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VRNI - daily short percentage down to 26.63%
http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=VRNI&action=view
Lol love that
One Successful Group Play On a MJ Stock Pick & They Will Roll Here..IMO
VRNI
very nice
VRNI - Trades (link)..
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=trades&symbol=NO%5EVRNI
Too Funny..!
ppl are having fun with SNRY ..TD Ameritrade won't even let you buy it.
VRNI - cheapest pot play right now hands down...
sure mining101 - TD Ameritrade / Trade Architect
free with an account..the only thing is you are limited on the number of MM's you can view in depth because of such a small view (you can scroll down though)..
VRNI - 4 on bid now Vol
VRNI - MJ Stocks About To Get Lite Up Again IMO..
Former Microsoft manager wants to create 'Starbucks of Pot'
3:42 p.m. EDT June 17, 2013
Washington's new law legalizing marijuana will go into effect in late 2013.
SEATTLE (AP) — For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.
With visionary zeal, the 45-year-old former Microsoft manager described his plans to a conference room packed with reporters and supporters last month, saying he was tired of waiting for a green light from the Obama administration, which still hasn't said how it will respond to the legalization of recreational pot in Washington and Colorado. Shively vowed to quickly raise $10 million and eventually build his company, Diego Pellicer, into an international pot powerhouse.
Though he promised a "cautious and measured" expansion, Shively's approach nevertheless contrasted with that of state regulators who want to avoid repeating the national experience with Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol, industries that profited wildly on addiction and abuse. Mark Kleiman, who heads the team hired to be Washington's official marijuana consultant, responded on his blog: "It was inevitable that the legalization of cannabis would attract a certain number of insensate greedheads to the industry."
Shively's ambitions — "We are Big Marijuana," he proclaimed — don't merely raise questions about what marijuana legalization might look like in the long run and whether large corporations will come to dominate. He also risks getting himself indicted.
The Justice Department has said while it doesn't intend to prosecute sick people for using marijuana, it will go after those who try to get rich from commercial sales. It hasn't said yet whether it will sue to block Washington and Colorado from licensing pot growers, processors and stores.
The legalization votes in Washington and Colorado have created a fever for cannabis-related investing, to an extent. Conferences have focused on the parameters for legally investing in "ancillary businesses" — those that supply equipment needed by pot grows, for example — without financing the actual production or distribution of marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law.
Shively isn't skirting the edges of the nascent industry, but diving right in, in a way that few other entrepreneurs are. Some companies that make high-end marijuana-infused products, such as Colorado-based Dixie Elixirs, are planning to make their brands available in other states, but it's not clear anyone else is taking steps to create a pot empire.
"Developing a national brand in an industry in which it is illegal to move the core product across state lines presents some serious logistical challenges," said Betty Aldworth, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association.
Diego Pellicer's business plan estimates $120,000 of pure profit per month, per recreational pot store. Shively said he plans dozens of stores in Washington and Colorado, earning his company the "Starbucks of Pot" nickname.
At the May 30 news conference, Shively announced Diego's first corporate deal — an arrangement with a Seattle medical marijuana company called the Northwest Patient Resource Center. He said Diego would be starting in the medical marijuana market in Washington and Colorado, and then transitioning some dispensaries to recreational pot stores once the states begin issuing licenses.
Shively said the arrangement was "not in violation of either federal or state law," but it was troubling enough to one of the dispensary company owners that he's walking away from the deal — and the company he helped found — because he fears it puts everyone involved at risk of federal prosecution.
"I'm not an activist. I'm just a businessman," said the part-owner, Thomas Jun, a 42-year-old father of three. "I can't afford to do any federal time."
According to Shively, Diego Pellicer has acquired the option to buy Northwest Patient Resource Center, but does not actually own it. That's what gives Diego Pellicer some protection and allows it to position itself for the time when more states legalize pot and Congress changes federal laws, he said. No marijuana will be moved interstate.
"We don't touch cannabis. We don't have ownership of cannabis," he said. "It's not a perfect insulation or buffer, but it's the best possible mechanism that we can come up with."
Through his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, Jun provided the AP with internal company documents, including a draft of the $1.6 million agreement dated May 30. The deal directs monthly payments of up to $50,000 from Diego be used to "to further develop and enhance NWPRC's customer locations and to otherwise grow its business as currently conducted." Former federal prosecutors say that could be seen as a conspiracy to violate federal law.
"It certainly would make me nervous to be involved in anything like this," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School-Los Angeles and a former assistant U.S. attorney.
Shively called the draft provided to AP "an obsolete document," but declined to provide further details. He also declined to discuss a $10,000 check he wrote to the dispensary company May 27.
The deal highlights the tension between the varying degrees of acceptance of marijuana by the states and the outright prohibition by the federal government, which makes banking and other business functions problematic. For example, beyond the growing and sale of marijuana constituting federal crimes, the movement of money related to marijuana sales likely constitutes money laundering.
Dixie Elixirs won't be directly involved in the growing, processing or sale of pot in multiple states, said Tripp Keber, its managing director. Instead, it will license its technical know-how and recipes to people in Washington or elsewhere who want to produce products under the Dixie Elixirs brand — and try to avoid the attention of federal prosecutors by adhering to state laws.
"Big public federal indictments are going to do the industry a disservice," Keber said.
If Shively's model is endorsed by the regulators writing rules for Washington's pot industry, "then we would be increasing the risk of intervention by the federal government," said Alison Holcomb, the Seattle lawyer who drafted Washington's law.
Shively said investors are advised that the company and those involved could face federal prosecution. A copy of Diego's business plan includes 11 bullet points listing risks the company faces. None specifically suggests those involved could be prosecuted.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/17/washington-man-starbucks-of-pot/2431989/
Updates & New Developments Like This Could Light Up The Whole Sector Again Soon IMO
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=89278308&txt2find=VRNI
VRNI - MJ Stocks About To Get Lite Up Again IMO..
Former Microsoft manager wants to create 'Starbucks of Pot'
3:42 p.m. EDT June 17, 2013
Washington's new law legalizing marijuana will go into effect in late 2013.
SEATTLE (AP) — For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.
With visionary zeal, the 45-year-old former Microsoft manager described his plans to a conference room packed with reporters and supporters last month, saying he was tired of waiting for a green light from the Obama administration, which still hasn't said how it will respond to the legalization of recreational pot in Washington and Colorado. Shively vowed to quickly raise $10 million and eventually build his company, Diego Pellicer, into an international pot powerhouse.
Though he promised a "cautious and measured" expansion, Shively's approach nevertheless contrasted with that of state regulators who want to avoid repeating the national experience with Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol, industries that profited wildly on addiction and abuse. Mark Kleiman, who heads the team hired to be Washington's official marijuana consultant, responded on his blog: "It was inevitable that the legalization of cannabis would attract a certain number of insensate greedheads to the industry."
Shively's ambitions — "We are Big Marijuana," he proclaimed — don't merely raise questions about what marijuana legalization might look like in the long run and whether large corporations will come to dominate. He also risks getting himself indicted.
The Justice Department has said while it doesn't intend to prosecute sick people for using marijuana, it will go after those who try to get rich from commercial sales. It hasn't said yet whether it will sue to block Washington and Colorado from licensing pot growers, processors and stores.
The legalization votes in Washington and Colorado have created a fever for cannabis-related investing, to an extent. Conferences have focused on the parameters for legally investing in "ancillary businesses" — those that supply equipment needed by pot grows, for example — without financing the actual production or distribution of marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law.
Shively isn't skirting the edges of the nascent industry, but diving right in, in a way that few other entrepreneurs are. Some companies that make high-end marijuana-infused products, such as Colorado-based Dixie Elixirs, are planning to make their brands available in other states, but it's not clear anyone else is taking steps to create a pot empire.
"Developing a national brand in an industry in which it is illegal to move the core product across state lines presents some serious logistical challenges," said Betty Aldworth, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association.
Diego Pellicer's business plan estimates $120,000 of pure profit per month, per recreational pot store. Shively said he plans dozens of stores in Washington and Colorado, earning his company the "Starbucks of Pot" nickname.
At the May 30 news conference, Shively announced Diego's first corporate deal — an arrangement with a Seattle medical marijuana company called the Northwest Patient Resource Center. He said Diego would be starting in the medical marijuana market in Washington and Colorado, and then transitioning some dispensaries to recreational pot stores once the states begin issuing licenses.
Shively said the arrangement was "not in violation of either federal or state law," but it was troubling enough to one of the dispensary company owners that he's walking away from the deal — and the company he helped found — because he fears it puts everyone involved at risk of federal prosecution.
"I'm not an activist. I'm just a businessman," said the part-owner, Thomas Jun, a 42-year-old father of three. "I can't afford to do any federal time."
According to Shively, Diego Pellicer has acquired the option to buy Northwest Patient Resource Center, but does not actually own it. That's what gives Diego Pellicer some protection and allows it to position itself for the time when more states legalize pot and Congress changes federal laws, he said. No marijuana will be moved interstate.
"We don't touch cannabis. We don't have ownership of cannabis," he said. "It's not a perfect insulation or buffer, but it's the best possible mechanism that we can come up with."
Through his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, Jun provided the AP with internal company documents, including a draft of the $1.6 million agreement dated May 30. The deal directs monthly payments of up to $50,000 from Diego be used to "to further develop and enhance NWPRC's customer locations and to otherwise grow its business as currently conducted." Former federal prosecutors say that could be seen as a conspiracy to violate federal law.
"It certainly would make me nervous to be involved in anything like this," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School-Los Angeles and a former assistant U.S. attorney.
Shively called the draft provided to AP "an obsolete document," but declined to provide further details. He also declined to discuss a $10,000 check he wrote to the dispensary company May 27.
The deal highlights the tension between the varying degrees of acceptance of marijuana by the states and the outright prohibition by the federal government, which makes banking and other business functions problematic. For example, beyond the growing and sale of marijuana constituting federal crimes, the movement of money related to marijuana sales likely constitutes money laundering.
Dixie Elixirs won't be directly involved in the growing, processing or sale of pot in multiple states, said Tripp Keber, its managing director. Instead, it will license its technical know-how and recipes to people in Washington or elsewhere who want to produce products under the Dixie Elixirs brand — and try to avoid the attention of federal prosecutors by adhering to state laws.
"Big public federal indictments are going to do the industry a disservice," Keber said.
If Shively's model is endorsed by the regulators writing rules for Washington's pot industry, "then we would be increasing the risk of intervention by the federal government," said Alison Holcomb, the Seattle lawyer who drafted Washington's law.
Shively said investors are advised that the company and those involved could face federal prosecution. A copy of Diego's business plan includes 11 bullet points listing risks the company faces. None specifically suggests those involved could be prosecuted.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/17/washington-man-starbucks-of-pot/2431989/
Updates & New Developments Like This Could Light Up The Whole Sector Again Soon IMO
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=89278308&txt2find=VRNI
VRNI - MJ Stocks About To Get Lite Up Again IMO..
Former Microsoft manager wants to create 'Starbucks of Pot'
3:42 p.m. EDT June 17, 2013
Washington's new law legalizing marijuana will go into effect in late 2013.
SEATTLE (AP) — For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.
With visionary zeal, the 45-year-old former Microsoft manager described his plans to a conference room packed with reporters and supporters last month, saying he was tired of waiting for a green light from the Obama administration, which still hasn't said how it will respond to the legalization of recreational pot in Washington and Colorado. Shively vowed to quickly raise $10 million and eventually build his company, Diego Pellicer, into an international pot powerhouse.
Though he promised a "cautious and measured" expansion, Shively's approach nevertheless contrasted with that of state regulators who want to avoid repeating the national experience with Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol, industries that profited wildly on addiction and abuse. Mark Kleiman, who heads the team hired to be Washington's official marijuana consultant, responded on his blog: "It was inevitable that the legalization of cannabis would attract a certain number of insensate greedheads to the industry."
Shively's ambitions — "We are Big Marijuana," he proclaimed — don't merely raise questions about what marijuana legalization might look like in the long run and whether large corporations will come to dominate. He also risks getting himself indicted.
The Justice Department has said while it doesn't intend to prosecute sick people for using marijuana, it will go after those who try to get rich from commercial sales. It hasn't said yet whether it will sue to block Washington and Colorado from licensing pot growers, processors and stores.
The legalization votes in Washington and Colorado have created a fever for cannabis-related investing, to an extent. Conferences have focused on the parameters for legally investing in "ancillary businesses" — those that supply equipment needed by pot grows, for example — without financing the actual production or distribution of marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law.
Shively isn't skirting the edges of the nascent industry, but diving right in, in a way that few other entrepreneurs are. Some companies that make high-end marijuana-infused products, such as Colorado-based Dixie Elixirs, are planning to make their brands available in other states, but it's not clear anyone else is taking steps to create a pot empire.
"Developing a national brand in an industry in which it is illegal to move the core product across state lines presents some serious logistical challenges," said Betty Aldworth, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association.
Diego Pellicer's business plan estimates $120,000 of pure profit per month, per recreational pot store. Shively said he plans dozens of stores in Washington and Colorado, earning his company the "Starbucks of Pot" nickname.
At the May 30 news conference, Shively announced Diego's first corporate deal — an arrangement with a Seattle medical marijuana company called the Northwest Patient Resource Center. He said Diego would be starting in the medical marijuana market in Washington and Colorado, and then transitioning some dispensaries to recreational pot stores once the states begin issuing licenses.
Shively said the arrangement was "not in violation of either federal or state law," but it was troubling enough to one of the dispensary company owners that he's walking away from the deal — and the company he helped found — because he fears it puts everyone involved at risk of federal prosecution.
"I'm not an activist. I'm just a businessman," said the part-owner, Thomas Jun, a 42-year-old father of three. "I can't afford to do any federal time."
According to Shively, Diego Pellicer has acquired the option to buy Northwest Patient Resource Center, but does not actually own it. That's what gives Diego Pellicer some protection and allows it to position itself for the time when more states legalize pot and Congress changes federal laws, he said. No marijuana will be moved interstate.
"We don't touch cannabis. We don't have ownership of cannabis," he said. "It's not a perfect insulation or buffer, but it's the best possible mechanism that we can come up with."
Through his lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, Jun provided the AP with internal company documents, including a draft of the $1.6 million agreement dated May 30. The deal directs monthly payments of up to $50,000 from Diego be used to "to further develop and enhance NWPRC's customer locations and to otherwise grow its business as currently conducted." Former federal prosecutors say that could be seen as a conspiracy to violate federal law.
"It certainly would make me nervous to be involved in anything like this," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School-Los Angeles and a former assistant U.S. attorney.
Shively called the draft provided to AP "an obsolete document," but declined to provide further details. He also declined to discuss a $10,000 check he wrote to the dispensary company May 27.
The deal highlights the tension between the varying degrees of acceptance of marijuana by the states and the outright prohibition by the federal government, which makes banking and other business functions problematic. For example, beyond the growing and sale of marijuana constituting federal crimes, the movement of money related to marijuana sales likely constitutes money laundering.
Dixie Elixirs won't be directly involved in the growing, processing or sale of pot in multiple states, said Tripp Keber, its managing director. Instead, it will license its technical know-how and recipes to people in Washington or elsewhere who want to produce products under the Dixie Elixirs brand — and try to avoid the attention of federal prosecutors by adhering to state laws.
"Big public federal indictments are going to do the industry a disservice," Keber said.
If Shively's model is endorsed by the regulators writing rules for Washington's pot industry, "then we would be increasing the risk of intervention by the federal government," said Alison Holcomb, the Seattle lawyer who drafted Washington's law.
Shively said investors are advised that the company and those involved could face federal prosecution. A copy of Diego's business plan includes 11 bullet points listing risks the company faces. None specifically suggests those involved could be prosecuted.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/17/washington-man-starbucks-of-pot/2431989/
Updates & New Developments Like This Could Light Up The Whole Sector Again Soon IMO
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=89278308&txt2find=VRNI
'You can't place the order at 5 decimal, but there is a 5th decimal you can get filled at. It has only happened to me in the trips of course, but I have seen many others this has happened to lately and it is an indication that the MM's are trying to show your trade as a trade at .0001 instead of .0002. Ironically, the ticker rounds the fifth decimal down instead of up - how convenient for a MM that is trying to scare peeps into selling at the .0001 bid.'
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=31819226
this can very well be happening down here..without a doubt something's going on, and I don't mind sharing proof..
wow, just noticed this may not be actual 'proof' to anyone, because the date is apparently changing or updating every day..whatever, was first sent GTC this past Thursday and before the bell..! i've even broke the order for more than 23 Mil up into five trades and so far - Nada?!
i saw several people's post saying that they got fills at .0001 Thursday and Friday...
don't get me wrong.. not complaining, i am happy with the 80+ Mil i have through TD Ameritrade & E*TRADE (filled before these orders were placed). i've just come to expect these MM Games with sub-penny plays like this.
NITE is definitely loading ahead of me. it reminds me of CMKX years ago just before it blew it's lid to .0012 / Volume Proceeds Price GLTA! :)
VRNI - TheHotPennyStocks.com Something's Up! ;0)
http://www.thehotpennystocks.com/stock-picks/
You're Welcome Stocktimist..
VRNI - How about 'The Wall Street Journal'..! :)
June 17, 2013, 6:36 a.m. ET
Virogen Business Unit, "The Cannabis Connection," Partners With "TheMedMen" to Provide Full Range of Consulting Services to Existing and Start-Up Medicinal Marijuana Dispensaries
Virogen Business Unit, "The Cannabis Connection," Partners With "TheMedMen" to Provide Full Range of Consulting Services to Existing and Start-Up Medicinal Marijuana Dispensaries
Agreement With California-Grown Consulting Firm Puts VRNI Squarely in Middle of Medicinal Marijuana Industry's "Green Rush"
SAN GERONIMO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2013) - Virogen Inc. (OTC Pink: VRNI), a holding company that owns Tiger Team Technologies and The Cannabis Connection, today announced that it has partnered with California's TheMedMen, a medicinal marijuana consulting firm, in a venture that is intended to bring broader exposure to both firms. VRNI expects that, by venturing with TheMedMen, it will be in a position to gain a foothold in the medical marijuana industry, particularly in the lucrative areas of retail supply, support and consulting. TheMedMen anticipates that its association with a publicly-traded company will serve to increase its profile within the $15-20 billion legal marijuana industry.
"The Marijuana Green Rush has taken on a national scope. We provide consulting to all emerging cannabis markets across the country, so it is a natural next step to partner with a publically traded company to have an even greater reach for our much sought after services," said Monica Burrell, Director of Business Development for TheMedMen.
"We believe that our partnering with TheMedMen will allow us to establish our company within the medicinal marijuana industry as an agent for consolidation of the fragmented industry," said Paul Hogan, President of VRNI. Mr. Hogan continued, "Our plans for consolidation include the acquisition of businesses that are involved in all facets of the industry, including dispensary management, product cultivation, dispensary design and build-out, licensing, product delivery services, branding and marketing." Mr. Hogan noted that the portion of the medicinal marijuana industry outside of dispensary ownership represents approximately $6 billion in annual revenues, an industry segment well worth VRNI's efforts.
About The Med Men
TheMedMen, a self-proclaimed California Grown company, consults on medicinal marijuana projects all over the United States. The areas of TheMedMen's consulting services are cultivation, dispensary design and build-out, licensing, brokering joint ventures, product delivery services, cannabis education, branding and marketing. More information about TheMedMen is available at: www.themedmen.com.
About Virogen, Inc.
In addition to developing its recently announced business unit, The Cannabis Connection, Virogen, Inc. is a technology holding company. The company's wholly owned subsidiary, Tiger Team Technologies "T3," has developed a unique suite of copyrighted tools to address the network and database security needs of enterprise level companies and corporations. T3's risk management offering provides an unprecedented level of security and liability protection, positioning it as one of the only companies with a comprehensive solution to data security breaches for its clients. T3's primary markets include medical service providers, financial services firms, brokerages and currency transaction platforms, consumer credit card companies, banking entities, retailers, defense and government related operations.
Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release contains statements, which may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Virogen, Inc. and members of its management as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.
CONTACT:
Paul Hogan
Tiger Team Technologies
paul@tigerteamtech.com
415-488-6214
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130617-902665.html