Coffee Talk Live from CannMed 2022 Part 2 with Seth Crawford, Ini Afia, and Dedi Meiri

Ben AmiraultPodcast

We are back with three more conversations that were recorded live on-site at CannMed 2022 in the CannMed Coffee Talk Lounge. First up is Cultivation Keynote Presenter Seth Crawford from Oregon CBD. Seth discussed: THCV: How it is synthesized in the plant and why it is an important cannabinoid for hemp farmers Why industrial hemp has not taken off the …

Understanding Beet Curly Top Virus Infection in Hemp with Punya Nachappa, PhD

Ben AmiraultCultivation

Punya Nachappa, PhD runs a research program at Colorado State University that is focused on understanding the interactions between plants, pathogens, and insect vectors in crops, including hemp.  Her team recently published a paper that identified several different viruses in Colorado hemp samples, most notably Beet Curly Top Virus (BCTV), which is a pathogen known to infect several different plant …

Optimizing Outdoor Hemp Cultivation with Allison Justice, PhD

Ben AmiraultCultivation, Podcast

Allison Justice, PhD, is Co-owner and manages operations at The Hemp Mine, a 40-acre hemp farm that manufactures consumer-ready products. The Hemp Mine currently produces a wide array of different products ranging from smokeable flower to tinctures of different concentrations for both humans and animals. The Hemp Mine breeds, regional trials indoors and outdoors at scale in order to offer …

CBD for Anxiety Clinical Trial Results with Staci Gruber, PhD

Ben AmiraultCannabis Treatments, Podcast

Our guest this week is Dr. Staci Gruber, Director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital’s Brain Imaging Center and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gruber has spent decades investigating how both recreational and medical cannabis use affects the brain. In 2014, Dr. Gruber launched Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND), the …