Funding Innovation in Cannabis with David Traylor

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David Traylor is Senior Managing Director at Golden Eagle Partners, and organizer of the CannMed 24 Capital Markets Workshop. After advising on various transactions in the life science sector, David took an interest in the cannabis sector and started advising cannabis companies before eventually re-foundeding Golden Eagle Partners in 2014 to focus on advising companies across the cannabis sector. Before …

Keeping Up with Cannabinoid Medicine Research with Bonni Goldstein, MD

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Bonni Goldstein is one of the country’s most respected and experienced medical cannabis physicians, having treated thousands of patients with medical cannabis. She is the owner and medical director of Canna-Centers Wellness & Education. She is Clinical Advisor to Cannformatics, and she is the author of the book titled “Cannabis is Medicine: How Medical Cannabis and CBD Are Healing Everything from Anxiety …

Evaluating THC Cutoff Levels for Impaired Driving with Patricia DiCiano, PhD

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Dr. Patricia DiCiano is a scientist with the Institute for Mental Health and Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto. Patricia has a multi-disciplinary background and her general research area is clinical trials and regulated studies into the …

Legitimizing Cannabis Medicine with Laszlo Mechtler, MD

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Dr. Laszlo Mechtler is the Chief Medical Officer at the DENT Neurologic Institute, the largest outpatient neuroscience center in the United States. Dr. Mechtler is the Director of the DENT Cannabis Clinic, which has more than 15,000 patients certified through the NYS MMJ program and continues to grow each day.  He has published some of the first major retrospective research …

Using Tissue Culture to Accelerate Propagation and Combat Pathogens with Bill Graham

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Bill Graham is the Founder of Microcline Tissue Culture, a company that provides tissue culture kits, consulting, and training to cannabis cultivators. With hands-on expertise, he retailed and distributed hydroponics supplies, sourced grow lights globally, created Biojuice nutrients, designed Phresh filter air quality systems, and simplified micropropagation cloning – creating the leading Microclone tissue culture kits in 2005. During our …

The Risk of Pathogenic Aspergillus and Cannabis

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Some people in the cannabis industry are questioning whether it is appropriate or necessary to test inhaled cannabis products for pathogenic Aspergillus.  Full disclosure, we at Medicinal Genomics sell qPCR testing kits designed to detect pathogenic Aspergillus on cannabis products. We have also published several resources on our website that describe the potential harms that can be caused by inhaling …

Manipulating Environmental Factors to Improve Cannabis Yield with Mitchell Westmoreland

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Mitchell Westmoreland is a Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Bruce Bugbee in the Crop Physiology Laboratory at Utah State University. His Ph.D. research focuses on whole-plant physiology and cultivation of medical Cannabis in controlled environments. He has published his research on photobiology and plant nutrition in high-impact peer-reviewed scientific journals. I spoke with Mitch about the various environmental factors that contribute to …

Reviewing“Next-Day” Effects of THC with Danielle McCartney, PhD

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Danielle McCartney is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics at the University of Sydney. Her main role is to coordinate clinical research into the effects of cannabidiol on simulated car driving performance.  Danielle and her colleagues recently published a systematic review of 20 studies that examine the next-day effects of THC. As the study states, …

CannMed Coffee Talk Returns September 20th

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The CannMed Coffee Talk is on a bit of a break. We will be back with a brand new episode on Wednesday, September 20th.  This hiatus will allow us to upgrade some of our equipment and processes so we can improve our production quality and give us more time between recording the podcast and getting the episodes published. You may …