Pot Investor Sees Opportunity in Cash Crunch, California Brands

Welcome to this week’s Dose. As a former bankruptcy reporter, I appreciate the debt perspective. It’s like the flip-side world of any industry, where instead of retail investors wearing rose-colored glasses, sophisticated financiers put on magnifying monocles. This week’s Q&A with the founder of Silver Spike Capital is a great example of the insights such investors bring.

Silver Spike Capital, a cannabis investment firm, is using creative financial structures to help solve a big problem for the industry: a lack of cash.