The document discusses the investment landscape in the hemp industry, highlighting two types of investors: finance-first and impact-first. It emphasizes the growth of the hemp sector, noting significant opportunities for economic and social impact, particularly in Colorado, where hemp cultivation is on the rise. It also presents challenges such as seed importation and processing infrastructure, while advocating for the environmental and health benefits of investing in hemp.

1. Investing in Hemp
Sean Murphy | November 5, 2015 | Highland City Club

3. Impact Investing – The quick ‘n hempy
Two Types
1. Finance First 2. Impact First
Three Categories
1. Environmental 2. Social 3. Economic

4. Publi
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Private Alternatives
Land/Real Estate
Impact Bonds
& Grant Making

5. Investing in
the Hemp
Value Chain

6. 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)?

7. Problems. Solutions. Opportunities.
Global. National. Local.

8. • 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.

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

10. “I speak for the trees
for the trees have no tongues.”
The Lorax

13. • 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

14. “Study: Suffering At The End Of Life
Getting Worse, Not Better”

15. “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

16. Pueblo
5.1%
Saguache
6.2%
Hurfano
6.1%
Boulder
2.6%
Denver
3.2%
Douglas
2.6%
El Paso
4.0%
Economic:
Unemployment
Rates

17. Let’s check out what’s
happening around the country.

20. Colorado Leading the Charge!

21. • 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 h
emp in 2015, up about 250 acres in 2014.

22. • 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.

23. Behold. A Colorado CBD Hemp Field.

24. And a Colorado CBD Hemp harvest!

25. Addressing Some of the Big Challenges
(1) Seed Importation
(2) Processing Infrastructure
(3) Full Federal Commercial Legalization
(4) Data, Information, Industry/Community Building

26. $620M

27. Global Hemp Industry (2014-2015)
26% Growth
CBD Industry (2015)
$85M
U.S. Hemp Industry (2020)
$1.5B

31. The time to invest in hemp is now.

32. • 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.
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