The KAYS Weeder

Kaya Holdings Inc.  (OTCQB: KAYS) was a pioneer in the U.S. cannabis industry and now sets its sights on high-growth international opportunities in Israel and Greece. After forming Kaya Brands International in September 2019, the company applied for cannabis cultivation and processing licenses in Israel and acquired a 50% stake in a Greece-based cannabis license holder.   By structuring these deals through subsidiaries, the company aims to minimize any dilutive financing for its existing shareholders while capturing the massive upside potential for these projects. The European Union is widely expected to become the world’s largest cannabis market over the next five years with upwards of €123 billion in 2028 sales.   Let’s take a look at the company’s recent progress in advancing these ventures and why investors may want to take a closer look at the stock.   Also see:  Kaya Holdings: A Blueprint for Low-Dilution, Low Cost International Expansion   Securing a...

In early 2014, in a small office in Hollywood, Florida, the management of what is today Kaya Holdings made the strategic decision to transition their existing small-cap publicly traded biofuels company away from alternative energy and exclusively toward the cultivation and retail of legal cannabis. This was no ordinary decision; Colorado and Washington had just launched their legal cannabis programs and no one knew whether a touch-the-plant company would be allowed to remain publicly traded. “After the release of our first public filing we definitely had some ‘hold our breath’ moments as we waited to see what sort of response would come from what could have been seen at the time as our boldness”, remembers W. David Jones, Senior Advisor to KAYS.    To launch their cannabis company, management headed to Oregon because, as CEO Craig Frank put it, “if you want to learn about oil go to Texas, if you want to be on Broadway, go to New York. We wanted to learn about cannabis, so we w...