Investing in HempSean Murphy | November 5, 2015 | Highland City Club

Impact Investing – The quick ‘n hempy

Two Types1. Finance First 2. Impact First

Three Categories1. Environmental 2. Social 3.

Economic

Public Private Alternatives

Land/Real Estate

Impact Bonds& Grant Making

Investing in the Hemp

Value Chain

The Hemp “Impact” Investor Question:

Do you target higher profit margins with consumer / ag tech products or invest in

lower profit margin businesses with a higher impact (e.g. seed development, land,

cultivation and industrial processing)?

Problems. Solutions. Opportunities.

Global. National. Local.

• The Maya said the end of their Long Count Calendar was not the “end of the world” but the end of a cycle, and marks the beginning of a new time on Earth.

• They said in the beginning of this new cycle we would see the rise of the Feminine on Earth.

• It is a time to re-establish our connection with the Earth and to open our hearts to the wisdom of the feminine in order to restore a balance between male and female energies.

• There is a plant that is leading this global transformation back to Gaia.

“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth.”

Pope Francis

“I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

The Lorax

• 1.8% of adults aged 18 years or older have had a diagnosis of epilepsy or seizure disorder.

• 1% of children aged 0-17 years have had a diagnosis of epilepsy or seizure disorder. This is about 750,000 children aged 0-17 years.

• When counting both children and adults, about 5.1 million people in the United States have had a diagnosis of epilepsy or a seizure disorder. (Source: CDC.gov)

• The total indirect and direct cost of epilepsy in the United States is estimated to be $15.5 billion yearly. This estimate is based on a reported cost of $12.5 billion in 1995 converted to 2004 dollar value using Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Epilepsy

“Most physicians tend to under-treat pain and other symptoms at the end of life because they don’t recognize them or are hesitant to talk candidly about the process of dying and the pain associated with it.”

Dr. Tim Ihrig, Palliative Care Physician

Pueblo 5.1%

Saguache6.2%

Hurfano6.1%

Boulder 2.6%

Denver3.2%

Douglas2.6%

El Paso4.0%

Economic:

Unemployment Rates

Let’s check out what’shappening around the country.

Colorado Leading the Charge!

• Colorado registered 164 growers this year, with about 3,512 acres outside and 487,000 square feet of indoor grows, including 14 in Pueblo County.

• Colorado farmers planted 2,000 acres of hemp in 2015, up about 250 acres in 2014.

• A defunct Boeing rocket plant in Pueblo will be converted into a hemp oil production facility that will employ 163 people by 2018, said Pueblo Economic Development Corp.

• The jobs are expected to pay an average of $41,590 plus benefits. This is the biggest jobs announcement by PEDCO since 2008, when Vestas said it would hire 450 people, the Pueblo Chieftain reported.

Behold. A Colorado CBD Hemp Field.

And a Colorado CBD Hemp harvest!

Addressing Some of the Big Challenges

(1) Seed Importation

(2) Processing Infrastructure

(3) Full Federal Commercial Legalization

(4) Data, Information, Industry/Community Building

$620M

Global Hemp Industry (2014-2015)

26% GrowthCBD Industry (2015)

$85MU.S. Hemp Industry (2020)

$1.5B

The time to invest in hemp is now.

• Solve BIG problems for the Environment with hemp.

• Help the Colorado Economy and Make a Social/Health Impact!

• Gain insider knowledge and build a “foundational company” to an emerging multi-billion dollar U.S. industry.

Available Tuesday!HempBizJournal.com