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Inside Pesticide-Free Certification Program for Pot Grows

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 03/15/2016 - 09:06

As commercial marijuana grows in Colorado continue to receive plant quarantines and product recalls over the use of potentially harmful pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, one industry group is trying to set up a way to ensure safe growing practices. The Organic Cannabis Association's pesticide-free certification program will test participating grows for residuals of harmful pesticides and award scores based on the products used at the grow.

"We view cannabis producers as just another set of farmers," says John-Paul Maxfield, chairman of the OCA. "This is our first step toward building a larger organic certification."

Maxfield, also a founder and CEO for a sustainable agriculture business in Colorado, started the OCA in 2014 after seeing the word "organic" thrown around loosely in the marijuana industry. Because marijuana is federally illegal, and the USDA — a federal institution — administrates organic certification for farmers, marijuana businesses were unable to apply for...

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