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Canada’s cannabis industry is poised for explosive growth, as the country is set to legalize marijuana nationwide in the summer by July of 2018. By 2024, more than 450,000 Canadian patients will be prescribed medical cannabis, creating a market worth more than $1.3 billion, according to Health Canada estimates.

Due to this rapid market acceleration, the Canadian medical cannabis market is currently high on the radar for global investors. Investors from around the world are increasingly getting involved in this newly burgeoning market, as share prices for stocks in cannabis companies surge across the board.

The current top market players in the medical cannabis space are Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQOTH:ACBFF), Canopy Growth (NASDAQOTH:TWMJF), GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:GWPH), Insys Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INSY), and MedReleaf (NASDAQOTH:MEDFF). In order to compete for their share of the market, many of these larger corporations are buying up or forming partnerships with smaller companies that have demonstrated innovative technologies and promising futures. Just weeks ago, Aurora Cannabis announced its intention to launch a takeover bid for CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. in what would be the largest takeover in Canadian cannabis history.

These new partnerships and takeovers have culminated in a wealth of opportunities for small cap investors around the world.

Of the many new partnerships in this space, perhaps the most promising is the partnership between one of Canada’s cannabis giants, MedReleaf (NASDAQOTH:MEDFF) and Ehave (OTC: EHVVF), a smaller publicly traded medical technology company which has introduced a platform to address the biggest problem facing the Canadian cannabis industry.

Medical marijuana is becoming an increasingly accepted form of treatment among North American medical professionals – when surveyed by the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 92% of family physicians stated that they believe that continuing medical marijuana education should be available to family physicians. However, despite the growing acceptance of marijuana and its impending legalization, many medical professionals have been hesitant to discuss marijuana as an alternative to prescription drugs because they lack the necessary knowledge to recommend it to their patients.

For instance, although there are hundreds of strains of marijuana aimed at curing specific ailments, the majority of doctors today dismiss marijuana as a choice to their patients simply because they don’t have the right information and know-how.