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"Submitted by scexile on March 28, 2016 - 12:31pm
The Florida Marijuana market : "The Florida medical marijuana bill remains at five growers, and is proceeding to the Governor to be signed. Let’s take a look at one of the growers Alpha Foliage assigned the Southwest Region. Originally, Florida would be split into five regions, a grower assigned to each region, and they could only sell in their region. That was changed over time where each grower could sell throughout the state of Florida regardless of region. Why we still have regions is an artifact of the original plan. It only relates now to the five licenses, and how they were originally assigned to regions. Alpha Foliage is merely a vessel for one of the five licenses. Colorado based company MJardin operating within the January 1st, 2015 formed company Surterra Florida LLC is really in control, monetizing operations, supplying their own people, bringing in their own genetics, and managing cultivation. The CEO of MJardin is Colorado businessman Adam Cohen who is also a member of the Surterra company, and has a home in the Miami area. The five principals of Surterra Florida, LLC include Alex Havenick CEO of pari-mutual Magic City operating in the Miami-Dade and Broward County, Adam Cohen CEO of MJardin, Wes Van Dyk, Daniel Simon, and R Jake Bergman. Jake Bergman is the co-founder and CEO of Surterra Holdings, Inc. a cannabis based therapeutics company seeded by Wall Street Hedge Fund firm Vakyrie Capital. Surterra applied for four out of the five production licenses in Florida. Jake was at one time an investment banking analyst at Suntree Robin Humphrey, but now has plans to take Surterra throughout Florida and into Georgia and Alabama. Their plan is to capture the entire production market in the south. Florida is acting as a model for how to capture the other southern states. What I find very interesting is Alexander Hecht Havenick is even involved in cannabis. Why? Typically, gambling boards are very tight with licenses, and want no involvement with licenses or crime. In Las Vegas gambling institutions are forbidden from operating in the cannabis industry. The fact that Havenick, who owns the Florida based billion dollar company Magic City, which operates 796 slot machines, employs 560 full-time employees, is a principal in Surterra, which openly states it is a cannabis therapeutics company, is even involved in a cannabis business. This is extremely risky behavior as the Florida gambling board could rescind his gambling license. After all cannabis is still federally Schedule I. What would Attorney General Pam Bondi do if she found out? It appears that MJardin, operating under the Florida company Surterra, aims to corner the Florida production market by controlling all the cannabis production under each grower. Cohen has a law degree from the University of Colorado, and is licensed to practice in Florida. Cohen’s other two partners are John Fritzel and James Lowe. Fritzel holds several cannabis licenses in Colorado, while Lowe has a background in facility design and cultivation services according to MJardin’s web page. What MJardin offers to the Florida growers is a turn-key cultivation and processing service to licensed Florida cannabis businesses. The five license holders merely partner with Colorado company MJardin who then steps in, installs their Colorado people, imports bulk materials, and puts the operation in place. MJardin is paid a percentage of the pounds produced per month. Representative Gaetz and Senator Bradley are in effect providing state protection to five growers, while an out-of-state Colorado company comes in and corners the entire Florida production market. The growers put up the land and building, with profits dependent on what MJardin produces and sells. Hedge Fund Valkyrie Capital, LLC Chief Operating Officer (CEO) is also Jake Bergmann, who is also CEO of Surterra. Valkyrie Capital Hedge Fund has offices in Georgia, Alabama and New York. Who are the people invested in secretive hedge fund Valkyrie Capital? Good question as the web page entry point is password protected. In summary, we have a secret hedge fund operating in several states, unknown investors, a shell company called Surterra, a Colorado production company capturing the entire Florida production market, all protected by Representative Matt Gaetz and Senator Rob Bradley. A nice clean cannabis oligarchy package, wrapped in ribbons, handed over to secretive hedge fund investors." Bill Monroe Florida for Medicinal Marijuana"

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/rick-scott-signs-medical-marijuana-bill-law