• Plant-based superfood developer Rritual Superfoods Inc. gained certification from the USDA validating its organic product marketing recently, helping to establish the company’s premium functional food elixirs following their launch in September
• The initial three product line elixirs, shots and mixes promote wellness by blending select nutraceutical mushrooms with adaptogenic roots to promote the body’s immune and cognitive function, as well as to reduce stress
• Market analysts predict the overall functional foods industry will achieve revenues of $268 billion by 2027
• Functional mushrooms are a still-emerging subsector within the industry, allowing Rritual opportunity to build a following from the ground floor within the marketplace

Therapeutic foods innovator Rritual Superfoods is gaining attention as it helps build the emerging new market for healthful mushroom elixirs as a beneficial superfood. On the heels of its initial product launch in September and an ECRM Buyer’s Choice Award last month for its attractive marketing and growing market presence (https://ibn.fm/mcl20), Rritual has secured organic certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), which provides “trusted, third-party validation of the quality of Rritual’s products” beyond the unregulated claims of many products to feature “all-natural” ingredients, CEO David Kerbel noted (https://ibn.fm/EVcx8). “We have a premium lineup that features powerful ingredients and with the addition of a Certified Organic seal our consumers can be confident they are making healthy, informed decisions about what they are putting in their body when they purchase Rritual,” Kerbel stated. Rritual was established earlier this year, amid the outsized health concerns accompanying a worldwide pandemic, with the purpose of helping to relieve stress, heighten cognitive function and boost the immune system through healthful elixirs, shots and mixes. The company’s initial product line features three select mushroom varieties that enjoy long-standing reputations for their beneficial biological properties. Each mushroom variety is teamed with natural “adaptogens” — herbal substances used to increase the body’s ability to resist biological stress (https://ibn.fm/EKakP). “The health and wellness benefits of mushrooms and plant-based therapies are backed by decades of scientific research. Rritual’s new line of elixirs embraces that research and provides consumers with an easy way to get a daily dose of the powerful effects,” Rritual President Dr. Mike Hart stated when the product lines were announced (https://ibn.fm/6IutV). The products will be available to consumers throughout North America during the first quarter of the new year, stepping back from the original announcement they’d be available in the fall. The elixirs and shots will be available in 14-stick packs and in 250-gram tubs, marketed at first through Rritual’s website and the company’s Amazon store before additional retail outlets are joined through the company team’s corporate connections. The blends include the Chaga mushroom paired with Eleuthero root to boost immunity, Lion’s Mane mushroom paired with Rhodiola root to support cognitive function and brain health, and Reishi mushroom paired with Ashwagandha root to help the body fight anxiety (https://ibn.fm/x3zAT). Each elixir also contains six other functional mushrooms as well as a prebiotic blend featuring inulin and lucuma fruit powder to support immune and digestive health. Analysts at Research And Markets forecast the overall functional foods industry will attain revenues of $268 billion by 2027 with a growth CAGR of 6.7 percent between 2021 and 2027, demonstrating the public’s interest in consuming highly nutritious foods even when many such products are expensive and may not have rigorous testing to underly their claims (https://ibn.fm/Km4qf). The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic this year is seen as a significant driver in consumer interest toward functional foods. For more information, visit the company’s website at https://investors.WeAreRritual.com. “Mental Fitness is a Daily Ritual” NOTE TO INVESTORS:The latest news and updates relating to Rritual Mushrooms are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/Rritual

• Gage Cannabis, vertically integrated cannabis operator, has stated goals to become fastest-growing cannabis brand in state of Michigan
• Michigan’s cannabis industry has benefitted from strong growth momentum ever since state passed motion to legalize cannabis for adult recreational use in 2018; sector now valued at estimated $3 billion per annum at maturity
• Gage Cannabis currently has five retail locations across Michigan along with three wholly-owned cultivation centers all fully operational
• Company posted $13.1 million in 3Q2020 sales (unaudited), a 129% increase from its 1Q2020 figure of $5.8 million

On December 4, 2018, Michigan officially became the 10th state in the United States to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. Since then, Gage Cannabis a leading vertically integrated operator in the cannabis industry led by former CEO and Chairman of Canopy Growth Corp. Bruce Linton, has sought to focus on the Michigan market, with the stated ambition of building the fastest-growing cannabis brand in the state. Gage Cannabis has witnessed a rapid growth trajectory since its inception, having opened its first medical provisioning center (dispensary) in the state of Michigan in 2019. Since then, the company has seen its retail footprint expand to five medical or adult-use locations, with plans to operate 20+ locations by the end of 2021. Gage Cannabis has simultaneously sought to complement its retail distribution network with a swiftly expanding cultivation operation—one which has focused on producing small-batch, indoor-grown, and hand-trimmed plants designed to ensure that every gram of cannabis sold is of the highest quality. Currently, the company boasts three operational cultivation sites, located at Monitor Township, Harrison Township, and Warren while operating one processing facility located in the Harrison Township. Going forward, the company intends to open a new processing facility located in close proximity to its cultivation assets. Ever since the use of recreational cannabis was legalized in 2018, Michigan has emerged as one of the fastest-growing legal cannabis markets in the United States in terms of consumption. State authorities have recently projected recreational marijuana sales to be worth nearly $1 billion per annum in 2021 with revenues set to rise above $1.5 billion by 2023 (https://ibn.fm/1PJhv). Gage Cannabis has sought to capitalize on surging cannabis demand within Michigan through its extensive distribution footprint – one which has seen the company establish a presence encompassing an estimated 90% of Michigan’s population within a one-hour radius of its dispensaries. The company’s initiatives have not gone unrewarded. Gage Cannabis recorded sales of $5.8 million in 1Q2020—a figure which rose to $11.9 million in 2Q2020 and is forecast to rise further to $13.1mn (unaudited) in 3Q2020 as per management guidance, marking a 129% growth in sales from 1Q2020 to 3Q2020. The increase has been reflected through a commensurate increase in the company’s cultivation capacity, which has risen from 200 pounds per month at the start of the year to an estimated 1,000 pounds by December – with the increase in cultivation capacity assisting the company promote rapid growth through its retail locations. A study carried out by the Brightfield Group found that the recreational marijuana market in Michigan could be set to rival the figures seen in areas such as Nevada and Colorado by 2023 (https://ibn.fm/VMNJ8). In fact, Michigan is already one of the top five cannabis markets based on the most recent month of cannabis sales. The study found that 3% of Michigan’s residents were medical marijuana cardholders, a figure which has led the consumer insights company to predict that the state’s recreational market could triple in size over the next three years. Gage Cannabis has recently announced its intentions to raise up to $50 million in gross proceeds through a regulation A+ offering (https://ibn.fm/wPg02), with a portion of the proceeds set to be re-invested to finance the company’s various growth initiatives. With Michigan’s cannabis market set to expand exponentially in the coming years, Gage Cannabis finds itself well-positioned to capitalize on market’s future growth trajectory. To learn more about the company’s Regulation A financing, visit www.GageInvestors.com. For more information on Gage Cannabis Co., visit the company’s website at www.GageUSA.com. NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to Gage Cannabis are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/GAGE

• SGTM completes two-year audit in preparation for upcoming SEC Form-10 filing
• Company targets fully reporting status, NASDAQ tier listing
• Subsidiary to supply mulch products, services to Midwest, Western New York 7-Eleven stores

Sustainable Green Team (OTC: SGTM), a leading provider of environmentally beneficial solutions for tree and storm waste disposal, has completed a two-year (2018 and 2019) audit in preparation for its upcoming SEC Form-10 filing (https://ibn.fm/uTDvF). The filing is part of SGTM’s strategic plan to become fully reporting and apply for uplisting.

“I’m truly blessed and proud of my team not only to complete our first two-year audit but to witness our catapult achievement,” said SGTM CEO and director Tony Raynor. “It’s thanks to my team and partners we have been able to achieve so much and progress with continue growth. Now with our audit complete, we are able to take our next major step on taking SGTM fully reporting and work our way to ultimately achieving NASDAQ tier listing.

“We are currently in discussion with multiple SEC legal counsel firms to see whom would fit best with our team and assist us on not only achieving every step along the way to be listed on the NASDAQ but to assure that we stay complaint with the SEC to provide transparency to our shareholders,” Raynor continued. “We plan on uploading our September 2020 quarter early November and updating our shareholders on our FORM-10 process as we progress.”

SGTM reported that the completed audit totaled $2,084,725 in revenue and $103,343 gross profit for FY 2019, respectively, and $508,591 in revenue and ($9,609) in gross profit for FY 2018. The company also recorded $18,637,665 in revenue and $5,081,772 gross profit for its June 2020 six-month uploaded quarter, which represents a 794% increase in revenue and 4,817% increase in gross profit compared to 2019’s operations.

In other good news for the company, its wholly owned subsidiary Mulch Manufacturing Inc. received an order to supply mulch products and services to 7-Eleven stores located throughout the Midwest and Western New York (https://ibn.fm/b52yJ). The contract, which is the most recent in an impressive list of contracts Mulch has nailed down in the last several weeks, starts in 2021.

“Thanks to our VP of sales Paul Stolly, we continue to secure major international chain accounts to start 2021 strong, commencing with 7-Eleven Inc.’s Midwest U.S. and western New York locations,” noted Raynor. “This allows us to build brand integrity and supply for future expansion as we progress.”

Sustainable Green Team, through its subsidiaries, provides tree services, debris hauling and removal, biomass recycling, mulch manufacturing, packaging and sales. The company was established with the objective of providing a solution for the treatment and handling of tree debris that has historically been disposed of in landfills, creating an environmental burden and pressure on disposal sites around the nation. SGTM’s solutions are founded in sustainability, based on vertically integrated operations that begin with collecting tree debris through its tree services division and collection sites and then, through its processing division, recycling and using that tree debris as a feedstock that is manufactured into a variety of organic, attractive, next-generation mulch products that are packaged and sold to landscapers, installers and garden centers.

The Sustainable Green Team plans to expand its operations through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions that are both accretive to earnings and positioned for rapid growth from the resulting synergistic opportunities identified. SGTM’s customers include governmental, residential and commercial clients.

To learn more about Sustainable Green Team Ltd., view the company’s investor presentation at https://ibn.fm/reoNg.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to SGTM are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/SGTM

• InsuraGuest Technologies, Inc. currently offers two products in the hospitality and small business sector, with the opportunity for further expansion in the future
• InsureThePeople is providing small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers with custom-catered insurance options at affordable rates and flexible payment schedules
• Small enterprises make up 99% of the United States’ 28.7 million businesses
• The InsuraGuest Hospitality product is compatible with over 70 different property-management products spanning hotel and vacation rental properties

InsuraGuest Technologies (TSX.V: ISGI) (OTC: IGSTF) is revolutionizing the insurance experience with the launch of the business owner policy (“BOP”) portal, extending general liability coverages to small businesses – a vital sector of the United States economy. Using InsuraGuest Technologies’ proprietary insurtech platform, InsureThePeople can provide on-demand and affordable insurance products to small business owners and entrepreneurs through technological means.

Businesses with revenues up to $6 million per location and occupancies up to 35,000 square feet are eligible to join the platform, with a minimum annual premium of $250. InsuraGuest Technologies’ targeted clients have up to 20 employees with sales and TIV under $1 million. They are typically small in size, like startups, consultants, or home-based businesses.

The InsureThePeople platform helps make insurance for small business easy and affordable with flexible payment schedules. It offers custom-tailored policies for small business owners in over 130 class codes. Insurance companies use class codes to determine the degree and type of risk a business may incur. The types of coverage that InsuraGuest Technologies may provide a business with are:

• Property
• Business Income
• Equipment
• General Liability
• Employment Liability
• Business Auto
• Professional Liability
• Liquor Liability
• Cyber Risk
• Workers’ Comp

Any number of these could be beneficial across the realm of small businesses, including startups, retail, accountants, freelancers, and more. And with the U.S. economy increasingly shifting to a small-business model, the market opportunities for InsuraGuest’s platform are expanding significantly.

Additionally, the company’s insurtech and insurance offerings come at a time of change for the insurance industry, with established carriers working on adding new technologies to their current platforms. In 2019, $5.54 billion was invested in insurtech, a quarter of the amount coming from larger carriers (https://ibn.fm/FH8Ol). Over the last decade, close to $16.5 billion has been invested into insurtech, pressuring the market to change and become more innovative. As the market grows, InsuraGuest Technologies will continue to expand across different insurance industry sectors, not just hospitality and small business.

InsuraGuest Hospitality covers both hotels and vacation rental properties, and was designed to fill the gaps in other policies on the market, including a claims process that is easier to navigate. The company’s insurtech platform is compatible with approximately 70 different hotel property-management systems, which include Hilton-ONQ, Oracle Opera, Marriot Fosse, Agilysis, Springer-Miller Systems, Lightspeed GPS, and many others.

For more information about the company, please visit www.InsuraGuest.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to ISGI are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/ISGI

• 128 new artists signed up with FDBL’s Fan Pass
• Livestreaming platform meets need of artists seeking foundational elements of performing from virtual stage
• Fan Pass allows artists to offer exclusive content channels to fans, provides music lovers with all-access pass to all artists on platform

Friendable (OTC: FDBL) has announced that its new livestreaming artist platform, Fan Pass, added 128 new artists to its lineup from Oct. 12 through Oct. 27, a 35% increase in a short two-week period (https://ibn.fm/enG6i). Fan Pass, FDBL’s flagship product, supports musical artists at all levels by providing exclusive artist-content channels, livestreaming events, promotional support, fan subscriptions and custom merchandise designs, all of which serve as revenue streams for each artist.

“As the uncertainty continues around live venues and performances, we feel even stronger demand from artists seeking the foundational elements of performing from the virtual stage,” said Friendable CEO Robert A. Rositano Jr. “No matter how the limitations of performing in front of an in-person audience shakes out, Fan Pass is here to build relationships with artists, labels and their fan communities so we can support reentry to these in person performances, while creating a ‘hybrid’ model of virtual performances for fans around the world.”

The addition of new artists brings the Fan Pass roster up to more than 500 artists total who have signed onto the platform since the app’s July 2020 launch. Recognizing the power of this new platform, artists around the world are likely to seize the opportunity to connect with fans everywhere — and make money while doing so.

Friendable is a mobile technology and marketing company focused on connecting and engaging users through its proprietary mobile and desktop applications. Launched July 24, 2020, Fan Pass is designed to help artists engage with their fans around the world and earn revenue while doing so. The livestreaming platform allows artists to offer exclusive content channels to their fans, who can use their smartphones to gain access to their favorite artists as well as an all-access pass, giving them access to all artists on the platform.

Additionally, the Fan Pass team will deploy social broadcasters to capture exclusive VIP experiences, interviews and behind-the-scenes content featuring their favorite artists, all available to fan subscribers for free on a trial basis. Following the trial period, subscriptions are billed monthly at $3.99, or about the cost of downloading a couple of songs, providing VIP access at a fraction of the cost of traditional face-to-face meetups.

For more information about Friendable or the Fan Pass platform, services and offering, visit the company’s website at www.Friendable.com or www.FanPassLive.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to FDBL are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/FDBL

• Predictive Oncology CEO Carl Schwartz featured on NNW’s podcast to discuss the company’s prospects
• Schwartz elaborated on company’s various divisions, affirming that POAI had begun to see revenue trends stabilize, cash burn rates decline
• TumorGenesis received overwhelmingly positive feedback on its initial product launches, with plans to extend its technological prowess to address other oncological segments
• Soluble Biotech, which announced its first major contract in August, is expected to reveal news of second order win in near future
• Schwartz touched upon POAI’s Helomics business, stating his belief that division could soon transition towards monetizing its unique and one-of-a-kind asset portfolio

Predictive Oncology (NASDAQ: POAI) CEO Carl Schwartz was recently featured in an exclusive audio interview with NetworkNewsWire (“NNW”), a financial news and content distribution company, to provide an update on the company’s recent milestones and near-term goals following the October release of his open letter to Predictive Oncology’s shareholders (https://ibn.fm/XLY14). During the wide-ranging conversation, Schwartz sought to update listeners on the company’s subsidiaries – Skyline Medical, TumorGenesis, Soluble Biotech and Helomics (https://ibn.fm/Vqkh5).

Schwartz commenced by outlining the status of the company’s Skyline Medical business, charged with overseeing the manufacture and sale of their proprietary STREAMWAY system – designed to provide medical facilities with a direct-to-drain fluid disposal system. The CEO revealed that although the company had sought to reduce emphasis on its legacy division, the company had sold 18 STREAMWAY units thus far in 2020 with the expectation of selling between 5-7 more over the course of the year.

Moreover, he explained that the business was throwing off an estimated $700 thousand in annual free cash-flows—a figure which has proven to be more than sufficient to cover the unit’s operating expenses.

Schwartz went on to elaborate on the TumorGenesis business, which specializes in the field of ovarian cancer, creating laboratory-grown cancer cells which can then be used to assist researchers and clinicians identify which cancer cells bind to specific biomarkers. He revealed that the company had received overwhelmingly positive feedback in regards to the division’s initial product launch and stated that the company would seek to extend its technological prowess towards addressing oncological segments such as lung cancer in the future.

The interview later transitioned to POAI’s most recent acquisition, Soluble Biotech, which seeks to provide optimized FDA-approved formulations for vaccines, antibodies and other protein therapeutics in a faster and lower cost basis to its customers. In August 2020, the company announced its first contract with a major pharmaceutical company for protein expression and solubility studies, and Schwartz stated that a second significant contract would be announced in the near future. Going forward, the CEO expressed his optimism on further contract wins as well as the award of certain grants, which had been applied for by the division.

Schwartz also touched upon Predictive Oncology’s outlook for the fourth quarter – placing particular emphasis on the prospects of the company’s Helomics business. Through its Helomics division, the company leverages its unique, clinically validated patient derived (“PDx”) smart tumor profiling platform to provide oncologists with a roadmap to help individualize therapy. In addition, the company is leveraging artificial intelligence and its proprietary database of over 150,000 cancer case tumors to build AI-driven models of tumor drug response with the hope of improving outcomes for the patients of today and tomorrow.  With the wealth of knowledge and experience gleaned over its operational lifespan, Schwartz affirmed his belief that Helomics was well on its way towards monetizing its exceptional and one-of-a-kind asset portfolio and validating the ambitions that POAI had harbored for the division upon its purchase a little over two years ago.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Predictive-Oncology.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to POAI are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/POAI

• Experts expect the recreational marijuana market in Michigan to rival the numbers currently seen in some of country’s top cannabis markets within the next few years
• Gage Cannabis Co. is innovating and curating the highest-quality cannabis experiences possible for cannabis consumers in the state of Michigan
• New Lansing location offers a wide range of products, all available for purchase through curbside delivery or walk-up pick up

Gage Cannabis is strengthening its position as Michigan’s leading high-quality craft cannabis brand and operator by offering recreational marijuana at its Lansing, Michigan location (https://ibn.fm/6Xhxk). The company is committed to building the fastest-growing cannabis brand in the state, which is currently home to one of the fastest-growing legal cannabis markets in the country.

“We are thrilled to start offering recreational sales to more customers within the Lansing area,” said Gage Cannabis Co. president Fabian Monaco. “The demand for adult-use products has exploded in the past year, and we are ready and eager to meet those needs. We have received an overwhelmingly positive response from medical patients about our products and retail experience, and we look forward to providing the same level of service and product selection to our new community of recreational customers.”
Gage’s Lansing location offers a wide range of products, all available for purchase through curbside delivery or walk-up pick up. The store’s product offerings include flower, pre-rolls, edibles, concentrates, topicals, tinctures, CBD products, accessories and apparel. The company also features products by Redemption Cannabis, which was founded by Ryan Basore, one of Gage’s first social-equity program recipients.

Through this program, Gage offers grants of up to $50,000 to help those who were harmed by the war on drugs. In 2019, Basore, who spent two and a half years in prison after his cannabis business was raided by authorities, received the grant from Gage Cannabis and used the funds to join with other drug-war victims and create the Redemption brand  (https://ibn.fm/41GfM).

In addition to its Lansing location, Gage has four additional locations up and running — Adrian (which also offers recreational marijuana), Detroit, Ferndale and Traverse City — with eight more locations coming soon. The company has plans to have more than 20 operating locations by the end of 2021.

Many experts expect the recreational marijuana market in Michigan to rival the numbers currently seen in some of the country’s top cannabis markets within the next few years (https://ibn.fm/9cO0h). An estimated 3% of Michigan’s residents hold medical marijuana cards, a much higher percentage than most other medical markets. A leading research organization predicts that the state’s recreational market could triple in size between 2020 and 2023.

Gage Cannabis Co. is innovating and curating the highest-quality cannabis experiences possible for cannabis consumers in the state of Michigan and bringing internationally renowned brands to market. Through years of progressive industry experience, the firm’s founding partners have successfully built and grown operations with federal and state licenses, including cultivation, processing and retail locations. Gage’s portfolio includes city and state approvals for 19 Class C cultivation licenses, three processing licenses and 13 provisioning centers (dispensaries). The company is currently planning a Canadian listing for early 2021 (https://ibn.fm/V73dL) and has launched a Regulation A, Tier 2, equity financing.

To learn more about the company’s Regulation A financing, visit www.GageInvestors.com.

For more information on Gage Cannabis Co., visit the company’s website at www.GageUSA.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to Gage Cannabis are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/GAGE

• Providing cutting-edge betting technology through partnership with Ultra Play
• Recruiting more gamers through Puurl’s unique “soft-gaming” strategy
• Led by CEO with more than 15 years of success in the global gaming industry

Mobius Interactive is an online gaming operator featuring various unique offerings catering to diverse demographic groups. A quick look at the company’s website tells visitors that the company is designed for “gamers at heart” who love to play almost every type of online game imaginable, including sports betting and casino play.

Mobius has partnered with leading and award-winning eSports and iGaming platform Ultra Play. With years of experience in eSports and betting operations, Ultra Play provides cutting-edge betting technology and innovative concepts that include partial and complete cashout, livestream and statistics, easy-to-navigate customer database, multicurrency and adjustable exchange rates, data analytics and more (https://ibn.fm/s1v4m).

Mobius can provide all the sports betting a consumer could want, 24/7, thanks to this platform.  Functionalities of Mobius’ sports betting include mystery jackpots and cutting-edge technology, with live and pre-match odds.

Through Mobius’ partnership with UltraPlay, the company can deliver the most popular casino games globally, with award-winning slots, live casino play and multiple new games available each month. Mobius’ live casino games are compatible with desktop, smartphones, laptops and tablets, and are set up to accommodate any number of players at any time.

The company’s partnership with Puurl attracts the attention of players who are shopping online. Puurl’s unique concept allows players to play-to-win physical products available on any existing eStore. This opens up an additional market through “soft gaming.”

The idea is revolutionary. While shopping for products they are interested in, rather than close the cart or click purchase, consumers are presented with a third option: to place a bet with the prize being the desired product. eShoppers who are not current gamblers online are attracted to the opportunity and entertainment, and Mobius acquires a new gamer.

Lynn Pearce, co-founder and CEO of Mobius, has more than 15 years of success in the global gaming industry, from land-based casinos in the United Kingdom to online gaming companies offering sports betting, poker and casino games. She has successfully delivered multi-million-dollar global brand initiatives and projects online and offline in the United States and throughout the Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Pearce has made a name for herself within the gaming community and publishes often with “Infinity Gaming Magazine.”

As an online gaming operator featuring a variety of unique offerings catering to diverse demographic groups, Mobius Interactive is well positioned to leverage the growing interest as smart money is increasingly betting on esports. The company is partnering with award-winning eSports and iGaming platform Ultra Play and more than 600 VIP and master-gaming affiliates seeking to attract high-net-worth gamers worldwide. Led by management with experience in eSports and handling the launches of more 30 successful products within the last three years, Mobius Interactive is set out to become a notable player in this growing sector.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.MobiusInteractive.Ltd.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to Mobius are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/Mobius

• Statistics Canada data confirms growth in Canada’s legal marijuana market
• PACR leverages genetics to produce superior-quality strains, tailored for specific purposes
• PACR’s catalog contains 350 tested quality cultivars, including 50 super-elite strains

Canada’s legal marijuana industry recently celebrated its second anniversary with a jump in sales – a sign of victory in its ongoing battle with the black market (https://ibn.fm/4jOA8). As a licensed cultivator and producer, Pac Roots Cannabis (CSE: PACR) is positioned to benefit from this opportunity to market its premium-quality cannabis strains to a larger audience. Cultivated using innovative techniques based on genetic principles, Pac Roots produces custom strains unavailable on the conventional market that can be tailored for specific purposes.

Until recently, legal cannabis sellers have been struggling to compete with the black market since the country legalized recreational marijuana. The tide appears to be changing—evidenced by data from Statistics Canada showing that people spent 74% more money on legal cannabis between April and June of this year when compared to the same period in 2019.

Pac Roots is poised to benefit from this shift through an increased opportunity to market its superior strains, many of which are tweaked with varying amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) and cannabidiol (“CBD”) for specific therapeutic purposes. Along with altering the cannabidiol profile of their cultivars, the company also leverages genetic technology to develop plants that adapt easily to the climate for maximum yields each growing season.

Pac Roots maintains its commitment to quality genetics through a strategic licensing agreement with Phenome One Corp, a privately-held full-service genetics cannabis company. This partnership gives Pac Roots access to one of the largest living genetic cannabis libraries in Canada – an unparalleled resource that has empowered both companies to develop elite strains with multiple beneficial characteristics. Along with 350 tested cultivars, PACR’s extensive catalog also contains 50 super-elite strains prized for specific properties unique to the industry.

With a focus on the future, PACR is also committed to building its portfolio of real estate that includes valuable long-term income-producing and development assets. In addition to completing its indoor facility in Lake Country, British Columbia (“BC”), the Company has also acquired a 60% interest in a 100-acre joint venture hemp project in Rock Creek, BC, along with adding 250 acres of premium Fraser Valley land to its portfolio.

The cannabis industry continues to grow as laws around marijuana relax throughout the world. Awareness around cannabinoids and their therapeutic properties is increasing among the general public – especially among discerning consumers knowledgeable about specific strains and their properties. As a cultivator of unique strains varying in specific cannabinoids like THC and CBD, Pac Roots is in an ideal position to leverage this increased consumer awareness by providing top quality cannabis products for discriminating consumers.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.PacRoots.ca.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to PACR are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/PACR

• PGA, MLB changes CBD policies; other leagues evaluating policy changes regarding marijuana, CBD use
• Global market for CBD oil projected to grow from $967.2 million in 2020 to $5.3 billion by 2025
• WTER offers an exclusive line of A88CBD(TM) products, ranging from tinctures, capsules and gummies to lotion, creams salves

Since CBD was removed from professional golf’s banned substance list in 2018, PGA and Champions Tour players are turning more frequently to the plant to treat aches and pains, and golfers aren’t the only athletes to choose the compound. Earlier this year, Major League Baseball removed marijuana from its banned-substance list during the offseason (https://ibn.fm/G0lyQ). The benefits of CBD use by athletes are still being studied, but the Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ: WTER) (CSE: WTER) offers an exclusive line of A88CBD(TM) products(https://ibn.fm/KeIXt) that provide those benefits to sports enthusiasts — and anyone else looking for high-quality CBD-infused options.

“Billy Horschel went six months without a top-eight finish last year before he found a remedy for his ailing golf game from a surprising source: the hemp plant,” reported a recent “New York Times” article (https://ibn.fm/SBglV). “Horschel, a five-time PGA Tour winner, began using cannabidiol, or CBD, products shortly after he missed the cut at the British Open in July. He had four top-eight finishes in the next four months and was playing some of the most consistent golf of his career before the season was suspended in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. . . . He is the latest in a growing group of tour members, including Bubba Watson, a two-time Masters champion, and Scott McCarron, the reigning Schwab Cup winner on the Champions Tour, who are paid endorsers for CBD products.”

In addition to golf and the MLB, an ESPN article reports that CBD use is allowed in the National Women’s Soccer League. The substance is currently prohibited in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. However, “the NBA has also expressed interest in revising its bylaws against CBD use. In 2018, CBD was removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned substances list” (https://ibn.fm/nxnoR).

The same article noted that CBD, short for cannabidiol, “has often been touted as a cure-all of sorts. Manufacturers and users claim, mostly anecdotally, that it has given them relief from muscle soreness and swelling and helped curb stress and anxiety. . . . Hemp-based CBD is legal — in various forms from ingestible oils to topicals — in all but three states in the U.S. and is legal at the federal level. States have their own rules restricting or allowing CBD products to be sold, and in many states, CBD can be sold over the counter in drug stores. It remains unregulated by the Federal Drug Administration, however.”

The ESPN article reported that the global market for CBD oil should grow from $967.2 million in 2020 to $5.3 billion by 2025 — all without CBD brands being allowed to directly advertise their products on social media.

WTER chairman Aaron Keay, a former Canadian national soccer team member, is an advocate for CBD use in sports, as well as other aspects of everyday use. “If you look at the kind of the athlete adoption of it, it kind of coincides with how the world is taking it on and looking at it. But you have a few movers and shakers that are willing to take the risk and say: ‘Look, CBD is going to become mainstream way ahead of cannabis and THC,'” Keay told ESPN. The Alkaline Water Company Inc. is a proud supporter of sports; the company’s brand ambassador Chez Reavie, who wears WTER’s flagship Alkaline88 logo on his shirt and sports an Alkaline88 golf bag at all PGA events, won the 2019 Travelers Championship Tournament.

The Alkaline Water Company offers an exclusive line of A88CBD(TM) products, ranging from tinctures, capsules and gummies to lotion, creams salves. The A88CBD products are formulated using high-quality, U.S.-grown hemp and made with 100% natural ingredients, cruelty-free, and gluten-free ingredients.

Founded in 2012, The Alkaline Water Company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its flagship product, Alkaline88, is a leading premier alkaline water brand available in bulk and single-serve sizes along with eco-friendly aluminum packaging options. In 2019, Alkaline88 launched A88 Infused(TM) to meet consumer demand for flavor-infused products. A88 Infused flavored water is available in seven unique all-natural flavors with new flavors coming soon. Additionally, in 2020 the company launched A88 Infused Beverage Division Inc., which includes the company’s CBD water and flavor-infused water.

To learn more about this company, please visit www.TheAlkalineWaterco.com.

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