ACB not rushing to make deals in the USSeems APHA and ACB are on the same page.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-aurora-cannabis-hasnt-signed-a-deal-with-a-us-giant-like-other-pot-companies-2019-05-02 Battley: We’ve talked to everybody who have done deals already. We are taking a different approach. We started to get counsel from a very sage source [hedge-fund manager Nelson Peltz] in the United States several months ago, which was in view of some other companies handing control to a larger entity in a mature industry, like Constellation or Altria. In those cases, they’ve got board control of those companies and they’re on the path to majority ownership.
So [Peltz] said “don’t do that” and here’s why: If you sell out now, it’s going to mean selling your shareholders short because the value of your company is rising every quarter. There’s no need to do that. The opportunity exists to create strategic partnerships across more than one vertical. You don’t have to become a tobacco company. You don’t have to become a distiller. You can partner on a strategic level with multiple companies across multiple verticals and remain independent. The key to that is separating in your mind the concepts of strategic partnership and capital raise. There’s no need to assume that those two things go together. If you have sufficient capital, especially if you’re moving into a cash-flow-positive situation as we are in 2019, there’s no need to necessarily combine those two concepts.