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Medical marijuana shop in Denver. Image: UserODea via Wikimedia Commons.

7 ways marijuana dispensaries will look totally different in 2020 – Marijuana News

Marijuana dispensaries have come a long way from the seedy head shops lining Venice Beach. Today, these brick-and-mortar establishments range from boutique shops where "budtenders" walk you through the product line to fluorescent-lit clinics where medicinal use is emphasized.

The second-generation prototype of the portable marijuana field breath tester. Image: Tom Banse, Northwest News Network

Marijuana Breathalyzer Under Development To Nab Drivers Taking the 'High' Road – Marijuana News

Washington State University researchers are developing a hand-held device that police officers can use to detect THC in breath. THC is the main psychoactive compound in marijuana.

Eaze, which launched 16 months ago, is the brainchild of Keith McCarty, 30, who grew up in Orange and graduated from Chapman University. Image: Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times

Quicker than pizza delivery: Calif. medical marijuana service aims to satisfy – Marijuana News

Carlos and I are bombing around San Francisco in his 1999 Maxima, delivering marijuana to people who have ordered it from Eaze, a company that many have called the "Uber of cannabis."

Joints for sale at Mr. Bill’s of Buckley, the first recreational marijuana store to open in Pierce County outside of Tacoma, September 2014. Image: Peter Haley Staff photographer, via NewsTribune.com

Puff test for pot use will be reality within a year, WSU researchers say

Melissa Santos ~ NewsTribune.com ~
 
Researchers at Washington State University say they think they are about a year away from having a portable breath test that police can use to detect if someone has recently consumed marijuana.
Pam Bosch, Homeowner, Highland Hemp House, with a ball of hempcrete. Video Image via National Geographic

Hemp Homes Could Hit New High As Growing Cannabis Gets Legal

Wendy Koch ~ National Geographic ~
 
Times are changing for the cannabis cousins. States are legalizing marijuana, and the U.S. is easing its ban on growing hemp. Will a hemp boom follow?
Grow room at a Denver facility. Image: WeedWorthy.com

The Green Rush: Finding Tech Business Opportunities Within The Cannabis Sector

 
Technology will play a huge role in the cannabis industry’s future legitimacy.
High flyer: THC via UAV could soon be taking to Californian skies through medical marijuana firm Trees. Image: Trees via International Business Times

Drones delivering cannabis bought with bitcoins to take off in California

 
Pot smokers in California will soon be able to order marijuana online, pay for it using the virtual currency bitcoin, and have it delivered to them via drone.
image of medical marijuana

New Application Delivers Medical Marijuana to Your California Home

Danya Bacchus and Samantha Tatro ~ NBC San Diego ~

The new smartphone application Eaze delivers medical marijuana to a user’s home.

Image of cannabis extractors at a trade show

Cannabis technology, media fuse at first-ever New West Summit

 
Cannabis and technology — two of the Bay Area’s biggest exports — are about to become even more intertwined.
Image of an indoor marijuana grow

Oregon utilities prepare for demand spike from marijuana legalization

 
Oregon has to decide how it will power the growth of legal marijuana

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