In the latest twist, President Trump has fired the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency, Christopher Krebs.
Krebs is one of the country’s top election-security officials.
And last Thursday, his agency announced that there was “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”
Trump fired back on Twitter that he continued to believe there was election fraud. And yesterday, the president announced that Krebs had been “terminated.”
This makes for great entertainment. It’s addictive stuff. And it’s what hundreds of millions – even billions – of people are tuning in to every day.
If you like the drama, that’s fine… But it’s not going to help you make money in the markets.
So today, I (Chris Lowe) am urging you to tune out the partisan mudslinging in Washington… and focus instead on the stories that matter for your wealth.
The Election Day result that matters most for us as investors is that legal cannabis is here to stay.
Six cannabis legalization initiatives were on the ballots in five states – Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota. (South Dakota was the first state to legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis on the same day.)
Voters passed all six initiatives in a clean sweep. And not a single ballot has been challenged… and there are no claims of fraud over the results.
You’ll notice that the list of states that passed legalization initiatives contains “blue” as well as “red” states.
In other words, Election Day was an overwhelming landslide for the legal cannabis industry. And both sides of the aisle celebrated it.
The chart below is of the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (HMLSF).
It’s an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the returns of the 29 largest cannabis stocks. So it’s a good a stand-in for the legal cannabis sector.
HMLSF has been trending up since the low for the year it hit on March 18. And since Election Day, it’s up 19%.
This marks the start of a new bull run for cannabis.
At our Crisis Investing advisory, he’s been calling for a bull market in cannabis since June 2017.
A month later, he added Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR) to the model portfolio. It finances and leases grow facilities to cannabis companies operating in the U.S.
It’s now up 856% – the highest gain of the more than 290 open stock recommendations across the model portfolios of all 18 investment advisories we publish at Legacy Research.
But it hasn’t been a straight shot higher for cannabis stocks. Many of them – including ones Nick has recommended – have taken it on the chin over the past two years.
As you can see, that’s when the cannabis sector endured a brutal bear market.
The last time we saw such a bloodbath in a hot new sector was during the dot-com crash at the turn of the millennium.
But Nick believes the “green wave” election means the bear market is now in the rearview mirror. And it’s time to buy again…
In every state where a legal cannabis question was on the ballot, those laws passed. There’s a tipping point here. A lot of these states were conservative, red states.
New Jersey was the most significant state to legalize cannabis. For recreational use. This will set off a domino effect on the densely populated East Coast. New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania will follow suit. I think this will force Washington to act.
Here’s how I think federal legalization will look. Recreational cannabis will be decided on a state-by-state basis. And the feds won’t interfere with whatever those states decide. But the federal government will flat-out legalize medical cannabis.
That means another 14 states joining the 36 that have already made cannabis legal for medical use. That’s another roughly 94 million Americans who’ll have access to cannabis health products.
Most folks know “Big T” as the crypto guy.
He’s been recommending cryptocurrencies to his paid-up readers since 2016. And so far, he’s given them the chance to make 4,587% on bitcoin (BTC)… 5,254% on the world’s second-most valuable crypto asset, ether (ETH)… and 12,767% on a crypto most folks have never heard of called NEO (NEO). (That last one is enough to turn every $10,000 into $1.3 million.)
But at our flagship Palm Beach Letter advisory, Teeka also recommends stocks. At our elite Palm Beach Venture advisory, he recommends pre-IPO deals.
And whether it’s in public or private markets, legal cannabis is one of the sectors he’s most bullish on right now
Just keep risk management in mind.
Cannabis stocks, as we’ve seen, can offer explosive gains. They’re also highly volatile. So as with any other speculation, never bet the farm. And prepare for sharp ups and downs along the way.
Regards,
Chris Lowe
November 18, 2020
Bray, Ireland