Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.

Abstract: A standardized cartridge for dispensing accurate, measured doses of cannabis-based formulations that may be used interchangeably in a multiplicity of accessory devices for ingestion of the formulation in different modalities, and for which the formulation may be changed simply by swapping out the cartridge for one with a different formulation.

Abstract: An invertible container for display and dispensing of product, that uses a lid with a raised surface or solid plug that aligns with the interior of the container neck, such that when closed the lid forms a flat surface with the interior of the container and no product is permitted to enter the neck of the container where it would be obscured from view.

Abstract: A standardized cartridge for dispensing accurate, measured doses of cannabis-based formulations that may be used interchangeably in a multiplicity of accessory devices for ingestion of the formulation in different modalities, and for which the formulation may be changed simply by swapping out the cartridge for one with a different formulation.

Abstract: A standardized cartridge for dispensing accurate, measured doses of cannabis-based formulations that may be used interchangeably in a multiplicity of accessory devices for ingestion of the formulation in different modalities, and for which the formulation may be changed simply by swapping out the cartridge for one with a different formulation.

Abstract: A system for predictive recreational cannabis strain recommendation has been developed. Recreational cannabis clients enter a description of their desired cannabis mediated experience. This description is normalized and employed in conjunction with system transformed data assigning a plurality of physiological effects to a plurality of specific cannabis strains and available previous experience data to arrive at strain recommendations for strains matching the client's experience request using predictive analytics functions engineered for the recreational cannabis trade.

Abstract: A mobile banking system and method quickly and securely provides current financial account balances to mobile electronic devices. A bank server electronically receives, from a mobile electronic device, a username and a request to receive at least one current financial account balance while the user is not fully logged-in. Full log-in typically requires receipt and validation of both the username and an associated password. The bank server first validates the username against stored user credentials, and only if the username is valid, proceeds to validate registration of the mobile electronic device sending the username. Registration is validated by verifying that a serial number from an authentication seed previously stored on the sending mobile electronic device matches its stored expected value. If the registration is valid, the bank server obtains data for the at least one current financial account balance and sends the data to the mobile electronic device.