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February 2, 2023

FDA Punts on CBD Rules

By Cannabis Industry Journal Staff

Four years after the Farm Bill was signed into law, the FDA announced they want Congress to develop a new regulatory framework, citing their existing regulatory pathways as inappropriate for the plant and its products.

January 9, 2023

The 3-Legged Stool of Successful Grow Operations: Climate, Cultivation & Genetics – Part 6

By Phil Gibson

In this six-part series of articles, the folks from AEssenseGrows introduce the 3-legged stool of successful cannabis cultivation: climate, cultivation & genetics. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 covered environmental controls, water quality, critical housing requirements, integrated pest management and genetics, respectively. In Part 6, the final chapter, we cover consistency and repeatability through Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

December 13, 2022

The 3-Legged Stool of Successful Grow Operations: Climate, Cultivation & Genetics – Part 5

By Phil Gibson

In this six-part series of articles, the folks from AEssenseGrows introduce the 3-legged stool of successful cannabis cultivation: climate, cultivation & genetics. Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 covered environmental controls, water quality, critical housing requirements and integrated pest management, respectively. In Part 5, we dive into genetics.

December 7, 2022

The 3-Legged Stool of Successful Grow Operations: Climate, Cultivation & Genetics – Part 4

By Phil Gibson

In this six-part series of articles, the folks from AEssenseGrows introduce the 3-legged stool of successful cannabis cultivation: climate, cultivation & genetics. Parts 1, 2 and 3 covered environmental controls, water quality and critical housing requirements, respectively. Part 4 delves into the wide world of integrated pest management.

November 29, 2022

2022 Cannabis Supply Chain Virtual Conference

By Cannabis Industry Journal Staff

The 2022 Cannabis Supply Chain Virtual Conference. Check out sessions from this virtual event like: A Smarter Cannabis Beverage Distribution Model; Track-and-Trace Technology: Building Resilience in the Cannabis Supply Chain; Improve Your Operations through Cannabis Industry Analytics; Quality and Safety and the Edibles Supply Chain; and Managing Cash Flow in the Cannabis Supply Chain

November 23, 2022

The 3-Legged Stool of Successful Grow Operations: Climate, Cultivation & Genetics – Part 3

By Phil Gibson

In this six-part series of articles, the folks from AEssenseGrows introduce the 3-legged stool of successful cannabis cultivation: climate, cultivation & genetics. In part 1, we covered environmental controls. Part 2 delves deep into the wide world of water quality. Part 3 recommends critical housing requirements.

November 14, 2022

Benefits To Growing Cannabis In A Cleanroom Environment

By Steve Gonzales

While factors like humidity, light exposure and water may be easy enough to control in any indoor environment, other influential factors can be more difficult to control, such as mold or other contaminants. Growing in a controlled cleanroom environment ensures healthy, high-quality cannabis by mitigating some harder-to-control threats.

November 8, 2022

The 3-Legged Stool of Successful Grow Operations: Climate, Cultivation & Genetics – Part 2

By Phil Gibson

October 31, 2022

The 3-Legged Stool of Successful Grow Operations: Climate, Cultivation & Genetics – Part 1

By Chris Wrenn, Phil Gibson

In this six-part series of articles, the folks from AEssenseGrows introduce the 3-legged stool of successful cannabis cultivation: climate, cultivation & genetics. In part 1, we cover environmental controls. Stay tuned for five more articles where we cover other key recommendations for improving quality in cultivation.

October 24, 2022

Scenes From The 2022 Cannabis Quality Conference & Expo

By Cannabis Industry Journal Staff

Last week, Cannabis Industry Journal hosted the Cannabis Quality Conference & Expo (CQC) in New Jersey. Check out some of the highlights from this year’s CQC here.

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January 30, 2023

3 Benefits of Conducting Genetic Tests on Your Plants

By Angel Fernandez

Many growers may wonder why it's important to get their plants genetically tested, but the truth is that genetic testing can make growing a lot easier. Genetic analysis in plants can give a wide range of results that can help scientists solve everyday problems in plant cultivation, such as detecting diseases and identifying important traits in plant species.

November 29, 2022

Addressing Cannabis Price Compression With Science

By Mark Doherty

As canopies increase within a facility, advancements like robotics, LEDs and advanced airflow technology define how the industry operates and continues to improve. Efficiency keeps business alive—cannabis growers must continually assess their operations and make the capital investments that will pay off as wholesale prices continue to decline.

October 25, 2022

Soapbox

Five Reasons Everyone in Cannabis Should be Using RegTech

By Brooke Butler

Those who have implemented RegTech will have distinct advantages. To survive and thrive in the industry going forward, it’s prudent to proactively handle compliance and adopt RegTech solutions today.

August 16, 2022

The Top 3 Ways to Find the Right Automation Tools for Your Cannabis Operations

By Nohtal Partansky

From identifying what to automate to choosing the right manufacturer, there are a lot of ways you can optimize your automation tools so you won’t need to reinvent the wheel.

August 3, 2022

The B2B Marketplace Trend Comes to Cannabis (Finally)

By Adam Benko, Brian Mayfield

As more and more industries specialize, it’s no wonder ancillary services are having a renaissance and replacing the traditional one-size-fits-all model popularized decades ago. The more this industry expands, the more founders and their B2B partners need to roll with their own solutions.

February 22, 2022

Going Vertical: How Vertical Farming Is Revolutionizing the Cannabis Industry

By Jeffrey L Garber

In order to adapt, grow and leave a positive mark on the industry, we must pave the way for new styles of growing and utilizing new technology and science that was not available to growers in the past. We can use these advanced new technologies to make real-time changes to each sector of our facility and optimize both people power, and energy efficiency.

January 19, 2022

Cannin Commentary

Is Tilray Stock a Buy Post Fiscal Q2 Results?

By Cannabis Industry Journal Staff

This column provides readers with a taste of Cannin’s insights they offer to their members, including investment tips, trends, predictions and more. In this piece, we take a look at Tilray’s position following Q2 reporting.

November 5, 2021

The Path Forward to a Safer Cannabis Industry

By Roshan Sebastian

In this piece, Sebastian details how cannabis business owners can apply best practices from process industries to prevent OSHA citations.

October 20, 2021

Technological Evolution of the Cannabis Industry

By Serge Chistov

As the cannabis industry evolves, technology is often the leading drivier of change. In this piece, Chistov details some of the latest and most important technological innovations that are disrupting the cannabis industry.

October 8, 2021

Tissue Culture Cultivation Can Transform the Way We Grow Cannabis

By Max Jones, Dasya Petranova

Clean, safe and uniform cannabis is a necessity to generate reliable research data. Utilizing tissue culture cultivation is a smart way to ensure researchers have access to the resources they need to drive our understanding of the cannabis plant.

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Upcoming Events & Webinars

February 21, 2023 – 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Cannabis Labs Virtual Conference

The Cannabis Labs Virtual Conference is back! For eight years now, we have been hosting this complimentary collection of webinar presentations, designed to help attendees better understand some of the more technical aspects of starting and operating a laboratory. We will take a deep dive into cannabis testing, potency testing, regulations, sample preparation, management and much more. Attendees registering for this complimentary series of webinars will get access to seven veterans of the cannabis lab testing industry, who are all available for Q&A after each presentation. In addition to getting the opportunity to chat with these subject matter experts on February 21, a recording of the presentations will be made available to all who register. Practical and educational information from experts in the cannabis lab testing industry, all on the same day and all from the comfort of your lab, home or office. Want real inside knowledge on the cannabis testing industry? Stay tuned for more and make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter to find out when registration opens!