LumiGrow, Inc., the leader in horticultural spectrum control systems, gives growers in the increasingly competitive legal marijuana industry a cost-saving, growth-enhancing, leg up on the competition with its popular horticultural LED product lines. For the granular control over the growing process that cannabis producers need, growers also network their lights using the company’s patented SmartPAR spectrum control system.

SEATTLE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / October 27, 2015 / The quantified self movement has been rapidly expanding over the past several years, as consumers embrace its "if you can measure it, you can change it" principles. According to IHS, the global market for wearables and sensors will rise to 210 million units shipped and $30 billion in revenue by 2018, while companies like FitBit Inc. FIT, +7.91% and Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.85% are already making millions of dollars each quarter selling early-stage technology.

Weedmaps founder CEO Justin Hartfield does not think Bitcoin will help to grow the legal marijuana industry, a claim contrary to what many in the Bitcoin space claim.

Weedmaps, the online legal marijuana community, allows users to review and discuss cannabis strains and local dispensaries. The website garners two million monthly visitors with annual revenue of approximately $18 million. Widely considered the industry leading website, Weedmaps founder CEO Justin Hartfield has a unique point of view on the industry. Hartfield recently told CCN that he does not believe Bitcoin will help the cannabis industry.

Love has often been described as a drug – but that’s now been backed up by science.

A brain chemical known as the “love hormone” makes people more sociable by mimicking the effects of cannabis, scientists have said.

Oxytocin is known to enhance bonding between lovers and between mothers and their babies, and also to boost the pleasure of social contact.

The new research, conducted on mice, found that higher levels of the hormone in the brain led to the release of anandamide – an “endocannabinoid” similar to the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

Colorado’s marijuana businesses are having a hard time creating a bank. The Federal Reserve said that because the substance is federally banned they don’t want to work with the money involved with it. Now a hopeful Colorado credit union stands as a vacant building while the reefer industry shakes its head.  Andrew Freedman, director of marijuana coordination for Colorado was feeling very frustrated saying:   

“We tried to do the most with the building blocks of instructions they sent us, set up the most rigorous solution. And we still are left with confusion.”

Were it not for one man’s efforts, the current cannabis landscape would look more like moonscape. There would be no conversations/blogs on cannabis as a curative medicine, there would be very little known pharmacology; certainly there would be much less clinical information regarding the world’s most captivating herb. That man is Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, professor of medicinal chemistry and Natural Products at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is aptly referred to as the “Father of Cannabis Research.”

"Program could well become the standard in an industry that needs cohesion and consistency"

DENVER, Oct. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CannaScore (www.canna-score.com), the developers of the world's first real-time compliance software for the marijuana industry, announced that its unique cannabis compliance auditing system has been awarded "Top New Technology in the Cannabis Industry."

The award was announced by CannaNews.buzz, a leading online publication covering the marijuana industry.

The ridiculous failure of a drug war trudges on here in America. Now researchers at Washington State University are working hard to… CURE CANCER!

Nope.

Save Babies from SIDS!

Nope.

Feed homeless people! Solve the energy crisis! Help old ladies cross the street!

Nope, nope, and extra nope.

They are developing a handheld portable device to screen people’s breath for THC, the chemical that a News10 Rochester reporter so astutely reported, “makes you high” in the video clip below.

The first legal cannnabis vaporiser went on sale earlier this year and already it is changing lives, according to its customers.

The MediPen's creators say their device contains a very respectable dose of Cannabidiol, an active ingredient in the cannabis plant with a vast array of positive benefits and health uses.

CBD does not produce any of the psychoactive effects associated with traditional cannabis use, such as paranoia or anxiety.

A user, Amy Yapp, who suffers from fibromyalgia (a condition which causes muscular pain, aches and tenderness) has reviewed the MediPen.

Introducing FEZ, the modern vaporization experience for the discerning cannabis consumer, designed by Seattle tech innovators.

FEZ was born from the search for the ultimate cannabis experience. After extensively testing the current vaporizer market, the FEZ team of tech veterans and cannabis connoisseurs decided to raise the bar and create a vaporizer expressly designed for dry-leaf consumption. FEZ offers powerful conduction-based technology, a choice of temperature settings, long battery life, and portability for customized cannabis pleasure that fits seamlessly into a modern lifestyle.