- Sproutly’s
chief science officer, Dr. Arup Sen, recently discussed the company’s
unique water-soluble technology and its ability to create designer
cannabis beverages
- Sproutly
entered LOI with the largest Caribbean medical cannabis producer to
establish a joint venture to sell cannabis-infused beverages and oil
products
As worldwide prohibition of cannabis eases, restrictions on
scientific research into cannabinoids are loosening as well, allowing
innovative companies like Sproutly Canada, Inc. (OTCQB: SRUTF) (CSE: SPR) (FRA:
38G) to emerge. Sproutly, based in Vancouver, Canada, has discovered
water-soluble forms of cannabinoids, which it is now able to extract with a
proprietary Aqueous Phytorecovery Process (APP) technological platform. In a
recent interview, Dr. Arup Sen, chief science officer of Sproutly, discussed
the technology and the potential that it holds for creating designer cannabis
beverages, a promise that appears to have already blossomed. Sproutly has
signed a letter of intent with Global Canna Labs Limited, the Caribbean’s
largest medical cannabis producer. The two companies are planning to launch a
line of cannabis-infused beverages for the Carribean market, based on
Sproutly’s APP technology.
This easing of restrictions on cannabis has put favorable
alternative and consumer-driven delivery methods under the spotlight. Marijuana
available on the black market was consumed mainly through smoking. However,
some people don’t enjoy smoking, or may be worried about the long-term health
effects.
The obvious solution is to develop oral delivery methods
that consumer want, but, in the case of cannabinoids, current oral delivery
options are inefficient. For delivery via the human blood stream, hydrophilic (water-soluble)
substances are best, but cannabinoids are hydrophobic (literally oil-based and
afraid of water). Accordingly, several technologies to make cannabinoids
water-compatible have been developed. They mostly involve the use of micro- or
nanoemulsions. However, Sproutly’s APP technology goes beyond that by being
able to recover water-soluble forms of cannabinoids, marking a huge leap
in delivery.
As Sen explained in an interview with Investor Ideas (http://ibn.fm/QlipZ), “About
three years ago we got interested in cannabis plants, however the challenge was
that all the biologically active molecules are oils… So, we developed, and have
a patent-pending process that is unique in that we are able to find and recover
naturally water-soluble forms of these oils (that are able to) flow through the
blood. (Now) we can recover commercially feasible amounts of these unique
naturally water-soluble forms of the entire plant/cannabinoid/terpene profile.”
“This also exhibited an unusual feature, which is expected
only of truly water-dissolved molecules, not formulated by emulsion or
encapsulation, in that the truly water-soluble material, just like sugar and
salt, go into our system rapidly, (hence fast onset for the cannabinoids and
clear out from the system rapidly), so our offset time is less than an hour and
half and most of them less than an hour. This is in sharp contrast to either
free oil or all of the formulations that the industry has developed over the past
couple of decades that formulate oil into water.”
“This now positions us to be the only player that can truly
make, what would be called ‘designer beverages,’ where cannabis components are
one component but we can add minerals, we can add anti-oxidants and we can add
vitamins to really create functionality in the beverage and have controlled
dosage.”
The technology is due to make its debut soon in Canada and
abroad. Sproutly recently announced that it had entered into a letter of intent
with Global Canna Labs Limited to establish a joint venture for the purpose of
developing, producing, distributing, marketing and selling cannabis-infused
beverages, edibles and topical products derived from Sproutly’s fully licensed,
APP Technology (http://ibn.fm/zMSk6).
Global Canna Labs Limited, with offices in Kingston, Jamaica, is the largest
medical cannabis producer in the Caribbean. The firm counts among its board
members a former Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and a former
Commissioner of Jamaica’s Customs Agency.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Sproutly.ca
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