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Red Light Holland enters the market of legal magic truffles

Exploring the recreational and potential medical use of psychedelics

Most people have heard of ‘magic mushrooms’, but they may be unfamiliar with their fungi cousin magic truffles. Magic truffles are legal and very popular in the Netherlands and are well known for their hallucinegic properties that result in psychedelic effects. What is less well known is that truffles have a number of potential health benefits related to reducing anxiety and depression, lifting mood, and freeing the mind. The price for 10 grams of truffles (the maximum recommended dose for a beginner) is between 10 to 15 Euro in Amsterdam.

Red Light Holland Corp. (CSE: TRIP | FSE:4YX) (“RLH”) is in the ‘magic truffle’ business. The Company aims to engage in the production, growth and sale of a premium brand of magic truffles to the legal, recreational market within the Netherlands. Their business revolves around a premium brand of magic truffles. Sales are conducted through existing Dutch Smartshops storefront operators and an advanced e-commerce platform. The Netherlands is a country with a long-standing, established, legal magic truffles market.

Red Light Holland is now starting to commercialize their premium magic truffles in the Netherlands for both recreational and eventual medicinal use

Source: Company presentation

In some surprising news in August, RLH announced that it had commenced its “magic truffles growth operation in the Netherlands, months ahead of schedule…” Red Light Holland has “expedited the build out of its approximately 3,000 square feet, custom built, indoor growing, production and distribution facility of the Company, in Horst, the Netherlands (the “Facility“) and has commenced growing its first crop of magic truffles.”

RLH has also ordered 10,000 units of Psychedelic Truffles Microdosing Packs from McSmart (one of the Netherlands’ prominent truffle growers, distributors and Smart Shop owners), to launch the Microdosing Packs within the Netherlands as early as September 2020. RLH plans to sell these via three Smart Shops operated by McSmart, as well as through Red Light Holland’s proposed e-commerce platform and McSmart’s existing e-commerce platform.

Red Light Holland has also been on a hiring spree adding 7 new high-level members to their team with a wide variety of both business and medical (psychedelics) knowledge and experience. One of the new hires, Sarah Hashkes from RadixMotion, will focus on developing an innovative virtual reality shopping experience (VR Module, due by Q4 2020) for Dutch Smart Shops and e-commerce platforms. Sarah Hashkes is the CEO of RadixMotion and a scientific researcher with knowledge on microdosing and is RLH’s new Scientific Advisor. Part of her mandate is to educate the public about psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic truffles.

The project also includes having a “VR Avatar”, expected to be online by Q3 2020. The VR Avatar is expected to assist Red Light Holland’s larger efforts towards reducing the stigma associated with magic truffles and other psychedelic substances. The Avatar, RLH explains, is to help the novice: “Now imagine shopping for something new – but wanting to truly experience it before purchasing? Pretty cool idea, right? What we are aiming to create here is a virtual reality experience that potential consumers can use before buying our Microdose Packs. This way, they can experience what the effects of microdosing magic truffles would be like, to help with their personal comfort and understanding before actually purchasing our product.”

Sounds rather cool to me. I think it will be quite popular for the curious to try this out. What do readers think?

Red Light Holland is currently growing three different strains of magic truffles and expects to have an initial batch of approximately 100,000 grams of magic truffles available in late October, 2020.

Red Light Holland carves out a unique market niche

Source: Company presentation

Closing remarks

Red Light Holland is moving surprisingly fast to commercialize and promote their product range of premium magic truffles. Considering the Company only listed in Canada this year in late May, then in Germany in June, it is quite amazing that operations have already begun and they are already producing their own magic truffles.

Red Light Holland trades on a market cap of just C$19m as investors are yet to learn about the Company, and their large potential to rapidly expand and create revenues in the lucrative magic truffles market in the Netherlands. Exciting times are ahead for Red Light Holland with a new innovative VR Avatar virtual reality shopping experience, with sales and revenues all not that far away in Q3 and Q4 of this year.




Red Light Holland’s Todd Shapiro on investing in a medical and scientific division for the understanding of medical psychedelics

“We have named a Science and Innovation division called Scarlette Lillie… We thought that this is a way to show investors how serious we are about our medical, our scientific and research division because not only is Red Light Holland a recreational opportunity, where we plan our products on shelves by Q4, but we also want to show the world that we are taking this side very seriously of trying to prove and being a part of the process of what psilocybin can potentially do for human beings…We want to create this division and grow this division to get involved with observational studies, clinical studies and show the scientific community and be a part of some intellectual property…” States Todd Shapiro, Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Red Light Holland Corp. (CSE: TRIP), in an interview with InvestorIntel’s Tracy Weslosky.

Todd went on to comment on the appointment of Canada’s former Health Minister, the Honourable, Tony P. Clement, as a Senior Advisor to Red Light Holland’s Advisory Board. Mr. Clement has served in senior roles in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Cabinet (2006-2015), as Health Minister, Industry Minister and President of the Treasury Board. Todd also said that Red Light Holland has a strong cash position and is building a very strong team which includes Dr. Joseph Geraci, a leading mind in the medicine and machine learning fields and global comedy superstar, Russell Peters.

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Disclaimer: Red Light Holland Corp. is an advertorial member of InvestorIntel Corp.




Todd Shapiro of Red Light Holland on ‘magic truffles’ and the multi-billion dollar psychedelics market

“Psychedelics are a multibillion-dollar market….and that is what this industry is banking on. We are product based, we are a premium brand — the Red Light Truffle will be available in smart shops and we potentially could even have products within the smart shops and on an advanced e-commerce platform by the end of Q3. We plan on setting up a facility that we hope one day will qualify for EU-GMP certification. That means that we can grow a perfect clean room medical grade truffle that could potentially be tested…truffles are sold legally in Netherlands…we think we can capitalize with a premium brand feel and with a micro dose responsible use product.” States Todd Shapiro, Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Red Light Holland Corp. (CSE: TRIP), in an interview with InvestorIntel’s Tracy Weslosky.

Todd went on to say that Red Light Holland will have two divisions – Red Light Recreational and Red Light Health. The company is starting with recreational and will have a medical play in the future. Todd also said that Bruce Linton is the Chairman of Red Light Holland’s Advisory Board. Bruce is the founder and former CEO of Canopy Growth Corporation. Under his leadership, Canopy Growth was the first cannabis producing company in North America to be listed on a major stock exchange (TSX) and included on a major stock index (S&P/TSX Composite Index). Canopy Growth was also the first cannabis-producing company to list on the New York Stock Exchange.

To access the complete interview, click here

Disclaimer: Red Light Holland Corp. is an advertorial member of InvestorIntel Corp.