As doctors and patients struggle with dosing issues researchers strive to make cannabis dosages more reliable and uniform.
Translating from fields like food and pharma to the cannabis testing sector is helping to provide medical patients and recreational consumers with safe thoroughly tested cannabis.
Due to California's July 1st testing deadline mandating licensed retailers to sell only lab tested product, the industry is expecting a significant uptick in the need for testing services.
State Medical Marijuana Director Jason Wahl says the lab will ensure medical cannabis dispensed in North Dakota is safe.
A cannabis testing committee has now approved to standard testing methods to help analysts accurately measure the water content of cannabis.
Traditional tests can take upwards of 20 minutes to perform, this new one can be done in under seven.
A new breed of Raman vacuum ultraviolet spectrometer enabling rapid, accurate analysis down to part per billion levels is being developed at the University of Arizona.
ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation demonstrates the labs competence and commitment to rigorous science and analysis.
Dr. Jaclyn Thomson, Director of R & D, Northern Vine Laboratories, explains how she first got interested in science and, what led her to working in the cannabis industry.