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*this industry is the wild-west complete with hucksters – paid promoters can serve the industry well but many appear self-serving. Remember – service over self interest is key when deciding who to follow.

*No one lost money selling for a profit.

*Where is the industry headed? Consumer demand profiling …

*And so on …

By good fortune only, I stumbled across this piece by NBC on August 5th and the article features Tinley. Much of the conclusions of the writer of that piece are in line with facets of my predictions from 2016 with respect to how cannabis beverages may fair. I use the word stumbled which suggests blind luck but truth be told it is because of due diligence and continuous monitoring that I found it … the element of chance is really the timing as it suits this article perfectly. As Louis Pasteur stated “fortune favors the prepared mind” or to go further back in time to

the Roman philosopher Seneca – “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”. Last month I wrote on the importance of geography and particularly those viable areas close to the equator – coming September 12th is the first Latin American Cannabis expo to be held in Columbia and when I wrote that article and content I was not aware that CannaInvestor Magazine itself was sponsoring the event … was I lucky whether in my content then or most of my content over the years or just yet another example of what happens when preparation meets opportunity or perhaps it is that fortune favors the prepared mind? For more information on this summit click here.

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