(This story appears in the September issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Cannabis businesses have long struggled with the excessive packaging their products are required to use,…
Month: September 2020
As extreme weather events ravage the country from coast to coast – including wildfires, floods and early freezes – marijuana growers are being forced to…
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a molluscan shellfish equivalence determination for two European Union (EU) Member States, Spain and the Netherlands. “Today’s announcement is…
Boxed Warning to Be Updated to Include Abuse, Addiction and Other Serious Risks The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today in a Drug Safety Communication that…
Wastewater analysis is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with potential for monitoring real-time data on geographical and temporal trends in illicit drug use. On this…
A synthase is an enzyme that causes synthesis or formation of more complex molecules. Terpene synthases are therefore the chemicals that catalyze the creation of certain terpenes.…
Cannabis contains quite a few valuable chemical compounds that are present in other plants in the kingdom. One of them is linalool, a volatile monoterpene…
With any new discipline comes corresponding language foreign to what we’re used to. Within that discipline are sects with their own dialects, such as the analytical…
Germacrone is a sesquiterpene and key bioactive constituent of many essential oils. [1] It was first detected in essential oil of Geranium macrorrhizum (bigroot geranium) in 1927.…
Cannabis is composed of a host of compounds including carbohydrates, flavonoids, alkaloids, waxes, cannabinoids, terpenes, and water. The water content in cannabis varies at different…