Getting out of town for Thanksgiving? This year, you can expect pre-pandamic crowds, in the air and on the road.
Thanksgiving is one of the most celebrated holidays across the U.S., prompting lots of movement via air and land. With the pandemic, things have shifted a bit, but, now that there are COVID-19 vaccines available across all states, the holiday will likely feel a bit more normal than it did last year.
According to AAA, travel numbers over this Thanksgiving are expected to be as high as it used to be pre-pandemic. In a statement, the organization said that they expect over 53 million Americans to travel over the holiday weekend. These numbers represent a 13% increase when compared to last year’s Thanksgiving.
“Get to the airport early because you’re going to have plenty of company this year. We’re almost back to pre-pandemic levels, so there will be lines at TSA,” an AAA spokesperson told CBS News.
Representatives of AAA say that, whether you’re traveling via plane or car, people should prepare ahead of time, expect traffic, and leave as early as they can in order to avoid crowds and delays. When driving, they suggest leaving before noon on Wednesday or waiting until Thursday morning to get on the road.
Aside from the fact that vaccines are readily available, another factor that AAA is accounting for is the reopening of U.S. borders for a variety of countries. Now that there are fewer travel restrictions, more passengers and visitors are expected, from both international and national flights.
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With more passengers, there’s also higher odds of airline meltdowns, something that has become increasingly common as the pandemic progresses. “Even before the pandemic, reports of major delays, cancellations and stranded passengers were somewhat of a holiday tradition,” Willis Orlando of Scott’s Cheap Flights told CNN. “This year, folks are understandably more nervous than ever.”
There’s not a lot of ways to prevent drama at airports, but you can minimize risk by purchasing an early flight, which has fewer odds of getting delayed and of being affected by bad weather. Once the travel date arrives, make sure you get to the airport with plenty of time, at least two hours in advance. As a last measure, travel insurance is a good option for these instances, providing a solution if a flight were to get canceled or delayed.
The measure also stipulates thatscientists working in states that are not yet in the process of legalization should also have access to dispensary products available in jurisdictions that have ended prohibition.
The House of Representatives approved a massive infrastructure bill late Friday, which includes allowing researchers to study marijuana purchased from state-licensed dispensaries. The legislation is now heading to President Joe Biden’s desk.
The bill will allow scientists to study cannabis that is not exclusively government-grown, in addition to encouraging states with legal cannabis to educate people about impaired driving.
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The move came on the heels of recently approved legislation that would require the VA to conduct clinical trials into the therapeutic potential of marijuana for military veterans.
That bill, sponsored by Rep. Lou Correa (D-Cal), was approved by the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Thursday in an 18-11 vote, with all Democrats in support and all but one Republican opposed.
Bill Removing Barriers To Cannabis Research
The new infrastructure measure requires collaboration between the transportation secretary, attorney general and the secretary of health and human services in which the three agencies are expected to complete a public report within two years of the bill’s enactment.
The report is expected to contain a recommendation on establishing a national clearinghouse to “collect and distribute samples and strains of marijuana for scientific research that includes marijuana and products containing marijuana lawfully available to patients or consumers in a state on a retail basis” as well as a study that looks deeply into impaired driving.
The measure also stipulates thatscientists working in states that are not yet in the process of legalization should also have access to dispensary products available in jurisdictions that have ended prohibition.
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), who sponsored the research language in the Senate and got it added during a committee markup of the transportation legislation, told Marijuana Moment that the bill is “an important step toward researching how we can regulate cannabis-impaired driving safely and accurately…Americans support legalized marijuana, and now Congress is catching up.”
In the meantime, the DEA recently proposed a significant increase in federal limits for producing psilocybin, psilocin, and marijuana for research purposes.
While there hasn’t been a significant medical complication tied to the continued use of these metals, the gradual accumulation of these substances are probably not good for you.
Vaping is heralded as the answer to the negative effects of smoking. It has proven to be safer in many different instances, however, in 2019 we did see a short-lived crises where 68 people died and 2,807 were sickened with e-cigarettes and some cannabis-related vaping devices.
Dubbed as EVALI (E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury), there have been many attempts to make it safer, more regulated, and so forth. The major issue with the cases back in 2019 was that potentially Vitamin E acetate was added to dilute cannabis oils. These oils were primarily sold like this in the unregulated market.
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Some groups tried to put the blame on legal cannabis, however virtually every case of EVALI came from states that did not have legal cannabis on the books. In other words, the unregulated market.
However, while vaping has been “safer” than smoking in general, there is some evidence to suggest that vaping could have some other unforeseen consequences as well. This according to recently published research titled, “Metals in Cannabis Vaporizer Aerosols: Sources, Possible Mechanisms, and Exposure Profiles”.
Essentially, researchers were looking to see if the actual devices could be releasing harmful metals into the smoke and what potential health issues this could have on end-users. Basically, with the devices heating up the elements, they could be releasing heavy metals which is then shot directly into the lungs.
While legal states do test the cannabis oils for impurities such as microbial contamination and heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic – the oil could not be the culprit in this case but the devices themselves.
Users who use e-cigarettes and other nicotine-vaping devices have shown to contain higher levels of heavy metals in their blood than smokers, but when it comes to cannabis vaporizers, there is a significant lack of research. According to a recent article on Forbes:
“…high voltage and temperature settings of standard [vaporizer] devices, dissolved metals or even fine metallic particles from the heating coil or the liquid could have the potential to be inhaled into the consumer’s lungs,” according to findings from a team of researchers at Medicine Creek Analytics.
The article continued:
“Results indicate that chromium, copper, nickel, as well as smaller amounts of lead, manganese, and tin migrate into the cannabis oil and inhaled vapor phase, resulting in a possible acute intake of an amount of inhaled metals above the regulatory standard of multiple governmental bodies,” they added, noting that smoke and vapor from cannabis flower and cannabis concentrate did not produce the same results, indicating that the vape pens’ heating devices were to blame.
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Conducting Testing
In order to see if cannabis devices produced the same results, the researchers used 13-different brands to test along with cartridges. Roughly half of them were 510-thread, which is the most common vape pen on the market.
They then proceeded to plug the devices into the wall and use a smoke machine that mimics human breathing and inhaled an approximate 50 puffs worth of aerosol which was then analyzed by a plasma mass spectrometer.
Researchers discovered at least three metals that are known to be in the heating elements and coils. These metals are chromium, nickel, and copper. These appeared in the aerosols after the fifty puffs. Over time, there was a greater instance of “leaching” as heat and frequency kept on degrading the metals. According to that Forbes article:
“The results suggest that the cartridge devices themselves are leaching metals and potentially at higher rates when the components are heated,” the researchers wrote, who noted that the cartridges “generally did not emit metals from the big four” of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead.
Interestingly though, when terpenes were added to the oils, there was a significant decrease in leaching as a result. Researchers still didn’t fully understand how this worked, but it was an interesting find nonetheless.
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What To Do?
At this point in time, you need to make an educated choice. Smoking has inherent risks involved, and while vaporization has been touted as the safe alternative, it is important to note that it isn’t risk free.
Furthermore, it seems that when you’re vaporizing consistently, all day long — like with nicotine vaporizers — you are at greater risk of consuming these heavy metals. While there hasn’t been a significant medical complication tied to the continued use of these metals, the gradual accumulation of these substances are probably not good for you. We’ve reached a moment in time where you’d have to weigh out the risk of smoking against the risk of vaping heavy metals.
There Are Other Ways To Consume
Of course, there are more than one way to consume cannabis, whether you’re drinking it, using it in a tincture or eating it. Sure, these different ways produce different effects, but I think it’s absolutely vital that people are well-informed when it comes to finding the healthiest method possible.
Furthermore, I think that vaporizing companies will need to begin to look at these issues for future designs. It’s a good thing that there are agencies testing and making sure that these products are safe for public consumption. Otherwise, we could see another repeat of the 2019 EVALI issue.
While the new proposal is more modest than that of the Democrats, possibly making it more passable, the big question remains: Will President Joe Biden change his stance?
Finally, Republicans have released their marijuana legalization proposal!
Between GOP lawmakers’ proposal on simple cannabis descheduling and extensive legislation offered by Democrats, the new draft legislation led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) seems to fall somewhere in the middle, reports Marijuana Moment.
Some cannabis advocates see the new proposal as a smart move because many don’t believe the Democrats’ far-reaching bill stands a chance of passing every chamber before being sent to President Biden to sign.
New Draft Highlights
Some of the most important points of the new 116-page draft include:
Marijuana descheduling on a federal level and being treated like alcohol;
2.75% excise tax on cannabis sales, with revenue backing various grant programs;
The leading regulator for cannabis in terms of interstate commerce would beTreasury Dept’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responsible for some regulations. Though the FDA’s authority would be restricted, it would not have more control over marijuana than it has over alcohol, except for medical cannabis;
Raw cannabis would fall under the agricultural commodity category, and therefore regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA);
Some people with non-violent cannabis-related crime records would be eligible for expungement;
Existing state-licensed marijuana operators would be grandfathered into the federal scheme;
While federal agencies could continue to drug test for cannabis, veterans would be safe from discriminations in federal hiring due to marijuana use;
Doctors with Veterans Affairs (VA) would be specifically authorized to issue recommendations for medical cannabis for veterans.
While the new proposal is more modest than that of the Democrats, possibly making it more passable, the big question remains: Will President Joe Biden change his stance? So far, the President opposes the federal legalization of marijuana, supporting only decriminalization, legalizing medical use and leaving everything else up to states.
The VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2021 meets veterans where they already are and opens a new door for federal policy that supports treatment options preferred by veterans.
With Veteran’s Day just around the corner, a House committee has passed legislation that would require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct clinical trials into the therapeutic potential of marijuana for military veterans.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Lou Correa (D-Cal), was approved by the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Thursday in an 18-11 vote, with all Democrats in support and all but one Republican opposed.
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The earlier versions of the proposed legislation did not make it into law. Now, the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act mandates that the department introduce a series of studies focusing on the use of medical marijuana in the treatment of PTSD and chronic pain.
In addition to his standalone bill, Correa separately proposed requiring VA cannabis studies as an amendment to a defense spending bill that passed the House recently. However, he pulled it out it prior to a House Rules Committee hearing.
“Our veterans are no strangers to confronting challenges, and that’s why Congress needs to explore alternative treatment options,” Correa told Marijuana Moment, which reported this story on Friday. “The VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2021 meets veterans where they already are and opens a new door for federal policy that supports treatment options preferred by veterans.”
In addition, the Biden administration expressed opposition to the reform at a hearing before the House Veterans Affairs Health Subcommittee last month.
Congressional Lawmakers Reject A Less Prescriptive Proposal To Encourage VA Medical Cannabis Studies
In the meantime, at Thursday’s committee markup on the veterans-focused measure, an amendment filed by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) was rejected.
Miller-Meeks’s bill says that the department would have to “conduct and support research relating to the efficacy and safety of forms of cannabis” for chronic pain, PTSD and “other conditions the Secretary determines appropriate.” However, aspecific requirement for full clinical trials was left out.
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The Iowa Rep. emphasized that Correa’s legislation, though “well-intentioned,” would “unfairly tie the hands of the VA researchers who are responsible for designing and conducting these studies and undermine their work to such an extent as to render it meaningless.”
Chairman Mark Takano was one of those who did not support the amendment. He justified his move by explaining that it would give VA “far more leeway in determining…the possible use of cannabis and treating pain and PTSD and veterans.”
Takano also said that the cannabis legislation and other bills approved during the markup “will become part of our annual Veterans Day legislative package,” which is expected to get a green light on the House floor.
I’m not trying to suggest that legalization is impossible. There are still a lot of folks who think that this can happen even without an act of Congress. But possibilities and likelihoods are two very different stories.
Since California passed the Compassionate Use Act in 1996, there have always been folks who insist that federal legalization is right around that corner. As more and more states decriminalized and then regulated cannabis, the ranks of people who believe federal legalization is imminent has grown exponentially.
Recently, when Joe Biden won the presidency, it seemed like a foregone conclusion in many circles that cannabis would be removed from the Controlled Substances Act. These beliefs were fueled in large part by the myriad bills in congressional limbo that would have done everything from decriminalize to full on legalize cannabis.
Of course, none of this actually materialized. And it won’t anytime soon. While I hate to be a pessimist, this is just the reality for the time being (just as I said prior to the 2020 elections). Today, I’ll explain why.
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First and foremost, it should have surprised absolutely nobody that President Biden does not care about cannabis. When we graded Biden on cannabis well ahead of the 2020 elections, we gave him a D. Even Trump got a D+. And in the year or so since the 2020 election, Biden has made pretty clear that he has no intent on evolving on the cannabis issue — his White House even purged staffers who had previously used cannabis.
Second, none of the proposed cannabis bills have made much progress in the time since the 2020 elections. And even if legislation made it through the House, it still needs to clear the Senate where the Democrats have a de facto majority dependent in large part on the vote of a guy from West Virginia who seems to break with the Democrats whenever he can.
Third, while it’s possible that a few Republicans may vote in favor of a cannabis bill (or even introduce one), opposition may even come from Democrats. Yes, you read that correctly. Powerful voices within the Democratic Party, like Senator Cory Booker, have said that they will not support federal legislation that does not include broad social justice reforms. A bill that gets through the House but doesn’t have full support from all Democrats is DOA. On the other hand, if such a bill did include the broad social justice reforms called for by progressive Democrats, there’s a pretty good chance that zero Republicans would support it.
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Fourth, we can all but expect now that Democrats will lose one or both houses of Congress next year. Their majority in the House is slim and in the Senate is based only on the fact that VP Kamala Harris can cast a tiebreaker vote. We just witnessed state and local elections across the country where Democrats got largely swept. Most notably, a Republican won the Virginia gubernatorial race with no slim margins. Progressive local candidates lost to moderate Democrats and even Republicans all over the place. And even in New Jersey where Democrat Phil Murphy managed to hang onto his job as governor, it was an extremely tight race.
All of this is to say that unless Democrats can manage to change what appears to be a major political shift, they are all but guaranteed to lose the Senate and likely even the House. This would virtually guarantee that cannabis legalization does not happen for at least a few more years.
I’m not trying to suggest that legalization is impossible. There are still a lot of folks who think that this can happen even without an act of Congress. But possibilities and likelihoods are two very different stories. With COVID-19, taxes, school issues, etc., I just don’t see the Biden Administration prioritizing cannabis issues. And if the Democrats lose either house of Congress, that ship will have officially sailed.
I’ve been wrong in the past and I hope I’m wrong on this issue. But unfortunately, I don’t think I am.
Griffen Thorne is an attorney at Harris Bricken, a law firm with lawyers in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Beijing.
Thousands of immigrants working on southern Oregon’s illegal marijuana farms are living in squalid conditions, reported Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), prompting Jackson County and Douglas County to declare a state of emergency. County officials requested state funding and other resources, including deployment of the National Guard, to enforce cannabis laws.
Oregon State Rep. Lily Morgan noted that some of the workers have no identification papers, do not speak English and have no food.
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Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler saidworkers are forced to use holes in the ground for toilets, cook in unsanitary kitchens and sleep in shipping containers.
Oregon’s labor bureau is investigating wage complaints from workers at the illegal cannabis farms and advocacy groups are getting involved.
“We’ve had several cases in Josephine County, where they were threatened with guns to their heads and told ‘If you guys tell anybody, we’re going to harm your family in Mexico,'” said Kathy Keesee-Morales, co-director of Unete, an immigrant and farmworker advocacy group based in Medford, Oregon.
In September, $50 million in illegal marijuana was found at a grow operation in Douglas County.
Douglas County Board of Commissioner, Tim Freeman said the county receives a staggering number of calls about illegal marijuana grow operations. “People call and they’re scared (…) in many cases they’re afraid to leave their homes,” Freeman said. He added that in the past year, more than 300,000 illegally grown marijuana plants have been confiscated in Douglas County.
Widespread Problem
In Nevada County, California, authorities launched a pilot program to use drones as a cost-effective measure to enforce cannabis laws. Unlike other tools such as helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, drones are cost-effective and save time. However, in Oregon, there are not enough inspectors nor funding to control the situation.
“This summer was absolutely out of control,” said Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel. “We’re anticipating next year being just as bad, if not worse.”
Since the challenges cannabis retailers are facing don’t appear to be going away anytime soon, the best case scenario is for them to be able to successfully adjust to a new normal.
Just as the cannabis industry was beginning to catch its stride, the world was swept into a panic caused by COVID-19. The ways in which the pandemic has affected the supply chain across industries has made life difficult for consumers of products across the board — and the cannabis industry has been no exception.
Here are just a few ways the industry has struggled through recent supply chain challenges.
Cannabis Companies are Having A Harder Time Finding Basic Supplies
The process of providing consumers with cannabis products becomes that much harder when they can’t find the supplies necessary to manufacture and package them in a timely fashion. The products that are becoming harder for cannabis manufacturers to find include things consumers may never give a second thought to like the hardware that goes into vaporized cannabis products.
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Making matters more complicated is the fact that most cannabis retailers rely on Chinese factories to produce those products since not many domestic factories are equipped to produce those types of products. Even though most Chinese factories are back to work, many have enacted social distancing policies that have made it difficult for them to produce the supplies at a rate efficient enough to keep up with demand.
Prices of Growing Supplies Are Unpredictable
Cannabis retailers can’t sell products that they can’t cultivate. One of the biggest obstacles currently facing cannabis retailers is the fact that supplies that make it possible to grow are becoming increasingly more costly. According to recent reports, volatility within the industry has led to many cultivators buying products like fertilizer, grow lights and other materials in bulk for numerous reasons.
The first reason is because there is a current 2-to-3 month delay in receiving products. Next is the fact that they’re hoping to avoid experiencing price hikes, which experts say are nearly inevitable. Even though the volatile market within the cannabis supply industry started at the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, it’s showing no signs of ending any time soon.
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Lack of New Talent Within the Cannabis Industry Capable of Solving Supply Chain Related Problems
The challenges that the cannabis industry is currently facing are compounded by the complex regulatory nature of the industry itself. Making matters worse is that the industry is relatively new, so there are few people who have both the experience with navigating its highly regulated nature and experience with supply chain management. That presents the challenge of hiring new employees from different industries to manage supply chain issues which could lead to costly mistakes being made.
This is often the case because many newcomers into the cannabis industry don’t possess an accurate understanding of exactly how regulated cannabis markets operate. That costs cannabis retailers because not only are they still faced with the same supply chain issues they originally faced, but now they have to go correct their mistakes too which costs time and money.
For the most part, the challenges presented by the supply chain have yet to impact most recreational cannabis customers. Since the challenges cannabis retailers and product manufacturers are facing don’t appear to be going away anytime soon, the best case scenario is for them to be able to successfully adjust to a new normal. If they can’t sustain their business models as-is, there’s no telling what that means for consumers in the long-term.
Given that people of color are more likely to have been targets of marijuana criminalization in the past, restrictions on participation in the industry are viewed as discriminatory.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed a bill into law that would expand the pool of individuals who are eligible to receive medical marijuana business licenses, lifting the ban that had disqualified individuals with a cannabis-related felony or misdemeanor convictions on their records.
However, the measure, House Bill 4295, does contain an exception for those convicted of distributing marijuana to a minor, according to the bill available on Gov. Whitmer’s webpage. The new law takes immediate effect.
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The legislation is meant to resolve a problem that legalization and social equity advocates, not only in Michigan but around the country, have constantly highlighted.
Where Are The People Of Color?
While state and city leaders, as well as cannabis advocates nationwide, have embraced social equity programs with the goal of righting the wrongs of the Drug War, their efforts have not yet succeeded in getting people of color into the legal cannabis industry.
Why?
Given that people of color are more likely to have been targets of marijuana criminalization in the past, restrictions on participation in the industry are viewed as discriminatory. Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.
A recent ACLU report confirms marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the U.S., and out of the 8.2 million weed arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simple possession.
Similar regulations, allowing those with felony criminal records or multiple misdemeanors to be considered for cannabis business licenses, took effect in Washington state this past September.
Other measures in Vermont, Illinois and Colorado were recently enacted in efforts to reduce barriers of entry for those seeking to participate in the legal marijuana industry.
Portfolio diversity is always ideal, but what if you had to go all in on just one with exactly $1000 to invest?
While some advise to play it safe, others opt for the more risky but potentially rewarding investment strategies, focusing on nascent spaces like crypto, psychedelics and cannabis. Of these three, which is the most appealing to today’s marketplace?
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With Each Market Showing Potential, Crypto and Cannabis Get The Edge
Each sector received its support among the unscientific polling this writer conducted. An October LinkedIn poll saw 40% selecting cannabis. Crypto received 38% of the votes, with psychedelics receiving 22%.
This article should note that the pool of LinkedIn respondents largely came from the cannabis industry.
Going off traffic from Benzinga, much of the readership is eager to learn more about crypto. Significant interest is centralized on all things Elon Musk, Dogecoin and Shiba Inus. As of early November, other topics of interest include emerging assets like Floki Inu (CRYPTO: FLOKI) and prominent names like Ethereum.
On November 2, 2021, just two of the site’s top 20 read articles were not about crypto. The first cannabis article to make the list came in at 27. Psychedelics didn’t crack the top 50 that day.
Support for Choosing Crypto
Dr. Jeremy Britton, CFO of BostonCoin, believes that cannabis and psychedelics are “fascinating solutions for many real-world problems” but noted their similarities to pharma stocks.
Britton, a financial analyst for 29 years, gave the edge to his sector due to its lack of red tape, saying regulations can delay rollouts and ROIs for years.
“It is often the red tape and regulations which slow some of these projects down for many months, if not many years,” Britton said. “As much as crypto can be dangerous due to its lack of regulation, the lack of red tape also gives it speed.”
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Jonathan Seif, managing partner at the disruptive tech-focused advisory firm The ProFolio Group, also noted crypto’s rapidly evolving market. “With large financial institutions purchasing billions of dollars in crypto, the industry is not slowing down.”
Though voicing concerns about the other markets, Seif believes cannabis still has a “considerable runway to clear before taking off in a sustainable way.” Psychedelics, while exciting, are a decade behind cannabis, he added.
In conversations for previous articles, sources have hypothesized alternative outcomes where psychedelics could catch up to, or even outpace, cannabis regulations.
Waneta Jaikarran, director of brokerage ops for E1 Asset Management, favors crypto, citing ongoing political decisions.
“Given that the government will keep increasing the debt ceiling and making things unattractive, crypto was created to counteract that,” Jaikarran said.
If possible, she’d recommend diversifying the funds. “My current outlook on crypto is using it as a hedge.”
Support for Choosing Cannabis
Brett Sifling, director of financial planning program Get Invested at Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, highlighted the potential of cannabis – a market his firm heavily focuses on.
Sifling believes that crypto could face large drawdowns while public psychedelic companies are in their earliest stages.
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Sifling leans toward ETFs such as AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF. “Instead of making a bet on just one cannabis company, you’d have exposure to nearly 30 different cannabis companies spanning multiple industries.”
Rick Batenburg III, chief investment officer at Cliintel Capital Management Group said each market has its own models and needs to assess, calling cannabis “the easiest and smartest choice” to invest in.
Citing looming federal reform and adult use status in many states as reasons he’s invested, Batenburg says he does not see psychedelics following the adult-use route. He referred to crypto as “purely forex trading” not backed by “real diligence.”
Industry outsiders like Kristen Bolig, founder of home and online security company SecurityNerd, opted for cannabis, citing digital concerns.
“With the digital threat landscape for hackers becoming much larger over the past 18 months, investing in anything that is so heavily intertwined with the world wide web comes with a lot of risks,” he cautioned.
Invest in What You Know
Overall, each sector offers potential if a person understands the space.
Shuan Heng, VP of operations for the crypto-asset tracking site CoinMarketCap, advocates for people investing in their expertise.
Heng likes the freedom crypto creates for people. He also made a case for plant medicines and similar substances, saying, “Many others could be motivated by investing in the mental health potential of psychedelics or the medical applications of cannabis.”
