Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On October 1, 2020, Marijuana Company of America, Inc. (the "Company") entered into two Joint Venture Agreements with Marco Guerrero, a director of the Company ("Guerrero") dated September 30, 2020, to form joint venture operations in Brazil and in Uruguay (the "Joint Venture Agreements") to produce, manufacture, market and sell the Company's hempSMART™ products in Latin America, and will also work to develop and sell hempSMART™ products globally. The Joint Venture Agreements contain equal terms for the formation of joint venture entities in Uruguay and Brazil. The Brazilian joint venture will be headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, and will be named HempSmart Produtos Naturais Ltda. ("HempSmart Brazil"). The Uruguayan joint venture will be headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay and will be named Hempsmart Uruguay S.A.S. ("HempSmart Uruguay").

Under the Joint Venture Agreements, the Company will acquire a 70% equity interest in both HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay. A minority 30% equity interest in both HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay will be held by newly formed entities controlled by Guerrero, a director of the Company, who is a successful Brazilian entrepreneur. The Company will provide capital in the amount of $50,000 to both HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay under the Joint Venture Agreements, for a total capital outlay obligation of $100,000. It is expected that the proceeds of the initial capital contribution will be used for contracting with third-party manufacturing facilities in Brazil and Uruguay, and related infrastructure and employment of key personnel.

The boards of directors of HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay will consist of three directors, elected by the joint venture partners. As part of the Joint Venture Agreements, the Company will license, on a royalty-free basis, certain of its intellectual property regarding the Company's existing products to HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay to enable the joint ventures to manufacture and sell the Company's products in Brazil, Uruguay, and for export to other Latin American countries, the United States, and globally in accordance with the terms of the Joint Venture Agreements.

The Joint Venture Agreements provide the partners with a right of first offer ("ROFO"). Under this right, each partner may trigger an "interest sale" ROFO process at any time pursuant to which the other partners may either acquire the triggering partner's interest in the joint ventures or permit the triggering partner to sell its interest to a third party. In addition, the Company, as majority partner, may trigger a compulsory buy-sell procedure in the event a joint venture is frustrated in its intent or purpose, pursuant to which the Company could pursue a sale of all or substantially all of the joint venture. Subject to certain exceptions, the joint venture partners may not transfer their interests in HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay. The Joint Venture Agreements contain customary terms, conditions, representations, warranties and covenants of the parties for like transactions.

The foregoing description of the Joint Venture Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Joint Venture Agreements, copies of which are filed as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.




Item 8.01 Other Events.



Press Release

On October 1, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the launching of the joint ventures in Brazil and Uruguay. A copy of this press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.





Related Party Transactions

Mr. Marco Guerrero, a director of the Company, is a party to both Joint Venture Agreements and will, through his controlling interests in the joint venture partners in Brazil and Uruguay, own 30% of HempSmart Brazil and HempSmart Uruguay. In its action approving and authorizing the Share Exchange Agreements, the board of directors of the Company considered full disclosure of Mr. Guerrero's conflicting interest and his related party status and Utah state law governing transactions where a conflicting interest exists that could reasonably be expected to exert an influence on the director's judgment and requiring specific disclosures pursuant to Section 16-10a-852 of the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act. In consideration of such disclosure, a unanimity of the Company's qualified, uninterested directors approved the transaction.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.





  (d) Exhibits




Exhibit   Description

10.1        Joint Venture Agreement, dated September 30, 2020, by and between the
          Company, Marco Guerrero, and MR Hemp Ltda. *
10.2        Joint Venture Agreement, dated September 30, 2020, by and between the
          Company, Marco Guerrero, and MR Hemp Uruguay S.A.S. *
99.1        Press Release dated October 1, 2020*




 * Filed Herewith


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