Not exact matches
Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various
marijuana companies like Marley Natural and
Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his
companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.
The announcements Wednesday sent shares of the
company, which produces and distributes medical
marijuana, down as much as 30 per cent on the
Canadian Securities Exchange to $ 1.70 per share from Tuesday's closing price of $ 2.49.
Gertner got back into the cannabis business in 2014 with PharmaCan (now Cronos Group), a holding
company that acquires or buys minority positions in licensed
Canadian marijuana producers.
Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various
marijuana companies like Marley Natural and
Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, explains how Tilray is already exporting
marijuana to countries like Croatia and Australia for use in clinical trials.
The
company has signed up about a third of the roughly 200,000 medical
marijuana customers in Canada, and Linton said he expected some 3 million
Canadians to use legal non-medical pot next year.
Victoria's Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc., a licensed medical
marijuana producer, said Wednesday that an unnamed, «
Canadian institutional accredited investor» had agreed to buy a $ 25 - million chunk of the cannabis
company through a prospectus and secondary sale.
Canaccord has been one of the busier financiers within the
Canadian cannabis sector so far — on Thursday one of its latest deals, a bought - deal offering for
marijuana company Nuuvera Inc., on which it is one of the lead underwriters, was upsized to $ 45 - million.