Global Cannabis Applications Corp. Completes Acquisition of WasteTrakr Technologies

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 8, 2022 – Global Cannabis Applications Corp. (“GCAC” or the “Company”) (CSE: APP, FSE: 2FA, OTCQB: FUAPF), is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated June 16, 2022, it has completed the acquisition (the “Acquisition”) of WasteTrakr Technologies, Inc. (“WTT”). The Acquisition was completed pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Definitive Agreement”) entered into among the Company, WTT, and the shareholders of WTT (the “WTT Shareholders”). Following the completion of the Acquisition, WTT is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Definitive Agreement, the Company acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding securities of WTT in exchange for securities of the Company. Prior to the completion of the Acquisition, WTT had 10,000,000 common shares issued and outstanding (the “WTT Shares”). As consideration for the Transaction, the Company:

·       issued an aggregate of 2,310,108 common shares in the capital of the Company (the “Consideration Shares”) to the WTT Shareholders pro rata in proportion to their holdings of the WTT Shares. An additional 256,692 Consideration Shares are being held back (the “Holdback Shares”) as security for the warranties, representations and covenants of WTT and the WTT Shareholders provided in the Definitive Agreement. Provided that the Company has not given notice of a claim to WTT or the WTT Shareholders, then the Holdback Shares will be issued one the date that is 180 business days following the closing of the Transaction; and  

·       granted an aggregate of 500,000 common shares purchase warrants (the “Consideration Warrants”) to the WTT Shareholders pro rata in proportion to their holdings of the WTT Shares. Each Consideration Warrant is exercisable into one common share in the capital of the Company (a “Warrant Share”) at a price of $0.09 per Warrant Share for a period of twenty-four months from the closing of the Transaction.

The Consideration Shares and Consideration Warrants are subject to a four-month hold period.

About WTT 

WasteTrakr, was funded through Tress Capital, in 2019 to pursue the lawful tracking and disposal and/or recycling of cannabis waste using specialty waste software.  WTT pivoted in 2021 to focus on  sustainability  and  how  to  provide  recycling  solutions  for  the  waste  being  generated  by  the industry. WTT developed a LOI with a leading SoCal waste hauler to improve their waste hauling services to become a green and more sustainable eco-system.

Some  former  members  of  the WTT  Management  Team,  including  CEO  and Co-Founder  Steve Peterson, will lead the GCAC sales and marketing efforts, as a wholly owned subsidiary, to drive a sustainable supply chain using the GCAC blockchain product called “Efixii”.  In addition, the team  will  be  championing  efforts  for  the  cannabis,  hemp  and  agriculture  sectors  to  adopt  ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) practices by using the recently launched clearESG.app.

About GCAC

GCAC is a global leader in designing, developing, SaaS licensing, and acquiring innovative data technologies for the medical cannabis industry. The Citizen Green and Efixii platforms are the world's first end-to-end - from patient to regulator - medical cannabis data solutions. They use six core technologies: mobile applications, artificial intelligence, RegTech, smart databases, Ethereum blockchain, and GCAC smart rewards. These technologies transparently disclose cannabis chain-of-custody events, thereby enabling patients to provide crowd-sourced medical cannabis efficacy data. Driven by digital and cannabis industry experts, GCAC is focused on generating revenue from SaaS licensing its technology, and acquiring high-quality cannabis datasets that improve patient outcomes and become the world’s largest cannabis efficacy data provider.

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Forward-Looking Information 

This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to sell any of the securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”) or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.

All information contained in this news release with respect to the Company and WTT was supplied by the parties, respectively, for inclusion herein, and the Company and its respective directors and officers have relied on WTT for any information concerning such party.

This release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "projects", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of the Company's management on the date the statements are made. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements in the event that management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change.