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After more than two decades of operating as the cannabis industry’s unregulated wild, wild west, California is finally getting a set of comprehensive medical and recreational legal weed regulations, but with improper pesticide use and uncertain testing procedures running rampant, is it already too late to start wrangling in the world’s biggest weed market?
According to New Cannabis Ventures, a new study from Steep Hill, one of California’s leading cannabis testing labs, reports that upwards of 85% of marijuana clones, plants harvested from larger “mothers” that are used in both commercial and home grows, were contaminated with pesticide residue.
Because pesticides may be used to preserve the mother plant, researchers found that clones that had never themselves been exposed to pesticides still showed trace amounts of the potentially dangerous chemicals.
“Pesticide use occurs during clone production, and that use remains present through the growth cycle of the plant, and can be tracked through at least 1 generation of passage.” The study concludes. “Purchasers of the treated clones likely do not know that they can lead to contamination in the harvested…
