Perkins Coie Represents Schwazze in its Agreement to Acquire Southern Colorado Growers

DENVER (May 28, 2021)—Perkins Coie advised Schwazze, formerly operating as Medicine Man Technologies Inc., in its announced agreement to acquire Southern Colorado Growers (SCG). This planned purchase continues Schwazze's expansion in Colorado and is the company's first major move into cultivation, which will provide high-end, premium cannabis directly to its Star Buds dispensaries and significant production of biomass for its PurpleBee's extraction and manufacturing facility. For more information, please see Schwazze's press release.

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