EXCLUSIVE: Cannabis ETF Leaders Highlight Convenience For Investors, Growth Opportunities — ‘I Don’t Think Cannabis Is Uninvestable’
Two cannabis-based ETF leaders discussed why U.S. investors turn to ETFs for sector exposure and what federal regulation could mean for the industry during a panel at the 2025 Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Chicago.
ETF Convenience: AdvisorShares Chief Operating Officer Dan Ahrens recognizes there is difficulty for U.S. investors to invest in cannabis stocks given many of them don’t trade on the NYSE or Nasdaq.
“With ETFs, it’s a convenient purchase, a basket of stocks,” Ahrens said at the Benzinga event. “It becomes much more important when we’re talking about cannabis in the U.S.”
AdvisorShares is home to the AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF (NYSE:MSOS). Ahrens said AdvisorShares has many ETFs, but its MSOS continues to make headlines as one of the top ways to get exposure to the cannabis space.
Seymour Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Tim Seymour said cannabis ETFs are helpful and ironic in ways, as investors have limited access to …