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Fully-Licensed Cannabis Opportunity in California
Executive Summary
California and a few other states have lead the way in not just legalizing Cannabis for medical
use, but also now have legalized “Adult Use” where it is sold to anyone over 21, so that it will
become akin to the selling/licensing of wine/alcohol through special outlets and rules. This has
expedited the growth of the industry and the entire supply chain is in severe shortage of licensed
facilities. DPS Research states that less than 20% of the supply chain is licensed and they
predict the market to become 70% extracted products within a few short years, maturing from
what was 70% flower and smoking products just about 2 years ago.
The vision of our company, Clean Green LLC, is to become a revered brand (and white-label
provider) of premium cannabis products (flower, vape and extract) for medicinal and rec use with
unique proprietary and popular strains. By becoming a boutique grower of a unique and coveted
product line, analogous to a micro-brewery in the sea of the behemoths such as Miller in the
alcohol industry, Clean Green will be successful even with the eventual entry of big pharma and
help usher in an era of advanced medicines only cannabis can provide.
Our name is “Clean Green” not only because it is our philosophy, but because consumers
demand such products. The industry has low-level product that is grown with harmful chemicals
and utilize manufacturing methods unkind to the environment. Consumers will love us not just for
the high quality and healing properties of our product lines, but for the values we stand for.
Our company is “clean” because our unique methods use only organic natural growing and
manufacturing processes to make healthy plants and great products without pesticides or harmful
petroleum based products. Our company will be “green” because we will utilize the most
technologically advanced and environmentally friendly Ag-Tech that consumes the lowest amount
of kWh/pound and emits the lowest amount of CO2 in the industry.
Even better, Clean Green is led by seasoned professionals with each a minimum of 20 years’
experience in this industry, including designing and running industrial-sized cannabis operations,
along with experience taking companies from startup through the growth and maturity stages.
Once these are fully operational, we will utilize operational cash flow to not only provide excellent
returns on your capital (an annual ROI of 1-2x your investment), but we will be able to continue
expansion of production volume, provide packaged options, purchase our own farm, build our
flagship indoor facility, launch the Clean Green brand, and expand into other markets/states.
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Management Team
This company is being led by a team of seasoned cannabis professionals with each a minimum of
20 years in the industry in combination with experience in leading/growing companies. Our team
has experience in designing and running industrial-sized cannabis operations, along with
experience taking companies from startup through the growth and maturity stages.
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Zeke Candelario, Co-Founder, Master Grower and Director of International Business Development
Zeke, our Master Grower and Director of International Business
Development, comes with over 20 years of experience as a
pioneer in the medical cannabis industry with deep roots in the
Emerald Triangle and Latin America.
His primary discipline has been cultivating organic CBD strains of
different ratios that are strain specific with a very high cannabinoid
and terpene profiles. These plants will be utilized to produce highly
effective full spectrum extracts for our medicinal product lines.
Utilizing his medicinal strains, Zeke has developed a very faithful
patient base over the last decade, by tailoring which strains to
provide to which patients based on their ailments. His attention to
care and service has enabled him to be now serving over 3000 patients in the eastern region of
Los Angeles through his hybrid model of palliative care.
Operating as a retail delivery dispensary, under the Green Cross brand name, which is now being
absorbed into Clean Green LLC, Zeke has been helping people with chronic pain, cancer,
anxiety, diabetes, epilepsy, rheumatoid arthritis, PTSD, sleep disorders, alcoholism,
cardiovascular disease, antibiotic-resistant infections, and various neurological ailments for over
10 years.
Additionally, Zeke also has built out and managed multiple dispensary locations throughout
southern California from 2007 to current and is developing our plans for a retail location in the Los
Angeles area.
His medical cannabis knowledge and patient experience has also extended his reach into the
International market, which will enable Clean Green to have an International reach.
Zeke’s passion and drive to bring affordable natural medicine has helped him establish and build
relationships, contacts, and opportunities with key players in the cannabis space in Mexico and
Latin America, which after 4 years of building those relationships are about to come to fruition with
the legalization of Cannabis within Mexico soon to be implemented.
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Our product line will include refined products such as distillate, vape pens, and crude oils for
infusion, as non-smoking products is expected to to 70% of the market within a couple years.
Mikkael and Zeke currently have over 10 unique strains so far that we are registering with the
cannabis genome project and patenting, while he continues to bioengineer more products that
people love and need. As an example, one of his unique strains has over 31% THC content, just
shy of the highest ever recorded 35% THC. Our product mix will be from strains that cover the
spectrum, from high THC strains on the recreational side to high CBD strains for the medical side.
These products will be packaged under the Clean Green brand, but primarily first as white-label
(bulk wholesale products) to other brands, through distributors and also directly to dispensaries.
Mikkael, Zeke, and Ed’s extensive industry contacts in the industry to current distribution
companies and dispensaries will allow us sell every ounce of product we can produce. For
example, Mikkael has order requests for hundreds of liters of distillate per week and our initial
machines in the beginning will only be producing 500L per month. There is an incredible demand
for high quality product from fully licensed facilities.
Even better, the company that we will be sub-leasing under and sharing a roof with is GreenStone
Distribution (http://greenstone.us/). They are one of the larger licensed distribution companies in
California, who represents some of the largest brands. They will be able to bring in biomass with
their farm contacts and purchase our oils for packaging with these large brands. It’s too perfect.
In addition to this product assortment is our remediation business line. Since over 30% of
distillate is failing testing, and there only a couple companies doing this, it will be a very lucrative
add to our business line, and there is not any remediation is not in the financial projections – it is
all additive to the bottom line to be conservative.
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333 acres of virgin land – prepared, but never cultivated before, thus no
pesticides/chemicals in soil – under a 5 year lease
12M gallon lake reservoir with full water rights, plus additional springs on property
Nothing is “upstream” that could contaminate the water source
Practical seclusion allows for security
Almost completely ready-to-go (4) acres of Type 3 cultivation licenses
Options up to 16 acres in future years (1 acre cultivation per 20 acres)
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We will execute and accomplish the goals & vision of the company with the following investment,
broken down into the following sub-categories:
Oils and Remediation Manufacturing in Los Angeles:
Licensing/Permitting: $245,000
Interior Build-out: $325,000
Machinery & Equipment: $1M (Leased)
Working Capital (Dec-May): $215,000
Outdoor Cultivation Farm in Lake County:
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We are half-way through our 3rd funding round for the business operations. We have successfully
placed (1) a “Seed Round” of approximately $100,000, (2) an “Angel Round” of $750,000 from
lead investors, and (3) some initial pledges in this “Series A” type round. Total funding pledged
thus far is between $1.2M and $1.9M out of our total funding request of $2.5M to $4.0M.
This “Series A” type funding round will get the business into full production and into positive cash
flow of greater than $1M per cycle (about one month) through the extraction product line, along
with our Outdoor Cultivation in Lake County within six months.
After we obtain profitability status in the first year, approximately 50% of net profits are earmarked
for reinvestment and 50% will be set aside for dividends after the full buildout of operation
(cultivation, packaging, and distribution) are completed. Because of this, we believe that we
would be able to meet all of our production and expansion goals without any additional funding
rounds, which would eliminate any future dilution.
By structuring the launch of the operation as we have, we are minimizing the amount of
investment capital needed and preserving the equity stake of all investors. Other companies may
first buy a building, go through the licensing process on their own, or jump into the operations that
the other licenses provide, such as indoor cultivation or a dispensary, but those take far more
funds to get going and many more months until positive cash flow. Utilizing this waterfall launch
model, we have reduced the capitalization needs compared to others in half and decreased the
time to positive cash by a third, from a year-and-a-half to just 4-6 months.
The upside of this launch strategy is that your investment buys 3x more equity than it would have
otherwise and because we don’t have to raise 3x more capital. We are very comfortable that we
will be able to provide a minimum dividend of 100% ROI on your money every year, and our goal
is to make 200% ROI annually, or even more.
The ownership of the company is divided into two classes, the Founder’s Class and the Investor’s
Class. The Founder’s class is 60% and the Investor’s Class is 40%. Whatever capital is raised
will be proportioned among that 40%, with some minor adjustments for the Angel money, “funding
in lieu of capital needs” such as securing biomass contracts that don’t require payment until sold,
or giving equity to the investor(s) who would provide a personal guarantees on any leases, if
needed. This currently equates to a 1% equity share for every $100,000 of investment.
Additionally, our Operating Agreement states investment payback is priority for first distributions
over all equity holders, including Founders. So, regardless of the ownership percentages, the
investor group gets all distributions first until fully repaid.
While we expect a large proportion of our pledges will turn into actual investments, we also know
that some of them will not. We will be transforming pledges into actual contributions in December
of 2018, and would prefer that all pledges to be 2018 contributions. If we fall a little short on our
overall goals, we will continue to accept investments into January/February of 2019. When
considering your investment levels, please use these benchmarks for your timing.
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Because Cannabis is still a “Schedule 1” substance and not legal in the eyes of the Federal
Government, we are aware that some investors outside of California would like to be a part of our
success, but desire to have something in place that puts them at arms-length. We have four (4)
options for consideration if you would like to be a part of our success, but also want to have a
degree or two of separation.
Instead of investing directly into Clean Green, we are offering the opportunity to invest into one of
four separate LLCs that will perform the following functions:
These additional companies will be separate LLC’s and be owned 85% by the investor(s). There
are 2 advantages and 1 disadvantage to this setup. For advantages, first, these companies will
not directly be “plant-touching”, thus will have a degree of separation from the core business.
Second, they will be cash-flowing and providing revenue and profits back to the investor(s) as
soon as Clean Green begins to cash-flow, instead of waiting until year 2.
The only drawback is that because there are limits to how high the lease rates can be, it will not
provide as great of a return long-term as investing directly into Clean Green. We anticipate that
the return on investment for the Working Capital, Staffing, and Equipment leasing companies will
be about half of a direct investment at 50% ROI, while the Real Estate company will be 20-25%.
The exchange is quicker returns and degree of separation for a lower, albeit still very strong, ROI.
If one or more of the investors would wish to purchase farmland or greenhouses for our biomass
production needs, the company would lease the facility from that investor at a healthy above-
market rate (even for CA) to give them a solid cap rate for that investment. Please refer to the
real estate addendums if you are interested in assisting on that aspect of our operations.
This manufacturing operation requires purchase of capital equipment, along with the facility
design and installation of that equipment. There are plenty of leasing companies that will provide
equipment leasing to Cannabis businesses for extraction equipment. If one or more of the
investors wishes to be part of an equipment leasing company that would cover the purchase and
installation of the equipment, Clean Green would lease the equipment from that LLC and provide
an above market rate for that equipment lease.
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Any business needs people to run it, but more importantly, it will require people to run it before it
is producing positive cash flow. Instead of having staffing be within the company, a Staffing
Company LLC can be created to provide the employee solutions. Clean Green would then
contract with this Staffing Company and in exchange for obtaining pre-revenue staffing, would be
an above-market lease rate for employee costs.
The core of this business is biomass acquisition. The more biomass that we can purchase on
contract and run through the machines, the more profitable this business will be. The machines
are capable of running 2000 lb per shift, or 4000 lb per day. This equates to a 80,000+ lb per
month capacity. We are currently only budgeting for 12,000 lb per month.
To run at capacity and maximize profitability, it would be best to buy when the market is lowest
and store and run material through when the market is highest. While indoor and greenhouse
grows have a consistent biomass available on a monthly basis, the majority of growers are still
outdoors. These outdoor growers typically have one “long-season”, which harvests in Sept-Oct.
Some outdoor growers split up the long-season into two grows for a mid-summer and fall. A
select few in the correct zones are able to get an early spring season harvested in late April or
early May.
At each of these outdoor harvest periods, the price of biomass drops. Outside of these periods,
biomass price increases. With enough working capital, one would buy enough biomass during
the cheap periods, have enough storage to hold it, and then run it through the machines during
the expensive periods.
This Working Capital LLC would be a loan company with a high interest rate. The money would
be a loan to Clean Green, which would use those funds to purchase and store the biomass.
Payback of the loan with the interest would be as soon as the finish product is sold. This cycle
would repeat for each Spring, Summer, and Fall harvest season. ROI would be within months for
each purchase cycle and would repeat for each outdoor harvest.
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Manufacturing >
Cultivation
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Financial Projections
The following projections are based on the following facts: Edward’s historical manufacturing line
outputs and Mikkael’s historical plant spacing and yield production. These are not guesses or
assumptions based on what could be done, but facts on what has been done in industrial settings.
These financial projections are based on very conservative modeling. All of the adjustments
below are utilized to make the income 20-25% lower and expenses 10-15% higher than what we
currently know and expect to incur, such as the values below. All of the financial project
spreadsheets are available for your review and inspection at any time.
Manufacturing:
o Distillate - $7.00/gram (Current market value $8.00-$8.50)
Cultivation:
o Spring Season
4’x4’ plant spacing, 2600 plants/acre.
Capable of 9 ounces per plant, budgeting 6 ounces per plant
Market Value = $1000/lb for licensed product, budgeting $750/lb
o Long Season
8’x8’ plant spacing, 600 plants/acre
Capable of 10 lb/plant, budgeting 6 lb/plant
Market Value = up to $1200/lb for licensed product, budgeting $850/lb
Cost Ratios/Variables:
Manufacturing
o $150/lb for biomass (Current market value is $105)
Cultivation
o Generally accepted values of production cost/pound is $200-$300/lb for Outdoor
o Our budgeting value is $384.71/pound (without local/state taxes).
o Capability Value is $239.79/pound (Capability is what we believe we are capable of,
budget is what was used to make the projection numbers above)
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