• LALPINA THC-infused beverage already has its prototype based on American Premium Water’s unique hydro-nano technology
• This technology will speed up further development stages, ensuring the early launch of the product
• American Premium Water is working on distribution agreements in both the U.S. and Canada

American Premium Water Corp. (OTC: HIPH) announced the development of a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-infused beverage prototype based on the company’s proprietary hydro-nano technology. Upon the official launch of the finished product, American Premium Water will be the first company on the market to begin offering a hydro-nano-infused THC beverage (http://ibn.fm/uub3W).

American Premium CEO Ryan Fishoff said that the beta version of its LALPINA Hydro-Nano THC beverage is an extension of the company’s technology, which will speed up the development process in the future. There’s potential for the product to become available on the market in the first quarter of 2019 or sooner, Fishoff added.

The specialized technology developed by American Premium Water ensures an absorption rate of up to 90 percent more in comparison to standard THC and CBD beverages. This way, the active component can penetrate cells almost immediately and bypass the bloodstream.

Currently, American Premium Water is discussing the distribution of its beverage in U.S. dispensaries, as well as in Canada.

Previously in 2018, American Premium Water launched its LALPINA Hydro CBD beverage. By October, the company had already successfully negotiated a third party distribution deal. Initial sales went beyond estimates, and American Premium Water has been negotiating with additional distributors, as well. The creation of a THC-infused beverage puts American Premium Water in a good position during such negotiations.

The company is pursuing distribution opportunities in Canada, following the legalization of cannabis in the country. Adult use became legal on October 17, 2018, and forecasts suggest that the sector will generate $3 billion in sales by the end of 2018 (http://ibn.fm/ViNmG). By 2022, the sum is forecast to reach the even more impressive $5.4 billion, combined for both the medical and recreational markets.

Fishoff said that the legalization in Canada and the development of the THC-infused beverage both provide room for growth and extension of American Premium Water’s distribution channels. Additionally, the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles result in excellent understanding of one of the biggest markets in the US. According to Fishoff, American Premium Water can rely on an array of marketing events that will be rolled out in the months before the launch of its new beverage. These events will enable American Premium Water to make full use of its geographic advantage.

American Premium Water is a diversified holding company headquartered in Playa Vista, California. The company manufactures, distributes and markets branded consumer goods. Its portfolio of holdings caters to the needs of a health-conscious market and luxury connoisseurs.

Over the past years, American Premium Water developed its specialized nanotechnologies for the purpose of creating unique beverages. The LALPINA portfolio includes the CBD-infused product that’s already on the market and the THC-infused beverage in the process of development. The mix of hydro and nano technologies increase solubility and bioavailability of the active component for maximum benefit to the user.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AmericanPremiumWater.com

• Commercial featuring original “Shark Tank” member and entrepreneur Kevin Harrington already airing
• Company plans to launch multiple ads and broadcast on several national media outlets
• SingleCoin digital wallet app, already available for iOS and Android, is designed to simplify bitcoin storage and transactions for users

Technology company SinglePoint, Inc. (OTCQB: SING) has kicked off a national TV ad campaign for its latest product offering, the SingleCoin cryptocurrency wallet application, with a commercial featuring original “Shark Tank” member and entrepreneur Kevin Harrington. The commercial has already aired in prime time on FOX News and FOX Business.

In the ad, Harrington speaks about the widespread use of digital currencies like bitcoin and about SinglePoint’s new platform to set up a free and secure digital wallet to buy, use and store digital currencies “without the hassles of banks or debiting credit cards.” Users who sign up at SinglePoint.com will also receive a free informative newsletter with all of the latest information from the digital currency revolution, the ad says. SinglePoint plans to run multiple commercials advertising SingleCoin, all of them featuring Harrington, on several national media outlets.

Developed by AppSwarm, Inc. (OTC: SWRM) for SinglePoint, the SingleCoin bitcoin wallet app is already available on iOS and Android via the Apple App Store and Google Play. Users can also sign up at SinglePoint.com, with app preview and download links already live on the company’s website.

SinglePoint and AppSwarm, a technology company that specializes in the accelerated development of mobile apps and other software for gaming and business, are joint partners on the SingleCoin digital wallet. The two companies also collaborated on the development of SinglePoint’s LastMile Delivery platform that gives small to mid-size companies, including those in the cannabis industry, the ability to streamline and track deliveries.

Designed primarily with the goal of making it easier for users to own, store, send and receive bitcoin, the SingleCoin wallet application does not require sign up, and it can send market-priced bitcoin to any wallet address, according to SinglePoint President Wil Ralston in a recent appearance on MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon (http://ibn.fm/pKFzu). Ralston also explained that the application makes it easy to receive bitcoin and also to share a wallet address safely and securely across different social networks. Additionally, each transaction is traced in a compact, specially designed list, making it easier for users to access and view transaction history.

As a diversified holding company with operations in multiple verticals, including the fast-growing legal cannabis and cryptocurrency markets, SinglePoint specializes in acquisitions of small and mid-sized companies, with an emphasis on new technologies.

The company is continuously adding to its diverse portfolio so as to expand revenue streams and drive growth. This strategic acquisition policy has helped the company achieve significant year-over-year improvements of nearly 100 percent in revenues recorded in the second quarter of 2018, compared to the same quarter of 2017 (http://ibn.fm/KSrck).

SinglePoint also announced that it achieved fully reporting status on the OTCQB Venture Marketplace, which is expected to create “additional opportunities to grow our existing businesses and potentially entertain larger acquisitions,” according to CEO Greg Lambrecht. The company recorded over $500,000 in revenue in the first six months of 2018 as a result of successful business acquisitions and hopes to continue accelerating revenue growth using the same strategy.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SinglePoint.com

• Positive results in the PRO 140 clinical trials should mean good news for investors, CytoDyn President Nader Pourhassan said in an interview
• CytoDyn is currently undervalued but the effectiveness and practical appeal of PRO 140 should contribute to a turning point in stock prices
• PRO 140, a single agent therapy, is proving highly effective in the treatment of HIV; CytoDyn also planning an expansion of clinical trials to certain types of cancer

The growth potential of CytoDyn Inc. (OTCQB: CYDY) is huge, company President and CEO Dr. Nader Pourhassan said in an interview with The Wall Street Transcript (http://ibn.fm/KWCIK). According to Pourhassan, CytoDyn is undervalued for the time being, but PRO 140 is expected to contribute significantly to the growth of company stock value.

Pourhassan was appointed director in 2012, and, ever since, he has been responsible for driving the opportunity of PRO 140 as a single agent therapy for HIV, from Phase II development and into Phase III trials, including the development of trial protocols and interaction with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Wall Street Transcript wrote.

PRO 140 is in advanced stages of clinical development, and recently-concluded trials clearly demonstrated its anti-viral benefits. The single-agent therapy works by blocking CCR5 HIV co-receptors on T-cells. This activity disables the viral entry without having an adverse effect on the patient’s normal immune function.

Through the clinical trials, PRO 140 demonstrated additional significant advantages over other anti-viral therapies. It showed very little toxicity or side effects in treated patients, and there was also a lack of HIV resistance developing to the treatment.

According to Pourhassan, PRO 140 could potentially make it possible for patients to put away all of their HIV pills in the near future. Currently, the company works with and monitors a small group of patients who have gone four years without needing pills, solely taking PRO 140 as single agent therapy.

The administration of PRO 140 is sub-cutaneous injection.  The therapy can be administered in the comfort of one’s home, adding to the practical appeal of PRO 140, Pourhassan said. PRO 140 is designed to be injected just once per week.

One more key characteristic differentiates PRO 140 from other HIV/AIDS therapies. While on other currently approved treatments, patients will face immediate consequences in the event of missing a single dose as their HIV viral loads will begin increasing; PRO 140 allows a three-day grace period during which patients will not experience ill effects.

As of October 2018, PRO 140 HIV trials have been highly successful (http://ibn.fm/9ZFEr). The viral entry inhibitor demonstrated a 93 percent suppression rate at a dose of 525 milligrams following a six-week induction period. The clinical trials suggest that the higher the dosage, the quicker the response. The probability of viral rebound is also reduced.

Based on these results and research by the company and others suggesting a role for PRO 140 in preventing cancer metastasis, CytoDyn is now planning to expand the PRO 140 clinical investigation to the treatment of cancer.

To enable such an expansion, CytoDyn has hired world-renowned cancer researcher Dr. Richard Pestell as the its chief medical officer. Pestell will be joining the team in the near future to guide the PRO 140 program toward non-HIV indications.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.CytoDyn.com

• Specialized search engine in cannabis space
• Platform facilitates business with networking features
• Potential for further commercialization with advertising

Search is a lucrative business, as Google’s rise to fame and fortune will testify, but the ocean of information on the Web is so vast and growing so rapidly that it’s beginning to make sense for specialized search engines to enter the space. Some already have. There’s SkyScanner, operating out of Scotland, which only serves up information on the travel and flight industry – owned, it may be added, by Ctrip, China’s largest travel company. There’s TinEye – a reverse image search engine – which lets you search with images, and now there’s a cannabis search app from NUGL Inc. (OTC: NUGL), which aims to make information on products, services and anything cannabis related much easier to locate.

NUGL Inc., located in Chino Hills, California, aims to become a leader in fostering communication and business relations in the cannabis space. Its search app is the first step. The platform also comes with social media characteristics, since it has the capability to facilitate networking and alliances between brands and service providers. Of course, its greatest potential lies in the area of advertising, à la Google.

Google may be best known as a company that operates a search engine. However, it’s bread and butter comes from advertising. About 70 percent of Google’s revenues ($100 billion and growing) are derived from a product called Adwords, which places ads on sites that turn up in response to a searcher’s queries. Almost all the rest of it comes from another product, AdSense, which lets websites join Google’s network and run Google-branded ads. With its leading edge, first-of-its-kind search app and online directory for the marijuana industry, NUGL may soon be in a position to offer those kinds of products. It’s already on its way to being a one-stop shop for dispensaries, hydro stores, vape shops, brands and strains, as well as doctors, lawyers and other service professionals.

NUGL is the only cannabis search app built for the people, by the people. The goal of the company was to build the most user-friendly app experience in the cannabis industry, which it did by listening to its users and giving them what they want. NUGL’s services are completely free, and the top-spot listings are earned with honest user-based reviews, not sold to the highest bidders. NUGL can be used to search for genuine user-rated dispensaries, strains, brands, doctors and much more, all related to cannabis.

Search services centered on cannabis are likely to grow in importance as the industry develops. In 2017, Arcview Market Research/BDS Analytics estimated U.S. legal cannabis sales at $9.2 billion. They are projected to reach $47.3 billion by 2027. Such scope is well within NUGL’s reach. The versatile web app has no geographic limitations and can rapidly connect cannabis companies, related vertical services and users. The uniquely designed cannabis database platform features first-to-market technology that is attracting users and listings on a daily basis. Available on both iOS and Android, the NUGL search app brings a powerful cannabis search tool within reach of anyone, anytime, anywhere with the ease of a smartphone.

For more information, visit the company’s website at http://ibn.fm/NUGL

• Sugarmade has agreed to acquire Sky Unlimited, LLC, a hydroponic cultivation supplier
• SGMD has a second formal acquisition proposal in place
• The company has directly invested in hemp production to benefit from explosive growth in the market for CBD products
• Sugarmade is also targeting the European hydroponics market

California-based hydroponics company Sugarmade, Inc. (OTCQB: SGMD) is growing in the rapidly expanding cannabis industry through acquisition and expansion as an equipment supplier to cultivators. Sugarmade recently announced that it had agreed to acquire Sky Unlimited, LLC, dba Athena United, a major wholesale supplier of hydroponic cultivation supplies. The deal is expected to add $40 million to SGMD’s 2019 revenues.

“This new revenue stream combined with our recently upwardly guided revenue forecast of $30 million for next year will make Sugarmade one of the largest publicly traded suppliers to the booming cannabis cultivation marketplace, with a combined revenue forecast for next year in excess of $70 million,” Sugarmade CEO Jimmy Chan stated in a news release (http://ibn.fm/diok7).

Sugarmade’s success has come through the expansion of hydroponics. Hydroponic equipment is key to cannabis cultivation and, as a result, hydroponics suppliers have seen substantial growth over the past few years. The company is building on its growth with a second formal acquisition proposal targeting a profitable Washington state-based retailer with positive cash flow and revenues of about $5 million. In a CannabisNewsWire Audio Press Release titled “Hemp and CBD Set to Eclipse the THC Marijuana Market,” Sugarmade’s recognition of the need to research, offer and implement new CBD products is featured (http://ibn.fm/JvtYX).

Sugarmade is also positioned to benefit through a more direct investment in the cultivation of hemp for production of cannabidiol, or CBD, a compound with therapeutic benefits. Sugarmade recently committed a million-dollar investment in Hempistry, Inc., which is cultivating an ultra-high-CBD strain of hemp on 23,000 acres in Kentucky. The Hemp Business Journal has forecast that the U.S. market for hemp products will reach $1.9 billion by 2022, with $646 million of that coming from CDB.

“We are especially excited about the particular strain of hemp that was planted, which is expected to yield up to 14 percent CDB,” Chan commented in a news release (http://ibn.fm/4gaPi). “Such a strain of product is in significant demand and it is expected the entire crop will be sold prior to harvest.”

In addition, Sugarmade is targeting the European hydroponics market, supplying multiple products for cultivators through the Amazon UK program. The company is entering the European market as a new report by analyst group Prohibition Partners projects that the cannabis market will be worth €115 billion ($130.6 billion) annually by 2028, making Europe the world’s largest single region for cannabis products (http://ibn.fm/XIddc).

Sugarmade, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded hydroponics supply companies moving into the industrial hemp space, is a product and brand marketing company investing in products and brands with disruptive potential. Sugarmade’s brands include ZenHydro.com, CarryOutSupplies.com and BudLife. Headquartered in Monrovia, California, a city within Los Angeles County, Sugarmade has various business operations in diverse marketplaces including packaging and paper goods for various industries and agricultural supplies.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Sugarmade.com

Zenergy Brands, Inc. (OTC: ZNGY) is a next-generation smart energy and technology company headquartered in Texas with a firm foothold in energy conservation and utility industries. As a fully integrated public energy company, Zenergy provides smart controls and efficiency-based energy products to both residential and commercial customers.

Modeled as a business-to-business company, Zenergy is responding to the growing demand for responsible energy, more transparency and control, and overall sustainability of commercial and municipal entities. The unique value proposition Zenergy offers to its customers helps them reduce their energy consumption by anywhere between 20 and 60 percent.

In the marketplace, Zenergy has built a service offering to help position its brand. The service, known as Sustainability as a Service or Energy as a Service, provides disruption mechanisms targeted at revolutionizing the energy industry traditionally controlled by legacy entities.

Currently, the company provides energy procurement and brokerage services, energy conservation equipment, HVAC and refrigeration-based technologies, load factor improvement technologies, LED lighting and lighting controls.

The Zero Cost Program is the foundation of Zenergy’s unique selling proposition. Target customers can upgrade their older and inefficient energy equipment and assets, thus creating an environment that allows for the installation of energy efficient retrofits. The bargain with all of this is that the renovations, including smart controls, weatherization-based technologies and building-envelope-based technologies, are all offered at no upfront cost to the customers.

Through the program, businesses can reduce their energy consumption. This means that the expense that could have gone into the utility bills is instead added to the bottom line as income. The service agreement allows customers to pay the same energy supplier as usual, but the energy savings are tremendous.

Residential customers have a suite of smart home products they can choose to give them cost-effective energy savings. Solutions such as security monitoring, home automation and energy conservation services can be controlled on internet-connected smart devices

To provide you with a picture of global energy consumption, consider the fact that 45 percent of global energy consumption is accounted for by residential and commercial buildings. Zenergy offers these customers an affordable and effective way of improving energy efficiency by minimizing the need for production of new energy.

Apart from energy conservation, Zenergy has been at the forefront in helping their customers reduce their carbon footprints by lowering thermostats and turning off light bulbs. Reducing the demand for natural gas and electrical energy has a direct knock-on effect on the water supply. With this taken care of, customers can strengthen their bottom lines and provide real enterprise value to their clientele.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ZenergyBrands.com

• The acquisition of HemPoland accelerates opportunities for growth in the European market as part of TGOD’s international strategy
• The company has received medical sales licensing for its Ancaster, Ontario, facilities – one of many sites where TGOD aims to cultivate cannabis products
• The company recently closed a $75 million bought deal financing to further its expansion plans in Latin America and Europe

Cannabis company The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. (TSX: TGOD) (OTCQX: TGODF) has announced the acquisition of HemPoland and the closing of a new bought deal financing, part of several recent developments demonstrating the company’s strong commitment to international expansion and the provision of immediate accretive revenue. The HemPoland acquisition has already received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (http://ibn.fm/A4JWg).

According to The Green Organic Dutchman CEO Brian Athaide, the transaction is a key milestone in the company’s long-term acquisition strategy. It delivers immediate revenue to shareholders while opening up a new vertical for the company. It also provides evidence of the company’s growth toward its goal of having operations in 12 countries on three continents by the end of the year.

TGOD recently announced efforts to boost its number of dispensaries in Jamaica to five by early next year and to launch cultivation on land leases there by the end of this year. The company also expects approval from authorities in Denmark later this year to begin cultivation there, and it is pursuing research and development facilities in Denmark as well, according to an update to investors issued this month (http://ibn.fm/PKSUt).

The company is also seeing progress on Canadian cultivation facilities in Hamilton, Ontario, and Valleyfield, Quebec, where it expects to begin growing next year, and it has received a medical sales license from Health Canada for its Ancaster, Ontario, facility (http://ibn.fm/v0Lnl), where it expects to begin selling to medical patients in January and, shortly thereafter, to the adult recreational use market.

“As we prepare for our Founders Club product launch in January 2019, this is a critical step in our path to becoming the global leading organic cannabis brand,” Athaide stated in the news release.

TGOD’s investor update also noted that the company has established additional $75 million bought deal financing that will be used to advance its expansion in Latin America and Europe.

“With potential consumer populations of nearly 750,000,000 and 650,000,000 respectively, these markets represent a key development opportunity in the Company’s global growth plan,” the report states.

TGOD paid $7.75 million in cash and also issued nearly two million restricted shares as part of the HemPoland transaction. The shares will be escrowed for a three-year period starting from the closing date of the deal. There is an additional contingent consideration of up to that million deferred shares that is dependent on an EBIDTA achievement of $32 million on behalf of HemPoland by 2021.

The Green Organic Dutchman is also set to invest $10.3 million in HemPoland’s innovative product development practices.

HemPoland is the first private entity in Poland to obtain a license for the growing and manufacturing of cannabis sativa. The company focuses on innovative solutions and its flagship product, called CannabiGold, is being exported to various European countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The European cannabis market offers excellent opportunities for growth. It features over three quarters of a billion people, and HemPoland already has a well-established position as a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium CBD oils within this market.

Cannabis and cannabis oil products have been offered for sale legally in various European countries, including France, Luxembourg, Austria and others, since 2017, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug addiction (http://ibn.fm/eGpSh). Currently, Europe has rather restrictive Union and national policies, but there are signs that the European market will begin opening up soon.

Germany’s Supreme Court made it easier for patients to qualify for prescriptions for cannabis-based products in 2016 (http://ibn.fm/fd57k), leading to a rapid hike in the number of patients receiving such treatment – from a few hundred to 13,000 in 2017. If all EU countries pass such legislation, Europe is predicted to become the largest legal cannabis market in the world, a recent report suggests (http://ibn.fm/kUx6l).

In 2018, more than six countries announced new legislative frameworks aimed at simplifying access to cannabis-based products. It is anticipated that, by 2028, the volume of Europe’s cannabis market will reach 115.7 billion euros.

By acquiring HemPoland, TGOD will gain access to this significant potential clientele via the Polish company’s well-established distribution network, as well as to its state-of-the-art hemp oil extraction technology and the premium CannabiGold brand.

The Green Organic Dutchman is licensed to cultivate medical cannabis and focused on growing high quality, organic cannabis via sustainable principles. The company currently has a funded capacity of nearly 375,000 pounds and is building cultivation facilities in Canada and Jamaica totaling almost 1.4 million square feet.

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

• Significant mineralization located
• Near-term production potential
• This advantage puts Quantum Minerals in an excellent position to compete with industry leaders and push forward Canadian efforts to reduce reliance on China and Chile as top global suppliers

Vancouver-based lithium exploration and development company QMC Quantum Minerals Corp. (OTC: QMCQF) (TSX.V: QMC) (FSE: 3LQ) has identified additional spodumene-bearing pegmatite dikes at its 100 percent-owned Irgon Lithium Mine Project within the Cat Lake-Winnipeg River rare element pegmatite field (http://ibn.fm/5G7QH).

On October 17, Quantum Minerals announced a significant visual spodumene mineralization in the Mapetre Pegmatite Dike had been confirmed. The Mapetre Dike, located south of the Irgon Dike, hosts two historic pits. In them, Quantum Minerals experts have identified large spodumene crystals, a discovery that will lead to extensive sampling after overburden is cleared from the entire strike length of the Mapetre Dike.

Representative samples have already been collected from the Mapetre pits, which have the same mineralogical characteristics as the 4.16 percent high grade samples obtained at QMC’s nearby Central Dike (QMC NR October 10, 2018). Quantum Minerals expects the Mapetre samples to produce similar elevated lithium results.

The Quantum Minerals assets are considered of particularly high importance given Canada’s emergence as a potentially significant lithium producer. Currently, China and Chile rank as the world’s top lithium producers. China is in control of 30 percent of the production market, and industrial acquisitions are expected to give the country an even larger share (http://ibn.fm/RT0sq).

Manitoba, the Canadian Province in which Quantum Minerals is focusing its activities, is rich with potential for lithium exploration and is already labelled as one of the world’s best mining districts. Many deposits, including those on the Quantum Minerals Irgon Property, were discovered decades ago but were never fully explored. At the time, lithium was far from a profitable resource, and interest in mining the lithium resources was low. Through the renewed efforts in Manitoba, Quantum Minerals is showing how companies outside of China and Chile can compete with some of the big players.

Quantum Minerals is benefitting from the past surveys that map out the available resource, as well as having the infrastructure for power access nearby that can be quickly refurbished. Roads also enable easy logistical access to the area.

The company intends to extract the spodumene mineralization from the dike, which can easily and quickly be reduced to either lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate. This process contrasts with the much slower process used in the Chinese and Chilean mining efforts. With this process, lithium is extracted from brines as the water in the solution slowly evaporates. In Manitoba, Quantum Minerals can simply mine and process the rock, which leads to a faster turnaround time to set up extraction and produce a saleable product.

The hard rock method and the existing infrastructure put Quantum Minerals in an enviable position from which it can quickly begin extracting large quantities of high-quality lithium ore, with the potential to help the company secure a leading position on the lithium production market.

Over the past 20 years, lithium has become one of the most demanded resources, as Li-ion batteries are now used to power a wide range of devices, including electric vehicles.  The global lithium production is at a level of 600,000 tons per year. The demand is expected to increase by anywhere between 600,000 and 800,000 tons in the coming decade (http://ibn.fm/Bn5Ru). Lithium prices have increased by approximately 30 percent in recent years, and experts predict a further hike in the future.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.QMCMinerals.com

• Earth Science Tech plans to enter the CBD beverages market through the development of its own full-spectrum CBD drink
• The product is developed on the basis of a University of Central Oklahoma Provisional Patent
• Industry experts predict rapid growth of the CBD beverages market, which is still in the early stages of development and offers excellent opportunities

Earth Science Tech, Inc. (OTCQB: ETST) announced that it has started work on the formulation of a full-spectrum CBD beverage. The biotech company that focuses on CBD, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products will be utilizing its University of Central Oklahoma Provisional Patent to develop the formulation, aimed at enhancing immune system function (http://ibn.fm/ky2sR).

The High Grade Full Spectrum Cannabinoids beverage is the result of positive results derived from clinical trials in 2015 run jointly with the University of Central Oklahoma. The studies focused on the positive effects CBD can have on strengthening immune response.

Currently, Earth Science Tech is putting effort in the development of the right beverage formula and in the selection of a bottling option.

According to Earth Science Tech CEO and CSO Michael Aube, the beverage taps into the immune-stimulating, antioxidant and anti-psychotic effects of CBD. It has the exact opposite effect to THC, which is psychoactive and addictive.

“At Earth Science Tech we focused on full spectrum cannabinoids derived from industrial hemp that contains extremely low to no THC since THC is psychoactive causing dependency and mental illness in young individuals,” Aube said in a news release. “This means that all our products are beneficial for recreational marijuana consumers because it helps them to balance their intake of psychoactive and anti-psychotic cannabinoids. Our cannabinoid products help counter the side effects of THC in addition of having itself other interesting biological activities like anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms the wide array of CBD benefits. After reviewing numerous studies, WHO’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence concluded that CBD does not have effects indicative of abuse potential (http://ibn.fm/5XKVe). In addition, it could be a suitable treatment for epilepsy, depression, anxiety, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Its well-established anti-inflammatory properties could contribute to several additional health advantages.

Forecasts suggest that the CBD beverages market could reach $260 million by 2022 (http://ibn.fm/dkNYC). This is one of the reasons why numerous large beverage manufacturers are currently looking into opportunities to begin the development of drinks that feature CBD as one of the main ingredients.

The overall CBD market is on the road to rapid expansion, as well. Hemp-derived CBD sales are expected to reach $591 million this year and may grow exponentially, to $22 billion by 2022, if the 2018 Farm Bill passes, according to Brightfield Group research cited by Cannabis Business Times (http://ibn.fm/yOVhY). The 2018 Farm Bill would remove hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, which would allow CBD to be legally sold in all states.

The cannabis beverages market is still in the initial stages of development, ETST President, Director and Chairman Nickolas S. Tabraue noted in a news release. With forecasts for exponential growth, Earth Science Tech is positioned for success in the years to come.

Earth Science Tech is a Florida-based biotechnology company that focuses on cannabis, CBD research, product development and the creation of medical devices. Currently, the company offers high purity full spectrum CBD oil. Through its partnership with the University of Central Oklahoma, the company has established the immune stimulating effects of CBD, as well as its potential for the provision of positive results in breast cancer cases.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.EarthScienceTech.com

• Retail cannabis ecommerce traffic on the rise
• Four more states have cannabis on November 2018 ballot
• Branded Pura Vida products include CBD-based tinctures, soft gels and vapes

Texas-based Golden Developing Solutions, Inc. (OTC: DVLP) is heading for a win-win situation as the tide of cannabis approval swells. Demand for cannabis is climbing as consumers flock to market; as a result of which, traffic to online pot shops, like the one operated by DVLP, is increasing. Presently, excess demand is driving traffic. As the market matures, that is likely to change. Supply will undoubtedly increase and prices may fall, which is also good for DVLP, since lower prices increase quantity demanded. Regardless of market conditions in the near future, DVLP seems headed for a win-win situation.

On October 17, 2018, Canada became the second country in the world to legalize cannabis for recreational use. Uruguay was the first, in 2013. In addition, presently, the District of Columbia and nine U.S. states – Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington – have legalized recreational marijuana. Four more states – North Dakota, Michigan, Missouri and Utah – will give voters a chance, on November 6, 2018, to further legalize cannabis. In North Dakota and Michigan, the ballot measures will determine the legal future of recreational cannabis. In Missouri and Utah, the propositions will be about medical marijuana. Yet, the demand dam is still filled with the millions living in the 19 states that, in the future, may make medical marijuana legal and the 39 others that could legalize cannabis for general adult use, as well. When the dam bursts, DVLP looks set to benefit further.

The company is operating an online retail business that markets and distributes cannabidiol (CBD), hemp oil and health and lifestyle products. Through the ecommerce portal set up by wholly owned subsidiary Pura Vida Vitamins (www.PuraVidaVitamins.com), and through wholesale and distribution channels, DVLP offers a broad range of high-quality, price-competitive products, including traditional vitamins, supplements and CBD-based tinctures, vapes and soft gels, as well as other products. The company is also planning a line of CBD pet supplements.

DVLP recently acquired Layer Six Media, LLC, which trades under the name, Where’s Weed (www.WheresWeed.com). Where’s Weed provides a directory of cannabis establishments in 49 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. There is no listing for Mississippi, where neither medical nor recreational cannabis use is legally permitted. The site offers the rapidly growing body of cannabis consumers a way to connect to trusted marijuana businesses in their communities. Access to Where’s Weed is available through a sophisticated mobile app, which is offered on both the iOS and Android platforms. To date, the app has been downloaded over 80,000 times. The Where’s Weed site enjoys wide exposure, with page views currently running at three million per month.

For more information, visit the company’s websites at www.PuraVidaVitamins.com and www.WheresWeed.com