Hound Labs and Cannabix Technologies really don't like each other -- and for good reason.

Scale-out and tape firm knows how to adapt.

Analysis Pot plant cams in a Colorado marijuana farm feeding Quantum’s StorNext multi-tiered and scale-out, file virtualisation and data services software with surveillance camera footage show the substantial market changes to which Quantum is having to adapt.

CEO Jon Gacek told a visiting press crew in December: “I feel like the captain of a small boat in a rough sea.” His company has navigated the rough seas of the tape-based data protection market downturn when it had an ocean of debt from buying ADIC, and when the nirvana of a vastly profitable deduplicating disk backup market was hijacked by Dell EMC’s Data Domain unit.

Even as more states move to legalize marijuana use, the plant’s genetic makeup remains a relative mystery.

“It’s still quite an undeveloped species from the perspective of genetics,” Canadian botanist Jonathan Page told Vocativ. 

Page published the first paper with a draft sequence of a single cannabis strain, but federal laws against pot have long made academic research on the plant a challenge.

Toronto police have begun a pilot project testing the use of roadside screening devices for drug-impaired driving.

The project - which continues through to next spring - will test how well officers are able to use certain roadside drug−testing devices on motorists under different weather conditions and at night.

It is part of a national effort aimed at testing how police forces can detect drug-impaired drivers, with forces in Vancouver, Halifax and Gatineau, Que., as well as the Ontario Provincial Police and certain RCMP detachments taking part.

Toronto police say the information they will be collecting will help develop practices for the use of "oral-fluid" screening devices in Canada.

Like a corndog or a Doritos Locos taco, a pod of Brewbudz illustrates that two great things become better when combined. Here, cannabis meets caffeine: Each compostable pod of coffee is laced with THC, giving the sipper a single brew of a liquid edible. Brewbudz is the latest in the Keurig-ifcation of marijuana, but even science can’t predict what its effects will be.

As legal marijuana increasingly gains traction here on Earth, the debate could soon shift to address its use on missions to distant worlds. But out in deep space, the influx of high-energy protons could be enough to kill your high.

But out in deep space, the influx of high-energy protons could be enough to kill your high.

In a study investigating the effects of space-level irradiation on neurotransmission, researchers found that these ‘subatomic speedballs’ can alter signalling within the brain – specifically, messing with the endocannabinoid receptors.

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In the new study, researchers investigated the effects of space-level irradiation on neurotransmission. 

Israeli scientists began their pioneering research to isolate the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana with a 10-pound stash seized by the Tel Aviv police. That effort, in the 1960s, helped propel Israel to the vanguard of research into the plant’s medicinal properties and lay the foundations for a medical marijuana industry.

Well, it's time to spark it up... on Spark!

Digital technology has shaken up a lot of industries, bringing user-friendly, design approaches to traditional ways of doing business. So it's probably no surprise that it's starting to change how marijuana is sold. After all, the marijuana trade in North America is a growing industry, as it moves from an illegal trade into an increasingly legal business, and there's no blueprint.

In September, Alberta cannabis producer Aurora Cannabis launched an app for buying legal medical marijuana from your phone or tablet. Their new app is the first of its kind. (You can even get same-day delivery if you live in Calgary or Edmonton.)

Will Gaudet was born into the cannabis industry. A Berkeley native, he grew up watching his father’s passion for growing marijuana. But now, 25, he has decided not to follow in his father’s footsteps as a cultivator, and instead, start his own cannabis startup company.

“I believe that if I am going to do anything about changing the industry that I love, I need to start where the most money is being poured into,” Gaudet said. “And it’s not being poured into growing. It is being poured into the tech that will be able to revolutionize the way the cannabis industry is.”

MassRoots, a technology platform for the cannabis industry, announced last week it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DDDigtal, otherwise known as Whaxy and Cannabuild, for $100,000 cash and 2,926,830 million shares of MassRoots’ common stock.

In a press release, MassRoots said that, since Whaxy launched its menu management and online ordering platform in May for licensed cannabis businesses, it has processed more than $5 million in volume across 40,000 unique transactions.