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Happy 4/20 everyone. It’s the day the cannabis industry likes to celebrate as their special holiday. It’s become a huge business deal for the industry.
A recent study done by LeafLink predicts that this 4/20 will be the first ever to have retail sales top $1B, even reaching as high as $1.2B, based on their wholesale marketplace figures. According to Flowhub, in 2017, total sales of cannabis by consumers on 4/20 represented a 44 percent increase from an average Thursday and 30 percent more than an average Friday.
The big news this week had to do with biotech company GW Pharmaceuticals. The company received very positive comments from the FDA. That left many market watchers with the feeling that the FDA will ultimately approve GW’s drug epidiolex for pharmaceutical sales in the U.S. While some believe this means that marijuana would immediately be removed from the controlled substances list. Think again. That still has to be done by Congress. However, it’s hard to argue that marijuana has no medicinal purposes, which is part of the schedule 1 designation if you can get a legal prescription for it.
Green Bits, headquartered in San Jose, announced it has raised a $17 million Series A funding round, led by Tiger Global, the New York-based investment firm, along with participation by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital.
Medicine Man Technologies (MDCL) announced today the preliminary financial results for the quarter The company reported approximately $1.2 million in revenue for the quarter, a 122% increase over the same quarter last year and representing the fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
Ontario-based Aphria Inc. (APHQF) reported that its revenues for the third quarter ending February 28 were C$10.2 million versus last year’ C$5.1 million for the same time period, an increase of 100%. Revenue increased 20% sequentially from C$8.5 million.
MassRoots filed its annual report on Tuesday but didn’t get around to the company’s financials in the filing until page 24. Gross revenue for the year fell 54% to $319,242, while the net losses ballooned 146% to $44 million. In all of this mess, CEO Isaac Dietrich awarded himself a bonus of $190,659 on top of his salary of $96,971. While Mr. Dietrich’s monthly salary was decreased from 2016, his total compensation jumped from $107,917 in 2016 to $287,630 in 2017.
Lots of acquisitions to report…..
MPX Bioceutical Corporation (MPXEF) signed a letter of intent to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of private company Canveda Inc., a Licensed Producer under Health Canada’s Access to Cannabis.
CannaRoyalty is buying FloraCal Farms (“FloraCal”), a licensed ultra-premium craft cannabis producer located in Sonoma County, California for US$1 million and 3,million + CannaRoyalty shares
Livewell Foods Canada announced that it entered into a C$10 million private placement deal.
Civilized Worldwide Inc. announced that it executed a strategic investment and collaboration agreement with Canopy Rivers Corporation where they will invest C$5 million in Civilized via a convertible debenture and the companies will work together on various online, media and event mandates relating to the cannabis industry.
