COMPANY NEWS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Canopy Growth Quits Canadian Cannabis Retail Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. has thrown in the towel on its brick-and-mortar cannabis retail operations in Canada, selling off 28 corporateowned stores under its Tweed and Tokyo Smoke retail brands, closing five more and ending franchising and licensing agreements. Financial terms of the store sales were not immediately disclosed. OEG Retail Cannabis (OEGRC) will purchase 23 Canopy-owned retail stores in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador. OEGRC already owns and operates franchised Tokyo Smoke stores in Ontario. Calgary-based cannabis retail company Four20 will purchase five Canopy-owned stores in Alberta and rebrand them, while five other storefronts in the province will be closed. Aurora Cannabis Dropped from Toronto Stock Index Edmonton, Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis has been deleted from the S&P/TSX Composite Index, according to the latest quarterly review announced by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P/TSX Composite is the primary gauge for Toronto Stock Exchange-listed companies based in Canada. Aurora's stock was originally added to the index in 2018 and is still traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. British American Tobacco Invests in Sanity Group British American Tobacco (BAT) has taken a noncontrolling minority stake in German cannabis company Sanity Group for an undisclosed sum, the multinational tobacco giant announced. Sanity's Series B funding round raised $37.6 million. The funding round was led by BAT, alongside California-based Casa Verde Capital and Switzerland-headquartered Redalpine, according to a news release.https://www.specgradeled.com/grow/shop/