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Mentor Capital Cannabis Index Gains During Election Cycle

MNTR | March 21, 2016

Value Marijuana Companies Grow with GW Pharma Double

Mentor Capital, Inc. (OTCQB:MNTR) announced that Mentor’s Cannabis Index for Value Investors has gained 22% YTD during 2016. According to Mentor CEO, Chet Billingsley, “The index was boosted by GW Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ:GWPH) recent doubling after its cannabidiol drug for childhood epilepsy received a positive nod from the FDA.” The other leaders reported by Mentor in its marijuana index were indoor cultivation system experts Surna, Inc., (OTCQB:SRNA) at (326%) and new cannabis patent participant Mentor Capital at (354%), when compared to NASDAQ average unit sales, book value and growth set together at (100%).

“Because legal marijuana sales growth is largely a political reclassification from illegal to legal it is not surprising that there is great interest in the political changes this election cycle will bring within the cannabis operating and investment community. Speculations abound from Donald Trump coopting the youth vote and weeks of air time by backing legalization once he is past the primaries, to President Obama declassifying marijuana off of Schedule 1 as a swansong during his last days. Regardless, the political mode is for greater legalization. That momentum seems to support the observed growth in the legal cannabis market, and the index, at about 400% of the growth of NASDAQ,” reports the Mentor Capital CEO.

The other cannabis stocks and their respective ratios to NASDAQ in this value focused marijuana stock index are: Americann, Inc. (OTCQX:ACAN) at (58%); Digipath, Inc. (OTCQB:DIGP) at (162%); GW Pharmacueticals, Plc at (135%); Hemp, Inc. (OTCMkts:HEMP) at (98%), and Terra Tech Corp (OTCQX:TRTC) at (87%). The complete Index can be found at: www.MentorCapital.com.

About Mentor Capital: The Company seeks to come alongside and assist private medical marijuana and cannabis companies and their founders in meeting their liquidity and financial objectives, to add protection for investors and to help incubate private cannabis companies.

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