March 2021

This column discusses where the USDA went wrong in their final rule regarding hemp and how the author thinks it can be fixed.

Learn the ways light energy from different parts of the action spectrum can affect plant expression, harvest structure, and quality characteristics and how light-emitting diode light fixtures can be controlled to modulate light intensity and spectral distribution to produce different effects.

A review of the general state standard quality control checkpoints and how companies can go above and beyond by applying federal requirements to their businesses.

What is the Clubhouse App and how is the cannabis industry getting involved?

This work describes an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry method for the analysis of various heavy metals in cannabis sativa plant material.

Part I of this article series explores the concept of balancing leaf temperature to optimize plant growth.

This article focuses on the technology being used in new rapid field tests that combine one-time-use color testing with a colorimetric panel that provides an identification and semiquantitation of THC and THCA.

Here we take a closer look at the cannabis industry in Canada and speak to several Canadians involved in the industry.

In this interview, Brian Smith, PhD, founder, CEO, and CTO at Big Sur Scientific, discusses his work with mid-IR spectroscopy to test for total THC & more.

Keystone Labs is an accredited testing facility with a good manufacturing practice (GMP) establishment license. Jodi McDonald, president and founder of Keystone Labs, based in Edmonton Alberta, Canada discusses their role in the industry.