Business View Magazine | March 2019

253 PEBBLE GLOBAL HOLDINGS POWERFUL, NATURAL BENEFITS OF HEMP Wes Williams, about the company’s life- changing medical research, innovative products, and the future of the hemp industry. The following is an edited tran- script of that conversation. BVM: Can you give us some background on AcquiFlow and Pebble? Moran: “AcquiFlow was formed in April 2014 as a holding company with out- side investments. We were very open about being cannabis-focused, no one had ever done that in Texas, and we took a corporate ethical stance by inviting attention to it. When it came to licens- ing, we spun out a subsidiary known as Texas Cannabis that continues to be one of 40 pre- approved on-holds that are waiting to have licenses issued by the state of Texas as the program expands. Texas Cannabis essentially created a product line in order to keep pace. We had established a leadership position in the state, but we were also competing against the rest of the world. “So, to continue to evolve in this industry, we created a product line and company DBA ‘Peb- ble’ and engaged into the hemp CBD markets. We brought in scientists and R&D specialists and spent a full year creating a highly-focused,