# INTERVIEW: Why Sativa Investments are making several changes

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/interview-why-sativa-investments-are-making-several-changes/412774534
- Published: 2019-05-10T07:13:57+01:00
- Author: Giles Arbor

**Sativa Investments plc** (NEX: SATI) CEO Geremy Thomas joins DirectorsTalk to 
discuss a number of changes including a name change to Sativa Group.

 

Sativa invests in well-placed ventures within the dynamic regulatory environment
of the Medicinal Cannabis sector. The Company’s pan-European, end-to-end, seed-to-
consumer investment strategy focuses on the production, testing and compliance, 
research and development, including pharmacology, commercialisation and sales and
marketing of Medicinal Cannabis in jurisdictions where it is regulatorily permitted.
Sativa has committed to an independent legal review prior to each investment to 
verify compliance with the prevailing regulatory environment.

The Company’s equity interest in an investment may range from a minority position,
to a controlling interest, or to 100 per cent ownership. The ventures that Sativa
acquires can either be public or private.

Sativa Investments has already made six investments to date, these being Canada-
based and dual-listed emerging pharmaceutical company, Veritas Pharma Inc., CSE-
listed Toronto-based Pharma-Tech company Rapid Dose Therapeutics Inc., which owns
the patent-pending proprietary QuickStrip™ technology, UK-based CBD products provider
George Botanicals Ltd (of which Sativa has 100 per cent ownership), PhytoVista Laboratories(
of which Sativa also has 100 per cent ownership), a UK testing laboratory meeting
the need for regulatory and batch testing of products such as CBD oil, a joint venture
with Germany’s Lexamed GmbH, and an option on a 7.53-acre development site in Wiltshire
with the potential to build a glasshouse for growing raw cannabis for medicinal 
and CBD use.

Sativa is also focussed on researching and developing medicinal cannabis products
by funding university research grants of medicinal cannabis through its Sativa Foundation.

The Company’s Board and Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Board have a combined 60 years’
industry experience, with significant pharmaceutical strength and experience and
extensive contacts in the industry, which includes pharmacologist Sir Alasdair Breckenridge,
who liaises with the Home Office and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency, which he has chaired, for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis in the 
UK Their extensive skills range from capital fund raisings, medical research, and
start-ups, to pharmaceutical development.

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