Data analyst Keegan Skeate agonized for more than a year about telling the state about some suspicious test results at a cannabis testing lab.
In a converted 107-year-old former bank building in Centralia’s quaint downtown, Praxis Laboratory tested pot from growers across the state. Small samples of cannabis flowers would arrive in baggies. Maybe 4 grams or so from every few square feet of leafy canopy.
Lab technicians would take 0.25 to 0.35 gram of cannabis flower and mixed it with reagents that separate different biochemical components of the pot in a liquid solution.
That enabled the lab to check the pot for THC levels, and CBD levels, as well as moisture and bacteria content.
On a night shift in April 2018, a lab technician told Skeate that the THC figures recorded in Praxis’ official paperwork for a major client were not the same numbers she entered into the computer after testing. While this bothered Skeate, he wanted to give the lab’s management the benefit of the doubt.
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