Cannabis retailers face fallout from safety scandals

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https://www.retailbrew.com/stories/2024/08/15/cannabis-retailers-face-fallout-from-safety-scandals?

Recreational cannabis has been legalized in 24 states, plus Washington, DC, and Guam, and one of the big arguments for doing so has been that it subjects the drug to a gauntlet of regulations and testing to ensure safety.

However, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and industry newsletter WeedWeek found “alarming levels of pesticides” in products, including from popular pre-roll and vape brands purchased from legal dispensaries.

Fox guarding the greenhouse: The journalists sent 42 legal cannabis products it purchased from licensed retail stores in California to a lab, which found that 25 of these products had concentrations of pesticides that exceeded levels permitted by state cannabis regulations or federal standards for tobacco.

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1. skip the pot, go straight for the pesticides nt

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2. No wonder it's so harsh

It’s also much stronger than most of the illegal weed we used to get.