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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Arizona Requires No Cannabis Testing for Pesticides, Despite Recalls in Colorado 🌿Arizona Requires No Cannabis Testing for Pesticides, Despite Recalls in Colorado
In Colorado, the past 16 weeks have seen 15 recalls of cannabis products because of pesticides, including the largest such recall last week.
The state's one of several that now mandate or encourage testing of recreational marijuana for contaminants.
But in Arizona, the products of medical-marijuana sellers and cultivators never have been officially scrutinized. If the state approves recreational use in November, that's going to change — with a likely increase in pot pricing.
Buds, concentrates like shatter, and edibles could contain relatively high levels of pesticides and other contaminants, and the state's 85,000-plus qualified patients never would know. The 2010 Arizona Medical Marijuana Act requires no such testing because its drafters were worried it might drive up the cost of medicine.
Washington, like Arizona, had no mandated testing for its medical-marijuana program and no testing is required in its voter-approved 2012 recreational law. But with the launch of...
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