{"id":3846,"date":"2024-01-17T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cannabis-product-contamination-and-testing-falsification-and-failures-rife-in-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:45:35","slug":"cannabis-product-contamination-and-testing-falsification-and-failures-rife-in-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cannabis-product-contamination-and-testing-falsification-and-failures-rife-in-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Product Contamination and Testing \u2013 Falsification and Failures rife in sector!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is no surprise that an addiction for profit sector, rabidly promoting it\u2019s wildly variable \u2018products\u2019 in a mad cash grab to get consumers hooked on consumables<\/em>, would see the following manifestations of corruption and dysfunction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other unsurprising outcome of the following revelations is yet another verification of a now utterly smashed promise<\/em> of the pro-pot lobby \u2013 the promise that we\u2019d no longer have to \u2018police\u2019 cannabis use and all the savings from that outcome would cover any negative downside to legalising this drug.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well not only has traditional policing (investigation and prosecution) not stopped in having to manage the behavioural and criminal outcomes of increasing community cannabis use, but second tier \u2018policing\u2019 (monitoring and regulation enforcement) has skyrocketed, with new bureaucracies, regulations, testings and then the policing of the<\/em> mismanagement<\/em> of those bureaucracies, regulations and testings!<\/span><\/p>\n

The absurdity of all this would be laughable if it weren\u2019t for the ever-growing harms to our community \u2013 not least road toll, mental health harms and child poisonings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will governments continue to believe the pro-pot propaganda of fiscal benefits of an addiction for profit product that cannot compete with ongoing illicit market? Who will pay for the ever-increasing community costs being incurred by this sector?<\/span><\/p>\n

Historically the answer to the above questions is almost invariably the tax-payer, and overwhelmingly the non-drug using tax-payer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Team<\/span><\/p>\n

Headlines\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Big recall ordered of pot products after Sacramento lab is caught faking tests<\/a>: <\/strong>Sacramento-based Sequoia Analytical Lab was caught falsifying test results for pesticides\u2026<\/em> The laboratory closed down and surrendered its business license after state inspectors discovered on Nov. 27 that the director, identified as Marc Foster, had for four months been faking test results for 22 of the 66 pesticides he was required under California law to analyze. \u201cThe lab director… was secretly falsifying the results\u201d between July 1 and Nov. 27\u2026It means nearly 850 batches \u2014 tens of thousands of pounds of flower, edibles and marijuana products \u2014 will have to be returned and either destroyed or retested.<\/em> The notice sent by the Bureau of Cannabis Control asked the 29 companies to request the return of all cannabis products that were tested at Sequoia. <\/em>The recall and closure could cause major complications in the cannabis industry, where the 43 licensed cannabis testing labs in California have to add new testing guidelines for heavy metals next year<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Marijuana lab suspected of doctoring THC, contaminants data faces license revocation<\/a>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n