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Organization and Description of Business

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Organization and Description of Business
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Organization and Description of Business

NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

MariMed Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, develops and manages state-of-the-art, regulatory-compliant facilities for the cultivation, production, and dispensing of legal cannabis and cannabis-infused products. Such facilities, located in multiple states, are leased to the Company’s clients in the emerging cannabis industry. Along with operational oversight, the Company provides its clients with legal, accounting, human resources, business development, and other corporate and administrative services.

 

The Company also provides professional consultative services in all aspects of cannabis licensing procurement. To date, the Company has secured, on behalf of its clients, 11 cannabis licenses across five states—two in Delaware, two in Illinois, one in Nevada, three in Maryland and three in Massachusetts. Accordingly, the Company has developed over 300,000 square feet of seed-to-sale cannabis facilities across these five states.

 

In addition, the Company licenses precision-dosed, cannabis-infused products to treat specific medical conditions or to achieve a certain result. These products are licensed under the brand names Kalm Fusion™ and Nature’s Heritage™, both of which were developed by the Company, and Betty’s Eddies™, acquired in October 2017. The Company also has exclusive sublicensing rights in certain states to distribute vaporizer pens developed by Lucid Mood™, as well as the clinically-tested medicinal cannabis strains developed in Israel by Tikun Olam™.

 

The Company’s stock is quoted on the OTCQB market under the ticker symbol MRMD.

 

The Company was originally incorporated in January 2011 under the name Worlds Online Inc., using the ticker symbol WORX. In early 2017, the Company name and ticker were changed to its current name and ticker. At inception, the Company had operated an online portal that offered multi-user virtual environments to users. These operations were effectively ceased in early 2014.

 

The Company has entered into several transactions to develop its business, and more recently to carry out its strategic decision to transition from a professional management and advisory company that provides cannabis licensing, operational consulting, and real estate services, to a direct owner of cannabis licenses and operator of seed-to-sale operations. These transactions are summarized below and disclosed in further detail in Note 3 – Acquisitions.  

 

In May 2014, the Company, through its subsidiary MariMed Advisors Inc., acquired Sigal Consulting LLC, a company operating in the cannabis industry. This transaction was accounted for as a purchase acquisition where the Company was both the legal and accounting acquirer. In June 2017, the minority interest in MariMed Advisors Inc. was merged into the Company.

 

In May 2018, the Company acquired iRollie LLC, a manufacturer of branded cannabis products and accessories for consumers, and custom product and packaging for companies in the cannabis industry.

 

In July 2018, the Company contracted to acquire AgriMed Industries of PA LLC (“AgriMed”), an entity that holds a license for the cultivation of cannabis into medical marijuana products in the state of Pennsylvania. In February 2019, the Company filed a complaint against this entity for specific performance of their obligations under the purchase agreement. 

 

In October 2018, the Company entered into a purchase agreement to acquire its two cannabis-licensed clients, KPG of Anna LLC and KPG of Harrisburg LLC, currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries in the state of Illinois. As of December 31, 2018, the Company had not yet received legislative approval – required for all ownership changes of cannabis licensees – and therefore these entities were not consolidated in the Company’s financial statements as of such date. The Company anticipates approval will be obtained, and the transaction consummated, in 2019

 

In October 2018, the Company’s cannabis-licensed client with cultivation and dispensary operations in Massachusetts, ARL Healthcare Inc. (“ARL”), filed a plan of entity conversion with the state to convert from a non-profit entity to a for-profit corporation, with the Company as the sole shareholder of the for-profit corporation. On November 30, 2018, the conversion plan was approved by the secretary of state, and effective December 1, 2018, ARL was consolidated into the Company as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

 

In November 2018, the Company issued a letter of intent to acquire The Harvest Foundation LLC, its cannabis-licensed client with cultivation operations in the state of Nevada. The acquisition is conditioned upon legislative approval of the transaction which is expected to occur in May 2019.

 

In December 2018, the Company entered into a memorandum of understanding to merge with Kind Therapeutics USA LLC, its cannabis-licensed client in the state of Maryland. The parties expect the merger agreement to be finalized, and the transaction approved by the state legislature in 2019