As cannabis regulations shift across North America, a few commercial cannabis producers are building facilities that balance technological advancements with environmental stewardship.

Medical cannabis has traditionally been cultivated under a veil, in bunkers and basements. To provide the light necessary for photosynthesis and plant growth in this scenario, artificial lights are used.

But now, with the introduction of federal cultivation licenses in Canada, companies can now optimize for both the plant and the environment. Bunker grows are being replaced by structures that allow for strict environmental control while allowing the penetration of natural sunlight ­ into modern, high-­tech greenhouses.

The idea of developing an app dedicated to marijuana growing has been thought up by the creators of ilovegrowingmarijuana.com: through that website, many people asked how to get a collection of articles in the form of an eBook, in order to read or consult it when and where they want.

The made-in-Israel Syqe device may help make the use of medical marijuana widespread

It’s been called the breakthrough the medical marijuana industry has been waiting for, a technology that will bring widespread use of cannabis for pain relief to hospitals all over the world.

But most people who have heard of the Syqe Inhaler, a medical inhaler that provides just the right dose for patients, don’t know that it was developed in Israel, and they also don’t know that Israeli-US 3D printing tech firm Stratasys has been essential to the development of the project.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) will unveil its plans for cannabis research and will on Thursday receive its Ganja Research Licence.

This unveiling is scheduled to take place on the university’s Papine campus under the “Medical Marijuana Integration Day”.

The day’s activities will commence with an opening ceremony at 8:30 am, during which Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell will give an address.

Minister Paulwell is also expected to present the Ganja Research Licence to the institution.

“When we want to raise capital,” Dooma Wendschuh, the thirty-eight-year-old co-founder of a cannabis company called ebbu, said, “I go up to someone and say, ‘Would you like to invest in my company? Here’s how it will work. One: you may go to prison for making this investment. Two: I may go to prison, and you might lose all your money. Three: our minimum investment is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sure you want to play ball?’ ”

DENVER, May 12, 2015 -- CannLabs, Inc. (OTCQB: CANL), today announced the launch of a custom content science channel on theCannabist.co, The Denver Post's cannabis-focused news and culture website. Launched in December of 2013 to cover legalized marijuana in Colorado, The Cannabist features news, strain reviews, recipes, store maps and more about the state's expanding marijuana industry. Ricardo Baca, the nation's first major newspaper marijuana editor, edits the site.

Many veterans are turning to marijuana to ease symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, despite concerns from the medical community about how effective pot is at treating the condition.

There are a "tremendous" number of testimonials from patients with post traumatic stress disorder who say dried cannabis helps them, but there is a lack of randomized, controlled trials, said Dr. Stewart Cameron, a family physician and professor at Dalhousie University's faculty of medicine.

In September 2014, the College of Family Physicians of Canada released a document to help doctors decide how to use cannabis in their practices.

Often, cannabis is associated with its recreational activity and its many adherents. In the past year, PhytoChemia has made a full review of literature on the properties of boreal resources for Agroboréal. This scientific review is available on the site web of this company in french version only (http://agroboreal.com/revue-litterature-les-proprietes-ressources-boreales). For this post, I took the full card description of Cannabis sativa (L.) and translated it in english to put it in our blog. This information card lists the biological activities, commercial and medicinal potential and other scientific knowledge on the plant.

At the end of last month, Tesla unveiled their new product line, Tesla Energy, a series of batteries which may revolutionize the way people use electricity in their homes.

“Our goal is to fundamentally change the way the world uses energy,” said Elon Musk, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, “which sounds crazy.”

International Goldfields (ASX:IGS) is firmly on the road to gaining a dominant position in the legal cannabis market of Uruguay with a binding agreement to acquire an 85% interest in local Winter Garden Biosciences.

Uruguay recently became the first nation in the world to fully legalise under its federal regulatory system the research & development, as well as cultivation, distribution, sale and consumption of non-synthetic cannabinoids and hemp.