CANOPY GROWTH CORPORATION
General
Canopy Growth was incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Canada Business Corporations Act on August 5, 2009 under the name “LW Capital Pool Inc.” The Corporation changed its name to Tweed Marijuana Inc. on March 26, 2014, and later to Canopy Growth Corporation on September 17, 2015. The Corporation’s Common Shares are listed and posted for trading on the TSX under the symbol “WEED” and on NASDAQ under the symbol “CGC”. The Corporation maintains a website at www.canopygrowth.com. Information on or connected to our website, even if referred to in documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus, does not constitute part of this prospectus.
The Corporation’s head and registered office is located at 1 Hershey Drive, Smiths Falls, Ontario, K7A 0A8.
Summary Description of the Business
Canopy Growth is a world-leading diversified cannabis and cannabinoid-based consumer products company with operations in countries across the world. Canopy Growth produces, distributes and sells a diverse range of cannabis and hemp-based products and other consumer products for both recreational and medical purposes under a portfolio of distinct brands in Canada pursuant to the Cannabis Act, and globally pursuant to applicable international and Canadian legislation, regulations and permits.
On October 17, 2018, the Cannabis Act came into effect in Canada, regulating both the medical and recreational cannabis markets in Canada and providing provincial, territorial and municipal governments the authority to prescribe regulations regarding the distribution and sale of recreational cannabis. On October 17, 2019, the second phase of recreational cannabis products, specifically, ingestible cannabis, cannabis extracts and cannabis topical products (referred to as “Cannabis 2.0”), was legalized pursuant to certain amendments to the regulations under the Cannabis Act. Canopy Growth currently offers product varieties in dried flower, oil, softgel capsule, vape pen power sources, pod-based vape devices, vape cartridges, cannabis-infused beverages and edibles, with product availability varying based on provincial and territorial regulations. Canopy Growth’s recreational cannabis products are predominantly sold to provincial and territorial agencies under a “business-to-business” wholesale model, with those provincial and territorial agencies then being responsible for the distribution of such products to brick-and-mortar stores and for online retail sales. Canopy Growth has also opened a network of Tweed and Tokyo Smoke retail cannabis stores across Canada, where permissible, to promote brand awareness and drive consumer demand under a “business-to-consumer” model.
Canopy Growth’s Spectrum Therapeutics medical division is a global leader in medical cannabis. Spectrum Therapeutics produces and distributes a diverse portfolio of medical cannabis products to healthcare practitioners and medical customers in Canada, and in several other countries where it is federally permissible to do so. In April 2019, Canopy Growth acquired C3 Cannabinoid Compound Company, Europe’s largest cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals company and a leading manufacturer of dronabinol, a registered active pharmaceutical ingredient in Germany and certain other European countries. The addition of dronabinol has allowed Canopy Growth to expand its portfolio of medical cannabis offerings for its customers in countries where permissible.
Subsequent to the passage of the U.S. Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the “2018 Farm Bill”) in December 2018, Canopy Growth began building its hemp supply chain in the United States through its investment in hemp growing capability and in processing, extraction and finished goods manufacturing facilities. In September 2020, Canopy Growth’s Martha Stewart CBD line of premium quality, hemp-derived wellness gummies, oils and softgels was launched in the United States. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021, Canopy Growth expanded its product offering to include CBD products for pets under the Martha Stewart CBD for Pet line and SurityPro.
In June 2019, Canopy Growth implemented a plan of arrangement (the “Original Acreage Arrangement”) pursuant to an arrangement agreement (the “Acreage Arrangement Agreement”) dated April 18, 2019, as
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