California Pesticide Regulation Won't Protect Marijuana Consumers Until 2018
Regulation is on the horizon for California’s medical marijuana industry — and for recreational weed, too, if voters pass Proposition 64 next month — but from now until at least 2018, it’s up to consumers to make sure their pot is free of harmful doses of toxins.
In the decade marijuana has been approved for medical use in California, the state has not regulated pesticides or fungicide in cultivation or solvents in processing of the plant product.
Like other crops, marijuana is vulnerable to destructive insects and fungus. Unlike other crops, pot is illegal under federal law and therefore the federal Environmental Protection Agency has not approved any pesticides or fungicides for it.
There are no federal guidelines for how much residual pesticide can be left on marijuana products sold to customers.
Left to their own devices, pot farmers treat their plants with whatever chemicals they deem effective and use as much as they see fit...
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