The Arizona Department of Health Services is preparing to comply with a new state law governing the testing of medical cannabis.
The Medical Marijuana Testing Advisory Council met Thursday to discuss the challenges facing the state as it attempts to regulate cannabis.
A licensed laboratory will need to test products from growers and distributors by Nov. 1, 2020.
Steve Baker, chief of the office of laboratory licensing and certification at DHS, said the many forms of medical cannabis will call for updated testing methods.
“What you have to realize is, if it were just the flower, or just the plant, the methods are pretty good and established," Baker said.
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