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Gov. Newsom’s Latest Proposal Is A Band-Aid for Legal Cannabis
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a budget proposal at the end of last week, which includes plans to eliminate the state’s cannabis cultivation tax and adjust tax revenue allocations from cannabis sales. The goal is to combat the illicit market, which is estimated to be 80-90% of the entire cannabis market in California. Legal operations can’t compete. Yay, right? It’s everything…
Read MoreThe Next Frontier of Migraine
Fresh off a profitable fiscal year, Pfizer will use its cash to acquire Biohaven Pharmaceuticals for $11.6B—their largest acquisition since 2016. Biohaven focuses on neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases like migraines, which are often overlooked and untapped in therapeutics. The DeetsThe $11.6B deal will give Pfizer access to Biohaven’s innovative calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-targeting migraine medications: Rimegepant (Nurtec): FDA-approved for prevention and…
Read MoreCalifornian case studies
Case studies from California’s progress on decarbonization
Read MoreCapital to endure
Providing alternative financing to climate tech startups.
Read MoreI’m making a TV show
There is a phrase in Hollywood called “development hell”. It refers to a project that takes an unreasonably long time to get made, if it ever gets made at all (software engineers and game developers know this phrase well). Over the past decade, I’ve been in a creative development hell of sorts. While living in…
Read MoreCrypto Tax Season 2022 Was A Nightmare For Everyone, Especially Women
Excited to introduce you to our first new FTT Expert: my wife, Stevie Kar! Similar to me, Stevie’s worn a ton of different hats in her career: she was a startup founder and ran a women’s health genetics company, is a very prolific angel investor, and was a tax lawyer at Skadden in a past…
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