CGOC Announces Management Changes and Director Appointment

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 28, 2020) - Cannabis Growth Opportunity Corporation (CSE: CGOC) ("CGOC", or the "Company"), a cannabis focused investment corporation with both public and private cannabis holdings, announced today that Paul Andersen, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed as the Company's Chief Executive Officer replacing Sean Conacher, the Company's former Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Phillip Millar has been appointed as the President and Chief Operating Officer and Michael Johnston will replace Mr. Andersen as the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary and has also been appointed as a director of the Company. Each of the foregoing changes are effective immediately.

Mr. Millar has extensive experience in the North American Cannabis market as a senior executive. His legal and military training brings a refreshing perspective to a market that values integrity, accuracy and reliability. The Company's board of directors believes that Mr. Millar's strategic vision and ability to synergize and coordinate multiple stakeholders towards a shared mission will add value to shareholders.

Mr. Johnston is a CPA, CA, and is currently the chief financial officer of Minsud Resources Corp., a mineral exploration company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. From November 2015 to April 2018, he was the CFO of Canada House Wellness Group Inc., a Canadian cannabis company that currently produces medical grade cannabis and operates several clinics across Canada

About CGOC

CGOC is an investment corporation that offers unique global exposure to the emerging global cannabis sector. CGOC's main objective is to provide shareholders long-term total return through its actively managed portfolio of securities, both public and private, operating in, or that derive a portion of their revenue or earnings from products or services related to the cannabis industry.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to the Company. These forward-looking statements, by their nature, involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in those forward-looking statements and information. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the following risks: risks associated with the Company's business plan and matters relating thereto, and risks associated with the Company's investments and financial objectives, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in the Company's public filings on SEDAR. Forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made and the Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements.

For further information please contact Cannabis Growth Opportunity Corporation:

Investor relations
Tel: (647) 660-0566
Website - www.cgocorp.com
Investor Relations - Email: ir@cgocorp.com

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