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Loveland Molecular Laboratories Clean All of our extracts are produced in our state-of-the-art laboratory and are free of any residual solvents for the purest oil possible.

1 Loveland Molecular Laboratories Clean All of our extracts are produced in our state-of-the-art laboratory and are free of any residual solvents for the purest oil possible. Consistent We use the right solvents to create targeted product sets that are of consistent concentration and purity. Potent With potency as high as 850MG/G, our concentrated, full-spectrum CBD oils have 4x the cannabidiol concentration of foreign sourced hemp products. LOVELAND MOLECULAR LABORATORIES, A DIVISION OF ELITE BOTANICALS, IS A PROCESSING AND REFINEMENT FACILITY IN LOVELAND COLORADO FOCUSING ON NON-PSYCHOTROPIC CANNABINOID AND MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTIONS PRODUCING SOME OF THE FINEST CONCENTRATES AND BOTANICAL OILS AVAILABLE ANYWHERE.

Company Overview The Loveland Molecular Laboratories extraction facility is a licensed and certified facilities in the State of Colorado focused on whole-plant, non-psychotropic cannabinoid

2 Company Overview The Loveland Molecular Laboratories extraction facility is a licensed and certified facilities in the State of Colorado focused on whole-plant, non-psychotropic cannabinoid processing of botanical material. The laboratory is housed in a 2500sq ft. facility in Loveland, Colorado. In addition to processing all product from the Elite Botanicals farms, we are able to provide limited processing services to 3rd-parties. THESE INCLUDE: ORGANIC ALCOHOL EXTRACTIONS WINTERIZATION, DECARBOXYLATION FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION CRYSTALLIZATION Loveland Molecular Laboratories has a staff of trained experts capable of producing pure, consistent and potent wholeplant extractions with no residual solvents. Working with leading chemists, engineers and scientists, Loveland Molecular Laboratories is working with advanced distillation procedures using green solvents while continually striving to advance the state of cannabinoid processing and terpene isolation for the industry.

3 Solvent Facts What you Should know: There are pros and cons to each extraction process technique in use today. Loveland Molecular Laboratories offers botanical extraction services focusing on alcohol as the primary solvent. The information below provides an overview of our capabilities. All solvent-based extracts performed in Loveland Molecular Laboratories must possess at least 99.9% purity. Additionally, all of the products produced are required to undergo a residual solvent test for purity control. Loveland Molecular Laboratories regularly achieves 0ppm when using hydrocarbon solvents and under 500ppm when using organic ethanol solvents in our crude oil extractions. While extracts made from food grade ethanol or CO2 of at least 99% purity do not require residual solvent testing (according to Colorado marijuana laws), this analysis is still performed as part of our standard operating procedures, aligning with our mantra of use the right solvent for the right purpose and Clean, Consistent, Potent. Distillates are 100% solvent free regardless of initial extraction methodology. Processing Capabilities ORGANIC ALCOHOL EXTRACTION: Organic Alcohol has been shown to be one of the most effective cannabinoid solvents that can produce an efficient extraction, while retaining high terpene content. Alcohol is also a polar solvent vs. the non-polar nature of hydrocarbons and CO2 and as such can also extract non-target materials from the material - such as chlorophyll. We execute several post processing purification procedures to mitigate this if desired for the final product. Elite currently processes approximately 400lb per day with our alcohol extraction systems. Additional Services ACID OR NEUTRALIZED FORM (AKA DECARBOXYLATION) Raw cannabis contains the acidic form of the cannabinoids. In our CBD rich hemp, those cannabinoids are primarily CBDA with trace amounts of THCA both of which are not psychotropic. When controlled heat is applied, the CBDA/ THCA molecule loses its carboxylic functional group (COOH) in the form of water vapor and carbon dioxide and become the neutralized forms of the molecules - CBD. This process is called decarboxylation. Smoking or vaporizing cannabis decarboxylates the cannabinoids by the heat of the combustion (or vaporization). If the target product set is for oral ingestion, most clients prefer their product fully decarboxylated (also referred to as activated ).

Crude or Winterized CBD oil products produced can either provided in a non-decarboxylated CBDA form or in an Activated form that is fully decarboxylated.

While this process also removes more of the volatile terpenes in the product, it also eliminates the fats, lipids and waxes that are present in the raw whole-plant extract.

$DISTILLATES - The final processing step in refinement of extracted oils can be provided in the form of a distillate fraction in which the cannabinoids are isolated into separate fractions from the$

4 Crude or Winterized CBD oil products produced can either provided in a non-decarboxylated CBDA form or in an Activated form that is fully decarboxylated. ABSOLUTES / WINTERIZATION Executing a secondary extraction with a polar solvent can provide additional purity to extracted oils and is desired by many clients and necessary for certain product sets. While this process also removes more of the volatile terpenes in the product, it also eliminates the fats, lipids and waxes that are present in the raw whole-plant extract. The secondary solvent leveraged is organic alcohol and while this process adds additional time to the processing procedures, the absolute extract produced is one of the purest available. DISTILLATES - The final processing step in refinement of extracted oils can be provided in the form of a distillate fraction in which the cannabinoids are isolated into separate fractions from the plant terpenes and flavonoids and any other, less desirable, residuals in the crude oil (chlorophyll, lipids, etc.). The resulting oil is very light in color, has almost no taste or aroma, is very consistent, solvent-free and fully decarboxylated. The cannabinoid content is also higher (in the range of 85% or higher) as compared to crude or winterized oil.

5 Processing / Pricing WE ARE CURRENTLY RESERVING PROCESSING SHIFTS FOR *AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PER GRAM OUTPUT PAYMENT MODEL, ELITE WILL PROCESS FOR A SPLIT OF THE PRODUCT OUTPUT EXTRACTION SERVICES VOLUME N-BUTANE, ETH WINTERIZED OIL DISTILLED OIL <1000LB $1.00/GRAM *OR 30% $1.30/GRAM *OR 30% $2.00/GRAM *OR 30%.5TON+ $0.75/GRAM *OR 25% $1.00/GRAM *OR 25% $1.50/GRAM *OR 25% IF YOU HAVE CRUDE OIL THAT YOU WOULD LIKE REFINED INTO A DISTILLATE: Pricing Starts at - $1.00/ GRAM (Distillate) (output volume) Pricing Example: 1,000 LBS for processing to distilled oil = $1.50 per Gram Output: alcohol extraction, average 9% return on crude extraction at 50-60% CBD = 40,824 grams winterization, distillation average return of 45% at 80-85% CBD = 18,371 grams Total Cost of Service = $27, Total Output = ~18.3 kilos of full spectrum CBD distillate *Or Total Cost of Service = $0 Total Output - Client = 13.8 kilos of full spectrum CBD distillate Total Output - Processor = 4.6 kilos Molecular Loveland Laboratories Please Contact Us for More Information Info@LovelandMolecular.com

Loveland Molecular Laboratories

Loveland Molecular Laboratories Clean All of our extracts are produced in our state-of-the-art laboratory and are free of any residual solvents for the purest oil possible. Consistent We use the right