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Q1 2020 · Earnings Call Transcript

Jul 15, 2020

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Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator.

Welcome to the WeedMD Inc. First Quarter 2020 Results Conference Call.

As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there'll be an opportunity to ask questions.

[Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to Marianella delaBarrera, Vice President Communications and Corporate Affairs with WeedMD. Please go ahead.

Marianella delaBarrera

Thank you, Sakshi and good morning everyone. Welcome to WeedMD’s first quarter 2020 conference call.

Please note this call is being recorded. For copies of our press releases and supporting documents filed today or to retrieve a recording of this call, please visit the Investor Relation's page of our website at www.weedmd.com.

The replay will be available later this afternoon. With us today is Angelo Tsebelis, Chief Executive Officer of WeedMD; and Lincoln Greenidge, WeedMD's Chief Financial Officer and we'll also be joined by Stephen Ng, our Chief Commercial Officer during the question period.

Today, we'll review the highlights and financial results for the first quarter of 2020 as well as recent developments and provide a business and operational update. Following our formal remarks, we will be prepared to answer your questions.

I would also like to remind everyone that during today's call, we will discuss our business outlook and make forward-looking statements. Actual events or results could differ materially due to a number of risks and uncertainties including those mentioned in our most recent filings with SEDAR.

These comments are based on predictions and expectations as of today. And other than as required by applicable securities laws, the company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances.

Now, at this time, it's my pleasure to introduce Angelo. Angelo, please go ahead.

Angelo Tsebelis

Thanks Marianella and thank you everyone for joining our first quarter 2020 earnings call. Today I'll briefly recap our progress and achievements during the first quarter as well as some of the business highlights subsequent to the quarter end.

As we had previously announced, we had a record quarter with net revenues of $12.2 million. In addition to the strong revenue growth, Q1 was also a period of strategic transition for WeedMD.

Change in leadership midway through the first quarter marked the pointed change in the strategic direction for the company. With a focus on integrating and combining the Starseed and WeedMD teams, our renewed commercialization plan focuses on strategic sales channels and delivering finished products to the market.

By driving operational efficiencies and focusing our attention on our costs and OpEx, we continue to drive -- identify opportunities and synergies to further integrate our operations and execute against our plan. In the first quarter, we experienced substantial increases in both revenue and gross profit.

As I indicated, this includes a record net revenue of $12.2 million, a sequential increase of over 327% compared to the $2.9 million previous quarter. This increase was driven by successes across all parts of our business.

We saw strong sequential growth in adult use sales as Color Cannabis continue to be in demand by consumers; robust organic growth in our medical channel which included a full quarter contribution from Starseed Medicinal; and a substantial sale of wholesale of their product. Let me start by highlighting our retail engagement ramp up with our Color Cannabis brand.

Last June, WeedMD expanded its sales distribution channel with the launch of Color, our dedicated adult use brand. Since that time, we've continued to experience increased brand recognition and positive retailer feedback across the country.

In Ontario, the country's largest market, WeedMD's flower products have consistently appeared in the top five most popular brands within the categories in which they compete. We also continue to receive extremely positive retail responses from all of our strains, in particular, Pedro's Sweet Sativa and Ghost Train Haze from both retailers and customers alike.

While COVID has created some obstacles in how we interact with the market segments, we've been able to pivot and align with our distribution agencies to provide education and behind-the-scenes engagement opportunities for the budtenders and retailers alike. For example, we recently partnered with the OCS to host a couple of Virtual Lunch and Learn sessions to share our unique cultivation story.

As more and more people look to better understand cannabis from seed to sale, or in our case, phone to sale. While we continue to focus on delivering quality craft cannabis at scale to the adult use market, we're also engaged in developing high quality customer-focused products in traditional and in new formats for the retail market as well as our high marginal -- high margin medicinal business.

On that note, we're experiencing a significant uptick in our medical sales since merging with Starseed. The value from the Starseed brand has been our strong contributor to the impressive revenue and margins in the first quarter.

Our closed loop medical sales model combined with our strategic partnerships with insurers and notable retailers such as Shoppers Drug Mart, as well as access to over 40 independent medical and cannabis clinic networks across Canada, positions as well to become leaders in the medical cannabis space. We believe this potential access to substantial and direct consumer audience of over 350,000 people will drive further revenue growth as well as margin expansion as we continue onboarding new partnerships and business development opportunities in 2020.

As a reminder from our previous call, we enlisted three -- four new partnerships at the beginning of this year with LiUNA Local 1059, The International Union of Painters and Allied Workers, The Insulators Local 95, and myHSA. Its direct access to our large patient base, we are well-positioned to introduce new formats and products directly to our medical channel first.

We recently launched our new line of medical vape products called Aurum to the Starseed Medical channel. Aurum vape line is the first of many feature formats for patients looking for alternative ways to treat their medical conditions and ailments.

These products were all producing formulated in-house at our extraction hub CX Industries. In addition to developing a pipeline of new products and formats, we are also continuously improving the overall customer experience by enhancing our service offerings.

In June WeedMD had launched the same-day medical cannabis home delivery service with express delivery to the Toronto area patients. The customer-centric strategy pilot project called PatientDirect services, local patients order fulfillment from our centralized medical fulfillment center in Bowmanville, Ontario, which is just outside of GTA.

Next, I want to provide you with a brief update on our outdoor cultivation program. In January this year, WeedMD completed a substantial landmark sale of its inaugural outdoor cultivation earmarked for extraction and international markets.

This was a sizable sale in the first quarter for WeedMD that validated the quality of our outdoor biomass that provided us with the assurance that our second year of outdoor growing is the best practices in hand and our process is well defined, will definitely be a success. As one of only a handful of LPs to successfully enter its second year of outdoor operations, I can tell you that we're already impressed with what we're seeing progressing outdoors right now.

Our cultivation team has worked tirelessly over the past few months to improve our outdoor efficiencies. Building on our expert experience from last year's outdoor season, I'm very pleased with what they've been able to achieve.

We will continue to find ways to further optimize and manage our production costs, while also improving yields and cannabinoid content as a way to maximize the commercial success of our outdoor. I’d like to change gears for a second and provide a quick update on CX Industries.

With our two Vitalis 290 Extractors fully commissioned earlier this year, we expect to scale our production to peak at over 50,000 kgs of biomass annually. Additionally, there are a number of ongoing discussions underway from pulling, white-labeling, and cross collaborations that we will share more news as soon as they're available and if possible.

Finally, the first quarter was a step in building a sustainable financial foundation. As part of the Starseed transaction, WeedMD closed $25 million equity investment unit pension fund of Central and Eastern Canada during the quarter.

This investment strengthens our balance sheet and reaffirms the commitment of a strategic partnership with long-term institutional investor whose interests are clearly aligned with ours. Additionally, subsequent to the quarter, we also amended the terms of our senior secured credit facility, whereby certain financial covenants were extended by one year and principal repayments were deferred to the end of 2020.

This additional financial flexibility combined with the LTF investment to help support the company's commercial growth initiatives. As we look ahead, we believe WeedMD is well-positioned for continued sales growth and long-term profitability.

Our best-in class cultivation and processing operations are among the finest in the industry and our commercial team takes great pride in leveraging our cultivation platform to deliver craft cannabis at scale. Our valuable medical sales channel and our growing adult use brand Color Cannabis will continue to make the development of our market position top priority moving forward.

We believe all of these factors combined with our customer-centric initiatives will ensure our continued growth as we move forward to the balance of 2020 and beyond. I will now hand the call over to Lincoln, our CFO, who will review our financial results.

Lincoln?

Lincoln Greenidge

Thank you, Angelo and good morning everyone. Today I'll briefly review our first quarter 2020 financial highlights as Angelo has already mentioned, profit highlights of the first quarter.

In addition, this first quarter of 2020 also represents the first full quarter of our integrated -- our integration with Starseed. Our results reflect the underpinning of a strong and fully integrated sales model and improved operational infrastructure.

For the quarter ended March 31st, 2020, we reported net revenue of $12.2 million, a sequential increase of 327%. Our strong revenue performance was also attributable to the large scale sale of almost half of our outdoor cultivation biomass, as well as increased sales to LPs and the provincial distribution channel for the adult use market.

Our first quarter revenue mix was also quite diversified, including significant medical and adult use sales. As a percentage of gross revenue, direct-to-patients accounted for $5.3 million or 38.6% and wholesale accounted for $8.3 million or 61.4%.

First Quarter 2020 gross profit before changes in fair value was $1.4 million. Gross profit before changes in fair value was $1.4 million, representing 11% gross margin compared to gross loss of 7% in the prior quarter, mainly attributable to increased revenue from the sale of dry cannabis and revenue generated during the period from the full quarter following the completion of the Starseed acquisition.

In the first quarter of 2020, WeedMD's weighted average cost of sales per gram inclusive of all costs direct and indirect to produce and package was $2.64 [ph] compared to $2.90 in the first quarter of 2019. Greenhouse cultivation cost per gram was $0.84 for the quarter and outdoor cultivation cost per gram was $0.11.

This improvement is a direct result of increased economies of scale, as we have increased our capacity and continue to drive efficiencies. We expect this improvement to continue following Strathroy's ramp up to full capacity with additional greenhouse and outdoor growth in the second half of 2019.

We expect that other initiatives including packaging, automation, and optimizing operations at each of our Aylmer, Strathroy, Bowmanville sites should also help to improve our gross margin moving forward. Selling and general administrative expenses totaled approximately $6.5 million for the quarter ended March 31st, 2020 compared to $3.6 million for the quarter ended March 31st, 2019.

The change was mainly attributable to an increase in our operational footprint, an increase in headcount to support the company's growth, as well as our integration with Starseed. As an example, on the operational footprint comment, the total square feet of operations increased significantly over the prior, consequently, also resulted in a significant year-over-year increase in headcount at WeedMD.

As we noted, this was indeed a period of transition whereby we assess synergies, optimizations, and cost savings for execution. Even so we are now halfway through the year and have reached -- just over half of our estimated savings for 2020.

Adjusted EBITDA loss totaled $5.1 million for the quarter ended March 31st, 2020 as compared with the loss of $3.1 million for the same period in 2019 and compared to a loss of $8.2 million in the previous quarter, mainly driven by Russian ramp-up and increase selling and general administrative expenses. Also partially offset by the improvement of gross profit before changes in fair value of approximately $2 million driven by sales increase.

Please note, adjusted EBITDA is not a recognized measurement under IFRS and this data may not be comparable to data represented by other companies. Management believes adjusted EBITDA to be an important measure of the company's day-to-day operations, excluding interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization, stock-based compensation, fair value changes, and other non-cash items and non-recurring items.

This measurement is useful in assessing the results of operating and strategic decisions. Net adjusted operating loss for the first quarter increased by $1.7 million to an operating loss of $7 million compared to loss of approximately $5.3 million last year.

This improvement was the result of the increase in revenue from monthly multi [ph] sales channels. Net loss and comprehensive loss for the quarter ended March 31st, 2020 was $9 million compared with a loss of $2.4 million for the same period in the prior year.

This change is primarily a result of the increase in revenue more than offset by an increase in operating costs as more rules came online in the second half of 2019, requiring ramped up cultivation activities for an increased capacity. As for our balance sheet, we ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $14.2 million.

Total assets as of March 31st, 2020 reached $213.7 million, included inventory and biological assets of $37.8, a 3% decrease from the previous quarter, or 173% increase over the same period of the prior quarter. Our assets increase as a result of changes in inventory and biological assets, primarily driven by the increase in cultivation capacity and the greenhouse expansion as well as the outdoor grow.

As we have previously discussed, in February 2020, we secured the $25 million strategic equity investment from LiUNA Pension Fund both Central and Eastern Canada relating to the closing of the Starseed transaction. LPs investments have strengthened our balance sheet to support our continued commercial growth and our expanded distribution channels.

More recently, this month the company amended its $39 million senior credit facility securing an approval of its financial covenants by 12 months to June 30th, 2021 and quarterly principal repayments have been scheduled to commence on December 31st, 2020. We appreciate [Indiscernible] continued support provides us with greater financial flexibility to support our continued growth.

In summary, the first quarter of 2020 began to show the benefits of our combination with Starseed, increased economies of scale and improved capacity and operating efficiencies. With the $25 million strategic equity investment we received from LiUNA Pension Fund and recent amendments to our credit facility, we have a solid operational infrastructure already in place and an enhanced balance sheet to support our continued commercial growth and broader distribution channels.

We look forward to meeting the growing demand for our high margin premium finished products. At the same time, we will continue to focus on improving our operation -- operational performance, inventory management, and controlling expenses.

With that, turn the call back over to Angelo for closing remarks.

Angelo Tsebelis

Thank you, Lincoln. In closing with the benefits of our fully integrated business model, scaled cultivation, and production capabilities, combined with our strong distribution channels, WeedMD is uniquely positioned for continued growth and a clear path to profitability.

Before we get to the questions, I would like to briefly touch on the impact of COVID-19 on WeedMD and the industry. The Canadian cannabis industry fundamentals continue to remain relatively solid despite the devastating impact pandemic has had on many other industries.

We're seeing retail activities and locations in Ontario is now 100 stores strong; Quebec, Saskatchewan and in Eastern part of Canada advancing. With the current business environment continued to be affected, every day we are seeing a positive turn to more normal business operations, as both individuals and companies adjust to operating in the new environment.

As the situation continues to stabilize, our leadership team continues to assess a phased approach for return to the workplace strategy. Of course, it goes without saying that the safety of our employees and the community remains our top priority.

We will continue to follow government and Health Canada recommendations and guidance to ensure everyone's safety and well-being, even as we maintain our operations to the fullest capacity, we continue to manage all discretionary and non-essential expenditures. This concludes our prepared remarks.

I'll now pass the call back over to Marianella, so we can open it up for questions.

Marianella delaBarrera

Thank you, Angelo and LinkedIn. This concludes our opening remarks and we are now ready for question.

Go ahead operator.

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session.

[Operator Instructions] The first question is from Neal Gilmer of Haywood Securities. Please go ahead.

Neal Gilmer

Yes. Good morning and thanks for taking my questions.

Perhaps want to start from that wholesale transaction you had in the quarter and how we should be looking at future potential wholesale transactions. I think you mentioned it was about half of the biomass from the outdoor harvest last fall.

So, is it safe to assume the other half is gone towards extraction and for the next couple of quarters; there'd be minimal wholesale, with potential for that to return following this year's outdoor harvest?

Angelo Tsebelis

Good morning Neal, it's Angelo here. I think that that is a fair assumption.

A good portion of the remainder has been earmarked for our own extraction as well and we continue to explore other opportunities, but I would not suspect that we would see anything of that magnitude. And yes, we are already starting discussions with a number of groups around our second year harvest, so more to come on that.

Neal Gilmer

Okay. Thanks very much for that.

Wanting to see if we can dive a little bit further in. You did touch on it -- somewhat in the prepared remarks, Lincoln, but on the gross margin profile, quite frankly, was a little bit below my expectations for Q1.

And I guess part of that would be driven by it looks like the $1.25 price that you disclosed for that wholesale transaction, how should we be looking at that going forward? How much does that have an influence on that 11% gross margin in the quarter?

If we took that out, can we -- is there any sort of normalized level you can sort of give us or what your targets are? I know you talked about some automation with some of the packaging and so forth, where would you like to get your gross margins to say for the end of 2020?

Or any sort of visibility you can provide on that level?

Stephen Ng

Yes, hey Neal, it's Steven here. I think certainly the wholesale transaction had an impact there on margins for sure.

If you look at our cultivation costs to begin with, that -- there certainly was an improvement in this quarter down to $0.84. We continue to work through operational improvements on post-harvest activities.

So, we're looking to improve that on a cost per gram basis. We're not really giving sort of a specific target in terms of gross margin, but we are looking to move it up substantially from where it was this past quarter.

Neal Gilmer

Okay. Thanks.

Maybe my last one and I’ll get back in the queue is what are your CapEx plans for the year? Do you have a number that you're disclosing as far as what sort of CapEx dollars we should be expected to be used this year?

Angelo Tsebelis

I would -- its Angelo here, Neal. I would say that our CapEx is going to be fairly minimal for the balance of the year.

As we had previously disclosed, really 2019 was really the year of establishing that platform both on the Starseed side as well as the WeedMD side. There are a few initiatives as Lincoln alluded to, things like enhancing some of our automation and some -- optimizing some of our post-harvest production and processing.

But I would say that we wouldn't expect a significant outlay for any sort of CapEx.

Neal Gilmer

Okay, great. Thanks very much.

I'll leave it there for now.

Operator

The next question is from Graeme Kreindler of Eight Capital. Please go ahead.

Graeme Kreindler

Hi, good morning and thank you for taking my questions. I wanted to follow-up with respect to the revenue mix there.

And I appreciate their comments regarding wholesale transactions. I was wondering if you could share what the demand outlook looks like for Q2.

What we should be expecting across the medical segment as well as the adult use segment that's been quite a drastic shifting in trends from the consumer side of things and it looks like demand might be leveling off a bit on that period on the adult side, but I just been curious in terms of what you guys are seeing and what that could mean for expectations for the topline? Thanks.

Stephen Ng

Yes, hi Graeme its Steven here. For sure, I think, Q1, as I think Angelo and Lincoln alluded to, was really focused on enforcing -- reinforcing and building upon the plan to sell certainly a lot more volume into direct-to-consumer channels in both medical and rec, I think you saw that in terms of the mix.

Again, sequentially in both medical and recreational I think we're up 30%, 40% sequentially in both medical and rec. So, we certainly saw healthy volumes and healthy sales into both of those channels.

Q2 will certainly -- will be the quarter where I think we see some impact from COVID certainly. As you probably know, I think things start to pick up again in the later part of Q2, for the industry overall.

And on the medical side, I think the benefit with medical was just given the direct-to-consumer and virtual nature of a lot of the transactions and interactions with customers. So, certainly relatively less impacted by COVID there, but I think things certainly began to pick up again industry-wide, I would say, towards the end of Q2.

Graeme Kreindler

Okay, thank you. And then to follow-up on that we've seen the trend in the industry of many licensed producers trying to go after the value segments there.

And I'm wondering if you have the pricing disclosed for the sales made to the provincial control boards. I'm wondering if the increasing popularity and competition in that segment whether that is expected to have -- way on the average pricing, or so far what you've seen into Q2 and beyond, you've been able to hold in or potentially raise prices, what should we be -- how should we be thinking about that going forward?

Thanks.

Stephen Ng

Yes, no, thanks for the question. No, certainly we've been following the developments in that portion of the market for sure and look, I think the reality is a lot of folks are looking at their -- it begins with their own capacity and how they think they can monetize, what they have coming down the pipeline for us.

We're certainly not a massive scale, producer, and we continue to feel confident we can move the product that we have coming down our pipeline internally continuing to focus on other segments, other than -- aside from value. So, I certainly can't comment on others in terms of what they're seeing from a pricing standpoint with respect to provinces, but as you noted, we haven't -- we certainly haven't faced any material or any decline in pricing with respect to the provinces.

So, it hasn't impacted us directly. And again, I think ultimately retailers, provinces want to ensure that there's a healthy mix of a product in the marketplace, including moderate to higher price product, because that means there is ultimately more margin in the channel for everybody through and through.

So, I think we're well-positioned where we're at today and don't have any plans in the near-term to participate in that value segment.

Graeme Kreindler

Okay, great. Thank you.

Then to follow-up regarding the gross margin, I was wondering would it be possible to provide what the gross margin was by revenue segment just to get a better appreciation of how that might look going forward? Especially considering that you're not expecting to have any large wholesale transactions in the near-term?

Stephen Ng

Yes, I think maybe one simple way to sort of look at it because we certainly do report the average selling price per gram for the quarter and if you compare it against the all-in cost of goods sold that was recorded there, you'll see that medical certainly had a premium in terms of margin relative to rec. So, I think if you do math just based on the numbers that are available there, you get a pure product gross margin in rec of about 40% and in medical, somewhere north of 60% or so on a pure product incremental gross margin basis.

So, that will probably give you some sense of the incremental margins in those two channels.

Graeme Kreindler

Okay, got it. And then my final question is with respect to the balance sheet, I think end of the quarter with about $14 million in cash.

You mentioned earlier that you're expecting minimal CapEx for the balance of the year. So, wanted to get some color regarding whether that cash balance fund you for the remainder of the year or if that's not the case, then what sort of initiatives or options are you looking at in order to keep the operations funded across the medium term?

Thanks.

Angelo Tsebelis

Hi, Graeme, it's Angelo here. Maybe I'll take that one.

And so with respect to our cash position specifically, you're right, we don't have any major CapEx expenditures coming up as we identified, but we are having proactive discussions in managing our cash and capital raise situation. And quite frankly, we're very confident that we'll be able to manage this in a very responsible way.

I mean if you look at our situation, we have a large insider shareholder base that is fully aligned and at the end of the day, our interests are with them and with us, and so we know how to how to manage through that. More importantly, we have optionality.

So, we're having several various conversations and options where we can go and look at ways to manage some of that and raise some of that capital if needed. And at the end of the day, we understand how the capital markets work.

We have a deep understanding of this and with our previously in the financing as a great example of that and so we'll find ways to make sure that we have what we need to work through the balance of this year and well into next. I mean at the end of the day I have to say that we're really excited with our position right now.

We've we did a lot of the heavy lifting back in 2019 and setting ourselves up, we took care of a number of items that we needed to in the first half of the year and we have the solid foundation infrastructure, as well as that distribution platform that I think positions us really well to manage through this on the back half of this year and especially into 2021.

Graeme Kreindler

Okay, appreciate it. Thank you very much.

That's it for me.

Angelo Tsebelis

Thank you, Graeme.

Operator

The next question is from Craig Wiggins of TheCannalysts. Please go ahead.

Craig Wiggins

Hey, Angelo and Lincoln, congrats on the bank deal amendment, that's a big one this quarter.

Angelo Tsebelis

Thank you.

Craig Wiggins

The question I have for you is looking at your disclosure from your Q3 and Q4 last year and this Q, you had wholesale to federal LPs, about 50 -- $5 million this Q. Your delta and extract inventory between Q3 and Q4 2019 was roughly $5.3 million.

This is some of the hallmarks of possibly being a biomass swap, excuse me with the extraction prior -- the extraction delivered prior to the biomass, was the buyer your biomass related to the supplier of your extracts?

Angelo Tsebelis

So, I'll directly answer that, absolutely not. I mean, the biomass that we sold, as we mentioned, was directly earmarked for international markets and for some extraction but the majority of all went to an overseas and so the extract and that was really about ramping up our CX, getting ourselves in a position to be able to respond and prepare for 2.0.

Obviously, we're continuing to build that out. So, yes, it was absolutely earmarked for our international markets.

Craig Wiggins

So, the buyer and the seller aren't related in any fashion?

Angelo Tsebelis

Buyer and the seller, so no, the ultimate buyer of our product, no, they're not really.

Craig Wiggins

Okay, I just wanted to clear that up. And on gross margin, I saw that you had on the wholesale a $1.25 per gram wholesale this quarter was your revenue.

I thought in the past, you'd mentioned that your cultivation costs were roughly about $0.16 per gram on outdoor. I would have thought that your gross margin percentage given that you sold 50% of your outdoor this quarter would have been larger.

Am I missing something in there?

Lincoln Greenidge

No, you're not missing anything other than the fact that you have to actually put it into a bit of perspective. Our cultivation cost actually went down; right it's at $0.11.

So, -- and we continue to look at -- so that's part of it in our -- in Q1, what we will focus on, as you said, was number one, integration with Starseed. Two, look at optimizations, which we continue to do and I guess one of the result of that was the improvement in cultivation.

But we have some more work to do in terms of our packaging and post-cultivation our processes and you'll continue to see that certainly in the second half of 2020.

Craig Wiggins

So, when do you expect your run rate on gross margins to stabilize and do you have a projected run rate on gross margin?

Angelo Tsebelis

Well, as Steven mentioned, we won't give guidance specifically on our margin. However, we would say that you should start seeing that in the latter half of the year.

Craig Wiggins

Okay. Thanks a lot guys.

Lincoln Greenidge

You're welcome.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The next question is from Chris Damas of BCMI Research. Please go ahead.

Chris Damas

Yes, good morning, gentlemen. Thank you for the great disclosure on sales and prices and costs.

A lot of LPs seem to have amnesia in this area. Can I ask on the outdoor, we've had great growing conditions here in Southwest Ontario, am I right?

Angelo Tsebelis

So far, especially the last couple weeks has been incredible.

Lincoln Greenidge

It has been, yes.

Chris Damas

Great. So, can I ask have you planted 27 acres, flat with last year?

Angelo Tsebelis

It is. We'd have used the full 27 acres.

Quite frankly, we adjusted a little bit and part of that was as we had disclosed, learning from last year and understanding the field and some of the dangerous spots to avoid. So, I think our total actually planted cultivation square footage is just slightly less than that, but not a material number.

For the most part, we use the same 27 acres.

Chris Damas

Great. And are you licensed for any of the 158 above the 27?

And if so, why haven't you expanded that?

Angelo Tsebelis

Good question. So, the licensing is something that we could absolutely address.

Quite frankly, we want to take another year and be prudent in terms of taking the learnings from last year and maximizing that efficiency. When you look at outdoor cultivation and commercializing it is probably more important than getting low costs biomass because at the end of the day, it's not necessarily how much you can grow, it really comes down to how much you can sell.

And yes, there is a significant amount of that that we had earmarked for international markets, as well as extraction. At the end of the day, as we continue to focus less and less on our wholesale markets into our finished goods, we felt that it was more prudent to focus specifically on growing good quality, high cannabinoid content outdoor biomass and then when the time comes, we will definitely look at that expansion potentially next year.

Chris Damas

Well, that's a great segue to my next question. Are any of these strains?

Well, there is the quality up there from last year where you could sell it, you expect to sell it, as in the dried flower market and the adult use, either is pre-roll or in bottled flower. Will we ever get to the point where -- go ahead?

Angelo Tsebelis

Sorry, go ahead.

Chris Damas

Well, will outdoor quality -- will the quality of outdoor from the 27 acres get to the point where you could sell some of it in the adult use market either as a pre-roll, ground joint or even in a bottle? I mean, I don't know how good --

Angelo Tsebelis

The quality is fantastic, Chris. I mean and we had some really successful strains last year with some really high cannabinoid content, THC levels north of 20%.

There is always going to be the "potential inferiority" for more perception basis for outdoor product that we probably wouldn't -- we may or may not look at whether we put it in a jar as whole dried bud for various reasons. But earlier this year, we actually used a significant portion of that outdoor and used it in our pre-roll.

And we had great reviews and great success, as well as a ready-to-roll format that we introduced. So, absolutely, it is commercializable, it's not all earmarked for extraction.

So, we would look to repeat the same and that's why we took those learnings from last year specifically on key strains that we thought did quite well. And we really optimize what that outdoor is going to look like this year.

So, I'm excited for the potential.

Chris Damas

That's great, Angelo. Anyway, great.

Good luck and looking forward to seeing that crop coming.

Angelo Tsebelis

Well, on that note, Chris, I was going to say when and if you're ready, you let us know. I mean we can we can stand six feet apart and walk through the outdoors so you'll be safe.

Chris Damas

That sounds great. Okay guys.

Angelo Tsebelis

Happy to have you out there.

Chris Damas

Sure.

Angelo Tsebelis

All right, cheers.

Operator

This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to management for any closing remarks.

Angelo Tsebelis

So, I'd like to thank everyone again for joining us on today's call and for your continued interest in WeedMD. We definitely look forward to having follow-up conversations with many of you and updating you on our continued progress.

Thank you all very much and have a great day.

Marianella delaBarrera

Thank you.

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines.

Thank you for participating and have a pleasant day.