What were Billy MartIn's last words?

"I SAID BUD LITE NOT TURN RIGHT!"

https://apnews.com/33fb0c80d91df689a847625070975d30

USDA Announces Pilot Insurance Coverage for Hemp Growers

https://www.rma.usda.gov/en/News-Room/Press/Press-Releases/2019-News/USDA-Announces-Pilot-Insurance-Coverage-for-Hemp-Growers

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 23, 2019 – USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced a new crop insurance option for hemp growers in select counties of 21 states in 2020. The pilot insurance program will provide Actual Production History (APH) coverage under 508(h) Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) for eligible producers in certain counties in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The MPCI coverage is for hemp grown for fiber, grain or CBD oil for the 2020 crop year. It is in addition to the Whole-Farm Revenue Protection coverage available to hemp growers announced earlier this year.
“We are excited to offer coverage to certain hemp producers in this pilot program,” said RMA Administrator Martin Barbre. “Since this is a pilot program, we look forward to feedback from producers on the program in the coming crop year.”
The 2018 Farm Bill amended the Controlled Substances Act to address how industrial hemp is to be defined and regulated at the federal level, and those modifications cleared the way for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to offer policies for it. The Farm Bill defines hemp as containing 0.3 percent or less tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on a dry-weight basis.
To be eligible for the MPCI pilot program, among other requirements, a hemp producer must comply with applicable state, tribal or federal regulations for hemp production, have at least one year of history producing the crop, and have a contract for the sale of the insured hemp. Producers also must be a part of a Section 7606 state or university research pilot, as authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, or be licensed under a state, tribal or federal program approved under the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) interim final rule issued in October 2019. The MPCI provisions state that hemp having THC above the federal statutory compliance level will not constitute an insurable cause of loss. Additionally, hemp will not qualify for replant payments or prevented plant payments under MPCI.
In addition, beginning with the 2021 crop year, hemp will be insurable under the Nursery crop insurance program and the Nursery Value Select pilot crop insurance program. Under both programs, hemp will be insurable if grown in containers and in accordance with federal regulations, any applicable state or tribal laws, and terms of the crop insurance policy.
More information on the MPCI pilot will be available in 2020. Crop insurance is sold and delivered solely through private crop insurance agents.
A list of crop insurance agents is available at all USDA Service Centers and online at the RMA Agent Locator. Learn more about crop insurance and the modern farm safety net at rma.usda.gov.
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"SAN DIEGO, Sept. 24, 2019" news!

Wow! that's a reach to get thing's moving.

IMO

Drinking to much water will kill you!

“In short, yes. Drinking too much water is possible, and although rare, it can be potentially life-threatening. Yet to develop water intoxication – or hyponatremia, as it's known medically – you would have to consume an excessive amount of water in a short amount of time.

Hyponatremia is caused by drinking too much water or sports drinks, which dilutes blood salt levels below the normal range. Any sudden drop in blood salt levels, from drinking more than the body can excrete, can cause all cells in the body to swell.”

I wonder how much it takes to kill a mouse? LOL

Mroe on crooked scumbag Foli who is investgating CVSI....

"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Foti as State AG prosecuted private citizens on behalf of the numerous elderly New Orleans residents who died in flooding, power failures, and resulting disaster. Foti reportedly claimed that some medical staff, who worked at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans during the storm, had murdered several patients.[8] In July 2007, Dr. Pou sued Foti, accusing him of playing politics with her life and the dead from Katrina.[9] After the police conducted a lengthy investigation, a grand jury in July 2007 declined to indict Pou. [10] The charges have since been expunged. In 2009 the legislature passed a bill to pay Dr. Pou's legal fees, which was signed by Governor Bobby Jindal.[11] Several lawmakers have apologized for the accusations against Pou.[11] The failed prosecution of Dr. Pou was an issue during Foti's unsuccessful reelection campaign in 2007.[12]"

"Charles Carmen Foti, Jr. (born November 30, 1937), is a lawyer in New Orleans and a politician who served a single term from 2004 to 2008 as the Democratic Attorney General of the U.S. state of Louisiana, United States. Prior to becoming attorney general, Foti had been repeatedly reelected and served for thirty years as Orleans Parish criminal sheriff."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Foti

CV SCIENCES INVESTIGATION INITIATED By Former Louisiana Attorney General: Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Investigates the Officers and Directors of CV Sciences, Inc. - CVSI
Business Wire Business Wire•December 13, 2019

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191213005497/en/CV-SCIENCES-INVESTIGATION-INITIATED-Louisiana-Attorney-General

CV SCIENCES INVESTIGATION INITIATED By Former Louisiana Attorney General: Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Investigates the Officers and Directors of CV Sciences, Inc. - CVSI
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Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into CV Sciences, Inc. (OTC: CVSI).

In 2016, the Company filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Trademark Office ("USPTO") for its lead product, CVSI-007. On December 14, 2017, the USPTO issued a final rejection for the Patent Application for CVSI-007, affirming its first rejection previously made on April 27, 2017 and sent to the Company on June 6, 2017. However, the Company failed to disclose the rejection to shareholders, instead consistently touting CVSI-007 as being "patent-pending," "proprietary," and "patent-protectable." Then, on August 20, 2018, the rejections of the patent application and the Company’s failure to disclose them were publicly revealed in a Tweet issued by Citron Research.

Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in securities class action lawsuits, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws. Recently, the court in that consolidated case denied the Company’s motion to dismiss, allowing the case to move forward.

KSF’s investigation is focusing on whether CV’s officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to CV’s shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.

If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of CV Sciences, Inc. shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/otc-cvsi/ to learn more.

About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC

KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation’s premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California and Louisiana.

To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.

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Contacts

Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850

News:CVSI TO RECEIVE PUMP&DUMP OF THE YEAR AWARD!

"one that will be a boon to New York hemp farmers and consumers of hemp products like CBD."

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?e=3e919fbf35&u=1b61b28eae54b8d51e883a3f8&id=b81d3b4f7f

State Alert: New York


We are very excited to report that yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to provide for a sound regulatory framework for the growth of hemp and the sale of hemp products in the Empire State. Click here to review the bill and here to read the Governor’s approval message.

This represents a very happy ending to a long and arduous process. As detailed here, the New York legislature was poised to pass a well-intentioned, but flawed bill that would have placed onerous administrative burdens on hemp farmers and small businesses, and resulted in a de facto ban of out of state hemp products. Thousands of you emailed your legislators (including Mark Ruffalo!). Legislators ultimately passed the bill, but agreed to work with the Governor and the industry to improve it through a process called “chapter amendments.”

After consulting with stakeholders, the Roundtable issued a very detailed proposal on how to improve the bill.

New York policy makers listened. And the final bill signed by the Governor is a huge improvement — one that will be a boon to New York hemp farmers and consumers of hemp products like CBD.

Big thanks are owed to Governor Cuomo and the bill’s legislative sponsors, Senator Jen Metzger and Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo. True leaders listen, compromise and develop meaningful policy decisions.

And big thanks are owed to all of you who raised your voices to improve this bill. When we share the facts, we win!

"And how are 200K+ shares magically freed up"

Brian L Sheehy's, Izo Capital parked shares. I guess we are about to find out who was parking them there.

So even some of the diehards are turning. You want to know what's going on, read my old posts. It all began the day Stafford showed up and will culminate very soon it appears. These people wrote the book on how to screw people over to add another dollar to their pile.

AIMO

"I Love Shorting Stocks, Do You?


https://claytrader.com/blog/i-love-shorting-stocks-do-you/

As I have never posted a "I told you so", I will leave that to one of the others here that expect nothing tomorrow. When we get the activist "company needs to be sold" letter, maybe then.

And when tomorrow comes and goes and we get squat the proverbial "options need to be awarded" and the floodgates of news will be opened or "6 months from now" this thing is set to turn around. In other words, the same language used to describe the underhanded doings of King & The 3 Amigos all those years is now being applied to the latest group of incompetent thieves.

So what has changed? Not a ___ damn thing.

IMO

" I can't believe Stephanie was wearing a dark suit to the BPI interview."

Actually it's Tracy fondling the mike but you guys certainly nailed the colors. : )

In the photo from BPI why is Tracy sitting there admiring the mike in her hand? We paid good money for that interview and that's the photo they publish. What a bunch of amateurs.

I still maintain that an activist "company needs to be sold letter" will come before a "buyout offer" which would/could trigger a poison pill assuming it's still in play. What I don't understand, would the company be so stupid to reschedule the CC to accommodate some updated time frame Stafford has presented to them for dumping the company as that would make them (Avid) complicit in this dirty deal.

FWIW I truly hope to be wrong. I would like nothing more then see this POS company succeed and get back some of my money back but history says otherwise.

"This earlier reporting could be a low-ball buy-out offer...hope not... "

That kind of statement may not be well received here. If true though this is a good buying opportunity, one might get 50 or 60 cents on a purchase made today.

Stafford can't give it away for less than the current SP, can he.........?

Well the news this morning has certainly created a frenzied rush for this stock.

330,777 posts devoted to a company that is a LOSER.....

what a waste.........!

Has Stafford planted people on this message board?

"When trading firm Ronin Capital invested in Dose Media, it got more than an ownership stake in a highly trafficked digital publisher; it secured a back channel into the social media scene."

"Dose CEO and founder Emerson Spartz says he and Ronin's top execs, John Stafford III and his father, have had sweeping conversations about social media, trading and the similarities in their River North businesses since the high-speed trading firm's 2015 investment. He says he doesn't know how Ronin uses any social media data—not surprising, given the? penchant for secret strategies in high finance. Stafford didn't return a call seeking comment."

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170202/NEWS01/170209992/chicago-trading-firms-like-ronin-and-ketchum-tap-social-media

"Lias was the last tie to the old crew"

That line keeps being repeated but what about the fact that Stafford picked 3 BOD members and King picked 3 BOD members and finally 1 independent from the group that handled the whole thing.

The spin that was PPHM is not much different than the spin that is now CDMO.

"But a sale of the shares still has the obstacle of the premium cost and the poison pill. A letter by the Board can't ignore that."

A convoluted reply which has nothing to do with what's been posted doesn't fly.

The theme of good times ahead is seriously in doubt at this point.

"There was no other way forward."

"FORWARD", what forward? A year and a half later the share price is $3.90 with 11K shares traded at 11:30.

Yea..............SOON!

"So when will the poison pill get voted upon in your timeline?"

I'm surprised you would ask that question as you are more experienced than that. What I've suggested and have always suggested doesn't involve a "hostel take-over" at all so the Poison Pill has absolutely no bearing on what I've said.

One of the larger shareholders will initiate a letter that the company should be sold for failing to "maximize shareholder value".

Here is an EXAMPLE of how it will read.

"Time is of the essence and the time has long since passed for the Board to take proactive steps to maximize shareholder value. We do not believe Avid should remain an independent company and the Board must immediately commence a sale process."

Shareholders will then VOTE and we all no how that will turn out.

Roger Liar got the sweet deal because he knows all the BS going on and doesn't want to be tied with what's coming, probably before the next ASM. Only two questions remain, which "activist" name is on the letter to shareholders and who gets Avid.

IMO

"Maybe we are being set up for a low take-out number....."

Now where have I heard that before? Oh wait, I remember, I've been saying that since the day Stafford arrived.

"Could this whole conspiracy be about shifting the IP to the Chinese?"

Your being relatively new here you must have missed in your "PPHM/CDMO HANDBOOK OF EVENTS" the chapter on the acquisition of the IP by Oncologie with its offices in Boston and Shanghai and it's major funding by Chinese investment groups. In other words the Chinese already have the IP so you can toss that theory.

Stafford and his hedge fund thieves stepping on SP in this "hot market" to discourage shareholders into taking any cheap offer thrown at them, hopefully it will be over $5.

IMO

I wonder what we paid for that blurb?

You do have to hand it to Roger Dodger, he probably only spent thousands for that little piece as compared to the millions King paid MSKCC to keep the dream alive.

"BioProcess International™ is a monthly, controlled-circulation magazine devoted to the development, scale-up, and manufacture of biotherapeutics and biodiagnostics. Each issue provides the global industrial biotherapeutic community with up-to-date, peer-reviewed information detailing the business, politics, ethics, applications, products, and services required to successfully drive biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, and biodiagnostics through the development and manufacturing process.

The editors and staff at BioProcess International™ work with our colleagues in KNect365 Life Sciences for the BioProcess International Conference and Exhibition (part of Biotech Week Boston) and BPI West conferences.

BioProcess International™ is part of Informa, plc, a leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic, professional and business communities. Informa offers a world-class portfolio of publications, events and data services for researchers, students, lecturers and professionals in the academic and scientific communities worldwide."

"Document Date Jun 12, 2019".......last Wednesday and they waited till today

They wanted to start the week on a cheery note?

"Sweet deal"

Roger Dodger knows where all the skeletons are buried and they want to keep it that way.

What a joke!

"tappan crew is well aware of value"

If Tappan thought you wanted to be told the sky is purple they would tell you "absolutely".

Hedge Funds lie, cheat, steal, manipulate stocks, that's their MOA.

"I'm still trying to figure out the motive of such a planned conspiracy"

The only one that can answer that is John S. Stafford the Third and he is never going to tell you. All of the White families work for the Stafford's (Stafford Capital Management, worldwide) and Stevie was called in to handle the hold thing with Johnny's involvement minimal. He probably didn't even read the papers he needed to sign. Only when it is all said and done, papers signed and our shares are gone, maybe then it will all come to light.

Who will be right and who will be wrong, probably not much longer to find out.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if Oncologie buys Avid.

White's MOA from Castle Union days which I've previously posted about.

https://www.oozingalpha.com/castle-union-wants-meru-networks-sold/

"mgmt needs to pay attention to SP or they run the risk of a hostile takeout and they don't have the old BOD to keep the wolves out."

Well good, you are finally prepping folks here with what I have been predicting since the day Stafford arrived.

The SP is controlled by our so called Saviors not management. The take over won't be hostile. A letter will come suggesting the sale of Avid because it's doing so poorly as you've indicated, that being the manipulated share price is so low.

The letter will not come from Stafford, more likely White or Tappan Boys, possibly Brian L Sheehy although his shares may be traceable back to Stafford. The price will be low and the acquiring company won't have ties to any of the puppet masters involve with this scam of a company.

Before this year is out, IMO, is the time frame and Avid and everything to do with it past and future will be no more.

I don't buy this idea we've been saved crap. With a SP of $3.91, Roger Liar our ex-CEO's empty talks of contracts and then fleeing the seen. Our so called savior lucking in the shadows, sure, everything is just rosy. Only time will tell who has been right when the hammer finally comes down. Sadly with this company the naysayers have always been proven right. Will it be different this time?

By the way, this regurgitation about our sad past is just that, regurgitation.

" It would be nice to have Pantheon's finger in the pie given Catalent and Pantheon are two of the most likely buyers."

The above from your continued being bought out theme. How does all this, in the future, Bavi good news come into play for shareholders when we no longer own the company receiving all these milestones and royalties you are currently hyping?

Chey, hoping for the best but have reached the point of expecting nothing.

"It was never my plan to be at this stage in my life and be so bitter."

Golfho 4/22/19