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Another one of the interesting products featured at the Houston Marijuana Invesment Conference this week is a new cannabis-infused beverage called Ripley's Formula.  The drink isn't, of course, legal in Texas, so my student Griffin Scheumack didn't get a chance to sample it, but he reports that there are some positives to the new product:
    Ripley’s Formula debuted at the Marijuana Investment Convention this last weekend. This "magical elixir product," say...

The young biochemists who trained at Rice University came to pitch their business plan for testing legally produced marijuana for a "cannabinoid signature" that consumers can use to decide which batch of a given strain is best for their medical conditions or the recreational high they desire.
A team from Florida and another from Colorado each made the case for new lighting systems designed to cut electricity expenses for indoor growers while helping boost their agricultural...

To get a sense of what’s at stake for Texas in the debate over marijuana legalization, you only need to look past the state’s northern border and across the Oklahoma panhandle. Colorado’s law allowing recreational marijuana sales took effect on New Year’s Day.
CNN’s Ana Cabrera reported from Denver in late February.
“Marijuana sales are beating expectations on every level,” Cabrera said. “This is meaning huge money for the state of...