One Stock for the Marijuana Gold Rush

By: Matthew Cochrane

Experienced investors know that a successful track record hinges on balancing the right amount of risk for a large enough reward. Anyone can load up on penny stocks, essentially gambling with their investment money, wishing for outsized returns.

Unfortunately, like visiting Las Vegas casinos, investing in penny stocks almost always leads to heavy losses and heart burn -- the house always wins!

On the other end of the spectrum, anyone can stow money away in a savings account, earning next to nothing. Your principal will remain safe, but your hard-earned money won't grow and, over time, inflation will eat away at your money's buying power.

Finding the right balance on the risk-reward spectrum can certainly be difficult. That's why we at The Motley Fool are so excited to tell investors about a little-known Canadian company that just unlocked what some experts think could be the key to profiting from the coming marijuana boom.

We believe this investment offers the potential of a huge payoff and makes a suitable investment for investors with a long time horizon. Allow us to explain…

Cannabis legalization is sweeping over North America – 10 states plus Washington, D.C., and Canada have all legalized recreational marijuana over the last few years.

Whether or not you’re planning to ingest any THC, you can’t deny the monumental investing opportunity that a potential $80 billion industry represents - even one that's relatively untested and unproven.

While The Motley Fool loves being on the cutting edge of new investing trends, we’ve been quiet on the growing marijuana industry.

Until now.

Because a potentially game-changing deal just went down between the Ontario government and a powerhouse Canadian company.

And that company – which now has the opportunity to rake in profits from the combined potentially $87 billion combined Canadian and US cannabis industry – is no stranger to us here at The Motley Fool.

What makes this company particularly exciting is that we’ve actually recommended this stock previously … for completely different reasons! Take a look at how it’s done since we recommended it to our members:

1,151% returns since our July 2016 recommendation

46% sales growth in the past year alone

Estimated 98% of addressable market left to conquer

This Canadian powerhouse has locked in key partnerships with behemoths like Facebook, Amazon, and now the Ontario government.

In other words, this company’s future is that it doesn’t hinge on marijuana, but is perfectly poised to capitalize on the industry's potential. If cannabis were regulated away forever, we think this company would still have an incredible future. (That’s why we recommended it in the first place.)

We at The Motley Fool have been educating investors and uncovering trends before they get big for 25 years. Take a look at a few of the companies we picked to dominate their field and how they have performed since we recommended them to our subscribers:

Netflix, up 17,476%

Amazon, up 12,147%

Booking Holdings, up 8,611%

Walt Disney, up 8,008%

If you’d invested $1,000 in each of those companies when we recommended them in Stock Advisor, you’d be sitting on $466,417 right now.

We'd be remiss to only mention our winners -- we've picked some losers along the way too. But our winners have more than made up for our losers.

Being transparent with our track record is something we strongly believe in. All too often, advisory firms and investment services highlight their winners, but neglect to mention their losers.

That's why at The Motley Fool all members can view the performance of every single recommendation we have ever made so they can see how well -- or not -- each one measures up to our high standards. We are proud to report that both our co-founders, David and Tom Gardner, have crushed the S&P 500's returns with their recommendations since Stock Advisor's inception date!

Which brings us to this latest opportunity. Forget penny pot stocks and unproven cannabis farms; this is how to wisely position your portfolio for the coming marijuana boom.

Even with the company's wild success and its history-defining deal with the Canadian government, far fewer investors than you might expect are taking advantage of this opportunity.

Due to the time-sensitive nature of this development, we put together a painstakingly researched report demonstrating how this one stock could mint its own marijuana millionaires.

It reveals the reasons why we think every forward-thinking investor should be paying close attention to this revolutionary new industry and what might be a life-changing investment opportunity.

This report is FREE to you when you sign up for Stock Advisor today.

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