This Portable Brainwave Scanner Shows What Cannabis Does To Your Brain Or If You Are Impaired
As Europe becomes more open toward embracing legal cannabis, one Canadian company is getting prepared for some of the challenges that may arise with this progress. A neurotechnology firm Zentrela is working on harnessing brainwave research for delivering data-driven insights into cannabis effects.
The company’s CEO Israel Gasperin explained the process in a recent interview with Novobrief. He said that his passion for understanding how the brain works and how psychoactive substances affect it led him to co-found Zentrela. The company, which recently confirmed expansion to Europe, is looking to make brainwave analysis accessible to everyone through its patented neurotechnology platform, Cognalyzer.
“When cannabis started to be legalized, either for medicinal or recreational use, we saw an opportunity to serve as a tool capable of detecting people’s mental state,” Gasperin told the outlet.
Standard tests to determine if a person is impaired such as blood, urine, or saliva analysis are not reliable when it comes …