Economy & Business
A startup focused on medicinal cannabis quality control
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CannaMetrix aims to provide medically relevant, biological endpoint metrics for validating the quality and potency of cannabis products.
Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/health-science/page/2/)
CannaMetrix aims to provide medically relevant, biological endpoint metrics for validating the quality and potency of cannabis products.
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