Vireo Health Terminates Employment Agreement with Executive Chairman Bruce Linton

MINNEAPOLIS – June 8, 2020 – Vireo Health International, Inc. (“Vireo” or the “Company”) (CNSX: VREO; OTCQX: VREOF), a leading physician-led, science-focused, multi-state cannabis company, today announced that the Company has elected to terminate its employment agreement with Bruce Linton as Executive Chairman, on an entirely without-cause basis, effective immediately.   

“We wish Bruce well in his future endeavors,” said Kyle Kingsley, M.D., Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Vireo. “Our organization will remain focused on executing a strategy which benefits all stakeholders and developing our core medical markets of Arizona, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, and Pennsylvania.” At this time, the Company does not expect to fill the role of Executive Chairman.

Mr. Linton joined Vireo in November of 2019. His current term on the Board of Directors expires at the Company’s July 15, 2020 Annual General Meeting of shareholders. The incentive warrants previously issued to Mr. Linton with a November 7, 2024 expiration date will now vest with a modified expiration date of June 8, 2021. For further details of the warrants issued to Mr. Linton, see the Company’s news release dated November 7, 2019, (a copy of which is available under the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com).

About Vireo Health International, Inc.

Vireo Health International, Inc. is a physician-led cannabis company focused on building long-term, sustainable value by bringing the best of medicine, science, and engineering to the cannabis industry. With operations strategically located in early-stage, limited-license medical markets, Vireo manufactures pharmaceutical-grade cannabis products in environmentally-friendly greenhouses and distributes its products through its growing network of Green Goods™ retail dispensaries and hundreds of third-party locations. Its current core medical markets of New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Mexico, and Maryland all have the potential to enact adult-use legalization in the next 24 months, and two additional markets in Puerto Rico and Massachusetts also have potential for commercialization. Combined with its teams’ focus on driving scientific innovation within the industry and securing meaningful intellectual property, Vireo believes it is well positioned to become a global market leader in the cannabis industry. Today, eight of its 10 markets are operational with 13 of its 32 total retail dispensary licenses open for business. For more information about the company, please visit www.vireohealth.com.

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Vice President, Investor Relations
samgibbons@vireohealth.com 
(612) 314-8995

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Vice President, Corporate Communications
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