MIAMI, FL, Aug. 21, 2019 - Cansortium Inc. ("Cansortium" or the "Company") (CSE: TIUM) (OTCQB: CNTMF), a vertically-integrated, global provider of premium-quality medical cannabis operating under the Fluent™ brand, announced today that it will begin trading today on the OTCQB Venture Market under the ticker "CNTMF". This is an upgrade from the Company's previous classification on the Pink Open Market.

Cansortium Chief Executive Officer Jose Hidalgo emphasized, "We are very pleased to begin trading on the OTCQB Venture Market less than five months after our initial public offering on the Canadian Securities Exchange, adding valuable visibility and additional liquidity for the benefit of our shareholders. We are intently focused on executing our growth strategy by expanding our cultivation capacity and dispensary platform in our home state of Florida and establishing our Fluent™ brand of cannabis products as a leader in each market where we choose to compete."

U.S.-based investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for the company at www.otcmarkets.com.

For a complete list of Fluent dispensary locations, current promotions and rewards programs and hours of operation, or to explore the entire Fluent product line and place an online order for home delivery, visit https://getfluent.com/.

ABOUT CANSORTIUM INC.

Cansortium is a global medical cannabis company operating in highly populous medical cannabis markets with a mission to deliver the highest standards of cannabis care from nursery to lab to shelf. Headquartered in Miami, FL and operating under the recently-launched Fluent brand (formerly Knox Medical), the Company through its subsidiaries operates cultivation, processing and dispensary facilities across Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and a dispensary license in Pennsylvania. The Company also has licensed cultivation facilities in Colombia and Canada, with licensing pending in Michigan.

Cansortium Inc.'s common shares and warrants trade on the CSE under the symbol "TIUM.U" and "TIUM.WT.U" respectively.

Forward-Looking Information

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Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this news release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in the public documents of the Company available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.