A new civil lawsuit accuses Arkansas’ largest cannabis testing lab of conspiring with medical cannabis cultivators to inflate the amount of THC in certain products.
An elderly, chronic pain patient targets cultivators BOLD Team, Osage Creek Cultivation and Natural State Medicinals, as well as Steep Hill testing lab in the litigation.
The complaint filed Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court points to third-party test results and statistical analysis to raise questions about Steep Hill’s test results, which are printed on individual products sold at dispensaries.
The suit alleges that Steep Hill inflates the amount of THC in the cultivators’ cannabis products, and in return, the cultivators have the incentive to use Steep Hill’s lab.
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