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Recall deals blow to California's marijuana industry [View all]
From https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Recall-deals-blow-to-California-s-marijuana-13487748.php
Recall deals blow to California’s marijuana industry
By Peter Fimrite
Updated 2:57 pm PST, Sunday, December 23, 2018
In this Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, photo, marijuana samples are organized at Cannalysis, a cannabis testing laboratory, in Santa Ana, Calif.
Photo: Chris Carlson / Associated Press
The recall of tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana and other products after a Sacramento laboratory was caught faking pesticide test results has jolted a cannabis industry that has struggled for legitimacy in its first year facing a full-slate of state regulations.
The action against Sequoia Analytical Lab last month was “yet another cut in the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts scenario that is playing out for so many producers in the state,” said Hezekiah Allen, the chairman of Emerald Grown, a co-op made up of about 100 licensed growers mostly north of San Francisco.
“The regulated market will only thrive when producers and consumers have confidence in the labs,” he said. “Right now that confidence is something we don’t have.”
According to Allen and other growers and merchants, the nascent industry has been overwhelmed financially by taxes, licensing and a slew of compliance hassles in 2018. The move against Sequoia Labs was just another blow.
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By Peter Fimrite
Updated 2:57 pm PST, Sunday, December 23, 2018
In this Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, photo, marijuana samples are organized at Cannalysis, a cannabis testing laboratory, in Santa Ana, Calif.
Photo: Chris Carlson / Associated Press
The recall of tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana and other products after a Sacramento laboratory was caught faking pesticide test results has jolted a cannabis industry that has struggled for legitimacy in its first year facing a full-slate of state regulations.
The action against Sequoia Analytical Lab last month was “yet another cut in the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts scenario that is playing out for so many producers in the state,” said Hezekiah Allen, the chairman of Emerald Grown, a co-op made up of about 100 licensed growers mostly north of San Francisco.
“The regulated market will only thrive when producers and consumers have confidence in the labs,” he said. “Right now that confidence is something we don’t have.”
According to Allen and other growers and merchants, the nascent industry has been overwhelmed financially by taxes, licensing and a slew of compliance hassles in 2018. The move against Sequoia Labs was just another blow.
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