PhytoSPHERE Systems, a Medical Marijuana Inc Portfolio Company, to Bring Production Facilities to Europe through Canipa Holdings

Medical Marijuana, Inc. MJNA -6.67% a leading hemp industry innovator, is pleased to announce that PhytoSPHERE Systems, a portfolio company of MJNA that develops pharmaceutical grade medicinal hemp production facilities, is expanding its production facilities to Europe. This expansion will be done through MJNA's newly formed portfolio company Canipa Holdings, which has established an office and team in the city of Bucharest, Romania, to handle its European product launch and distribution.

Canipa Holdings has been formed to assist Medical Marijuana Inc.'s expansion and marketing efforts into Europe. Canipa Holdings will focus its efforts on obtaining European product and marketing approvals for the entire line of Medical Marijuana Inc.'s portfolio of products as well as obtaining various licenses for the production of industrialized varieties of hemp. About PhytoSPHERE Systems LLC PhytoSPHERE Systems, LLC is the world's leading cannabinoid based biotechnology company that builds and develops growing, packaging and extraction technologies and deploys them in self-contained, highly efficient state of the art facilities as well as traditional hemp agricultural facilities, for the pharmaceutical and neutraceutical raw ingredients markets.

PhytoSPHERE's highly efficient growth, packaging and extraction technologies provide clients with a compact, safe, pollutant-free facility which will allow them to: Completely control the cultivation environment Greatly increase plant yields that significantly exceed traditional methods Reduce per-unit costs compared to traditional methods by eliminating the use of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Produce Pharmaceutical grade extracts. Establish antibacterial environments and packaging systems. 

Control post production processing with proprietary standardization methods. PhytoSPHERE's core technologies consist of: A module that places rows of plants in a manner to accelerate growth rates. Computer operated sprayers that ensure even distribution of nutrients to plants. A proprietary antibacterial product clipping, curing and packaging system, allowing for a truly pharmaceutical grade method of cultivation. An extraction and production process for cannabinoid based compounds derived from the cannabis and /or hemp plants, which uses standardized processes and technology to create the world's leading pharmaceutical grade extracts / oil / raw ingredients.