Leaders of Nevada’s emerging marijuana industry say there are few consumable substances watched more closely than the vegetation that goes into cannabis products.

Over the last decade, as nearly 25 states have authorized the use of marijuana in some form, several jurisdictions have imposed rules that require the substance be tracked from seed to sale. For regulators and sellers, it's a daunting process for a plant that often changes hands and takes on many forms before it becomes a final product — a joint, an edible, a topical cream, etc.

To ease data collection, states and marijuana establishments have turned to niche software providers who have made a business out of organizing data from harvest site to dispensary.

(TNS) -- Leaders of Nevada’s emerging marijuana industry say there are few consumable substances watched more closely than the vegetation that goes into cannabis products.

The test could help reduce the number of intoxicated drivers on the road—or it could turn up too many false positives to be useful.

Mike Lynn is cau­tiously ex­cited. A 49-year-old fam­ily man who lives in the Bay Area, Lynn has been an emer­gency-room doc­tor at High­land Hos­pit­al for most of two dec­ades. His com­pany, Hound Labs Inc., has just de­veloped the tech­no­logy to pro­duce a breath­alyz­er that can de­tect marijuana, but its fu­ture is un­cer­tain.

MassRoots, Inc. (OTCQB:MSRT), one of the largest and fastest growing technology platforms for the cannabis industry, will be presenting on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this Friday, January 8, 2016 as part of the semi-finals for the Extreme Tech Challenge.

The medical cannabis industry is growing—literally and figuratively—with no signs of slowing down as its become the fastest growing industry. By 2018, medical marijuana is projected to hit $5 billion, according to reports. Capitalizing on this booming sector is Green Technology Solutions (GTSO; San Jose, CA), a company which provides business support, delivery system products and horticultural technology support. GTSO partnered up with 6th Dimension Technologies, a 3D printing firm, to engineer an innovative, stylish and cost-effective cannabis container that is childproof.

Isaac Dietrich was smoking marijuana at his best friend’s college apartment a few years ago when an entrepreneurial vision burst forth as heady as the most potent strains of Head Cheese or Ghost Train Haze.

“We had an epiphany,” he said. “Grandma doesn’t want to see me taking bong rips on Facebook. So we decided we needed a place where people could post about it.”

As I look back on the calendar year, one significant tipping point in 2015 was the focus on experimental design in the cannabis market that most didn’t expect to happen so soon or so respectfully.

It is the merging of traditionally trained scientist and the incumbent practitioners.

My hypothesis has been this: If more open and respectful discussions between “classically trained scientists” and “cannabis incumbent practitioners” can occur, then creative discoveries will exponentially occur.

In regards to cannabis science, 2015 has been an amazing year, especially when considering how diverse the findings have been; cannabis has been found to help everything from broken bones to newborn brain injury caused by germinal matrix hemorrhages.

Although narrowing the studies down to a “best-of” list is incredibly challenging, that’s exactly what we’ve done!

Below is our list of the 10 most important cannabis studies of 2015:

The University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) has posted aseries of webinars on its website. The webinars are part of CEAC’s “Covering Environments” monthly seminar series. Each of the webinars are available for free on-demand viewing.

Here’s a quick look at each part of the seminar series:

• “The Birth Of An Agricultural Revolution: Controlled Environment Agriculture.”Presented by Dr. Merle Jensen, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, the presentation is Jensen’s direct reflections on the steps he took to introduce modern hydroponic systems to urban food production.

Whether you realize it or not, marijuana is on track to possibly be one of the deciding factors in the 2016 presidential election. As marijuana's approval rating has soared in national polls over the last decade, it's forced politicians who'd previously tiptoed the issue to take a stance.