{"id":18157,"date":"2017-07-31T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/canadas-aurora-cannabis-moves-into-hemp-via-investment-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:45:09","slug":"canadas-aurora-cannabis-moves-into-hemp-via-investment-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/canadas-aurora-cannabis-moves-into-hemp-via-investment-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Aurora Cannabis moves into hemp via investment deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to proceed with its 3.2 million Canadian dollar ($2.5 million)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/aurora-and-hempco-agree-on-terms-for-strategic-investment-637614233.html\">strategic investment<\/a> in\u00a0Hempco Food and Fiber Inc., securing a 19.9 percent stake in the Burnaby, British Columbia-based company and access to a rapidly growing health supplement market.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora will have an option to raise its total interest in Hempco to 50.1 percent, a move that would give it a controlling stake in the Canadian hemp company.\u00a0Terms are subject to shareholder approval.<\/p>\n<p>Hempco\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/web.tmxmoney.com\/quote.php?qm_symbol=HEMP\">TSX Venture Exchange: HEMP<\/a>) is one of the world\u2019s largest producers of industrial hemp products.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Cannabis Enterprises (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.tmxmoney.com\/quote.php?qm_symbol=ACB&amp;locale=EN\">TSX Exchange: ACB<\/a>), a wholly-owned<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canadas-aurora-cannabis-moves-hemp-via-investment-deal\/\">Canada\u2019s Aurora Cannabis moves into hemp via investment deal<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/canadas-aurora-cannabis-moves-hemp-via-investment-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canada\u2019s Aurora Cannabis moves into hemp via investment deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to proceed with its 3.2 million Canadian dollar ($2.5 million)\u00a0strategic investment in\u00a0Hempco Food and Fiber Inc., securing a 19.9 percent stake in the Burnaby, British Columbia-based company and access to a rapidly growing health supplement market. Aurora will have an option to raise its total interest<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/canadas-aurora-cannabis-moves-into-hemp-via-investment-deal\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[845,4,34,942],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18158,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}