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US: Mold still an issue with cultivation

To grow, marijuana needs certain conditions: humidity and a lot of light. As pot becomes legal in more places and more ways, be it medical or recreational, more companies are growing the once secretly harvested plant, usually indoors in a controlled area.

The problem with that is humidity and lots of artificial light are not just optimal conditions for growing marijuana, they are also prime conditions for mold.

A new Wall Street Journal analysis found that while states, where marijuana is legal, make growers hire laboratories to check for mold and other contaminants, many of those labs are underreporting what they find.

The Journal's analysis looked at more than 2 million mold testing results from nine states and found a disproportionate number of products containing dangerous mold, which can make you sick or even kill you, are being cleared for sale.

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