It’s not about getting high; it’s about getting well.®
Most cannabinoids are non-euphoric and many of them provide therapeutic benefits. What’s more, they interact with our ECS in ways that are beginning to reshape our understanding of health and wellness.
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is one of the most ubiquitous networks of receptors in the human body and a retrograde signaling system that helps to regulate neurotransmissions.
Science is teaching us that by targeting the right receptors with the right cannabinoids, a multitude of wellness indications, applications, and potentially groundbreaking medical breakthroughs are not only plausible—but probable.
We believe cannabis is in the nascent stages of a multi-year efficacy-led bull market and will separate into several categories – consumer packaged goods, including beverages and nutraceuticals, industrial use-cases, such as plastic composites and hempcrete, and efficacy-driven solutions, or biotech.
We believe the collective perception will shift from viewing cannabis as a discretionary vice to one with an abundance of use-cases.
CB1 Capital does not touch the plant or move the plant across state lines; we buy, sell, and invest in securities of publicly traded companies and select private ventures, and advise emerging companies in the space.
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Todd Harrison is the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of CB1 Capital Management, a cannabis-focused investment manager and advisory firm he launched in 2017. He has spent more than 35 years on Wall Street managing risk and researching market strategy. His institutional career includes Morgan Stanley Equity Derivatives (VP), The Galleon Group (Managing Director) and Cramer, Berkowitz LLC (President and Head of Trading).
Todd founded Minyanville Media, Inc. and served as its CEO. The financial media company covered global markets in real time, licensed investment content to broker-dealers, and reached millions of traders and investors before it was sold in 2014. In 2008, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded him an Emmy as Executive Producer of “Minyanville’s World in Review,” the first and only animated business news show. The award recognized new approaches to financial reporting.
In cannabis, Todd co-founded the Mission [Green] Alliance, an industry-wide program that lets legal cannabis consumers round up their purchases to support The Weldon Project and Mission [Green] in advancing federal cannabis reform.
Loren DeFalco is a Partner of CB1 and our Head of Research. He cured himself of epileptic seizures through a regime of CBD and cannabinoids over a decade ago and continued to research ECS through medical journals and scientific developments. His understanding of the ECS system and nutraceutical arena makes him an ideal choice to lead our research efforts. Read Loren’s Full Bio >
Jon Tyras is a Partner of CB1 and our Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. Jon has spent over 25 years in the industry. He was most recently the Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of the public securities platform of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with over $550 billion in AUM across real estate, infrastructure, renewable power, private equity and credit. Read Jon’s Full Bio >
Josh Felker is a Research Analyst at CB1, covering all medical & adult-use markets. Josh wrote for FelkerInvesting.com before joining CB1 Capital. Josh is CSC accredited and has maintained a strict adherence to the Buffett/Munger/Klarrman-style of security analysis.
Board Certified Neurologist, psychopharmacology researcher; CEO CreDo Science, Former Director of Research & Development, International Cannabis and Cannabinoid Institute (ICCI), former Senior Medical Advisor, GW Pharmaceuticals; former Medical Director, PHYTECS.
Psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist, Author of the bestsellers “Weekends at Bellevue” and “Moody Bitches”, editor of “The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis”, medical monitor for a clinical study examining the efficacy of using cannabis in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans.
Chairman of HG2 Capital Corp, CEO of Hill & Gertner Capital Group; Co-Founder, The Cronos Group; Director, Emblem Corp.; Co-Founder & Chairman Tokyo Smoke; Investment Partner and Director, Green Acre Capital.
Twenty-ninth governor of New Mexico, two-time Presidential candidate. Founder, Big J Enterprises; Former CEO of Cannabis Sativa, Inc.
Founder/Executive Director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative. Co-founder, managing partner, investor, and advisor to companies, not-for-profits, and venture firms in the life science, sustainability, tech, and media sector. David Geffen Fellow, U.S. patent holder, Mentor for U.S. National Institutes of Health Innovation CORPs, part of the Medical Team at Healthline. MD and MBA from UCLA, B.S. from Cornell.
The Endocannabinoid System is a recently discovered biological system comprised of lipid messengers that has receptors lining the entire body.
Cannabinoids (compounds in the cannabis plant) can act on the ECS as regulators of neuro-transmission flow and homeostatic regulators of inflammation in the body.
There are a wide range of diseases affected by the ECS, including cancer and most inflammatory related diseases.
