Maricann Group Inc. Enters Into Letter of Intent with McKesson Canada Retail Banner Group
Maricann and McKesson Canada Retail Banner Group have agreed to a primary collaborative partnership to provide education and awareness for medicinal cannabis to patients through the largest group of pharmacies across Canada
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 08/01/17 -- Maricann Group Inc. (, Maricann or the "Company") and McKesson Canada Retail Banner Group ( "McKesson"), consisting of independent pharmacies of Guardian, IDA, Medicine Shoppe Canada, Remedy's Rx and Proxim, comprising 2,116 pharmacies out of 10,572 (20.01% ) total pharmacies in Canada, have agreed to a primary collaborative partnership through a joint initiative to create a pharmacy services program that enables pharmacists to counsel and appropriately educate patients in relation to medicinal cannabis.
By establishment of this education program for pharmacists to counsel patients, McKesson will expand the patient awareness of treatment options with their health care team, primarily through pharmacists to provide expert information to patients.
Maricann and McKesson will work together to advocate for pharmacies to be the preferred access point for medicinal cannabis based on pharmacists' critical role in working with physicians and patients in understanding the multi-synchronistic opportunities in multi-medication patients. Maricann and McKesson will work together to assist patients in achieving their desired therapeutic goals while always keeping their safety paramount.
The letter of intent will form the basis of a definitive agreement to be executed by both parties at a future date. Details of that agreement will be announced upon completion.
"McKesson is a global supply chain and healthcare services company. We view our collaboration as a leap forward, not only for Maricann, but the medicinal cannabis sector as a whole. The destigmatization of cannabis, as complimentary medicine continues, now with the support and expertise of your pharmacist." Ben Ward - CEO of Maricann.
Maricann, which has federal licenses in Canada to cultivate, extract, formulate and distribute cannabis, is rapidly expanding its Canadian production, based in Norfolk County ON, adding 20,000 kg of dry flower production to come online in early 2018, and an additional 35,000 kg of production to come online in late 2018.
About Maricann Group Inc.
Maricann is a vertically integrated producer and distributor of marijuana for medical purposes. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Toronto, Canada and Munich, Germany, with production facilities in Langton, Ontario, Canada where it operates a medicinal cannabis cultivation, extraction, formulation and distribution business under federal licence from the Government of Canada and Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Maricann is currently undertaking an expansion of its cultivation and support facilities in Canada in a fully funded 217,000 sq. ft. (20,159 sq. m) build out, to support existing and future patient growth.
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Maricann Group Inc. (Toronto)
845 Harrington Court, Unit 3
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Maricann GmbH
Thierschstrasse 3, 80538 Munchen, Deutschland
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