The state’s strict rules around pesticide testing for Oregon marijuana are hurting its fledgling recreational industry and could mean a $10-million drop in tax revenue from sales in the fourth quarter - or at least that’s the argument in a report released this week by those in the business. The Oregon Health Authority began enforcing [Read More...]
Election Day 2016 resulted in historic gains for state level cannabis prohibition reform. Voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada chose to legalize adult use of Cannabis sp. and its extracts while even traditionally conservative states like Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota enacted policy allowing for medical use. More than half of the United States [Read More...]
Man’s best friend helps us in all kinds of ways. Assistance dogs for people with sight problems; dogs who can help to detect explosives; and search and rescue dogs who help us to find people who are lost. Now a researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia has found another way that our canine [Read More...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the opening of a new $14.7 million, 53,000 square-foot Technology Center in Folsom, California. The new building, which is adjacent to Agilent's existing facility at 91 Blue Ravine Road, will house approximately 60 additional staff. The new facility includes a state-of-the-art customer applications laboratory and [Read More...]
It is 65 years since the film “The Man in the White Suit” gave people a glimpse into the life of an organic chemist. The film starred Alec Guinness as a young research chemist who invents an everlasting fibre that repels dirt and never wears out. But it is the scenes filmed in the chemistry [Read More...]