Marijuana Company of America Inc. (MCOA) Expands hempSMART™ Product Line with New Pet Products

MCOA launches new CBD-based natural pet product – hempSMART™ Full Spectrum Pet Drops
Targets hottest sector of booming pet care industry
Product dovetails with consumer interest and affiliate sales

Marijuana Company of America Inc. (OTC: MCOA), a leader in the production of high quality CBD products derived solely from industrial hemp, just announced the release of a new product designed for pets. Nearly $67 billion was spent on pets in the U.S. in 2017, and MCOA’s new pet supplement targets the hottest sector of the booming pet care market – natural pet supplements.

Natural pet products are gaining widespread popularity, because consumers are more aware of the toxicity of certain synthetic chemicals and other harmful materials. Consequently, pet owners are increasingly choosing to purchase natural products in an effort to maintain and improve the health and well-being of their beloved companion animals (http://cnw.fm/S37vP).

MCOA’s hempSMART™ Full Spectrum Pet Drops for cats and dogs are formulated with 250mg of full spectrum non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD) derived from industrial hemp. The new, specially-formulated product contains naturally-occurring CBD derived from hemp seed oil, full spectrum hemp extract, fractionated coconut oil and a rich bacon flavor that pets will love. The new Full Spectrum Pet Drops add a new vertical to MCOA’s fast growing hempSMART™ product line and are expected to garner strong interest from pet owners.

Commenting on the new pet product in a news release, Donald Steinberg, MCOA’s CEO, stated, “Our new hempSMART product is a natural option for pet owners who care about supporting their animals’ healthy energy levels as well as optimizing their health. Our hempSMART product line will continue to expand to other popular areas of consumer interest to give our affiliates what they need to succeed.”

hempSMART’s multidimensional approach to CBD-based consumer products is bolstered by its unique distribution plan of turning product users into passionate product promoters. hempSMART employs an affiliate marketing program to promote and sell its industrial hemp-based consumer CBD products. As more and more people use and realize benefits from the products, more of them sign on to introduce the products to friends and neighbors. The affiliate program continues to gain traction and is expected to significantly impact revenues while keeping costs in check. MCOA’s new hempSMART™ Full Spectrum Pet Drops dovetail perfectly with consumer demand and the affiliate sales model. Given consumer interest and their love for pets, it wouldn’t be a surprise if hempSMART’s pet drops far exceed expectations.

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Marijuana Company of America Inc. (MCOA) in CBD Sector for the Long Haul

Goldman Small Cap Research forecasts overall CBD market to grow to $1.15 billion within the next three years
MCOA’s hempSMART product line drives new industrial hemp-based CBD products to consumers
Industrial hemp offers a non-psychoactive, less controversial alternative to cannabis

Advocates and investors riding the current cannabis policy roller coaster are turning an optimistic eye to the industrial hemp sector, as its cannabis industry sibling battles for respectability and legalization in the United States.

Over the last three years, Marijuana Company of America Inc. (OTC: MCOA) has observed the political changes in the U.S., with regard to hemp and cannabis regulation at the local, state and federal levels. With this knowledge, the company is navigating its way through multiple state regulatory systems, court decisions and public opinion to build a market position to develop and drive innovative product development and distribution.

MCOA delivers turnkey products and services to consumers in U.S. states where the cannabis plant’s derivatives have been legalized. While federal drug policy continues to target state-by-state normalization of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use, MCOA’s hempSMART subsidiary is turning out branded products containing industrial hemp-derived, non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD) formulations for retail distribution via an affiliate marketing model.

Although 2018 began with the advancement of new state laws legalizing cannabis and hemp – most notably in California, the world’s fifth largest economy – Attorney General Jeff Sessions reaffirmed on January 4, 2018, that cannabis remains illegal under federal law. Sessions concurrently rescinded previous Obama-era federal prosecutorial guidance on state-legalized cannabis and hemp that allowed states having strong and effective regulatory and enforcement systems the discretion to regulate the production and distribution of cannabis and hemp, as long as the state-enacted rules were consistent with federal priorities. Cue multiple lawsuits around the country and Congressional debate over the propriety of existing cannabis laws. These repeated flare-ups in drug policy have left many cannabis investors nervous (http://cnw.fm/uf7JO), but other industry insiders have seen the cannabis debate as a boon to the less controversial industrial hemp plant, which contains less than 0.3 percent THC.

In 2004, the Hemp Industry Association won a Ninth Circuit Court decision to allow hemp products with less than 0.3 percent THC to be distributed legally, and hemp production was legalized nationwide for university research under the 2014 Farm Bill.

MCOA has now been an active player in the North American cannabis and hemp markets for the past three years (http://cnw.fm/Gyt53). The company has ensured, via clear and regular communications with the markets, customers, affiliates and media, that the development of hempSMART’s range of non-psychoactive products has been transparent, informed and compliant. hempSMART’s new take on wellness products include formulations for the brain, pain and Full Spectrum Drops. Newly-launched products include pain cream and, for our four-legged friends, Pet Drops.

MCOA also recently partnered with Convenient Hemp Mart, LLC to develop the “BeniHemp” CBD brand. Currently in development, BeniHemp will be targeted for sale in convenience stores, gas stations, smoke shops and similar types of small retail businesses focused on the impulse buyer, with its products located at the cash register. The BeniHemp brand is expected to offer a range of topicals, tinctures and edibles. With its unique national marketing and distribution plans, BeniHemp will work with its partners to create recognition for CBD wellness and personal care products.

On February 15, 2018, Goldman Small Cap Research, a stock market research firm specializing in the small cap and microcap sectors, released a white paper (http://cnw.fm/KG6Fh) in which it predicts that the overall CBD market in the U.S. will grow from a base of $262 million in 2016 to something exceeding $1.15 billion by 2020.

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Global Hemp Group, Inc. (CSE: GHG) (FRANKFURT: GHG) (OTC: GBHPF) Pursuing Opportunities in America’s ‘New Billion-Dollar Crop’

Relaxed U.S. restrictions on hemp production increasingly likely
Hemp extraction legislation expected to occur in Canada in mid-to-late 2018
Hemp used in dozens of applications across the industrial spectrum
“Soil-to-Shelf” strategy for development of hemp in Canada and the United States

If you lived in Jamestown in the late eighteenth century, the first permanent English settlement in what became the United States, and you did not grow cannabis, you would most likely earn the contempt of fellow citizens. You could also end up in jail; refusing to grow cannabis sativa, known as Indian hemp, was actually against the law in Virginia. Hemp enjoyed such a favorable status that you could even pay your taxes with it, and, during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, cultivation of hemp flourished. By 1938, after new methods for stripping fiber from the plant were developed, the widely read Popular Mechanics Magazine was touting hemp as the ‘New Billion-Dollar Crop’.

It was the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act in 1938, which banned cultivation of cannabis, that changed the fortunes of the industry. Hemp production in the U.S. shrank and has remained in that atrophied state since then. However, recent legislative initiatives are a signal that happier days lie ahead for hemp, and Global Hemp Group, Inc. (CSE: GHG) (FRANKFURT: GHG) (OTC: GBHPF) is well positioned to benefit. The company is out to build a comprehensive portfolio of hemp-based companies that can interact to capture synergies. With hemp having so many uses, Global Hemp is betting that America’s ‘New Billion-Dollar Crop’ is set for a renaissance.

Recent legislative action is reshaping the regulatory landscape. Section 7606 of the Agricultural Act 2014, known as the ‘Farm Bill’, authorizes institutions of higher education or state departments of agriculture to grow industrial hemp for “research conducted under an agricultural pilot program or other agricultural or academic research,” so long as state law permits the growth and cultivation of the plant. There are now 34 states that have enacted hemp legislation and will eventually allow cultivation for research and commercial purposes. It has sparked a renewed interest in commercial cultivation. In 2017, there were 25,541 acres of hemp grown in 19 states, up from 9,770 in 2016, with 1,456 state hemp licenses issued. By comparison, in 2017, Canada cultivated more than 120,000 acres across the country.

The catch phrase of ‘New Billion-Dollar Crop’ is more than hyperbole. An analysis of the commercial product potential of industrial hemp in North America reveals an astonishing array of applications. Hemp seeds (achenes) are used in the manufacture of baked goods, salad oil, personal care products, animal food, dietary supplements and specialty industrial oils. Fiber from the plant is used to make plastic-like molded products and biocomposites, specialty papers, construction fiberboard, biodegradable landscape matting, plant cultures, carpet and upholstery textiles, as well as finer textiles. The woody stem core (hurd) is used for building materials, animal bedding and thermal insulation, while the floral bracts give us medicinal cannabinoids and oils for food flavors and perfumes. The whole plant is useful; it can also be employed for fuel and silage (fodder for cattle and other ruminants).

Global Hemp has already begun growing hemp. In January, the company reported on its successful joint venture with Marijuana Company of America, Inc. (OTC: MCOA). The two companies are collaborating on an industrial hemp project in New Brunswick, Canada. Results of the 2017 season were encouraging, and the partners are now planning a minimum of 125 acres of commercial hemp cultivation for 2018 (http://cnw.fm/Jl6Hs). Over the following three years, acreage is planned to expand to more than 1,000 acres.

Global Hemp plans to apply for a license to extract cannabidiol (CBD) and other cannabinoids from the upcoming industrial hemp crop in New Brunswick. Discussions are also underway with potential processing partners for the extraction of cannabinoids and straw processing for building materials from this harvest in the fall of 2018, with a longer-term plan to establish permanent processing facilities by the end of 2019. Global Hemp also continues to evaluate industrial hemp opportunities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, with the goal of replicating its New Brunswick hemp project in the United States.

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Global Hemp Group Inc. (CSE: GHG) (FRA: GHG) (OTC: GBHPF) Aims to be a Leader in the Multi-Faceted Industrial Hemp Market

Industrial hemp is the only commodity that has the potential to generate revenue from multiple finished goods in the global food, construction materials, nutraceutical, textile and bio-energy industries
Global Hemp Group completed hemp trials last year which set the stage for a full-fledged commercial hemp operation in New Brunswick, Canada, in 2018
Under Canadian law, CBD will become legal to extract from Industrial Hemp in July 2018
Hemp Business Journal estimates that the hemp industry will grow to $1.8 billion in sales by 2020, led by hemp food, body care, and CBD-based products
Official data demonstrates that the hemp industry is growing rapidly, at a 22 percent five-year CAGR, and is being led by food and body care products, with hemp CBD products showing a 53 percent AGR

Global Hemp Group, Inc. (CSE: GHG) (FRANKFURT: GHG) (OTC: GBHPF) is just beginning to scratch the surface of what will over time become a robust market for the production of raw materials and a variety of wholesale products and consumer goods developed from the non-psychoactive industrial varieties of the species Cannabis sativa L.

Global Hemp Group intends to establish and develop a portfolio of companies interlinked in the production of hemp, from its initial cultivation to wholesale materials delivered to product developers and distributors.

Through joint ventures and acquisitions, GHG is focused on cannabinoid production, with medium-term plans to operate in the automotive, building materials, bio-composites, food, nutritional supplements and nutraceuticals markets. The company is guided by the overarching theme of ‘global environmental stewardship’. Global Hemp Group intends to apply key concepts of sustainability and social responsibility in all of the markets that it enters.

With a successful hemp cultivation trial last year, GHG and joint venture partner Marijuana Company of America, Inc. (OTC: MCOA) have set the stage for development of the first commercial hemp operation on the Acadian peninsula of New Brunswick, Canada, in over 20 years.

Cannabinoids

With the expected legalization of recreational cannabis and the extraction of cannabinoids from industrial hemp in mid to late 2018, the partnership expects to begin cannabinoid extraction from a minimum of 125 acres of hemp grown this year in New Brunswick, Canada. The company is also discussing partnerships for straw processing to create building materials following the October harvest this year, with a medium- to long-term plan of building permanent processing facilities by the fall of 2019.

GHG is also pursuing hemp cultivation and extraction opportunities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, with the goal of operating in both the Canadian and United States hemp markets.

Industrial Solutions

GHG seeks to establish an operating strategy it refers to as the Hemp Agro-Industrial Zone (“HAIZ”) (http://cnw.fm/A4Iqr), which will be focused on building a platform of cooperation between farmers, labor, technology and capital across all industrial hemp sectors to create collective value for shareholders. All parts of the plant are to be utilized with the HAIZ concept, including the production of CBD and other cannabinoid-based wholesale products from the flowers and leaves, cottonized fibers from the straw, building materials from the hurd (woody core) and oils and cakes from the grain.

Construction

A number of companies have begun producing hempcrete blocks that deliver a durable product that retains thermal mass and has a low carbon footprint when it comes to energy usage (http://cnw.fm/Ch3uq). They could also potentially reduce building material costs by 50 percent or more when cultivated, processed and constructed on site. Hempcrete has thermal qualities that preserve optimal indoor temperatures year-round in a wide variety of regions and climates. In addition, it is mold free, pest free and fireproof.

A Washington state company is retrofitting homes with hemp;
A Colorado company completed the state’s first permitted “hempcrete” structure in October (http://cnw.fm/9C8qF);
This Asheville, North Carolina, hemp home is one of four hemp homes constructed in the state (http://cnw.fm/oTs06);
Israel’s first hemp house was built last March on Mount Carmel;
Canada’s JustBioFiber constructed a house on Vancouver Island using an interlocking Lego-like hemp block, and there are hundreds of hempcrete buildings across Canada;
In Britain, five hempcrete homes were built in 2017 alone;
France has been constructing buildings with hemp for decades;
South Africa has promoted this hemp home as Africa’s most sustainable building (http://cnw.fm/NYA1v).

Bio-Composites

There are more than 10 million cars on the road that use hemp bio-composites for door panels, dashboards, consoles, carpeting and even brake pads. Mercedes, BMW and Lotus have been using hemp in their vehicle construction for many years (http://cnw.fm/J3Qjd). Auto manufacturers find that hemp auto parts lower vehicle weight and therefore improve gas mileage. Glass fiber used to make the body of a Chevrolet Corvette could easily be replaced with hemp fiber and be stronger and more resilient. Henry Ford knew in the 1940s that natural bio-composites could replace heavier metals used in auto manufacturing (http://cnw.fm/FtJ0k) and be lighter and stronger than traditional materials.

In Conclusion

It has been proven that hemp can be a sustainable alternative for many traditional materials used throughout history.

Hemp is the only plant on Earth that can feed, clothe, house, fuel and medicate humanity. Hemp is potentially the most industrially usable biomass produced over the shortest growth cycle, utilizing the least amount of water, nutrients and pesticides, while sequestering the greatest level of carbon. It is one of the few plants on the planet that can be grown commercially almost anywhere in the world.

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Marijuana Company of America, Inc. (MCOA) Executing a Strategy Aligned with Future Forces

WHO recommends that CBD not be a controlled substance
Operations at various points in the cannabis and industrial hemp industries
Launch of new products for convenience stores

Two major trends are fostering the success Marijuana Company of America, Inc. (OTC: MCOA) is having. With 29 states and the District of Columbia now permitting the use of cannabis for either medicinal or recreational purposes and public stigma surrounding cannabinoids fast fading, the cannabis and cannabidiol (CBD) industry is moving toward a maturity that will make it an economic sector to be reckoned with. At the same time, an increasingly health-conscious American public is discovering the benefits of hemp-derived CBD, which, unlike delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is devoid of psychotropic properties.

The company, established in 2015 in California by Don Steinberg and Charles Larsen, is set to execute its vision of creating a diverse portfolio of cannabis- and hemp-based businesses. MCOA has already established a commanding presence at various points in the cannabis and industrial hemp markets, as well as the related services supply chains.

Meanwhile, MCOA’s wholly owned subsidiary, hempSMART™, Inc., continues its mission of bringing high quality hemp-derived CBD-based products to market through its affiliate marketing program. Its patent-pending product, hempSMART Brain, is designed to provide safe and effective support of healthy brain function, and its recently launched hempSMART Full Spectrum Drops offer a full-spectrum CBD tincture formulated with hemp and fractionated coconut oils. Moreover, in December 2017, MCOA announced the debut of a new personal care product: hempSMART Pain Cream (http://cnw.fm/MNf1P), and hempSMART Pain Capsules are formulated with 10mg of full spectrum, non-psychoactive CBD per serving, derived from industrial hemp as the core ingredient, which, along with a proprietary blend of other natural ingredients, delivers an all-natural formulation.

MCOA has also partnered with the founders of HoneyB Healthy Living to develop Convenient Hemp Mart, LLC’s BeniHemp branded products targeting convenience stores, according to a recent news release (http://cnw.fm/ZvY2C). MCOA has invested $100,000 into the start-up project in exchange for a 25 percent equity stake.

Now that the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially recommended that ‘cannabis compound cannabidiol (CBD) not be internationally scheduled as a controlled substance’ (http://cnw.fm/Dm1Um), MCOA looks set for success in the fast developing cannabis and industrial hemp CBD markets.

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