// Definition
Shimadzu is a major Japanese scientific instrument manufacturer that sells a full suite of analytical equipment for cannabis testing laboratories worldwide, including HPLC (rebranded as the 'Cannabis Analyzer'), gas chromatography, and instruments for cannabinoid, terpene, and heavy metal measurement. The company fully embraces the cannabis market despite cannabis being illegal in Japan.
// From the Episode
Dr. Mark Scialdone highlighted the irony of a Japanese company profiting billions from cannabis analytical instrumentation while Japan maintains strict prohibition. Bubbleman called these business facts 'armor' for the legalization argument.
// Source
Ep. 161 HC 3.0 Ep 20 →