Marijuana Money: February 26, 2021
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On Monday, New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation that legalizes adult-use marijuana possession and licenses retail marijuana sales. The new law caps the number of state-licensed cultivators at 37 for the first two years. Existing state-licensed medical cannabis producers will be among those eligible to provide to the retail market. It has been estimated that adult-use retailers may be operational within six months.

James Patterson, the former CEO of California cannabis delivery platform Eaze pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud according to a report at Law360. The plan was a scheme to deceive banks into processing more than $100 million worth of credit and debit payments for marijuana purchases. The major banks and credit card companies like Visa (NASDAQ: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) refuse to work with cannabis companies as the product is still federally illegal. So any transactions using these products or lying to banks about the nature of the transactions is illegal. It is being suggested that the plea could be an indication that Patterson is with prosecutors and could testify against other defendants in an effort to lower his punishment

Privately-held multi-state cannabis operator Parallel and special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) Ceres Acquisition Corp.  (OTCQX: CERAF) have entered into a definitive business combination agreement involving a transaction that, if completed, would result in Parallel becoming a public company. The investors have an over-subscribed private investment in public equity (PIPE) of $225 million. The deal is expected to close in Summer 2021.The deal values Parallel at an implied enterprise value of $1.884 billion with expected net revenues of $447 million in 2021. 

Green Thumb Industries Inc. (OTCQX: GTBIF) announced it has raised approximately $56 million by selling 10 million of its subordinate voting shares, which was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as of February 8, 2021.  Green Thumb said it had received and accepted offers from investors to purchase 1.6 million registered subordinate voting shares at $35.50 per share for a total of approximately $56 million. 

Acreage Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: ACRDF, ACRHF) announced its subsidiary, High Street Capital Partners was selling Acreage Florida, Inc. to Red White and Bloom Brands, Inc.  (OTCQX: RWBYF) for $60 million. Acreage Florida is licensed to operate medical marijuana dispensaries, a processing facility, and a cultivation facility in the state of Florida. Last summer, Acreage had announced it was scaling back from its initial plan to be the cannabis company in the most states to one that was more focused on core-markets in just nine states in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest. 

Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (IIP) (NYSE: IIPR) released results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2020. Innovative Industrial delivered a fourth-quarter FFO of $1.36 missed by $0.07 and the revenue of $37.09 million missed by $1.41 million despite increasing by 110%. 

High Tide Inc. (OTCQB: HITIF) announced the closing of its previously announced “bought deal” offering that raised over  $22 million.

That’s the big news for the week.

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