qP) to the marijuana industry without touching the plant. The company’s portfolio includes a majority stake in Discount Indoor Garden Supply, an acquisition completed in May, which immediately positioned SinglePoint to become a leader in online products, retail stores, cannabis consulting and equipment in California. Additionally, SinglePoint earlier this year invested in Convectium, a company that provides equipment, branding and packaging solutions to the cannabis industry and developed the first cartridge and vape pen oil-filling machines for wholesale distribution to marijuana dispensaries. The 710Shark and 710Seal machines can fill and package over 100 cartridges or disposable vape pens in just 30 seconds and are currently sold through the EquipCanna.com website. Convectium additionally operates a consumer brand that includes BlackoutX and HazeSticks products.
SinglePoint further operates the www.SingleSeed.com subsidiary, which is focused on the online sale of cannabis products to dispensaries and has become a leading resource for dispensaries that are seeking merchant payment processing solutions and other business tools. Through SingleSeed payments, SinglePoint offers payment solutions for cannabis businesses that include mobile marketing and payment solutions like cashless ATM, Pay-by-Text™ and text message marketing.
SinglePoint partner First Bitcoin Capital (BITCF) is also focused on payment solutions. As the first publicly traded cryptocurrency and block-chain-centered company, it is focused on developing digital currencies, proprietary block-chain technologies, and the digital currency exchange www.CoinQX.com. Among its payment solutions, First Bitcoin Capital offers automated check-cashing kiosks to medical marijuana dispensaries in California, charging competitive check-cashing fees. This check-cashing ATM service rounds out the company’s suite of financial offerings to the medical marijuana industry, which include merchant processing and point-of-sale solutions.
Initially focused on packaging solutions at its inception in 2010, California-based Kush Bottles (KSHB) has since expanded its product line. Kush Bottles’ products now range from custom packaging and labeling items to point-of-sale products like grinders, lighters, papers and glass pieces. The company also recently obtained a U.S. patent for a unique customizable mechanism for its top-selling child-resistant packaging, enabling 3D branded icons to now be attached to the container lids. Kush Bottles caters to thousands of cannabis dispensaries, retail shops, growers and consumers and is a leading packaging supply and services company exclusively serving the needs of the marijuana industry.
In the healthcare sector, Medical Marijuana (MJNA) stands out as the first company to make hemp cannabidiol (CBD) products available in the United States and around the world, taking the bold step of finding a legal means of providing these products in the U.S. without waiting for federal law changes. The company has done this by providing high-quality cannabis-derived products that feature non-psychoactive cannabinoids such as cannabidiol (CBD), which boasts various potential health applications without reliance on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). MJNA has gone outside of the U.S. to grow low-THC cannabis varieties (hemp) and has crafted CBD hemp oil from carefully cultivated hemp plants, successfully imported it into the U.S. CBD hemp oil is non-psychoactive, 100 percent legal in the U.S., and contains a full array of phytocannabinoids. The company’s products, distributed through HempMeds and Kannaway, include pure CBD hemp oil, Kannaway Essential Oils, tinctures, sprays, capsules, vaporizers, bath and body products, and chewing gum. In addition to selling legal CBD hemp oil products in the U.S., MJNA has also been able to offer the very first legal marijuana products in Mexico and Brazil and has additionally expanded its Kannaway brand into the European marketplace.
Marijuana also finds its place in technology. Vertically integrated technology innovator Solis Tek (SLTK) is also taking a fresh approach within the cannabis industry, offering products and solutions to commercial cannabis growers within legal markets throughout the country. Solis Tek has become a leading provider of digital lighting equipment for hydroponic cannabis cultivation, offering digital lighting solutions that help increase yield, cut costs and improve crop growth. Solis Tek also recently announced the launch of its Nutrient Line, which employs natural ingredients to help growers increase yield, lower costs and grow healthier plants. The first product in this line, Terpenez, is an organically derived, commercial-grade essential oil intensifier designed to naturally increase the terpene profile of the cannabis plant and thereby enhance the plant’s inherent characteristics.
There are many ripe investment opportunities within the legalized marijuana industry, which increasingly gains ground in some of the most favored sectors. This fast-growing market has nowhere to go but up, and savvy investors would be wise to take a look at the playing field and discover the diverse opportunities of the cannabis boom.
Editorial Sources:
(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2017/01/03/marijuana-sales-totaled-6-7-billion-in-2016/#50de58a975e3
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The growth of the legal marijuana market has been bigger and faster than the growth of the dot-com industry in its heyday, experts say. In North America, cannabis sales grew by 30 percent in 2016, reaching $6.7 billion; marijuana sales in North America, including Canada, have been projected to surpass $20.2 billion by the year 2021, assuming a CAGR of 25 percent1. The rapid growth within this developing market is constantly creating new opportunities as laws change, new cannabis enterprises open up, and service needs emerge for those businesses. There are plenty of prime investment opportunities—both in companies that handle the marijuana plant and in companies that don’t.
One increasingly recognizable marijuana play is SinglePoint (SING) which plays a role in a variety of sectors, including payments, technology, hydroponics and gardening, and more. Among its present endeavors, SinglePoint recently announced (http://nnw.fm/7XlMo) an initiative to develop a bitcoin payment solution for cannabis businesses, which due to federal restrictions and bank reluctance, are currently “unbankable” and must deal in cash only. SinglePoint has partnered with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (BITCF) to create a proprietary bitcoin payment solution that can be easily implemented in any point-of-sale machine via a simple download, enabling marijuana users to purchase cannabis products using credit and debit cards independent of banks and the FDIC.
SinglePoint has also made various acquisitions as part of its efforts to take a diversified approach (http://nnw.fm/zD4qP) to the marijuana industry without touching the plant. The company’s portfolio includes a majority stake in Discount Indoor Garden Supply, an acquisition completed in May, which immediately positioned SinglePoint to become a leader in online products, retail stores, cannabis consulting and equipment in California. Additionally, SinglePoint earlier this year invested in Convectium, a company that provides equipment, branding and packaging solutions to the cannabis industry and developed the first cartridge and vape pen oil-filling machines for wholesale distribution to marijuana dispensaries. The 710Shark and 710Seal machines can fill and package over 100 cartridges or disposable vape pens in just 30 seconds and are currently sold through the EquipCanna.com website. Convectium additionally operates a consumer brand that includes BlackoutX and HazeSticks products.
SinglePoint further operates the www.SingleSeed.com subsidiary, which is focused on the online sale of cannabis products to dispensaries and has become a leading resource for dispensaries that are seeking merchant payment processing solutions and other business tools. Through SingleSeed payments, SinglePoint offers payment solutions for cannabis businesses that include mobile marketing and payment solutions like cashless ATM, Pay-by-Text™ and text message marketing.
SinglePoint partner First Bitcoin Capital (BITCF) is also focused on payment solutions. As the first publicly traded cryptocurrency and block-chain-centered company, it is focused on developing digital currencies, proprietary block-chain technologies, and the digital currency exchange www.CoinQX.com. Among its payment solutions, First Bitcoin Capital offers automated check-cashing kiosks to medical marijuana dispensaries in California, charging competitive check-cashing fees. This check-cashing ATM service rounds out the company’s suite of financial offerings to the medical marijuana industry, which include merchant processing and point-of-sale solutions.
Initially focused on packaging solutions at its inception in 2010, California-based Kush Bottles (KSHB) has since expanded its product line. Kush Bottles’ products now range from custom packaging and labeling items to point-of-sale products like grinders, lighters, papers and glass pieces. The company also recently obtained a U.S. patent for a unique customizable mechanism for its top-selling child-resistant packaging, enabling 3D branded icons to now be attached to the container lids. Kush Bottles caters to thousands of cannabis dispensaries, retail shops, growers and consumers and is a leading packaging supply and services company exclusively serving the needs of the marijuana industry.
In the healthcare sector, Medical Marijuana (MJNA) stands out as the first company to make hemp cannabidiol (CBD) products available in the United States and around the world, taking the bold step of finding a legal means of providing these products in the U.S. without waiting for federal law changes. The company has done this by providing high-quality cannabis-derived products that feature non-psychoactive cannabinoids such as cannabidiol (CBD), which boasts various potential health applications without reliance on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). MJNA has gone outside of the U.S. to grow low-THC cannabis varieties (hemp) and has crafted CBD hemp oil from carefully cultivated hemp plants, successfully imported it into the U.S. CBD hemp oil is non-psychoactive, 100 percent legal in the U.S., and contains a full array of phytocannabinoids. The company’s products, distributed through HempMeds and Kannaway, include pure CBD hemp oil, Kannaway Essential Oils, tinctures, sprays, capsules, vaporizers, bath and body products, and chewing gum. In addition to selling legal CBD hemp oil products in the U.S., MJNA has also been able to offer the very first legal marijuana products in Mexico and Brazil and has additionally expanded its Kannaway brand into the European marketplace.
Marijuana also finds its place in technology. Vertically integrated technology innovator Solis Tek (SLTK) is also taking a fresh approach within the cannabis industry, offering products and solutions to commercial cannabis growers within legal markets throughout the country. Solis Tek has become a leading provider of digital lighting equipment for hydroponic cannabis cultivation, offering digital lighting solutions that help increase yield, cut costs and improve crop growth. Solis Tek also recently announced the launch of its Nutrient Line, which employs natural ingredients to help growers increase yield, lower costs and grow healthier plants. The first product in this line, Terpenez, is an organically derived, commercial-grade essential oil intensifier designed to naturally increase the terpene profile of the cannabis plant and thereby enhance the plant’s inherent characteristics.
There are many ripe investment opportunities within the legalized marijuana industry, which increasingly gains ground in some of the most favored sectors. This fast-growing market has nowhere to go but up, and savvy investors would be wise to take a look at the playing field and discover the diverse opportunities of the cannabis boom.
Editorial Sources:
(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2017/01/03/marijuana-sales-totaled-6-7-billion-in-2016/#50de58a975e3
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