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Molecule Holdings’ $MLCL.ca Landmark Deal with Ontario Cannabis Store Gives it Confirmed Shipping Date to Bring 5 Infused Craft Beverages to Market $BEV $KBEV

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:14 AM on Thursday, March 11th, 2021
Molecule

Working at the cutting edge of the nascent cannabis industry, Molecule is a Canadian, craft-focused, cannabis beverage production company.

Boasting a 200,000 square foot production facility based in Ontario, the company has just been given the green light to begin selling its unique line of cannabis-infused beverages throughout Canada, starting in Ontario and Québec.

  • Molecule now has its first order-ins from the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) and a confirmed shipping date.
  • Molecule will bring 5 brands to the market in this first order, matching the number of Ready-to-Drink products offered by the category leader in the market, which also has 5 brands on offer. 
  • This confirms Molecule will be shipping product in Q1 2021. Much of the product is already inventoried. Inventory accumulation continues daily now.
  • The company recently received a major shipment of Aluminum Cans, allowing it to ramp up production.

Check out our exclusive one-on-one with David Reingold, Director and Strategic Advisor, Molecule Holdings:

Molecule $MLCL.ca Receives Opening Pipeline Orders from Ontario Cannabis Store and Commits to Shipping Date of March 25 $TPX.A.ca $ACB.ca $WEED.ca

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:55 AM on Thursday, March 11th, 2021
Molecule

March 11 2021 Ottawa, Ontario – Molecule Holdings Inc. (CSE:MLCL) (CNSX:MLCL.CN) (“ Molecule ” or the “ Company ”), a Canadian craft-focused cannabis beverage production company, is pleased to announce that it has received its first pipeline fill orders for 5 of its brands from the Ontario Cannabis Store (“ OCS ”), and has committed to shipping to the OCS Distribution Centre by March 25. The OCS anticipates further follow-up PO’s, “one and two weeks after launch”.

“This is a very exciting day for the Molecule team as this marks an important new chapter for Molecule’s commercialization.  Having this type of representation in the largest cannabis market in the country is a testament to Molecule’s business model and will put us head-to-head with the biggest and the best in the Canadian cannabis industry,” said Molecule President and CEO Philip Waddington.

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Dreamy Delivery Announced as the Official Delivery Platform of the 2021 Emerald Cup Awards

Posted by AGORACOM at 6:38 PM on Monday, March 8th, 2021
Hollister Biosciences Inc. | CSE - Canadian Securities Exchange
  • Hollister’s direct-to-consumer delivery platform, Dreamy Delivery, will be the official delivery platform of the 2021 Emerald Cup Awards
  • “The Emerald Cup Awards have been the premier Cannabis Cup in California for 17 years. It is a huge part of the fabric of cannabis in Northern California. We are excited and honored to be the official delivery platform of The Emerald Cup Awards,” Carl Saling, Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Hollister Biosciences, said.

VANCOUVER, BC, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Hollister Biosciences Inc. (CSE: HOLL) (OTC: HSTRF) (FRANKFURT: HOB) (the “Company“, “Hollister Cannabis Co.” or “Hollister“) is pleased to announce that its direct-to-consumer delivery platform, Dreamy Delivery, will be the official delivery platform of the 2021 Emerald Cup Awards.  Dreamy Delivery will feature prominently in all Emerald Cup promotions and coverage, and it will help connect Bay Area, Sacramento, Hollister and Central Coast consumers with the brands participating in the virtual awards this April.

“The Emerald Cup Awards have been the premier Cannabis Cup in California for 17 years. It is a huge part of the fabric of cannabis in Northern California. We are excited and honored to be the official delivery platform of The Emerald Cup Awards,” says Carl Saling, the Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Hollister Biosciences.

“We’re excited to have Dreamy Delivery as our sponsor for this year’s Emerald Cup. We share the same values of vetting only the best cannabis products, best business practices, supporting social equity and offering a 5-Star experience. We are honored collaborating together this year.” ~Tim Blake, Founder of The Emerald Cup

For the first time in Emerald Cup history, the awards will be a virtual global event streaming on the Social Club TV network. Whether NoCal consumers want to sample the brands taking home the top trophies or try past winners, Dreamy Delivery brings these best-in-class products directly to their front doors utilizing all of the recommended safety protocols. This means virtual participants can experience the 17th-annual event with actual winning products delivered directly and safely to their homes. 

As the official delivery platform for the awards, Dreamy Delivery will feature prominently in a six-month promotion that includes social media posts, newsletters, PR statements and brand placement in the title card and afterparty.

The Emerald Cup Awards (described as the “Academy Awards of Cannabis” by Rolling Stone) celebrate the best emerging and established brands, and a slate of hand-picked judges selects winners that are announced daily during Take Over Week ahead of the official awards celebration. The coverage will culminate in the Social Club TV-broadcasted ceremony on Sunday, April 11, 2021 with the top honors given out in the prestigious cannabis flower categories.

About The Emerald Cup

The Emerald Cup is Northern California’s premier cannabis destination. While advancing the concept of sustainable, outdoor farming, its reputation is firmly solidified as the largest, most respected, outdoor cannabis competition in the world. As a group, The Emerald Cup prides itself in bringing together experts and educators in the cannabis industry to our fellow farmers, patients, and patrons each year.

It is a community celebration that has grown to become a global movement honoring the year’s finest, organic, sun-grown, cannabis harvest.

https://theemeraldcup.com/

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Harborside Inc. $HBOR.ca $HBORF Completes $5 Million Strategic Investment in Loudpack $VFF.ca $HARV.ca $ACB.ca

Posted by AGORACOM at 7:59 AM on Monday, March 8th, 2021
  • Fosters Partnership with Premier California Cultivator, Brand Operator, and Distributor

 Harborside Inc. (“Harborside” or the “Company”) (CSE: HBOR), a California-focused, vertically integrated cannabis enterprise, today announced it has completed a $5 million strategic investment in LPF JV, LLC (“Loudpack”), through a 15%, secured convertible note due December, 2022 (the “Funding”). Loudpack is the premier California cannabis company with a broad cultivation, manufacturing, processing, and distribution footprint and a strong portfolio of brands.

In connection with the Funding, Harborside has engaged Loudpack to provide services aimed at identifying production efficiencies as well as improving harvest yields at the Company’s cultivation facility located in Salinas, California. In addition, Loudpack will be providing contract manufacturing services for a suite of Harborside branded products and Harborside will be increasing the availability of shelf space for Loudpack branded products including Kingpen, Loudpack, Dimebag, and Smokiez at the Company’s retail stores.

“We are focused on improving our profitability through implementing best-in-class, highly efficient production techniques, increasing the quality of our supply chain and expanding our inhouse brands into manufactured products,” said Matthew Hawkins, Chairman of Harborside. “Through this capital investment, we have strengthened our partnership with Loudpack and will look to leverage their expertise as we explore opportunities to expand our cultivation, production, and distribution capabilities to improve the availability of our high-quality cannabis products for consumers across California.”

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Quizam Media Corp $QQ.ca $QQQFF is Seeing Explosive Growth for its Quantum #Cannabis Corporation, Expanding its Retail Footprint amidst The Great Cannabis Gold Rush $FAF $FAF.ca $CLIQ $ISH $ISH.ca $SUN.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:01 PM on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

Quizam Media Corp’s (QQ:CSE QQQFF:OTC) wholly owned subsidiary Quantum 1 Cannabis is experiencing rapid growth across British Columbia!

In the past 12 months, Quantum 1 has opened stores in:

  • North Vancouver
  • Vernon
  • Grand Forks
  • Keremeos
  • Creston

And it will soon be opening its sixth, and flagship, store in Oakridge, B.C.

In Tandem with this expansion, quarterly revenue is accelerating rapidly, rising from $138,000 in Nov 2019 to $954,000 in Nov 2020.

What’s its secret sauce? The company places a huge emphasis on education. That’s because Quizam has its roots as an educational media company that spent a long time educating people about cannabis, long before it became legal.

  • In this nascent market, people are looking for trusted, authoritative voices

The company’s growth comes as Canada is experiencing ‘The Great Cannabis Gold Rush’ –

  • By 2021, Canada’s cannabis market is expected to reach $3bn, translating to 77.9% CAGR from 2018-2021.
  • Cannabis now contributes $14.6bn to Canada’s economy, up from $8bn previous est.
  • Cannabis 2.0 new products (candy, drinks) could generate $2.5bn in sales in Canada.
  • You’re going to want to get comfy for this conversation with Russ Rossi, Quizam Media’s President & CEO:

$HOLL Announces Closing of $7.9M Private Placement of Special Warrants, Including Full Exercise of Agents’ Option $CRON $GTBIF $INDS $META.ca $FAF.ca $WEED.ca

Posted by AGORACOM at 3:39 PM on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
Hollister Biosciences Inc. | CSE - Canadian Securities Exchange
  • The Company has now closed the brokered private placement of 21,635,094  Special Warrants and raised gross proceeds of $7,896,809.31

VANCOUVER, BC – March 2, 2021 – Hollister Biosciences Inc. (CSE:HOLL, OTC:HSTRF, FRANKFURT:HOB) (“Hollister” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce, further to its news releases of January 21, 2021, and January 20, 2021, that the Company has now closed the brokered private placement of 21,635,094  Special  Warrants of the  Company  (the  “Special  Warrants”)  at a  price of  $0.365  per  Special  Warrant and raised gross proceeds of $7,896,809.31 (the “Offering”), including 3,825,094 Special Warrants sold pursuant to the exercise in full of the agents’ option granted to the Agents (as defined herein).

Eight Capital acted as sole bookrunner and lead agent on behalf of a syndicate of agents including Haywood Securities Inc. and Paradigm Capital Inc. (together with Eight Capital, the “Agents”) under the Offering.

Each Special Warrant will be automatically exercisable into units of the Company (the “Units”), as described below. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a “Share”) and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each full warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one Share at a price of $0.50 per Share on or before January 2, 2025, being 46 months following the date of closing of the Offering (the “Closing Date”).

Each Special Warrant will be automatically exercisable, for no additional consideration, into Units on the date (the “Automatic Exercise Date”) that is the earlier of: (i) the date that is three business days following the date on which the Company either (A) obtains a receipt from the applicable securities regulatory authorities (the “Securities Commissions”) for a (final) short form prospectus qualifying distribution of the Units underlying the Special Warrants (the “Qualifying Prospectus”); or (B) files a supplement to a (final) short form base shelf prospectus qualifying the distribution of the Units underlying the Special Warrants (the “Qualifying Supplement”), and (ii) July 3, 2021, being the date that is four months and one day after the closing of the Offering.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the Company has not received a receipt from the Securities Commissions for the Qualifying Prospectus or filed a Qualifying Supplement on or before March 12, 2021, each holder of Special Warrants shall thereafter be entitled to acquire an additional one-half of one (0.5) Warrant for each Unit to be issued to such holder upon the automatic exercise of the Special Warrants, such that each Unit shall be comprised of one Share and one whole Warrant (collectively, the “Penalty Warrants”), without further payment or action on the part of the holder.

In connection with the Offering, the Company paid the Agents $651,084.20 in commissions and advisory fees and issued 1,441,580 special broker warrants (the “Special Broker Warrants”) to the Agents. Each Special Broker Warrant is automatically exercisable into one broker warrant (a “Broker Warrant”) for no additional payment on the Automatic Exercise Date. Each Broker Warrant will be exercisable into one Unit, subject to adjustment, at $0.365 per Unit for a period of 24 months from the closing of the Offering. Each Unit is comprised of one Share and one-half of one Warrant.

All securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day in accordance with applicable securities legislation ending on July 3, 2021. The net proceeds received from the Offering will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.

Read more HERE.

TransCanna’s $TCAN.ca Lyfted Farms Set to Increase Cultivation by 300% $VFF.ca $ACB.ca $GTII.ca $TEQ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:51 AM on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
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  • Company anticipates escalation in cultivation to have direct effect on revenue growth
  • Strategic location of the Company’s new facility takes full advantage of California’s lowest industrial electrical costs
  • “Our new facility gives us a massive competitive cost advantage that will increase our margins and empower us to offer consumers the best products at the most competitive prices,” said Bob Blink

Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – March 2, 2021) – TransCanna Holdings Inc. (CSE: TCAN) (FSE: TH8) (OTC: TCNAF) (“TransCanna” or the “Company”) has increased its cultivation capacity by 300%, enabling it to effectively triple production of its most profitable and in-demand product: exotic indoor flower. With this increased cultivation capacity, Lyfted Farms – hailed in the industry for its premium genetics and seasoned team of master cultivators – can now meet consumer-driven demand in Northern California while expanding into the sizable Southern California home containing over 23,000,000 residents.

“We literally cannot keep up with demand as the vast majority of shipments are selling out within days of landing on retail shelves,” said Alan Applonie, General Manager for TransCanna subsidiary, Lyfted Farms. “We have been waiting for the right time to enter the Southern California market but needed this increase in cultivation capacity to effectively build and preserve our reputation for unwavering quality and reliability with our retailers and consumers,” said Mr. Applonie.

In addition to increasing output, the strategic location of the Company’s new Daly facility in Modesto, California, takes full advantage of California’s lowest industrial electrical costs per kilowatt-hour.

“Electricity is the largest direct cost for indoor cultivation so the location of our new facility gives us a massive competitive cost advantage that will increase our margins and empower us to offer consumers the best products at the most competitive prices,” said Bob Blink, CEO of TransCanna.

The additional cultivation rooms coming online within the Daly facility also unlock Lyfted Farms’ ability to leverage its multi-decade relationships within the industry. The expansion in cultivation capacity opens the door for collaboration with other dominant California cannabis lifestyle brands. Ensuing co-branding efforts (soon to be revealed) will be powerful and will impact all meaningful cannabis market segments within the state.

The new developments represent significant strides in TransCanna’s mission to establish itself as California’s leading cannabis conglomerate.

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Spyder $SPDR.ca Cannabis to Acquire a Leading Vape Retailer 180 Smoke $ACB $APHA $CRON.ca $OGI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:23 AM on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
  • To acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of the entities that collectively comprise the business of 180 Smoke (“180 Smoke“), a dominant vape retailer in Canada. The Company has agreed to purchase the shares of 180 Smoke

Vaughan, Ontario–(February 23, 2021) – Spyder Cannabis Inc. (TSXV: SPDR) (“Spyder” or the “Company“), an established Canadian cannabis and vape retailer, is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a binding agreement with CRHC Holdings Corp. (the “Seller“) to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of the entities that collectively comprise the business of 180 Smoke (“180 Smoke“), a dominant vape retailer in Canada. The Company has agreed to purchase the shares of 180 Smoke (the “Acquisition“), on a cash-free basis (after post-closing adjustments), for nominal consideration. Additionally, the Company has secured a strategic institutional investor to acquire all of the existing debt of 180 Smoke owing to an affiliate of the Seller. The parties will proceed to close the Acquisition upon satisfaction of the closing conditions.

Transaction Highlights

  • 180 Smoke is a leading Canadian vape product retailer that has been widely regarded as the gold standard for vape store operations and customer service. 180 Smoke sells high-quality e-cigarettes, vaporizers and other nicotine-related products.
  • The Acquisition is expected to immediately increase Spyder’s consolidated revenue with the addition of 180 Smoke’s nicotine vape sales, franchise revenue and other wholesale and distribution revenue which generated approximately $12.9 million in unaudited net revenue during the year ended December 31, 2020.
  • 180 Smoke has a team of 91 employees who will continue to operate 180 Smoke’s 18 brick and mortar vape retail locations, 8 franchises, and its corporate head office and distribution warehouse, following the closing of the Acquisition.
  • 180 Smoke’s current customer base includes 92,481 in-store accounts, 98,052 online accounts, as well as 235 specialty wholesale vape B2B accounts.
  • Spyder expects to integrate its 2 brick and mortar vape retail stores with those of 180 Smoke’s to leverage the acquired know-how and intellectual property, including retail store design and layout, standard operating procedures, administrative systems and customer support, human resources and staff training, and accounting.
  • Synergies are also expected between 180 Smoke’s existing customer base with Spyder’s cannabis business.
  • Spyder will have the ability to utilize its wholly-owned subsidiary’s Retail Operator License issued by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) to convert some of 180 Smoke’s existing vape retail locations to licensed cannabis dispensaries by obtaining a Retail Store Authorization from the AGCO for such store.

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California Grants #Cannabis Cultivation License to TransCanna $TCAN.ca $VFF.ca $ACB.ca $GTII.ca $TEQ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 3:24 PM on Saturday, February 20th, 2021
tcan-square

Game-changing achievement for the budding cannabis enterprise

  • Received a highly coveted cultivation license from the State of California that will accelerate the Company’s cultivation capacity almost immediately
  • license represents a major milestone achievement in its endeavors to be California’s leading fully integrated cannabis cultivator, processor, manufacturer, wholesaler and distributor
  • “Obtaining this license is a significant turning point for TransCanna and opens up the door to the explosive growth we’ve been positioning ourselves for,” said Bob Blink

Vancouver, British Columbia–(February 20, 2021) –  TransCanna Holdings Inc. (CSE: TCAN) (FSE: TH8) (“TransCanna” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has received a highly coveted cultivation license from the State of California that will accelerate the Company’s cultivation capacity almost immediately.

The State of California has granted a cultivation license to Lyfted Farms – a TransCanna wholly owned subsidiary – for its flagship Daly facility in Modesto, California. Bob Blink, TransCanna CEO states “Such cultivation licenses in the region are notoriously difficult to obtain. Current applications are back-logged and not even being considered for processing by the county until the end of 2021.”

For TransCanna, the license represents a major milestone achievement in its endeavors to be California’s leading fully integrated cannabis cultivator, processor, manufacturer, wholesaler and distributor.

“Obtaining this license is a significant turning point for TransCanna and opens up the door to the explosive growth we’ve been positioning ourselves for,” said Bob Blink. “Demand has been consistently outstripping supply for our exotic indoor cannabis strains, and now with this new massive facility receiving approval for cultivation, we can finally meet that demand and continue to scale. This will make us one of the largest licensed facilities of its kind in the State of California.”

In addition to cultivation, the new Daly facility empowers TransCanna to increase its scope of offerings and establish its dominance in the California cannabis supply chain.

The Daly facility will anchor other TransCanna operations and serve as a supply chain hub for third party farms across Northern California, offering secure storage, concentrate manufacturing, wholesale market-making, white label services, and State-wide distribution.

Prior to achieving its cultivation license, the facility gained its distribution license in June 2020. Next, TransCanna is eagerly anticipating its processing license (pending approval by the State of California mid to late March) which will qualify the company to dry, cure, trim, grade, and package cannabis onsite. In addition to saving time and money for in-house brands with on-site processing, the processing license will enable TransCanna to open up new revenue streams servicing third party growers.

“California’s cannabis market is $5 billion in sales and growing, and we are well on our way to establishing ourselves at the epicenter of this category with our cultivation, processing, wholesaling and distribution arms of the entire California supply chain,” said Bob Blink, TransCanna CEO.

About TransCanna

TransCanna Holdings Inc. is a California-based, Canadian-listed company building cannabis-focused brands for the California lifestyle, through its wholly-owned California subsidiaries.

TransCanna’s wholly owned subsidiary Lyfted Farms is California’s authentic cannabis brand whose pioneering spirit has been continuously providing the finest cannabis flower genetics and cultivation methods since 1984. The Lyfted Farms brand of exclusive cannabis flower is sold at premium retailers throughout the state. With its new cultivation facility in Daly, California, the company is now poised to become one of the largest and most efficient vertically integrated cannabis companies in the California market.

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Harborside Inc. $HBOR $HBORF Announces Closing of Upsized Private Placement For Gross Proceeds of C$35,103,045 $VFF.ca $HARV.ca $ACB.ca

Posted by AGORACOM at 3:56 PM on Thursday, February 18th, 2021

Harborside Inc. (“Harborside”, or the “Company) (CSE: HBOR), (OTCQX: HBORF), a California-focused, vertically-integrated cannabis enterprise, is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced upsized brokered private placement of units of the Company at a price of C$2.55 per SVS Unit (as defined below) and C$255.00 per MVS Unit (as defined below) for aggregate gross proceeds of C$35,103,045 (the “Offering”). Beacon Securities Limited and ATB Capital Markets acted as co-lead agents in connection with the Offering (the “Agents”).

“We are very pleased with the strong investor interest and demand we received during our recent upsized offering,” said Peter Bilodeau, Interim CEO of Harborside. “With a strengthened balance sheet, Harborside is well positioned to further accelerate our growth as we enter 2021. We remain focused on continuing to build scale in the California market by optimizing and generating further efficiencies at our Salinas farm while continuing to provide best-in-class retail experiences and the high-quality cannabis products our customers in California have come to expect from Harborside.”

Each unit issued to non-residents of the United States (an “SVS Unit”) is comprised of one subordinate voting share of the Company (a “Subordinate Voting Share”) and one Subordinate Voting Share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”) of the Company. Each Warrant underlying an SVS Unit is exercisable to acquire one Subordinate Voting Share of the Company for a period of 36 months following closing of the Offering (the “Closing”) at an exercise price of C$3.69 per Subordinate Voting Share, subject to adjustment and acceleration in certain events. A total of 5,806,700 SVS Units were issued pursuant to the Offering.

All investors that are considered residents of the United States under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 were issued units (each, an “MVS Unit”) comprised of multiple voting shares of the Company (the “Multiple Voting Shares”) and Multiple Voting Share purchase warrants of the Company, based on the same economic equivalency of each Multiple Voting Share converting into 100 Subordinate Voting Shares. The Multiple Voting Shares are intended to minimize the proportion of the outstanding voting securities of the Company that are held by residents of the United States for purposes of determining whether the Company is a “foreign private issuer”. The holders of Multiple Voting Shares are entitled to one vote in respect of each Subordinate Voting Share into which such Multiple Voting Share could be converted, and as such the Multiple Voting Shares do not necessarily hold voting rights that are superior to the holders of Subordinate Voting Shares, on an as converted to Subordinate Voting Shares basis.  A total of 79,592 MVS Units were issued pursuant to the Offering.

In consideration for their services, the Company paid the Agents a cash commission equal to C$1,451,340.75 and issued the Agents an aggregate of 569,154 broker warrants (“Broker Warrants”). Each Broker Warrant is exercisable to acquire, within 12 months from Closing, one SVS Unit at an exercise price of C$2.55 per SVS Unit.

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