OWC Pharmaceutical Research (OWCP) Risk Analysis

At present, our Common Stock is subject to quotation on the OTCQB market under the symbol "OWCP". There is only a limited, liquid public trading market for our Common Stock and there can be no assurance that a more liquid market will ever develop or be sustained. Market liquidity will depend on the perception of our business and any steps that our management might take to bring public awareness of our business to the investing public within the parameters of the federal securities laws. There can be given no assurance that there will be any awareness generated or sustained. Consequently, investors may not be able to liquidate their investment or liquidate it at a price paid by investors equal to or greater than their initial investment in our Common Stock. As a result, holders of our Common Stock may not find purchasers for their shares should they to decide to sell the Common Stock held by them at any particular time if ever. Consequently, our Common Stock should be purchased only by investors who have no immediate need for liquidity in their investment and who can hold our Common Stock, possibly for a prolonged period of time.

Our Common Stock is "thinly-traded," meaning that the number of persons interested in purchasing our Common Stock at or near ask prices at any given time may be relatively small or non-existent. This situation is attributable to a number of factors, including the fact that we are a small company that is relatively unknown to stock analysts, stock brokers, institutional investors and others in the investment community that generate or influence sales volume, and that even if we came to the attention of such persons, they tend to be risk-averse and would be reluctant to follow an unproven company such as ours or purchase or recommend the purchase of our shares until such time as we become more seasoned and viable. As a consequence, there may be periods of several days or more when trading activity in our shares is minimal or non-existent, as compared to a seasoned issuer which has a large and steady volume of trading activity that will generally support continuous sales without an adverse effect on share price. We cannot give stockholders any assurance that a broader or more active public trading market for our common shares will develop or be sustained, or that current trading levels will be sustained.

In the event an active trading market develops for our Common Stock, the market price of our Common Stock may be highly volatile, as is the market for securities subject to quotation on OTC Markets in particular. Some of the factors that may materially affect the market price of our Common Stock are beyond our control, such as changes in conditions or trends in the industry in which we operate, general market and economic conditions in the United States and world-wide as well as the number of our shares of Common Stock being purchased and sold at any particular time. These factors may materially adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock, regardless of our historic business performance or future prospects. In addition, the public stock markets have experienced and may be expected to experience extreme price and trading volume volatility. This volatility has significantly affected the market prices of securities of many companies for reasons frequently unrelated to their operating performance. These market fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock in the public market will become available pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act, could adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock. As of December 31, 2018, we had 150,207,393 shares of Common Stock outstanding, of which 13,405,702 shares of Common Stock are restricted and are subject to the resale provisions of Rule 144 and Regulations D and S under the United States federal securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder. As restrictions on resale of other shares of Common Stock expire, pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144 or otherwise, the market price could drop significantly if the holders of these restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them at any given date or over any particular period of time. When restrictions on resale lapse, and if holders of previously restricted securities sell a large number of shares pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, they could adversely affect the market price for our Common Stock, which such adverse effect could be sustained and over which we have no control.

In the future, we may issue our authorized but previously unissued equity securities, including shares of our Common Stock, resulting in the dilution of the ownership interests of our present shareholders. We are authorized to issue an aggregate of 500,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.00001 per share and 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.00001 (the "Preferred Stock"), of which 150,207,393 shares of Common Stock and 490 shares of Preferred Stock are outstanding at December 31, 2018. In addition, current holders of our Common Stock will experience dilution in their equity ownership from the exercise of outstanding Common Stock purchase warrants and stock options granted under our 2016 Employees Stock Option Plan (the "2016 ESOP"). We may also issue additional shares of our Common Stock, warrants or other securities that are convertible into or exercisable for the purchase of shares of our Common Stock in connection with hiring and/or retaining employees or consultants, future acquisitions, future sales of our securities for capital raising purposes, or for other business purposes. The future issuance of any such additional shares of our Common Stock or other securities, for any reason including those stated above, may have a negative impact on the market price of our Common Stock. There can be no assurance that the issuance of any additional shares of Common Stock, warrants or other convertible securities may not be at a price (or exercise prices) below the then prevailing price at which shares of our Common Stock will be quoted on the OTCQB Market.

On April 30, 2018, we consummated the April 2018 PIPE, pursuant to which we sold to a non-US-based institutional investor 500 shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, which were initially convertible into 25,000,000 shares of our Common Stock and warrants to purchase 12,500,000 shares of our Common Stock, at an initial exercise price of $0.22 per share (the "Warrants"). On November 27, 2018, as a result of a "triggering event," the conversion price was adjusted to an amount equal to (A) 75% of the quotient determined by dividing (x) the sum of the three (3) lowest closing prices of our Common Stock during the period beginning ten (10) trading days prior to such triggering event conversion date and ending three (3) trading days after the shares of Common Stock are received into the investor's brokerage account and fully cleared for trading, by (y) three (3), minus (B) $0.01. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock have a beneficial ownership limitation such that none of the holders of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock have the right to convert the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to the extent that after giving effect to such conversion, the holder (together with its affiliates and any other persons acting as a group together with the holder or any of the holder's affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% (the "Maximum Percentage") of the shares of our Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion. However, by written notice to us, a holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock may waive the Maximum Percentage provision, which such notice will be effective 61 calendar days after the notice date. As of March 1, 2019, 450 shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, which are convertible into not less than 8,750,000 shares of Common Stock (plus additional Common Stock resulting from further adjustments to the conversion price, if any), in addition to the Warrants, remained outstanding. Any future conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock or exercise of the Warrants would substantially dilute the ownership of holders of our Common Stock. Furthermore, any additional adjustments to the conversion price of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock could further dilute the ownership of holders of our Common Stock.

The majority of our assets are located outside the United States. In addition, all of our officers are nationals or residents of countries other than the United States, and all or a substantial portion of such persons' assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to enforce within the United States any judgments obtained against us or any of our officers, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof. It may also be difficult to assert claims under United States securities law in actions originally instituted outside of the United States. Moreover, Israeli courts may refuse to hear a United States securities law claim because Israeli courts may not be the most appropriate forums in which to bring such a claim. Even if an Israeli court agrees to hear a claim, it may determine that Israeli law, and not U.S. law, is applicable to the claim. Further, if U.S. law is found to be applicable, certain content of applicable U.S. law must be proved as a fact, which can be a time-consuming and costly process, and certain matters of procedure would still be governed by Israeli law. Consequently, our investors may be effectively prevented from pursuing remedies under U.S. federal and state securities laws against us or any of our non-U.S. directors or officers.

Our directors and executive officers and present shareholders holding more than 5% of our Common Stock beneficially own a significant percentage of our Common Stock on a fully diluted basis. Accordingly, if these shareholders were to choose to act together, they could have a significant influence over all matters requiring shareholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our Company or all or a significant percentage of our assets. This concentration of ownership could limit your ability to influence corporate matters and may have the effect of delaying or preventing a third party from acquiring control over us.

We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which may prohibit certain business combinations with shareholders owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock. These and other provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, amended and restated bylaws and Delaware law could make it more difficult for shareholders or potential acquirers to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by our then-current board of directors, including a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our Company. Any delay or prevention of a change of control transaction or changes in our board of directors could cause the market price of our Common Stock to decline.

The holders of our shares of Common Stock and those persons who desire to purchase our Common Stock in any trading market that might develop, should be aware that there may be state blue-sky law restrictions upon the ability of investors to resell our securities. Accordingly, investors should consider the secondary market for our securities to be a limited one. It is the present intention of management after the active commencement of operations of our clinical cannabis research and development to seek coverage and publication of information regarding the Company in an accepted publication manual, which permits a manual exemption. The manual exemption permits a security to be distributed in a particular state without being registered if the company issuing the security has a listing for that security in a securities manual recognized by the state. However, it is not enough for the security to be listed in a recognized manual. The listing entry must contain (1) the names of issuer's officers, and directors, (2) an issuer's balance sheet, and (3) a profit and loss statement for either the fiscal year preceding the balance sheet or for the most recent fiscal year of operations. Furthermore, the manual exemption is a non-issuer exemption restricted to secondary trading transactions, making it unavailable for issuers selling newly issued securities. Most of the accepted manuals are those published in Standard and Poor's, Moody's Investor Service, Fitch's Investment Service, and Best's Insurance Reports, and many states expressly recognize these manuals. A smaller number of states declare that they "recognize securities manuals" but do not specify the recognized manuals. The following states do not have any provisions and therefore do not expressly recognize the manual exemption: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin. Despite our efforts and intentions, we may not be successful in obtaining coverage and publication of information regarding the Company in an accepted publication manual, thereby failing to obtain a manual exemption for our Common Stock.

We may be subject now and in the future to the penny stock rules if our shares of Common Stock sell below $5.00 per share. Penny stocks generally are equity securities with a price of less than $5.00. The penny stock rules require broker-dealers to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document prepared by the SEC which provides information about penny stocks and the nature and level of risks in the penny stock market. The broker-dealer must also provide the customer with current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson, and monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account. The bid and offer quotations, and the broker-dealer and salesperson compensation information must be given to the customer orally or in writing prior to completing the transaction and must be given to the customer in writing before or with the customer's confirmation. In addition, the penny stock rules require that prior to a transaction, the broker dealer must make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser's written agreement to the transaction. The penny stock rules are burdensome and may reduce purchases of any Offerings and reduce the trading activity for shares of our Common Stock. As long as our shares of Common Stock are subject to the penny stock rules, the holders of such shares of Common Stock may find it more difficult to sell their securities.

Under Section 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, a "smaller reporting company" is a company that is not an investment company, an asset backed issuer, or a majority-owned subsidiary of a parent company. Effective September 10, 2018, the definition of a "smaller reporting company" was amended to include companies with a public float of less than $250 million as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter or, if such public float is less than $700 million, had annual revenues of less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year. Similar to emerging growth companies, smaller reporting companies are permitted to provide simplified executive compensation disclosure in their filings; they are exempt from the provisions of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requiring that independent registered public accounting firms provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting; and they have certain other decreased disclosure obligations in their SEC filings, including, among other things, only being required to provide two years of audited financial statements in annual reports. We are a smaller reporting and are permitted to avail ourselves of the scaled disclosure requirements available to smaller reporting companies. Decreased disclosure in our SEC filings as a result of our having availed ourselves of scaled disclosure may make it harder for investors to analyze our results of operations and financial prospects, which could result in loss of investor confidence and a decline in our share price.

Our By-Laws include provisions that eliminate the personal liability of the directors of the Company for monetary damages to the fullest extent possible under the laws of the State of Delaware as well as other applicable laws. These provisions eliminate the liability of directors to the Company and its shareholders for monetary damages arising out of any violation of a director of his fiduciary duty of due care. Under Delaware law, however, such provisions do not eliminate the personal liability of a director for: (i) breach of the director's duty of loyalty; (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law; (iii) payment of dividends or repurchases of stock other than from lawfully available funds; or (iv) any transaction from which the director derived an improper benefit. These provisions do not affect a director's liabilities under the federal securities laws or the recovery of damages by third parties.