With marijuana legalization one big step closer to becoming a reality in Canada, a Vancouver company says it has developed a prototype device for catching drug-impaired drivers.

Canada's next prime minister Justin Trudeau has promised to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational use, and that's raised concerns about a possible increase in the number of impaired drivers on the road.

TAMPA, Fla., Oct 22, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In a historic week for the North American cannabis industry, Canada elected Justin Trudeau as prime minister after his repeated campaign promises to legalize adult-use cannabis in the country—good news for 

Google is making an aggressive move to grow its Google Apps for Work business with a new plan that will make it easier and cheaper than ever for big companies to switch away from Microsoft Office.

If you're under a Microsoft enterprise agreement, or EA, Google will give you Google Apps for Work — free.

"We're going to meet the needs of customers with EA," Google Apps head of global sales Rich Rao says.

The EA is one of Microsoft's most potent weapons for ensuring customer loyalty with its biggest customers. Basically, if you agree to a three-year contract, Microsoft gives you deep discounts on Office and other enterprise apps.

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Lighting accounts for 33% of total energy usage in a commercial cannabis grow facility. That’s a huge number that is often difficult to control - after all, plants need a lot of light to grow. This is why understanding the basics of lighting, specifically bulb type and how that light is being delivered to the plant canopy, can make all the difference in a grow.  

The amount of energy that is actually converted to light varies by bulb type. Additionally, how this light reaches the plant canopy varies based on the reflector being used.

Where can you buy weed legally? What kind of marijuana is best for you? What are the laws concerning pot use in your neck of the woods? Potent new marijuana apps make it easy to answer all your sticky weed questions.

We’ve harvested the best marijuana apps so you don’t have to pick through the seeds and stems yourself.

Now that marijuana is legal in many states, you might have questions you need answered. Maybe, like many stoner entrepreneurs, you want to start growing a simple patch of bliss in your backyard and aren’t quite sure how to start.

Justin Trudeau’s win in Monday’s federal election could lead to the eventual legalization of marijuana in Canada.

Washington state legalized recreational cannabis use for adults in 2012, and some state officials say delivering on Trudeau’s promise could prove to have its challenges.

“It’s a work in progress,” said Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste, who was in Victoria Tuesday for the annual Pacific Region Cross-Border Law Enforcement Forum.

Batiste admits that since legalizing the drug, Washington state has seen an increase in people driving under the influence of marijuana.

Early last year, Congress passed a Farm Bill authorizing a wide range of federal agricultural programs.

Tucked away in that legislation was an amendment granting states and universities the right to research a plant that has long been banned from cultivation in the United States — hemp.

Hemp production was banned throughout the United States in 1937, with the passing of the Marihuana Tax Act. Two weeks ago, North Carolina’s House and Senate passed a bill that would legalize the production of industrial hemp in the state.

Three strategies the startup used that you can replicate

Recently, Toronto-based healthcare startup Figure 1 reached an important milestone: more than 500,000 medical professionals are now using its app, up from 150,000 users a year ago. 

Joshua Landy, Richard Penner and Gregory Levey launched Figure 1 in May 2013. Landy, a physician, came up with the idea while studying the smartphone habits of doctors at Stanford University in 2012. Shortly after, he invited Penner and Levey to join him and run the technical and business sides of the company.

Women still continue to earn less per hour than men for the same amount of work in America, but there is one highlight — the marijuana industry.

Marijuana Business Daily reports this October that the percentage of women executives in the cannabis industry is far higher than in all U.S. businesses as a whole.

About 36 percent of executives in the cannabis industry are women. By comparison, just 22 percent of executives in all U.S. businesses are women.

A shot of vodka is a shot of vodka, but the THC level in a marijuana joint, vape or edible can vary tremendously from one strain or brand to another. This lack of uniform potency can make it harder to monitor marijuana’s impairment effects, and as marijuana legalization moves from state to state, more people will wonder how to use it safely. That’s what inspired the creators of Canary, an app that will tell users if they are impaired.