** Shares of InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc INM.O down 9.5% at
$9.97 premarket
** Announces private placement of shares worth $6 million to
two healthcare-focused institutional investors urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nGNX48Xkhl
** Private placement includes issuance and sale of 691,245
shares at $8.68 per share, a 21.2% discount to the last closing
price
** Co also agrees to issue the investors options to buy up
to a total of 1.4 mln shares, exercisable anytime until the next
seven years
** Offer expected to close on or about Tuesday
** Shares surged 24% on Friday on increased retail investor
attention urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N30G2F2
** Up to Friday's close, stock had lost 66.4% YTD
(Reporting by Pratik Jain)
((Pratik.Jain@thomsonreuters.com;))