Research

Josh Crossney is the columnist and editor of “Cannabis Crossroads” and a contributing editor to 

 magazine. Crossney is also the president and CEO of Cannabis Science Conference. Direct correspondence to:


Articles

Dr. Walter Wilson discusses NIST's focus on developing cannabis reference materials and a quality assurance program (CannaQAP).

Is This Cannabis or Hemp—NIST Helps Cannabis Laboratories Achieve High-Quality Measurements

What are the environmental implications of energy consumption for outdoor, indoor, and greenhouse cultivation?

The Environmental Implications of Energy Consumption in Cannabis Cultivation

Gretchen Schimelpfenig, PE, is the Technical Director of RII and manages the organization’s Technical Advisory Council. She is an LED-lit home cultivator. While serving Burlington Electric Department customers, she incentivized horticultural LED lighting equipment through energy efficiency programs, and has commissioned LED lighting designs and installed systems in commercial and industrial buildings, including greenhouses used for academic research on hemp and other cultivars. She authored the RII 

Best Practices Guides on HVAC and LED Lighting for Cannabis Cultivation and Controlled Environment Agriculture.

 She has a B.S. in Architectural Engineering from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. She is a licensed Civil Professional Engineer in California and Vermont. 

Learn the ways cannabis cultivation uses water as a resource, how to measure and benchmark the key performance indicators (KPIs) for water efficiency and productivity, and the benefits of monitoring, quantifying, and ranking KPIs for water.

Cannabis Water Report Highlights Opportunities for Water Efficiency

David Hodes has written for many cannabis publications, and organized or moderated sessions at national and international cannabis trade shows. He was voted the 2018 Journalist of the Year by Americans for Safe Access, the world’s largest medical cannabis advocacy organization.

Here we discuss issues such as how a repeatable outcome is a critical component of developing cannabis as a reliable medicinal treatment, insight into how to work out extraction goals such as quality terpene development, and more.

Connecting Cannabis with the Evolving Needs of the Consumer

This article explores what we do and don’t know about the origins of Cannabis ssp. from a botanical perspective and outlines some of the hypotheses proposed to explain the “why” of cannabinoid production in plants and the approaches that researchers are taking to try and answer this elusive question.

Back to the Root The Role of Botany and Plant Physiology in Cannabis Testing, Part IV: The Botany of Cannabinoids or Why Do Plants Produce Cannabinoids and What’s in it for Them?

Dr. Tania Sasaki shares her insights, experiences, challenges, future directions, and advice.

Leading with Confidence:  An Interview with Dr. Tania Sasaki of Confidence Analytics 

An overview of the research that Dr. Jim Hudson and hellth.com have been conducting on the 3269 grants that included cannabis-related keywords.

What the Hellth?!  Research Project Shows How Grant Funding Has Focused on Cannabis Harms

CBD is a growing industry. In this article, topicals and their growing popularity are discussed.

A Market Overview: CBD Topicals

A report on the findings from the anonymous 2019 Veterans Health and Medical Cannabis Study, which was a national and Massachusetts-focused research study led by Dr. Marion McNabb, Stephen Mandile, and Dr. Stephen White.

The 2019 Veterans Health and Medical Cannabis Study

An in-depth conversation with Dr. Staci Gruber, Director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core, Director of Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) at McLean Hospital, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School on her interest in medical cannabis and the medical cannabis research areas that MIND is focusing on for veterans and beyond.