Pot Stock Short Sellers Seeing Green Again

A Cowen downgrade adds to the woes of popular cannabis stocks.

(Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg)

(Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg)

Pot stocks have been among the hardest hit during this week’s market swoon, giving short sellers a boost — and adding some pain to the hedge funds that own them.

At the end of Monday, cannabis short sellers had gained $107 million for the year, reversing their losses in January, according to S3 Partners.

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