by Jessica Rosslee
| 3 days ago
Advances in Cannabinoid Delivery
DehydraTECH™ is the latest technology to shift the cannabinoid pharmaceutical landscape.
Biotech
by Kristina Etter
| November 28, 2018
Cancer and Cannabis – Clinical Trials to Begin
While the debate about cannabis and cancer has been ongoing for the better part of the legalization movement, one Northwestern pharmaceutical company is partnering with the University of Washington in hopes to provide the answer finally.
by Kristina Etter
| November 21, 2018
DNA Mapping for Safe Cannabis Consumption
DNA sequencing helps millions of people every year learn of their ancestry, as well as, identify certain health risks based on their genetic code. But DNA for cannabis? One Canadian company is changing the future of cannabis.
by Karl Kulik
| October 31, 2018
Getting Your Cannabis Grow Off to a Great Start
There’s nothing a cannabis cultivator enjoys more than harvesting the dense, fragrant buds at the end of a successful grow. However, getting there takes a touch of finesse, as well as an understanding of basic plant biology. Getting the early parts of the growing process right is essential to reaping a dream yield.
by Adele Worsley
| September 30, 2018
Alvit Pharma: Progress in Pharma-Grade Cannabis Products
Yona Levy is the CEO of Alvit Pharma, an Israeli-based company specializing in the development of pharma-grade cannabis products. With over 20 years of experience in business management and investment banking, Levy has brought his skills to the cannabis industry, and with the team at Alvit, they aim to lead the world in the standardization, optimization, and delivery of products alternative to smoking medicinal cannabis.
by Genifer Murray
| August 14, 2018
Cultivate Your Cannabis Knowledge: Interview with Shellene Suemori
It's not uncommon these days to see former chemists and molecular biologists move from the pharmaceutical industry into cannabis. It's just a logical next step into a growing sector. But to see a former NASA funded scientist, like for Shellene Suemori, move into cannabis, is an interesting move.
by Kristina Etter
| August 06, 2018
From College Grads to Environmental Heroes
James Eichner and Ron Basak-Smith, like many other grad students at the University of Colorado-Boulder, worked as a team on a class project in Sustainable Venturing and Business Plan Development in the Fall of 2016. While many grad school projects never materialize past graduation, Eichner and Basak-Smith’s vision blossomed into real opportunity – not only for themselves, but an opportunity for the hemp industry, cannabis retail, the American farmer, and the environment.
by Kristina Etter
| July 05, 2018
Engineering in the Cannabis Industry
Regardless of the product, when a new industry emerges, opportunities arise for early adopters to jump into highly rewarding positions in an exciting new field. With industries as promising as cannabis and hemp, many people are finding new ways to incorporate skills and expertise, learned from more mainstream industries, to forge a new path during the early days of the Green Rush.
by Kristina Etter
| May 24, 2018
The Ripple Effect of BlockStrain Technology
Blockchain technology is best known in the cannabis industry for its implications to the financial sector and the possibilities it presents to get around the red tape of cannabis banking. However, blockchain technology may also present a multitude of possibilities for the agricultural aspects of the industry as well.
by Marguerite Arnold
| April 30, 2018
What Does The Average German Cannabis Patient Look Like?
Part II of II: One of the biggest reasons that integration of cannabis is not going smoothly in Germany (besides an outrageous price still driven by supply chain inefficiencies, bureaucracy, and imports). MS is the only on-label condition that more or less automatically gets insurance coverage for cannabis. Everyone else has to rely on their doctor’s ability to persuade insurers to cover a stigmatized, trial-to-mainstreaming drug for conditions that range from ADD to cancer.
by Jessica McKeil
| April 28, 2018
Commercialization of Hemp-based Bioplastics
True commercialization of hemp-based plastics could be just around the corner in North America. Hemp is experiencing a revolution, its popularity as a raw material has exploded in recent years thanks to deregulation of hemp in the United States and the growing acceptance of the cannabis sativa plant family as a whole.
by Jessica McKeil
| April 22, 2018
Cannabis Tissue Culture 101
Tissue culture cultivation represents a transformative approach to propagation in the cannabis industry. The science of tissue culture (TC) was commercialized roughly four decades ago and is widely used across agricultural sectors. Until recently, the technology had not been adopted by the marijuana industry, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge sharing between industries or the long history legal barriers. Today, the popularity of TC in the cannabis sector is a far different story.
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