Technology
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Hemp Composites Could Help Build Lighter Electric Cars
The next opportunity for industrial hemp could be hiding behind a car door’s upholstery. As electric vehicle manufacturers search for lighter materials, hemp fibres offer a renewable reinforcement that could help selected components meet performance requirements while reducing their reliance…
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Faster Cannabis Testing Targets Oils, Creams, and Flowers
A cannabis oil, a medicinal cream, and a dried flower can contain the same cannabinoids while presenting very different challenges to a testing laboratory. Oils bring fats, creams contain complex formulation ingredients, and flowers contribute a mixture of plant compounds.…
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AI Can Now Help Detect Cannabis Crops From Space
Cannabis cultivation has traditionally been monitored from the ground. Regulators inspect licensed facilities, law enforcement searches for illicit grows, and producers rely on workers and sensors to assess crop conditions. Advances in satellite imaging and artificial intelligence are beginning to…
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BLAZE MCP Connects AI Assistants to Cannabis Retail Operations
BLAZE on September 29, 2026 launched BLAZE MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that connects Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible AI assistants to more than 250 operations across the company’s point-of-sale, e-commerce, and marketing products for cannabis retailers. The launch…
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Scientists Turn Hemp Protein Into Stronger Bioplastic
Hemp seed oil leaves behind more than an empty press. The remaining oil cake still contains substantial amounts of protein, but this material is often treated as a low-value by-product rather than a feedstock for advanced manufacturing. New research suggests…
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Could Hemp Fiber Make Aerospace Materials More Sustainable?
Industrial hemp is usually discussed as a source of cannabinoids, food ingredients, textiles or building materials. Its stalks, however, contain cellulose-rich fibres that can reinforce lightweight composites. That has placed hemp within the search for alternatives to glass and carbon…
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Flourish Systems Irrigation Expands Across Origine Nature Facility
Flourish Systems, an agricultural technology company headquartered in Colorado, and Origine Nature, a licensed cannabis producer based in Québec, announced on September 21, 2026, the expanded deployment of Flourish Systems’ precision weight-based irrigation technology across Origine Nature’s indoor cultivation operation.…
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Can Static Electricity Produce More Potent Cannabis Kief?
Kief is often described as a concentrated form of cannabis, but the powder collected during dry sifting is not composed entirely of cannabinoid-rich resin glands. It can also contain broken stalks, leaf fragments, and other plant material. Those impurities dilute…
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Inside the Emerging Role of XR in Cannabis Growing
Imagine entering a cannabis grow room and immediately seeing which plants are approaching water stress, where humidity is drifting outside the preferred range, and which section of the canopy deserves closer inspection. Instead of consulting several dashboards, the relevant information…
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Cannabinoid Biosensors Could Personalize Pain Treatment
Medical cannabis presents clinicians with an unusual dosing problem. Two patients can use comparable amounts of THC or CBD yet experience very different levels of pain relief, sedation, impairment, or no meaningful effect at all. Even the same patient may…
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BLAZE Debuts Headless E-Commerce API for Custom Cannabis Storefronts
Cannabis retail technology company BLAZE announced the launch of the BLAZE E-Commerce API on September 9, 2026, a headless commerce product that the company says gives licensed dispensaries and multi-state operators complete creative and technical control over their online storefronts…
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Can AI Saliva Sensors Reliably Detect Cannabis Use?
A portable sensor that can identify tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in saliva within minutes sounds like a practical answer to one of legalization’s most persistent problems. Police, employers, clinicians, and regulators all want faster ways to determine whether someone has recently consumed…
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Why Medical Cannabis Is So Difficult to Test for Pesticides
Medicinal cannabis is expected to meet demanding safety standards, but confirming that it is free from unacceptable pesticide residues is more complicated than placing a sample into a laboratory instrument. Cannabis flower contains a dense mixture of cannabinoids, terpenes, pigments,…
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X-Ray Imaging Could Improve Hemp Seed Germination
Industrial hemp can produce food, textiles, construction materials, cosmetics, and biocomposites. Before any of those products can reach the market, however, growers need seeds that can establish a healthy, reasonably uniform crop.That is not always straightforward. Hemp seed lots can…
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How Advanced Mass Spectrometry Is Transforming Drug Detection
For years, drug testing has often worked like a checklist. Laboratories look for specific substances, compare the results with a predefined panel, and report what they find. That approach can be highly effective when the substance being sought is known,…
