Editorial Videos

How Marvin Washington, retired NFL player, became involved in the cannabis industry.

Australia’s sweetheart and international icon Olivia Newton-John and Amazon-John Easterling talk about their start in the cannabis industry.

Katherine Stenerson, Principal Scientist, Research & Development at MilliporeSigma, discusses her work to improve cannabis testing workflows for potency, pesticide residues, and terpenes as well as the pain points with testing in those areas and how to overcome it.

Katherine Stenerson, Principal Scientist, Research & Development at MilliporeSigma, discusses the next steps in her cannabis research and other areas in the industry that excite her.

Aaron Hineman, Inorganic Product Line Leader at PerkinElmer, offers some insight into testing for heavy metals in cannabis and hemp such as why it’s important, how the state testing requirements vary, and what the future holds for testing in this area.

Aaron Hineman, Inorganic Product Line Leader at PerkinElmer, explains how an ICP-MS workflow can vary depending on the different products being testing. He also discusses the next steps in his research and other areas in the industry that excite him.

David Alonso, Applications Chemist at LECO Corporation, talks about his work creating more efficient sampling techniques and using GC and GCxGC-TOFMS for the efficient and comprehensive analysis of cannabis.

David Alonso, Applications Chemist at LECO Corporation, discusses the next steps in his cannabis research and other areas in the industry that excite him.

Dr. Markus Roggen, Founder of Complex Biotech Discovery Ventures, offers tips about the pre- and post-extraction processing steps that might effect production quality, quantity, and reproducibility.

Dr. Jack Henion, Cofounder and CSO, Advion, Inc., talks about his research to determine the potency and pesticides in cannabis and hemp products using a single quadrupole mass spectrometer equipped with diverse sample introduction methods.

Dr. Jack Henion, Cofounder and CSO, Advion, Inc., discusses the next steps in his cannabis research and other areas in the industry that excite him.

Josh Crossney, president and CEO of CSC Events, discusses some the latest trends he’s noticed in the cannabis industry as well as the challenges and misconceptions that still need to be overcome.

Josh Crossney, president and CEO of CSC Events, discusses some of the most interesting topics in cannabis, the push for more medical research in the U.S., and what he’s excited to see happen in the future.

Patricia Atkins of Spex CertiPrep discusses her work using pressurized fluid and dispersive solid extraction to maximize analytical cannabis extractions and sample clean-up.

Patricia Atkins of Spex CertiPrep discusses the next steps in her cannabis-related research and what excites her most in the field.

Andrew Fornadel of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments discusses his work using ICP-MS to test for metals in cannabis. 

Here, Andrew Fornadel of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments shares the next steps in his research testing for metals in cannabis and more. 

How do states create their regulations for independent testing laboratories? Here, Lori Dodson sheds some light on how the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission handled their regulations.

Here Lori Dodson, Deputy Director of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, offers advice to other states setting up regulations, potential revisions to Maryland’s regulations, and what she is excited about in the industry going forward.