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A look at how extraction techniques are driving more product innovation and whether the rescheduling of cannabis will affect extraction.

With the cannabis industry expanding, David Hodes looks into two areas of safety concerns with cannabis processing, which include new ways to understand health issues of cannabis workers and new consumer safety alerts about cannabis products with higher THC percentages.

As the legal recreational cannabis industry expands, regulators and safety watchdogs are taking a closer look at how the industry polices itself.

Searching for purer, minor cannabinoids is the goal of new extraction research as extractors dig deeper into the diversity of the plant.

This installment discusses new methods of cannabis production and manufacturers' reactions to the rise of the demand for cannabis artisan extracted products.

Here, we take a look at the top issues related to cannabis cultivation: what top environmental problems still face the cannabis industry, how to reduce emissions in grow facilities, the different effects of various strains on carbon emissions, and how the government is finally helping the industry do a deeper dive into understanding these issues.

Different extraction processes, new products, and new equipment combine to create the perfect storm of better, safer extractions.

The new processed cannabis products continue to attract consumers—but black market influence causes hesitancy.

Better seed genetics, power-free tunable lighting, and other new scientific discoveries are making headway in what has become an ag-tech leading industry.

An exploration on what is driving more focus on extraction technology for cannabis, and the work being done to find solutions to certain issues that need to be addressed in extraction.

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.

From setting up a grow to tracking each plant, a look at new cultivation technology solutions designed to both improve efficiencies and create more data analytics.

The first installment of this column examines the development of various extraction technologies.