AfriAg Global Plc - Opening of Global Center for Medical Cannabis Therapy

19 September 2019

AfriAg Global PLC

(‘AfriAg’ or the ‘Company’)

Grand Opening of Doc’s Place International, Inc. (‘Doc’s Place’) and Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd. on 25 October.

Weekend Media Release, Jamaica

AfriAg Global PLC, a company whose shares are admitted to trading on London’s NEX Exchange, is pleased to announce that over the past weekend in Jamaica Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd.  notified the public that the grand opening of the first Global Center for Medical Cannabis Therapy will take place  on 25^th October 2019 in Negril, Jamaica at the facilities of Doc’s Place International, Inc.  Wired JA Online News released an article on 14 September, announcing the opening (http://www.wiredja.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=10513:jamaica-jamaica-s-first-global-centre-for-medical-cannabis-therapy-opens-in-negril&Itemid=940&utm_source=newsletter_598&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=in-wired-ja-news-today). The opening ceremony will include a Keynote speech by the Jamaican Minister of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Hon. Audley Shaw, whose responsibilities include  authority over the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) .

Apollon Formularies Jamaica. Ltd. also issued  a media release in Jamaica over the weekend, stating that Jamaican legislation continues to create a solid framework within which to operate as it now moves to capitalise on the  revenue earning potential and the further advancement of medical knowledge of the medicinal cannabis space.  The Company beleives Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd. sits at the forefront of scientific endeavour in the medicial cannabis space, with the opening of this state of the art, next generation master-planned wellness and treatment facility as well as the most modern and licenced processing and production facility in Jamaica.

AfriAg Global’s relationship with Apollon Formularies Ltd:

As previously announced, AfriAg completed an investment in Apollon Formularies Ltd (“Apollon UK”) of 2.325 per cent of Apollon UK's issued share capital and is in negotiations with Apollon UK  and a majority of its shareholders to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares owned by shareholders. Further investments in, or acquisition of, Apollon UK, are subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals.   Apollon UK is an indirect investor in Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd. and will have the right to receive 95 percent of the net profit of Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd.  Apollon UK also has a right to acquire 90 percent of the issued and outstanding stock of Doc’s Place International, Inc.

Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd. and Doc’s Place have completed a successful six-week pilot opening for the treatment of patients which started on Thursday 1^st August 2019, to coincide with Emancipation Day and the start of the Jamaican tourist season.

The Doc’s Place facility which will have its official opening on Friday 25^th October 2019, is a joint venture between Doc’s Place International, Inc., a health and wellness resort, and Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd. It is located at Doc’s Place, Hotel and Resort Centre in Negril’s West End.

The goal of the Medical Cannabis Therapy Centre is to provide an environment that enhances the quality of life for those being served. It is modelled on treatment centres, spas, resorts, and hotels, that provide hospitality-oriented services in combination with personal care and well-being services.

CEO of Doc’s Place and a director of Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd., Stephen D. Barnhill, MD, said, “This strategic relationship provides patients worldwide with the opportunity to receive world-class medical cannabis treatments provided by licensed physicians with special expertise in treating with medical cannabis-based pharmaceuticals in a safe, professional, medical and legal environment.”

Commenting on the new facility, Medical Director of Doc’s Place International, Inc. and a U.S. board-certified neurosurgeon, Anthony Hall, MD, said, "We are very excited about the opening of the world’s first  Global Center of Excellence for Medical Cannabis Therapy in Negril, Jamaica, which will provide patients with specialized medical care for the myriad of conditions shown to be beneficially treated with medical cannabis pharmaceuticals in a Federally legal environment." Dr. Hall is supported by a team, which includes Dr. Marjorie Vassell and Dr. Alfred Dawes.

Chief Science Officer of Doc’s Place International and former professor and director of Clinical Chemistry at MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Herb Fritsche, Ph.D., pointed out:  “Having the world’s first Global Center of Excellence for Medical Cannabis Therapy gives us the opportunity to do state-of-the-art research, clinical trials and development based on patient outcomes data, create and adapt pharmaceutical formulations, establish accurate therapeutic doses and develop genomic markers to better determine the proper course of treatment for patients being treated by our excellent medical team using Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd.’s award-winning medical cannabis strains and cannabis-based pharmaceutical formulary.“

Paul Burke, CEO of Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd.,  said, “We are pleased that we have a strategic relationship with Doc’s Place International to open the world’s first Global Center of Excellence for Medical Cannabis Therapy in Negril, Jamaica, and to provide legal, state-of-the-art, quality-controlled medical cannabis-based pharmaceuticals to the excellent medical team treating these patients.”

Jamaica’s Ministry of Tourism has the development of health and wellness tourism as one of its pillars for growing the tourism industry, and the Ministry of Health and Wellness recently said they hope to attract over 100,000 medical tourists to the island within the next 10 years. Doc’s Place International’s Global Center for Medical Cannabis Therapy aims to be a major contributor to this increase in medical tourists to the island.

In their media publication over the weekend, Apollon Formularies Jamaica, Ltd. stated that Medical Cannabis has been shown to be beneficial in a myriad of conditions, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, nausea/vomiting (chemotherapy), nausea/vomiting (sea sickness), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic pain, arthritis, crohn’s disease/ulcerative colitis, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV, Alzheimer’s Disease, Lupus (SLE), opioid/narcotic rehabilitation, Parkinson’s Disease, anxiety disorders and sleep disorders.

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The directors of the Company accept responsibility for the contents of this announcement.

-ENDS-

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