Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTReuben Gregg Brewer, The Motley FoolSat, September 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM GMT+2 5 min readCanopy Growth (NASDAQ: CGC) started trading publicly in Canada in 2014 via a reverse merger (then known as Tweed). It eventually got a listing in the United States in 2018, becoming one of the first U.S.-traded marijuana companies. The stock rocketed higher as investors jumped into the sector, expecting growth to be driven by the legalization of marijuana in more and more regions.But Wall Street has a habit of getting too excited about hot investment ideas.