Latin American Cannabis: Khiron Life Science's CEO Alvaro Torres

<p>Alvaro Torres is an entrepreneur and executive with over 15 years of experience in the Latin American market, including infrastructure projects and project finance, management strategy, team development, and mergers and acquisitions. He's overseen the development of projects totaling over $1 billion in capital expenditure, including the development and construction of Colombia’s tallest skyscraper.</p> <p>Khiron Life Sciences Corp's intent is to position itself to be the dominant integrated medical cannabis company in Latin America. Khiron has core operations in Colombia and is fully licensed in the country for the cultivation, production, domestic distribution, and international export of both THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol) medical cannabis.</p> <p>With a focused regional strategy and patient oriented approach, Khiron combines global scientific expertise, agricultural advantages, branded product market entrance experience and education to drive prescription and brand loyalty to address priority medical conditions such as chronic pain, epilepsy, depression and anxiety in the Latin American market of over 620 million people</p> <p>Summary:<br /> 00:00 - Intro<br /> 03:47 - Cannabis Health Centers<br /> 11:08 - Growing Cannabis in Colombia<br /> 17:43 - Flower's stigma, extracts only<br /> 22:18 - Converting Drs to cannabis<br /> 28:32 - Cannabis covered by Insurance<br /> 36:34 - $.05/g & 90% gross profit<br /> 43:36 - Advice for Lat. Am.<br /> 48:09 - Alavro's last words<br /> 50:31 - outro</p> <p>Show Notes:<br /> Alvaro Torres, Co-Founder, CEO and Director at Khiron Life Sciences Corp<br /> https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaroftorres/?originalSubdomain=co</p> <p>Khiron Life Sciences Corp<br /> https://khiron.ca</p> <p>Host:<br /> Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabis business podcast.<br /> https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshkincaid/</p> <p>Episode 747 of The Talking Hedge:<br /> Your Cannabis Business Podcast.<br /> ​Covering cannabis products, reviews, business news, in