In this week’s episode of The Spotlight Roundup, we spotlight Field Trip Health as they complete the largest financing raise ever for a psychedelic company in Canada; Red Light Holland completes the sale and import of psychedelic truffles into Canada; Mind Cure Health launches a product sales division; and we look at New York, which may be on the brink of a big psychedelic boom.
In this episode, we chat with David Harder, the Co-Founder and CEO of ATMA Journey Centers, about their new healing and training space.
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Back to the potential MindMed, Compass Pathways & atai merger that Kevin O
Leary speculates on…
Kevin O’Leary Predicts These 3 Psychedelic Companies Will Merge, But Should They?
The “Shark Tank” star predicts three of the biggest psychedelic companies will merge into a mega-corporation, but our resident Psychedelic Investor wonders: Should they?
Famed investor Kevin O’Leary made a bold prediction last Tuesday, saying that psychedelic companies MindMed, atai Life Sciences and Compass Pathways will merge. For psychedelic stock investors, this would be a tsunami-sized event that would have ripple effects throughout the industry.
The Shark Tank star made the comments at the inaugural Benzinga Psychedelics Capital Conference in Miami, arguing that the companies “each need another $200 million by the time they get this to medicine.” In other words, as I have written before, the psychedelic medicines industry is heavily capital intensive, and getting multiple drugs from pre-clinical trials through Phase 3 trials and approved by the FDA can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Even though these companies are three of the best-financed in the industry — atai (Nasdaq: atai) has $362 million, Compass (Nasdaq: CMPS) has $273 million and MindMed (Nasdaq: MNMD, NEO: MMED) has $133 million — the celebrity investor believes that in order to succeed the companies may have to become one.
Read the entire article here: https://psychedelicspotlight.com/kevin-oleary-predicts-3-biggest-psychedelic-companies-will-merge-atai-mindmed-compass-pathways/
One man claims magic mushrooms healed his lost sense of smell. Read the full story here.
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A new anti-depressant study is out. Read the full study here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265928#sec011
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In our conversation with Trevor, we have the opportunity to discuss some of the psychedelic-based treatments NeonMind is currently focused on developing to help tackle obesity. Obesity is one of the more prevalent health conditions today affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The World Health Organization has claimed that obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally with at least 2.8 million people dying each year as a result of being overweight or obese.
In today’s episode of PsycBiz, James —the Psychedelic Investor— sits…
Two Psychedelic Medicines Companies Run out of Money. What is next for psychedelic stocks? Plus a MindMed Stock Update( MMED / MMED)
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A second domino is falling in the world of psychedelic stock investing.
Last week, Psychedelic Spotlight reported that Mind Cure Health (CSE: MCUR) (OTCQX: MCURF) was halting its psychedelic medicines research, following a “strategic review” undertaken by the company.
In short, they ran out of money.
As I have stated repeatedly, running a psychedelic research company is ridiculously expensive, and many smaller companies with low market caps and little money in the bank will find it hard to survive in a market context of low stock prices.
At the time, I speculated that “we shouldn’t be surprised if this is just the first domino,” and unfortunately, it didn’t take much time for the prophecy to be realized.
On March 19th, psychedelics company Core One Labs (CSE: COOL) (OTC: CLABF) announced that they are “working to investigate investment and potential takeover opportunities by strategic psychedelics or pharmaceutical companies.”
Or, in other words, they too have run out of money and are looking for a financial savior.
This wasn’t particularly surprising. Taking a cursory look at their financials, we can see the dire position the company is in. As of the end of September, the company had $587,000 CAD in the bank, and they were spending more than $5 million per quarter. With a market cap of around $32 million, Core One would have to dilute their stock by more than 15% each quarter to keep spending at the same levels. This, obviously, is an unsustainable proposition.
So, with two psychedelic medicine companies essentially announcing that they no longer have the financial wherewithal to continue operations, does it mean that the end of psychedelic stocks is near?
No, it most certainly does not.
To start, we need to understand that the psychedelics companies that are beginning to falter are the ones who were already in bad financial shape. There are many companies that have strong financials, and do not need to worry about refinancing any time soon. A short and non-exhaustive list of these companies include: atai Life Sciences (Nasdaq: ATAI); MindMed (Nasdaq: MNMD) (NEO: MMED); and Small Pharma (TSXV: DMT) (OTCQB: DMTTF). Even if — and I judge this to be likely — more small-cap psychedelics companies follow Mind Cure and Core One Labs’ lead, the more financially stable companies won’t be affected.
Sources:
PsychedelicSpotlight.com article: https://psychedelicspotlight.com/another-psychedelics-company-core-one-labs-is-crashing-is-industry-in-trouble/
MindCure Press release: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/mindcure-provides-update-on-strategic-review-891232484.html
Core One Labs Press Release: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/03/19/2406329/0/en/Core-One-Labs-to-Investigate-Soliciting-Investment-and-Potential-Takeover-Opportunities.html
Core One Labs $100/ gram psilocybin: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/02/23/2390219/0/en/Vancouver-discovery-will-make-Magic-Mushroom-mental-health-care-cheaper.html
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