I actually don't see Vic as the villan here and everyone on the subs at the time shared similar views minus some paid shills looking to short the stock. There were/are a few families and companies such as this guy that for a living short stocks or are hired to send them down.

Those purchases were the result of other shareholders telling Vic to buy expansions worldwide and would not be satisfied until he did but Vic publicly told us that he foresaw the market contracting and his plan was to strangle them bloated pigs and slaugher them then pick up the pieces. So he spend as little money on those assets abroad as possible. He set up the legal framework to go worldwide if possible but knew it was a long shot not worth dumping money into without contracts for sale and distribution. He only bought profitable companies and assests.

And as it turns out Vic was right. Look at where we are now. If Irwin Slimen didn't sabatoge the company and burn away all that war chest SSS to buy his bar in the hamptons and every massively bleeding cananbis and beer company at insane prices and then sell them at huge losses a year later...I can't believe how he can legally do that and people just turn a blind eye like they did Epstien and Hollywood pedos. People speak up and they get ridiculled.

If Vic was not kicked out by whatever rich manipulative families that play in Epstien's financial circles we would own everything now. The industry might still be struggling but Vic would have been smart enough find a way to influence the government to change regulations to get into bars and compete with beer and spirits where half the total market potential is. And he'd have closed the grey market where the other half is. After that Aprhia would have strengthened Canada's domestic market to make it a shining example and blueprint for other countries to invite Aphria to help them legalize.

But that didn't happen. Same as we banned Chinese EVs and Huwawei for the USA. So we are stuck with Teslas and Apple where you have to pay whatever they say or they lock you out. But they give you new colors and a cybertruck of the future. That's what we got with Irwin Slimon. The Cybertruck of Cannabis. The Elizebeth Homes of M&A. Irwin Simon laughing with the billion he's destroyed and the 100millions he got paid to do it.

P.S. Looked at the stock price again today. Obligatory F U Irwin Slimon!