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January 9, 2020
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Featured Interview
2020 Medical Cannabis:
What Does the New Year Hold?
It’s the start of another exciting year for the cannabis industry as more states look to expand their medical programs or create new legislation for legal cannabis. We recently spoke with Josh Genderson, CEO of Holistic Industries, to get his insight on what we can anticipate for medical cannabis in 2020.
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Top 9 Articles from 2019
1. The Latest Medical Cannabis Research:
Dr. Ethan Russo Discusses Neurological
Research, Dosing, and More
Dr. Ethan Russo, Director of Research and Development for the International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute (ICCI), discusses some of his recent research efforts, cannabis dosing, and his continued push to change the stigma against cannabis as a medicine.
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2. Understanding VPD and Transpiration Rates for Cannabis Cultivation Operations
This article explores how vapor pressure differentials (VPD) affect transpiration rates in cannabis plants. Understanding of VPD at different temperatures and relative humidities, and its effect on this process, is important to gain maximum plant growth.
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3. 35 Women Making an Impact in Cannabis Science and Medicine
Josh Crossney highlights some of the amazing women that spoke at the first Cannabis Science Conference East show in 2019.
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4. Factors Influencing Yields in Extraction, Part I: Understanding the Influence of Starting Material and Performing Extraction Calculations
At a glance, modern extraction machines can seem a little mysterious: plant material is added to an extraction chamber, processing parameters are chosen, the extraction process is carried out, and an output of material is collected. Part I of this series examines the two main biologically-inherent starting-material influences.
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5. Making Sense of Cannabis Strains Through Chemometrics in Review
The cannabis industry is constrained by the continued use of acronyms and nonstandard abbreviations for strain naming in lieu of a scientific-based standardized classification convention or lexicon. Applying chemometric tools can result in not only the authentication of a given cannabis cultivar but also provide a quality control mechanism for both cannabis flower and any resulting cannabis-based drugs.
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6. Extraction Basics, Scientifically Speaking
An overview of extraction terminology, specific types of extraction methodologies, and clarification on some common misconceptions
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7. Right From the Grow: A Look at Sampling and Sample Preparation Methods of Solid Cannabis for Analysis
Laboratories are challenged with highly regulated and difficult sample schematics, sample preparation, extraction, and testing procedures that try to ensure accuracy and precision of testing. Accuracy in analytical testing starts at the very beginning with sampling and sample preparation prior to testing.
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8. The Importance of Representative
Sampling in Cannabis Analysis
Learn why your sample needs to be stable, homogeneous, and representative of the batch from which it is taken.
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9. Cultivating with LEDs:
Past, Present, and Future
Driven by the need to save energy and reduce operational costs, indoor growers are turning to alternative means of illuminating their cannabis crop. In more and more indoor grows, high-intensity discharge lamps (HIDs) are being swapped out for light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
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