SK3 Group to Acquire Major Medical Cannabis Research Firm
SK3 Group, Inc. (OTC Pink: SKTO) announces today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Berkeley Bio-Organic Research Laboratories, a firm devoted to developing the pure science of cannabis medicine. Berkeley Bio-Organic Research Laboratory ("Berkeley Bio") was formed as a partnership in 2011 by Dr. Charles Apel, Ph.D. and David Hoye, who has been a well-known cannabis researcher and author since the early 1970's under the pseudonym "D. Gold."
While the firm itself is new, Mr. Hoye and Dr. Apel began working together about forty years ago when Dr. Apel helped Hoye develop the methods in Hoye's book, D. Gold; Cannabis Alchemy, Methods for Preparation of Extremely Potent Cannabis Products in 1972. The book, still in print and available on amazon.com among other outlets, has sold over 100,000 copies over the years and is recognized as the standard work on cannabis extraction and concentration. It was the first book published to present cannabis technology from a consumer's point of view.
Hoye went on, through numerous books, products and inventions, to become an authority and household name, again as D. Gold, in the world of scientific cannabis culture and technology. He opened the first new legal dispensary in San Francisco in 1996 after the passage of prop. 215, and founded the Dharma Patients Cooperative non-profit (now Dharma Care and Hospice Program) in 2006, which supplies free medicine to terminal hospice patients in California who have been recommended cannabis medicine by their doctor, but cannot afford it.. Recently Hoye penned the soon-to-be-published, CannabisChemotherapy, a compendium of scientific literature demonstrating the efficacy of concentrated cannabis medicine in treating cancer.
Dr. Apel has devoted much of his life to pure science, obtaining his PH. D in chemistry from University of California. Dr. Apel then conducted original research which showed that life on earth originated from freshwater ponds struck by lightning, instead of crawling from the sea. Dr. Apel has presented his findings at major universities around the world. Dr. Apel is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the astrochemistry branch of the Space Science Division of NASA/Ames Research Center, a research scientist with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), has served as a consultant to the Artificial Life Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Lecturer in Biochemistry at San Jose State University, and is the Chief Science Officer at Berkeley Bio-Organic Research Laboratory. Dr. Apel is also an Associate Editor of Biosystems Journal.
