Pressure is on the U.S. to relax marijuana’s legal status
The legal marijuana industry in Colorado is fed up with state and local government officials seizing and destroying their crops and marijuana-infused products. The state has seen dozens of recalls of contaminated pot this year, triggered by positive tests for pesticides banned for use on marijuana in Colorado.
Businesses say they have no way to challenge the test results before their products are removed from commerce. Two Denver-based businesses—EdiPure, which sells marijuana-infused edibles, and Organa Labs, which makes marijuana products for vaping—are appealing recalls by the city of Denver. They claim that the city relied on shoddy tests results from an uncertified laboratory.
The tension between businesses and state and local officials over pesticides on marijuana has been growing rapidly since the governor of Colorado declared last year in an executive order that marijuana contaminated with unlawful pesticides “constitutes a
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