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Yesterday's news was as expected, with President Trump issuing an Executive Order that moves cannabis rescheduling further along. If you ask ChatGPT, you will "learn" that it has been rescheduled: Chat GPT suggests that the action has already rescheduled cannabis, but I don't think that it has. I visited the DEA website, and it is still listed currently as Schedule I. There is no news about the EO at all. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is not a fan of cannabis from what I c

I discussed t he crash of MSOS again on 11/18, when it closed at $3.16, and it has rebounded to $3.89. Clearly, it is highly volatile! I discussed why it was crashing and how low it could go and shared some good alternatives. Today, I want to discuss the current holdings, the bounce, the acceleration of redemptions of the ETF, and my updated view on the potential downside. MSOS Is Extremely Concentrated In Its Holdings and Is Leveraged AdvisorShares does a great job of updat

When I wrote about MSOS here on 10/19, I explained why it was plunging . It had closed at $4.76 on 10/17, and today it closed at $3.16, down 33.6%. MSOS is now down 17.1% in 2025 after collapsing last year. The New Cannabis Ventures Global Cannabis Stock Index, which closed today at 5.91, is down 14.1%, which is down less than MSOS. Why MSOS Is Crashing MSOS started running up when Q3 began. Looking at it since 6/30, it has increased a lot, even after the sharp pullback recen

On September 1, Labor Day, I posted that MSOS could plunge. While it did move up from that $5.57 level on 8/29, the end of August, it is now 4.76, down 14.5%. In August, it rallied 96.8%. Even after the retreat, it is up 24.9% year-to-date. This is much better than the overall cannabis sector as measured by the New Cannabis Ventures Global Cannabis Stock Index, which has gained 5.1% so far in 2025. It has declined a lot less than MSOS since the end of August, down just 6.6%.