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The Truth Has Been Out There: How the LaGuardia and Shafer...
We have endured the bureaucratic rulings against cannabis for far too long. Although committees...
Transcending the Madness with Education: An Editorial
For far too long, cannabis and psychedelics like magic mushrooms have been discussed behind closed...
Becoming a Certified Ganjier
Interview Conducted by Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. Our content theme this month regards cannabis...
The Art and Soul of Craft Cannabis Beverages with Matt Vincent...
I can remember how it all started. I had been drinking a standard macrobeer, probably a malt...
Ayahuasca and the Aliens
When you consider the likelihood of extraterrestrials (ET) flying around out there somewhere in the...
The Lore and Lure of Psilocybin: A Conversation with Derek Chase...
Interview Conducted by Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. Across the globe, there are millions upon millions of...
DMT: Molecular Messiah and a “Lightning Rod for the Soul”
We are living in a strange time where substances that we have been systematically indoctrinated to...
Unraveling the Secrets of the Endocannabinoid System: A...
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is largely unknown amongst many medical professionals, which is a...
Fortune Cookies and the Future of Cannabinoid Medicine: A...
It’s very disquieting that delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is still considered a schedule I...
The Past, Present, and Future of Cannabinoid Medicine as Told by...
The days where we look at cannabis as nothing more than a natural vehicle that carries delta-9...
The Hiring of Bodyguards by Plants Through the Release of...
Throughout nature, terpenes tempt us with their scents, pulling us closer to a flower or hop cone...
Aquaponics Could Lead to Higher Cannabinoid Levels
Across the Earth, we are still only at the beginning of cannabis’s resurgence as a medicinal...
Synthesizing 5-MeO-DMT to Meet Clinical Needs
The magical and mighty molecule called 5-methoxydimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) mesmerizes us with...
Secondary Metabolites in Cannabis Leaves, Stem Barks, and Roots
Cannabis produces secondary metabolites like cannabinoids and terpenes in response to stressors...
Secrets in the Soil: Beneficial Microbes for Cannabis Cultivation
We live in an antimicrobial world where disease may lurk around any corner and hand sanitizer may...
Terpli: A Future Driven by Terpenes Versus Anything Else
When one walks into a dispensary and orders for fresh Jack Herer or Pink Kush, they anticipate a...
Distinguishing Between Chemovars with Mass Spectrometry and...
The luxurious resin of the cannabis plant is made up of secondary metabolites like cannabinoids and...
Nerolidol and Its Transcending Scent of Citrus, Flowers, and the...
There is something about terp alcohols that I find irresistible. And I’m not the only one. Take the...
Things That Go Wrong in the Lab and How to Fix Them: A...
Interview Conducted by Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. Cannabis is an extremely complex plant, from its...
Can Cannabis Terpenes Alter Wine Grape Chemistry?
While we might treasure cannabis terpenes, there are times and places where they may not be...
How Fungi Can Control Bacterial Behavior
Throughout the natural world, terpenes work their magic. They discharge pleasing fragrances from...
From Fragrant Weapons to Natural Forms of Communication: How...
Intro When I was researching for The Cannabis Terpene Experience, the strange dichotomy that...
A Conversation with Dr. Cindy Orser about Cannabis...
Many people within the cannabis industry would not have speculated earlier in their careers that...
The Demand for Stockpiles of Psilocybin
Along a spore’s journey to developing into a mushroom, there are several integral phases. A spore...
The Mushrooms Along the Path to Human Evolution
Intro Life can be daunting. When you look at our fast pace, technophilic lives and world where...
Numinus: Psychedelics and Future Human Flourishing
Some people are still apprehensive to solicit the use of cannabis because of stigma and taboo. With...
Salvia, Sage of the Diviners
The leaves of Salvia divinorum, aka sage of the diviners, exemplify another example of our Earth’s...
A Toad & Its God-Molecule, 5-MeO-DMT
It’s hypothesized that our ancient ancestors were no strangers to the power of psychedelic...
Schedule I Drugs LSD & Ecstasy for Empowering Mental Health...
With each passing day, our migration back to ancient substances like cannabis or psilocybin...
Cerulean Shrooms
Akin to Cannabis sativa, magic mushrooms provide an array of interesting phytochemicals that are...
Ibogaine: The ‘Strange Kind of Drug’ for Transcending Addiction
I’ll be the first to admit that, up until recently, one of the only times I’d read about the...
The Magical Symbiosis of Cannabis, Botanical Wellness, and...
In our modern world, we have all sorts of medicinal and technological advances. You can monitor...
Liana of the Dead: The Magic of Ayahuasca for Treating Depression
Decoctions of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, the Psychotria viridis shrub, both native to South...
The Ethnobotanical Journey of Robert C. Clarke
Primordial plants like Cannabis sativa and psychedelic mushrooms are making a “comeback” as...
Data is Everything: An Interview with BDSA
Wherever you look, there’s data. Nowhere does this seem more relevant than in the legal cannabis...
Psilocybin and the End of the Ego
An ego is defined as “the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world.” Related to...
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Explained for the Rest of Us (I Hope)
If you survey analytical chemists in the cannabis industry regarding which instrument they wish...
The Proper, Perfect Score
Michael Backes’ Perfect Products Evaluated in a Blind Product Review Cannabis cultivars can be...
Spectroscopic Analysis of Hemp Flour
As vast fields of hemp are planted across Earth, we needn’t focus strictly on secondary metabolites...
Growing a Better World: The New Hemp Center of Excellence
Recently, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) joined forces with Front Range Biosciences (FRB) in...
The Growing Fields of Cannabis Can Be Organically Cultivated
Regardless of whether a cultivator is growing or wishes to grow organic cannabis, the United States...
Terpenes Have Gone Anti-Viral
It’s remarkable how the terpene has become such a figurehead in everyday modern culture these days...
Surging Interest in Cannabis Genetics Sparks Supergroup Formation
Bonds Between THC and Vitamin E Acetate
It is our bonds that bind us – atomic bonds like the plethora of carbon-hydrogen bonds in anything...
The Skinny on Kratom
Once, our ancestors utilized botanicals to treat medical conditions. Ancient Egyptians and Asians...
The Language Behind Terpenes, Terpenoids, Monoterpenes, and...
With any new discipline comes corresponding language foreign to what we’re used to. Within that...
From Troubled to Bright Minds: One Company’s Search for More...
Humanity’s interest in a different way of life and a better existence is growing. Mushrooming. Our...
The Zig-Zagged Relationship Between Cannabis & Nicotine
[Author’s Note: In writing a previous blog, I went down a rabbit hole. This is what I found. Sorry...
Cannabis Meets the Twilight Zone: Nicotine for Cannabis...
The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) collaborated on a clinical trial in 2015 that...
The Extraordinary Effectiveness of Ketamine: A Conversation with...
Hypnotic strobe lights pepper walls and floor. Records rotate and someone operates controls like...
Hemp Goes to Space
Cannabis seems almost extraterrestrial. Majestic colas resemble rockets. Trichomes decorating...
Effects of Hair Treatments on the Detection of Cannabinoids in...
Drug testing dates to the Reagan Years as part of the government’s declaration of the War on Drugs...
Dr. Ethan Russo’s Bewitching Journey from Traditional to...
Many of us never thought we’d be working with cannabis. And yet, we’ve found ourselves paying...
Cannabis + Psychedelic Mushrooms is Just What the Doctor Ordered
Some people say that psychedelics will be the new cannabis, which is ironic, since they both seem...
Terpenes & Product Labels, Revisited
Cannabis sativa offers a wealth of just about everything – from striking, majestic photos to...
Cannabis and the Creation of False Memories: Remembering the...
Our memories are fickle beasts. Sometimes, we just cannot remember an instance from childhood, a...
YOU’VE GOT TO FIND THE BUGS: A CONVERSATION WITH NORTH COAST...
The madness that we’re all currently enduring as we live the oxymoron of social distancing harkens...
Stressed Out Hemp Produces More CBD
When we are stressed, our bodies react, in part, through the release of a steroid called cortisol...
Psychedelics are Back and the Timing Couldn’t be Better
PsyTech provides a growing community for psychedelic innovation to renovate the minds of humankind...
Caryophyllene Oxide – Hound Dog Enchantress Healing Humankind
β-Caryophyllene presents a wonderfully spicy terpene that’s common to plants like black pepper...
Resource Innovation Institute Empowers with Sustainable Cannabis...
Some people still defy global warming. I’ve heard people comment on how cold a recent winter was...
The Marriage of Cannabis and Mushrooms: Natural Nectar of the...
Modern humanity isn’t buying the rather indoctrinating attempts of traditional medicine anymore...
AgriScience Labs: Using the Madness to Shape the Path Ahead
A conversation with Frank Traylor on COVID-19, his lab’s response, and the state of analytics in...
Envirocann: Chaperons to Sustainability
We have taxed our planet for far too long. While many people still debate the validity of concepts...
The Garden of Cannabis Cultivar Names is Filled with Mud and...
How genetics can identify cultivar variations on identically named plants. You know the drill –...
The Mind-Expansion of Creatures Like Cats and Cows and Spiders
Catnip, nicotine, booze, pufferfish, poppies, magic mushrooms, and cannabis. Big cats, apes...
Look Up for Vapors: Measuring Terpenes and Solvents with...
When you smell terpenes emanating from marigold flowers or hop cones or cannabis buds, you needn’t...
All the Colors of the Rainbow: Cannabis Photobiology, Chapter Two
Last week, we introduced the concept of photobiology, which regards how plants convert sunlight...
All the Colors of the Rainbow: Cannabis Photobiology, Chapter One
Light is a requirement for vegetative life. Like cannabis, when humankind is deficient in getting...
Front Range Biosciences: Clean Stock Cannabis Cultivators Play a...
Cannabis sativa, no matter what the individual chemistry might subcategorize it, is big business...
The Uniqueness of the Individual and How That Affects One’s...
Strain Genie Helps Determine Which Product Chemistries are Right for You Uniqueness is a virtue...
Of Blood and Breath: Forensic Cannabinoid Detection
The detection of cannabinoids via LC-MSMS to gauge impaired driving. Recently, we’ve been touring...
Stepping High Festival: Honoring Life, Love, Reggae, &...
Negril, Jamaica – Cannabis and Jamaica are symbiotic. Reggae musicians like Barrington Levy...
Michael Backes is Perfectly Dedicated to the Terpene
Cold infused flower process maximizes the retention of fragile monoterpenes. This job has a lot of...
The U.S. Hemp Roundtable
Perhaps it’s getting trite to say so, but the United States (US) hemp industry is booming...
Cannabis in Ancient Asia
Cannabis sativa is a very old plant. A study conducted in 1996 reported that humans created baskets...
Cannabis in Ancient Egypt
Despite the ridiculousness of there being a KFC/Pizza Hut 0.6 mile from the Great Pyramids at Giza...
The Law According to NJWeedman
The Rich Get Richer, The Pioneers are Left Out of the Picture There are visionaries who are left...
The Modern Hemp Farmer and the Quest for Real Data, Outro
We previously discussed the need for hemp farmers to test their crops and introduced some ideas for...
The Modern Hemp Farmer and the Quest for Real Data, Intro
I’ll bet if you’re in the hemp industry, you’re confused at the lack of regulations on contaminants...
Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs Measures Labeling Discrepancies...
Cannabidiol (CBD) products abound in every direction. Beer stores, cigarette outlets, Whole Foods...
The Story of the Pinene Isomers
Befitting the wintry scene canvasing much of the landscape as we near the new year, this story...
Believe in the Numbers Once Again: Kaycha Labs and The Hemp...
The need for accurate analytics is vital to every cog of the Cannabis sativa machine. Paying for a...
Quality Seals of Approval for Cannabis & Hemp Products
These days, there are thousands of companies looking to market their hemp and cannabis products...
Human Metabolites of CBD
We recently took a stroll through the inner world of 11-OH-THC (11-hydroxy-delta-9...
11-OH-THC: The High that Comes from Within Us
It’s unsettling how much unwarranted scrutiny delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has generated...
Let the Light Guide You
Maximizing cannabinoid production simply by using light What if you read that you could boost your...
The Terroir of Cannabis
Another Study Highlights the Prominence of the Terpenes I needn’t belabor this. You know the drill...
Parents Combat Controversial Cannabis Laws when Caring for Their...
An Interview with the Director of Weediatrics Many of us find ourselves within the exotic...
The Psychedelic Renaissance: A Conversation with Jackee Stang of...
In the year 2020, perhaps our vision will finally be improved and augmented. Perhaps a population...
Arachnida
In the solitude of the night, the spiders arrived. Arachnida. Creeping up the plants to spin their...
Sometimes, It’s Good to Be Labeled
Every now and again, a human being just needs to rant. Possibly to someone in particular. Likely to...
How Cool is Your Cure?
Cannatrol Helps Cultivators Establish Command Over The Dry Cure Process When you walk through a...
The Ion and the Triple Quad: A Tale of Wanderers, Disturbing...
I often hear people talk about the triple quad. They fawn over it and are scared of it...
The Unethicality of Banishing Veterans from the Spreading...
A conversation with Aaron Augustis and the Veterans Cannabis Group I can’t fathom being uprooted...
Blast Off You Dirty Creatures: Gamma Irradiation of Cannabis
An assessment of gamma irradiation for inducing microbial sterility Before we begin, let me add a...
How Willow Industries is Using Ozone to Destroy Creepy Crawlers...
You’ve heard of ozone before, likely in regards to the ozone layer that protects us from life...
Deciphering the Jargon of the Analytical Lab, Chapter 3
Welcome to the third installment of this terminology trilogy. I hope the first two raps were...
The Floral Gift That Keeps on Giving
Cannabis molecular philanthropy extends beyond cannabinoids and terpenes. Unlike mythological...
Black Dog LED: Brightened by the Revolution, Enlightened by the...
Light is enigmatic. It can change an entire scene, like the warm-blanket flick of the switch after...
Deciphering the Jargon of the Analytical Lab—Chapter 2
I’m a connoisseur of old generational slang. Like the ‘50s stuff in The Wild One, or any number of...
Your DNA is Trying to Tell You Something; Luckily, Vertical...
Lots of claims have been made regarding the medical efficacy of cannabidiol (CBD), making it rather...
What Did You Just Say to Me?—Part 1
DNA Test Kits for Assessing Product Resonance with You, the...
Ah, cannabidiol. You’ve likely seen CBD on various roadside signs, like your physical therapist’s...
Question Everything, Especially When There Are No References
First off, let me thank you for commencing to read this long overdue article. At Concentration...
Enantiomers: What I See in the Mirror is Not Me
A chemical tale of lookalikes, side effects, and a nod to the natural. If you’ve ever had the uber...
Smelling the Forest (or the Funk) From the Glass
Finally. The week concludes with the mellifluous sound of the pull-back of the metal tab, the tilt...
Illuminate the Variables in Your Grow with Urban-Gro
We’ve all likely had the feeling of anxiety or at least intrigue at what goes on when it’s dark...
The GreenBroz Automation Revolution: Industry-Born with Their...
Interview Conducted by Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. As human beings, we are often obsessed with the future...
Ilera Healthcare: Creators of Cannabis Products with Purposeful...
States with nascent cannabis legalization often succumb to kinks in the master plan, like those...
Limonene’s Effects on Anxiety and Depression
Limonene, a monoterpene, is considered to be the second most widely distributed terpene in nature...
Hemptown USA
If you’ve ever read Jack Herer’s The Emperor Wears No Clothes, you’ve already educated yourself on...
Laboratory Certificates of Analysis Demystified
Much of what occurs behind closed doors in an analytical laboratory might be rather daunting to...
Selecting Products by Their Names = An Exercise in Futility
As you very well know, there are lots of names circulating for different cannabis cultivars. Too...
Pinene: Part of the Forest’s Medicinal Molecular Potion
Alpha-Pinene (α-pinene) is said to be the most widely encountered monoterpene in nature [1], and as...
CannaSafe: Sentinels of Product Safety
There is often a thunderous resonance in the media when a cannabis testing lab fails. The panic and...
The Life-Changing Doorway at Odd 13: An Homage to Terpenes like...
Well, it’s been awhile since we had a Terpenes and Testing article about hops, beer, and cannabis...
The Green Waves Being Cultivated in Pennsylvania
There’s still a lot of green in Pennsylvania, a name that means to “Penn’s Woods”, and confers...
Madness in a Bottle
Prior to the Anslinger era of Reefer Madness, there was another botanical substance that caused a...
Engaging the Misinformation of Prohibition: A Conversation with...
Interview Conducted by Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. You’ve likely heard Donald talking about...
I Believe and You CANN Too
Well, I must tell you that I have been revived! I’ve just returned from the future, and I have a...
Some Juggernauts Clash, Others Separate
Finn McCool was an Irish giant. Legend has it that he volleyed vast chunks of the coastline at a...
Floral Colonialization
How One Plant Can Reign Supreme Over Another Bang! Zoom! The scent is in the air. And in a process...
Inside the Hive: Terpenes & Honeybees
The honeybees, we are told, are dying. Our world has pervaded their sanctuaries, and a crucial...
Shedrack Anderson’s Search for Sixty-Five Grain Bread:How Chilyo...
There’s something poetic in the mixture of Eastern and Western philosophy. There’s even a balancing...
Geraniol…I Think I Love You
Ahhhh…geraniol. The fragrant monoterpenoid, common to flowers such as roses and geraniums, has...
Cannabis Empowerment in Pittsburgh:
Cresco Yeltrah and Pure Penn Gather Pennsylvania Industry Leaders & the Community for an...
Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
You’re no doubt familiar with many types of radiation or light that make up the electromagnetic...
Meet the PerkinElmer QSight 400: a Turnkey Solution for...
The cannabis industry is not just comprised of start-up companies making a go of it in a nascent...
Don’t Be Nervous. Auditors are People Too !
As someone who works for a lab that is audited, and also performs audits, I feel I can relate to...
Mother Nature’s Always Got the Answer, Doesn’t She?
You don’t have to search very far these days to have your pick of the stories regarding cannabis...
Waving at Canada as They Pass US By
How Alliance Growers is Cultivating Something Special in The Great White North Yeah, that’s US. We...
Transcending the Stigma: One Woman’s Battle to Share Her...
Our conversation started out wonderfully. We were talking about the blacklisting some brands and...
The Standards Are Coming !
You’ve likely heard someone remark how the cannabis industry doesn’t have any standards. Their...
Looking through the Telescope onto the Horizon: InMed...
Nearly every week, there is another cannabis-themed headline such as “New Study Says 97% of Elderly...
Yes We CANN: The Mission of the American Chemical Society’s CANN...
By now, everyone knows of the government’s anathema towards cannabis. While this may be lessening...
The Aliens Have Landed
Upon waking, folks began to notice that THEY were here! It seemed impossible, but alas, the truth...
Imagine a Populace, Cancer-Free, Through the Use of Cannabis
I attended a webinar a few months ago, and was proudly able to communicate with medical doctor...
Fun and Learning in Las Vegas?
An Intellectual Journey through the History of Cannabis The Red Shark…what I wouldn’t give to tear...
Wanna Play Microbial Roulette?
Recently, there’s been lots of discussion around California’s decision not to require cannabis labs...
Prescott Logic Technologies: Visionaries of the Future of...
There’s another kid on the block these days. One with a serious pedigree in innovative cannabis...
Unveiling the New Pittsburgh
How Cresco Yeltrah is Helping to Shape a New Landscape in the PA Cannabis Market I know, I know. ...
In Search of Affordable Cannabis Medicine
Anyone involved in the cannabis industry over the past few years has likely heard a story like this...
Bolting from the Past: A Metamorphosis in the Cannabis Consumer
There are said to be 7000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. These chemicals were created from the...
The Scribes of a New Cannabis Creed
Sometimes, you talk to someone, and the words they speak resonate so deeply, that you question most...
Veterans Helping Veterans Heal and Granting Them the Power to...
It’s an amazing sight to see so many of our nation’s veterans entering the cannabis movement. At...
The Day the Scientists Took Over: The Death of Hyperbole and the...
Occasionally, the planets align. The world makes sense again, even if the path to the sensible is...
Out on the Cannabis Frontier: AXIM Biotechnologies
Interview conducted by Jason S. Lupoi, Ph.D. Cannabis has been resurrected as a botanically-based...
Sit Back, Relax, and Drink a Can of Your Favorite Cannabis...
Recently, I spoke with a local Pittsburgh brewery to better understand the role(s) terpenes play in...
Pregnenolone: A hormone that can pump the brakes on intoxication...
Sources: Vallée et al, Science 343, 94 (2014); Blum et al, Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome...
Cannabis Learn Event Brings Some of the Brightest Minds to...
The Cannabis Learn Conference and Expo, cultivated by Greenhouse Ventures, is coming to...
Cannabis Science & Technology Conference Coming Soon to...
The Cannabis Learn Conference, April 30th-May 2nd, will bring together multiple, seemingly...
Canadian Cannabis Cultivators Focusing on Agricultural Spaces...
Within the next three years, eight of Canada’s most acclaimed medical cannabis companies will...