This Month
Seven ways everyday Aussies – not CEOs – would fix productivity
From pumping seawater into the lake in the South Australian outback to creating hydroponic farms in inner-city high rises, Australians say we can get productivity growing.
- Michael Read
November 2024
Meet the lawyer who set up his own cannabis company
A potential career crisis sparked the founder of this medicinal cannabis company, which comes in at No9 on The Australian Financial Review Fast Starters List.
- Richard Pullin
Frozen Perth fund made a big bet on a German cannabis stock
Accounts for the $70-odd million vehicle show more than a third of its FUM is held in a single unlisted medicinal company.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June 2024
What Australia’s busiest sleepy town really thinks about nuclear
From a failing coal mine being propped up by the WA government to keep the lights to Australia’s biggest battery being built by Brookfield takeover target Neoen there is a lot going on in Collie.
- Brad Thompson
January 2024
Tax scam proceeds used to back luxury club, car dealer, cannabis firm
Millions from an alleged $70 million fraud scheme were invested in a luxury club chain, a car dealership for the rich and a cannabis supplier, liquidators say.
- David Marin-Guzman
December 2023
Pot stock agitator sued by regulator
Shareholders in Vitura Health caught a lucky break last week when a majority failed to support the re-election of Dr Ben Jansen to the Vitura board.
- Myriam Robin
November 2023
This company doubled its revenue on medicinal cannabis demand
Cannatrek has built a business with 130 people and annual revenues of $90 million, but boss Tommy Huppert says there’s much more to come.
- Simon Evans
July 2023
Aussie cannabis player Little Green Pharma pins growth hopes on Europe
The medicinal cannabis sector has taken a buffeting, but Gina Rinehart-backed LGP hopes a new facility in Denmark will help it ride out the turbulence.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Cannabis producer Dragonfly set for ASX debut
The cannabis company is set to list in August and intends to raise up to $5 million at 20¢ a piece.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
May 2023
How Thailand’s $14b cannabis industry became a top election issue
Thailand’s two main progressive parties both want to limit the recreational marijuana use that is drawing in tourists but causing community concern.
- Emma Connors
February 2023
Canopy cuts 60pc of jobs, citing thriving black market
The scaling back of Canada’s second-largest pot producer is the second restructuring in less than 12 months.
- Tiffany Kary and Derek Decloet
AusCann chief is looking for love
The “biotech CEO” looking for love on the latest season of Nine’s Married at First Sight is none other than Layton Mills, of listed cannabis minnow AusCann.
- Myriam Robin
January 2023
How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart
Supply is now flooding the market in several US states, economists say, depressing prices and decimating already-thin margins.
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- Rachel Lerman
New York weed is one thing that’s cheaper these days
New York’s first licensed pot store has only just opened its doors, but cannabis has flooded into the city anyway and the laws of supply and demand are working: prices are falling.
- Paulina Cachero
December 2022
Move over coffee, medicinal cannabis’ global revenue attracts backers
The Kennard family is the first external investor in Australian Natural Therapeutics Group, which will quadruple production through a new facility in Brisbane.
- Larry Schlesinger
November 2022
Creso Pharma’s TikTok star charged with stalking
Despite the charges, the listed marijuana company is awarding Dr James Ellingford an $80,000 bonus.
- Michael Roddan
Teals’ top donor Rob Keldoulis buys Tassie cannabis farm
Sharemarket trader Rob Keldoulis has added a Tasmanian cannabis farm to his resume alongside being the biggest individual donor to the Teal movement.
- Larry Schlesinger
October 2022
Creso Pharma chairman’s unmissable TikTok show
It’s admittedly less than high times at listed pot stock Creso Pharma.
- Michael Roddan
Creso breached ‘related party’ disclosure rules
An entity controlled by the parents of stockbroker and former Creso director Adam Blumenthal will dispose of shares after the company says listing rules were breached.
- Liam Walsh, Jemima Whyte and Jonathan Shapiro
August 2022
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iSignthis ensnared in giant cannabis Ponzi collapse
The former ASX-listed firm is linked to the implosion of cannabis investing platform Juicy Fields.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Michael Roddan