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A Greener Weed: Certified Pesticide-Free Cannabis Comes to Colorado

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 08/25/2016 - 09:24

Eric Steinkraus delicately lifts a days-old cannabis plant with his tattooed arm and smiles with pride. He clipped this small clone himself. Steinkraus, the director of grow operations here at Denver Bud Company, is meticulous with the cannabis under his care. He’s coaxing hundreds of clones like this into healthy young plants in this room, which is kind of like a cannabis maternity ward.

Steinkraus spends the next several hours explaining to inspector Jen Silverman how he grows his plants—with love and painstaking care, but without pesticides. That’s because this hot August day is the first-ever inspection for Colorado’s new pesticide-free cannabis certification, administered by the Organic Cannabis Association (OCA). Denver Bud Company is the first grower to ever pursue it.

“You guys are the pioneers,” Silverman says to Steinkraus. “I’m just the link between producer and certifier. I’m here to make sure the

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