It looks like the tax revenue assessment on recreational
marijuana sales in Oregon by government officials may have underestimated just
how big and robust the consumer market really is, with the initial forward
projection of around $9 million for 2017 looking like it will be surpassed with
ease. Subsequent to recreational sales being approved ahead of schedule via a
bill signed by Governor Kate Brown, the amount of money taken in by
dispensaries within just the first week alone has effectively crushed the
official estimate, as some $11 million in sales were completed in the state’s
first week of open commerce, and current estimates are that $3.5 million was
taken in on day one. With tax revenues set to kick in this January, state
coffers could be filling up vastly quicker (and to a much greater extent) than
originally anticipated, especially when you consider Oregon’s first week of
sales more than doubled those seen in Colorado ($5 million), and beat out
Washington by a landslide (which did only $2 million in sales during week one).
If this keeps up, tax revenues next year will be hefty indeed – forcing other
state legislatures to take the issue even more seriously.
This is a very bullish indicator for the sector overall and
should give investors significant pause, as these sales figures represent a
clear shot across the bow of remaining holdout states which continue to be on
the fence about essentially repealing federal marijuana prohibition via
state-based legislative measures. With these kinds of sales figures coming out
of Oregon on the heels of an early start, it’s only a matter of time before the
cultural sea-change that is already evident from recent polling (which shows a
majority of Americans are now in favor of decriminalization) puts a bright
spotlight on cash-strapped holdout states, making legislators in those states
appear to voters as somewhat insane for not simply regulating and taxing the
substance. With the now strikingly obvious potential upside for things like
education and law enforcement funding, many constituents around the country are
starting to clamor after their state representatives to follow suit with states
like Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. This is all extremely good news
for various operators within what is projected by leading cannabis industry
research firm, ArcView Group, as being a market which is on track to hit $11
billion within the next four years alone. And that figure seems pretty
conservative to some analysts, given that between 2013 and 2014 the market grew
by 80 percent, clocking in somewhere around $2.7 billion last year.
One of the areas of the marijuana sector that stands to gain
the most growth-wise from a continuing shift towards recreational use across
the country is baseline logistics, where things like grow op facilities,
various industry-associated real estate elements, cultivation products, and
controlled environment agriculture technologies reside. After all, supply
origination within this industry – which is going to be driven more and more by
commercial-scale premium strain quality cultivation as restrictions wane – is,
in many respects, the foundation of the entire sector. Classic “pick and
shovel” plays are looking like a solid target for investors seeking to profit
off of the incremental, seemingly inevitable nationwide decriminalization of
cannabis that is taking place as the so-called Green Rush progresses. And, as
was the case with the repeal of alcohol prohibition, some of the biggest
fortunes in the industry will likely arise from those companies who get the
product origination and logistics right. Not to mention the businesses which
service them. In fact, as is the case in the oil industry, where oilfield
service companies like Halliburton are some of the top earners, businesses
providing services and products to the core commodity originators could be the
biggest names in the industry after it’s all said and done.
We’re talking businesses like development-stage alternative
construction outfit, Cherubim Interests. With its core competencies in
construction, finance and property management, as well as a wholly-owned
subsidiary engaged in making and marketing portable, proprietary, and scalable
cannabis cultivation systems: BudCube Cultivation Systems USA (BCS). In fact,
Cherubim Interests, via its full-spectrum capabilities in alternative
construction project development and turnkey cultivation systems, is poised to
capture significant market share as the cannabis market continues to expand,
thanks to its intelligent mix of baseline logistics offerings, whether that
growth occurs here in the U.S., or abroad. The powerful combination of a real
estate development and property management business model, empowered by a
veteran team of managers and highly experienced directors, with the scalable
cultivation tech provided by BCS, allows CHIT to strike hard and fast wherever
in the world the cultivation of cannabis is made legal, and consumers stand
ready to fuel retail market growth.
To this general end, CHIT has engaged Oregon-based
consultation, research and development firm, DGrass Enterprises, which is led
by a man with over a decade and a half of both indoor and outdoor cultivation
experience, Dominic Grasseth. Grasseth, in addition to being CEO of DGrass
Enterprises, is also the guy who opened the successful Eugene, Oregon-based
retail and wholesale garden supply company, The Greener Side of Life, back in
2010. An enviably capable master gardener and horticultural expert, Grasseth
has developed a skill set that will be invaluable to CHIT (and BCS) as the
company continues to pursue its aggressive agenda of planned deployment and
leasing of commercial cultivation facilities, wherever cultivation activities are
made legal by legislators. A serial entrepreneur with vast sums of personal
hands-on experience in the cultivation field, Grasseth is proficient across a
wide array of pertinent disciplines, ranging from cultivation/production and
extraction, to grow room design, consultation, and even the retail/marketing
end of the business.
Moreover, CHIT recently announced that the company is taking
huge strides towards fully shoring up its share price, via a series of
intelligently-crafted initiatives designed to build shareholder equity,
including strict maintenance of filing obligations in order to maintain
seamless OTC Market disclosure, and amending the company’s corporate bylaws in
order to create anti-dilutive convertible preferred shares. Furthermore, the company
will act to insulate stockholders against past and future open market dilution
by offering these shares via dividend payment, and using these convertible
preferred shares as a form of currency in order to exchange outstanding
derivative liabilities. In addition, CHIT plans to execute an S-1 filing that
will enable holders of preferred shares (who’ve converted into specific,
predetermined amounts of common stock) to see their securities become freely
trading. This bold move by the company to reinforce the share price and build
investor confidence, will simultaneously allow CHIT to retire much of its
principal affiliate debt, with the interest being converted into restricted
shares.
A clear sector strategy to capitalize on the cannabis
industry’s most promising area, combined with share price strengthening
initiatives has CHIT sitting pretty, even as Oregon leads by example,
accelerating its recreational use retail timetable, and setting a new and
unmistakable precedent for other states to follow.
Take a closer look, visit Cherubim Interests online at
www.cherubiminterests.com
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