Research

As globalization of demand for cannabis and its derivative products increase, new technology and artificial intelligence solutions can greatly boost the output of production and processing.

There’s more hemp out there than the industry knows what to do with.

Professor Edvinas Orentas clears the air surrounding the stigma of synthetic cannabinoids.

Kevin Boehnke, PhD, a research investigator at the Chronic Pain Institute Research Center in the anesthesiology department at the University of Michigan, discusses his research efforts to address questions such as what health conditions are patients using cannabis for, which dosage formats are they using, and does it help chronic pain.

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

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

A recent study from University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Department of Neurology showed promising results in Parkinson's disease patients who used medical cannabis to treat symptoms.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A review on a handful of recent articles related to COVID-19 and cannabis as well as an interview with a top medical cannabis expert—Dr. Prakash Nagarkatti.

Op-ed on a new study related to how cannabidiol (CBD) exerts its clinical efficacy.

An interview with Dr. Bonni Goldstein on treating patients during a pandemic, telemedicine, cannabis research, and more.

Here we explore the role that terpenes play in plant immunity, defense, and signaling.

An argument for moving away from traditional culture-based methods and towards employing methods with increased specificity and accuracy.

Cannabis Science and Technology® will host its first Hemp Science & Technology Virtual Symposium. Brian C. Smith, PhD, founder, CEO, and chief technical officer of Big Sur Scientific, will serve as the two-day event’s program chair.

An interview with an amazing family of four doctors—the Knox Docs—who are key opinion leaders in cannabis therapeutics, endocannabinology, and cannabinoid medicine.

Marguerite Bolt discusses the Purdue Hemp Extension Program, hemp cultivation, community education efforts, and more.

A closer look at some of the current in vitro evidence suggesting that cannabinoids possess potent activity against a range of gram-positive bacteria.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a draft guidance on developing cannabis-based drugs. These guidelines come weeks after the White House announced it had completed reviewing the draft guidance.

Dr. Linda Klumpers discusses her interest in neuroscience, her most significant work, success stories from Cannify—an online science-matching tool—and more.

A recent study uncovers the health benefits of CBD to help aid in the fight against COVID-19.

In a recent press release, Radient Technologies Inc. announced that one of their product lines would be available to patients participating in the University Health Network (UHN, Toronto, Canada) Medical Cannabis Real-World Evidence Study (MC-RWE Study) in partnership with Medical Cannabis by Shoppers.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill recently that will aid researchers with gaining access to cannabis that is available commercially in states where it is legal recreationally or medically.

Here we examine the history of cannabis in the US, the role the USP played in that field, and the new role the USP is taking with cannabis for medical use.