Exponential growth of seed selection and legal seed sales in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Switzerland, Spain, medical cannabis states in the USA, and many other countries, is making cannabis genetics more accessible than ever before. Most of the seeds (genetics) are available worldwide via Internet purveyors. Cannabis seeds are sold in every […]

Understanding how cannabis naturally develops and completes its life cycle is fundamental to growing the best medicinal crop. Cannabis, whether cultivated indoors or out, has the same basic requirements for growth. It needs light, air, water, nutrients, a growing medium, and the proper environment to produce energy and to grow. Without any one of these […]

In 1753, Carolus Linnaeus classified the plant kingdom for the Western World. In the process of doing so, Linnaeus classified and named the genus and spe­cies, Cannabis sativa. He concluded that the genus Cannabis has but one species, sativa. However, travel and communi­cations were difficult in the 1750s, and Linnaeus was unaware of C. indica […]

By Samantha Miller, President and Chief Scientist of Pure Analytics Cannabis Laboratory. With the rise of the medical cannabis dispensary, several other types of businesses and service providers have evolved to help support their needs, including laboratories that test prod­ucts for the medical cannabis industry. Prior to the existence of medical can­nabis legalization, cannabis testing […]

by Fred Gardner and Dr. John McPartland. We can only imagine how people, countless thousands of years ago, discovered that a certain plant had healing properties. Maybe a woman was gathering seeds for food when a painful period began. As she stripped the seeds out of the plant’s flower tops, a sticky resin coated her […]