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Posting some good research from Ife (@IofIV_). Follow her! She never sleeps and she’s forever doing research on venture capital and private equity. She needs to start a podcast soon. 

There's a $30M Cannabis Tech Fund called 7thirty Opportunity Fund which focuses on cannabis technologies in 3 primary locations: 

• US

• Canada

• Israel 

Cannabis is illegal in Nigeria but the numbers say that we are one of the largest producing countries.

So why aren't we monetising it? Moral concerns? Lazy control/regulation? 

Some stats to consider: 

• Lesotho is Africa's first to offer legal licenses to grow marijuana.

• Uganda has landed deals to export medical marijuana products to Canada and Germany to the tune of $160M. Recreational use is still illegal IN the country. 

• Zimbabwe is one of the first to legalise the production of marijuana for scientific and medicinal use. 

Shouldn't regulatory frameworks governing cannabis exportation to approved countries be explored? 

Can't we make money by meeting a demand while we sort out our internal "moral" issues? For context, here's a host of good that marijuana does.

Governor Akeredolu should be left alone to test out this exportation thesis - in my opinion. 

Oil is running out. 

This should be about business, not about getting high on our own supply.

-@IofIV_

Article List— What I’m reading (10 articles a day x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 3360 articles a year). Building the scope of my knowledge. 

Yogababble- This is a NYU professor, you know? 😂😂😂 Prof. Galloway is one funny character. He trashes WeWork and Uber so much, can’t stop laughing. And he’s super against Amazon but not shy to say he owns stock. I love it.

Gabon will be paid by Norway to preserve its forests: But where is this money going? The man deep in the jungle who’s making his living from being a timber trader really doesn’t care about this deal because he gets nothing from it. Maybe they’d quit exporting? 

Africa’s tourism industry is now the second fastest growing in the world: Year of return init.

The Amazon of Africa really isn’t a tech “unicorn” anymore: These youths really fumbled the bag on this one. Stock price really went down in the dumps. SMH. Bad for business. 

Meet the mastermind investing fast food’s craziest menu items (Cheetos mozzarella stick, anyone?): NGL some of this stuff looks really good lol. But full of sickness :( 

Cameroon: Bolloré sought Biya’s influence over Doula port concession: Are we sure African countries are independent? Because from what’s been happening in IC to Gabon to Eq. Guinea, I’m not too sure.

Thinking Ladder: I really think everyone should read this. I might start ranking these articles. I know it’s long form and not too many people like reading long essays, but Tim is actually a very *beep* good writer. 

Podcast— What I’m listening to (1 podcast episode a day x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 336 podcast episodes). Broadening my experiences through others’ stories. 

Pivot: Listen to @profgalloway and @karaswisher have unfiltered conversations about the biggest happenings in tech, business and politics. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this podcast earlier. 

Book— 1 Chapter a day  x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 336 chapters. Most books have 10-12 chapters, so 1 year = 28 to 33 books. And my book list is nearing 1000 books. Send help 🌚

😬😬 — I think my close friends would know what this means.

More reading stuff to come.

Twitter screenshot of the day 

I don’t know who needs to hear this buy if you want to chage your career path, you don’t need to get the job first. “Associating” is a great way to go about it. Find people who do what you want to do, go to their meetings and conferences, lectures, be present with them.

-@hemical

Remember folks: “Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”