. ♪ ♪ >>> we need to talk about gw pharma, the drug company that makes synthetic medicines inspired bybis at the beginning of the week, gw spiked with had the company produced excellent results with the newly launched epilepsy drug last night we got a chance to check in with the ceo. take a look. >> justin, you kicked off the most important health care event of the year with an unbelievable preannouncement. tell us what it means. >> thank you and it was a great start to the year it's been a great j.p. morgan conference so far as well. we announced that the first full year of sales of ep dialects were around $300 million it's an incredible launch year for any medicine i think it proves this kind of medicine is making a difference to patients. it shows real value to the health care system it sets us up in another way for what should be another great year in 2020 >> i think people have to realize that blockbusters don't come out this quickly. and typically they don't have the awareness that the medical community can do >> it's awareness not just because of what this drug is it's cbd which

the company has triumphed over every single worry and don't forget about gw pharma we've begin up on the cannabis stocks they're crushing it. maybe medical marijuana will make a dent in the health care system but not any time soon but they make cannabis inspired drugs and they announced a $100 million quarter with a drug that mimics some of the properties of marijuana in order to help young people with epilepsy gw is speaking at the conference to talk about the dangers of the disease and the strength of the marijuana adjacent medication and igniting the cannabis is not real cannabis. it is artificial don't get too excited. i'm still cautious but we like what we heard about the canopy growth when we had bill nuance on, they own a big chunk. i say be careful and canopy up 10 % i don't see legislation happening in america any time soon they're not going to legalize it nationally and that is why gw pharma legal artificial marijuana is able to outsell the entire industry. that is why that is a better stock. of course the nasdaq wasn't just about health care. the 5g wireless story that we

>> i think you can hold on to it gw pharma is the pharmaceutical. they create cannabis that is used principally right now for epilepsy for young children. i don't want to give up but i can understand your frustration. to carlo in florida. carlo. >> caller: boo-yah, jimbo. carlo here in coral gables with my daughter mia and olivia and want to know about square. we're not very happy and the n nonaggressive nature of the cfo. can you let me know if it's time to sell or hold? >> i struggle myself i struggle myself with square. jack dorsey is in africa everybody is online all the time maybe it shouldn't matter. i think they're doing incredibly well the stock is flat-lining they will have a meeting soon where i think you'll feel better about it we have an upgrade today i say you buy square, not sell it guy, listen, hope is springing eternal for tech just like it did last year and the year before and the year before that. on "mad," dollar, dollar, billya more attention to the greenback. then i've got 2020 vision on the sportswear companies nike, under armo

, when you have a relative that's saved, over time, you're saying wow, wait a second by the way, gw pharmasome amazing work with epilepsy and cannabis drive drug, gigantic quarter but lumped in with these, you know, afrias, marijuana stocks nobody cares about, tilray, moving up, probably going to drive it >> upgrades today we got a few, costco >> wow >> outperform. >> i spent the morning with costco, doing a big piece tonight on it. they are on fire galanti a great job as cfo, gelenik fantastic job as cfo they had kamus for about 70 bucks. they have a huge wine collection out there. they sold a piece of jewelry for $450,000 in that store that's a lot of money. but near their headquarters. they're on fire. by the way, china, they have won, they could put up a huge number in china. they have one they closed it after two hours because it was too crowded. they were angry at themselves. wall street says let's put them up no, we haven't figured out how to handle crowds but they are going to expand in china like you've never seen. it's going to be amazing they have 100 in canada. they can put eas

it's monumental because this is where the future is and we also have gw pharma, a company that makesificial cannabis and that company is on fire. they've put out a really good quarterly on sunday night. >> all right, jim. >> sustainability. one of the themes of the week without a doubt. >> oh, my. david, e.s.g okay those are the letters you need to know. >> jim, we'll see you at 6:00 if not before our jim cramer making his way around the country in seattle today with microsoft dow is up 147 as the record-setting rally continues back in a moment apps are used everywhere... except work. why is that? is it because people love filling out forms? maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much vacation time they have. or sending corporate their expense reports. i'll let you in on a little secret. they don't. by empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. to learn more, visit paycom.com >>> good thursday morning. welcome back to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla we're live on the new york stock exchange re