Lab testing is a key factor in most legal cannabis markets. Most immediately, this is what helps ensure that the products consumers purchase are not contaminated with harmful substances such as mold, yeast, pesticides, or other chemicals.
It’s also one of the ways that weed-legal states try to ensure a certain level of uniformity in terms of telling consumers the potency of different products.
Ultimately, lab tests serve a number of functions as more and more governments begin figuring out how to regulate a legal cannabis industry.
Yesterday, Nevada state authorities suspended the license of a cannabis testing lab. Authorities now claim that the lab was falsifying THC potency in products moving through its labs.
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