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Ebola.com Justsold For Over R2 Million by Jostico: 2:18pm On Oct 25, 2014
Two Las Vegas entrepreneurs
attempting to sell the rights to
Ebola.com succeeded in selling to the
highest bidder -- literally.
Chris Hood and Jon Schultz paid $13,500 for the rights to Ebola.com back in 2008 and have just sold it to a
company called Weed Growth Fund.
The terms of sale call for Hood and
Schultz to get $50,000 in cash and
19,192 shares of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., a company run by former New Mexico
governor Gary Johnson that hopes to
market legal cannabis products
throughout the world.
The stock is currently trading under
the CBDS ticker symbol at $8.55 share, which means the value of the shares sold to Hood and Schultz is $164,091, DomainInvesting.com reports.
Hood said he and Schultz have about
5,000 domain names in their portfolio,
including Birdflu.com. He admits the
Ebola.com sale got the most public
attention, but wasn't the most profitable.
"We've had others like
LasVegasRealEstate.com and
PaydayLoans.com that sold for more,"
he told HuffPost. "People don't
understand what we do. We don't buy domain names hoping there's a
disaster."
As for the future of Ebola.com? It might
go to pot, if recent comments made by
Johnson on Fox Business are any
indication. Johnson told host Stuart Varney that “we actually believe we have efficacy
with regard to treating Ebola," and said it could potentially be a cure.
Johnson subsequently told the
Albuquerque Journal, he was not
claiming marijuana could cure the Ebola virus, but that more research should be done on whether cannabis
compounds might be effective in
fighting the disease that has killed
nearly 4,500 people, mostly in West
Africa.
“If I were on a bed right now, and I was infected by Ebola, anything that
might save my life I would take in a
nanosecond,” Johnson told the
Journal. Weed Growth Fund CEO Eric Miller said
when the new Ebola.com website
debuts in a few weeks, it will be a "go-
to resource" on all aspects of the
disease.
In addition, his company will finance research on cannabis that he says
"may or may not prove a connection
between cannabis and Ebola
prevention."

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