A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Physician David Casarett only heard hype and half-truths about medical marijuana from his patients. It was time to investigate. Speaking at TEDMED, the doctor tells of his fascinating results and what mainstream medicine could learn from the marijuana dispensaries.
Your Brain on Edible Marijuana
Edibles are renowned for their strength relative to smoking cannabis. But just how strong is strong? Here's the quick science on digestible marijuana.
Weed and the Gym: Just the science
Legal medical Marijuana usage is on the rise, but what happens when you take it before hitting the gym. What does the science say about smoking and fitness?
A Cost Effective and Scalable Solution for Obtaining High Purity Cannabinoids from a Crude Extract
The ongoing changes in the legal status of cannabis compounds for medicinal use, as well as the decriminalization of marijuana in some locations, continues to spark interest in purification, formulation, and detection of CBD and other cannabinoids.
The Contribution of Matrix Effects to Cannabis Pesticide Analysis
In this webinar, Dr. Swetha Kaul discusses the phenomenon of matrix effects in the MS/MS analysis of pesticides in cannabis samples.
Automated Purification of Nucleic Acids from Cannabis and Edibles
The purification of plant DNA is a key step in gene-based strain identification which is crucial for providing consumers with information about products.
Chemotyping Cannabis by Spectral Fingerprinting
Chemotyping refers to the classification of materials based on their overall chemical composition and provides a method for characterizing variable botanical products such as cannabis by their overall chemical composition.
Enabling the Next Generation of Medicinal Breeding: Understanding terpene chemotypes in cannabis
As we look forward to a new industry wave of craft and medicinal breeding, it is clear that a full understanding of the genetic basis of oil profile variation will be an essential starting point.
Sampling in Cannabis Products and Matrices
Speaking at The Science of Cannabis Online Symposium 2018, Seth Wong covered sampling at cultivation and processing facilities, subsampling at the lab for analysis, challenges with sample heterogeneity, the implications these challenges can have and, how these issues can be overcome with best practices.
