Gustatory sensation, or as we more commonly know it, “taste,” is recognized as one of the five...
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Cannabis, Opioids, and Pain
Descriptive or Deceptive Statistics? A recently published study by the University of Houston sought...
Stress, Cannabis, and Memory Loss
What effect does stress have on cannabis-induced prospective memory loss? A recently published...
Cannabis & Asthma
What Does the Research Show so Far? Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition which involves a...
Cannabis and Parkinson’s Disease
Correlation and treatment potential Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder...
Cancer Patients Using Cannabis
Number of Cancer Patients Using Cannabis Doubles! A recent study published in the journal Cancer...
Terpene Biosynthesis In Vivo
Or, How Terpenes are Made Inside a Cannabis Plant It all starts with the biochemical capability of...
Terpene Profile Disconnect
Is There a Missing Link Between Flower and Concentrates? As the manufacture of concentrates has...
Terpenes and Memory
Does Terpene Use Affect Memory Consolidation? How does cannabis affect memory? Many know from...
Method Validation
What Is It, and How Can it Be Used in Your Facility or Lab? Method validation can be defined as...
Terpenes for Pain
The entire medical establishment stands poised to accept cannabis and its active constituents as...
Terpene Toxicity
A common occurrence, or a rare event? Many people don’t realize it, but terpenes have been...
Cannabis Allergies:
Why terpenes may be the cause Contact allergy is a condition that can be caused by many different...
The LD50
When it comes to the release of new medications, one of the most important aspects of the research...
Myrcene and the Blood-Brain Barrier:
The Universal Claim with the Lack of Scientific Evidence There seems to be a lot of media making...
Beer Before Liquor, Never Been Sicker
Does cannabis have any bad interactions with pharmaceutical meds? Medical cannabis is becoming more...
Cancer and Cannabinoids 101
What is cancer, really? Can we beat it with cannabinoids’ help? We must begin this article by...
Tobacco’s Continued Interest in Cannabis
How a large monetary investment may signal a joining of industries that many have long seen coming...
Exportation of Cannabis
Will the US ever consider it? On December 28th, 2018, it was reported that the Israeli governing...
Testing the Waters
ELISA as a Tool for Cannabinoid Detection ELISA stands for Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay. [1]...
What is Perrottetinene?
A psychoactive non-cannabis non-cannabinoid Bryophytes are a unique group of land plants arising...
Biosynthesis of Cannabinoids
Or, How Plants Build up Terpenoids in the Cells Any time a living organism synthesizes a chemical...
A Government’s Direct Contradiction
A summary of current cannabis patents owned by the United States government All legal information...
The First Cannabis Lawsuit?
LaCroix being Sued for using Terpenes, “Synthetic Compounds,” in Products “LaCroix is embracing its...
Sampling in Cannabis Flower Testing
Is it Cherry Picking or an Accurate Representation? Most laboratory analytical tests destroy...
The Science of Bad Trips
Most people who have smoked cannabis have experienced the so-called “bad trip” at some point in...
Measuring Cups of THC
What are the challenges faced by analytical labs working with edibles? Measuring the chemical...
Landrace Cannabis Varieties
What are they, and why do they matter? The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a testament to human...
Cannabis for Weight Loss
Does the science hold up? Even though cannabis use is stereo typically associated with “the...
What’s in the Bud?
The Importance of Testing Cured Cannabis The cultivation of cannabis traditionally ends with the...
Part 2: The Original Bouquet and the Master
As discussed in Part 1 of the Original Bouquet and Master Mixes, the best way to recreate the...
Methyl Jasmonate
Miracle Grow or Miracle Bust? In every industry there are people who search for ways to get the...
The Original Bouquet and the Master Mixes, Part 1
The easiest way to synthetically recreate the terpene profile of a given cannabis variety is to...
Ancient Cannabis Intoxication Cures – The Past Proves the...
Cannabis sativa has been a documented part of the human experience for several millennia. In the...