Las Vegas Cannabis Testing News and More
The Daily Targum reports: Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug among young people in the United States, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Marijuana is commonly found in the form of green-brown dried up parts of the Cannabis sativa plant. The drug includes the bud, seeds, stem and leaves of the plant. People can […]
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Quite recently there has been a wave of controversy surrounding the validity of high THC content cannabis testing results, where a few % points one way or the other can have real ramifications when it comes to selling or buying the flower. So why are we witnessing higher THC content levels and are they real […]
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At first glance cannabis-testing labs narrowly and exclusively provide a service to cannabis growers, producers and dispensaries through supplying important potency values and quality assurance data on products prior to patients’ access, purchase and subsequent use. Beneath this primary quality assurance focus of cannabis testing labs, which combines customer service with topnotch certified analytics, is […]
Read MoreDigiPath Inc. (OTCQB: DIGP), an independent cannabis testing and media firm, recently announced a new one-year agreement with Silver Sage Wellness LLC. Under the agreement, the company will leverage its state-of-the-art testing equipment and reliable testing methodologies to measure potency, cannabinoids, terpenoids, moisture content, foreign matter, heavy metals, microbials, mycotoxins, and pesticide residues. Recently, CFN […]
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It takes a good amount of time and effort for an analytical chemist to develop a robust method to separate cannabinoids on an HPLC column as there are at least 104 different cannabinoids that have been isolated from the cannabis plant. Many of these cannabinoids are similar in structure and only differ in their cyclical […]
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A prominent Morris County physical therapist and entrepreneur is banking his future on the growth of the medical-cannabis testing industry. But rest assured, David Cunic has not gone from fixing joints to smoking them for a living. “Most people say ‘Oh, if you need a tester, I’ll test a joint for you,’ ” said Cunic, a native […]
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Have you ever been curious about what exactly the endocannabinoid system really is? Whaxy reports: The 1964 discovery and isolation of cannabinoids in marijuana, the therapeutically active components that provide relief for a wide variety of diseases and conditions, has led to research about the endogenous cannabinoid, or endocannabinoid, system in humans. It turns out that humans produce their […]
Read MoreThis past week the FDA issued a series of warning letters to a handful of companies manufacturing and marketing cannabidiol (CBD) products. While these letters represent a second wave of similar warning letters issued in 2015, the FDA continues to side-step CBD itself and instead focus on the health-based therapeutic claims these companies have made. […]
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