News Oct 29, 2018 at 9:55 am

Over 40 percent of pot tested by the state showed illegal amounts of pesticides. Is it a public health emergency?

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1

So can consumers still go by the growers the trust?

2

Smoked untested black market weed from 1975-2015 or so - I think I'll pass on this panic attack.

3

Safer and cheaper to buy from your old friend who grows in his closet, if you've still got the black market contacts!

4

Yeah no I would have to say it's not a public health emergency.

We should enforce the rules better, though, or we're just giving bad actors an advantage.

6

If this is true, how about naming some growers to avoid?

7

@6 YES thank you name the names
and FUCK the growers who are poisoning us.

Dear WashingtonStateLiquorControlBoard -- this shit is UN-acceptable.
Citizens are already geting more Poisons from our overly-
chemically-enhanced environment than We, the people need.

Is there much strychnine in Stolys or ANY arsenic in Ameretto?
Get the Pesticides the Hell OUT of our hard-won pleasure.
There isn't any Valid reason why we must become
poisoned from the better choice of Intoxicants.

Thanks!

8

Here's a hint. If its cheap, its probably full of pesticides. Especially concentrates and cartridges. There is no way to make shit cheaper except to bend the rules Want to support the good actors, pay a couple bucks more for your product and tell the bottom dwellers who drag the industry down to fuck off.

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@8 -- "Want to support the good actors, pay a couple bucks more for your product..."

While Price can be an indicator of value, without knowing who the good
actors ARE is too damned difficult for Citizen consumers -- pre-mortem.

Which is precisely why we have a Bureaucracy -
- the WSLCB -- to keep our intoxicants Safe.

Or, am I wrong?

10

@9 - The state agencies involved should be protecting consumers (including medical patients) from unsafe pesticide residues on Cannabis, but they aren't.

The LCB is a non-science, non-agricultural agency in charge of regulating the growing and processing of a crop (Cannabis). They are totally clueless when it comes to pesticides and consumer protection. Unfortunately DOH isn't doing much better, and WSDA seems to be afraid of their own shadow.

The pesticide levels that have been documented on Cannabis would never be allowed (without actual residue data that was reviewed by EPA) on any other crop. If you are concerned about this issue you might want to visit with your legislators.

11

Look for the DOH Compliant "GENERAL USE" logo. Then you, the consumers, KNOW that product has been pesticide and heavy metal tested to the DOH's standards.

300 Expert Level: DOH and the LCB have the same action limits for pesticides except the LCB you just have to "promise" it meets them and the DOH you actually have to "prove" that it meets them.

12

Kingsbury..The same guy that said..when pushing his homegrow bill.. that went nowhere last year. he didn't care about being a patient. There is a video out there of him saying that.

Patients united must have re-united this year. :)

He is responsible for the huge changes to medical cannabis here.???

Give me a break..

As he pushed for yet another home grow bill and a delivery bill he testified against the year before. I do not share your trust of Mr. Kingsbury.

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WSLCB set up an enforcement regime and does not give a hoot about being a true regulatory regime. Their inability to test for pesticides is evidence of that.

If we needed a registry because other states had one it is time to test for pesticides like other states do.

Even if they have to lower the taxes to allow it to get done without creating a black market, that is what they need to do.

WSLCB can only do what the industry and the cops let them do.

This years delivery bill will be a perfect example.

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I am positive Kinsbury wants to help get anther tax to do the job they already promised us was being done.

How many people sat up there at the podium during the ESSB 5052 hearing and told the legislature and the public we did not need medical because we already had safe and tested pot.

Mr. Kingsbury's letter should have been written to the legislature to tell them they were lied to. That would be helping medical cannabis.

Instead he is just huffing and puffing about the lack of pesticide testing so the industry will be taxed to provide what they said we already had...safe tested pot. I helped him write a writ that went nowehre. Then when I wrote the letter to the legislature he should have written , he attacked me

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Yes, Mr. Kingsbury is going to testify in favor of a delivery bill to deliver that untested , unsafe pot to the people in dry counties..

I allege this is actually a law enforcement bill that needs to eliminate a Kurtz defense of medical necessity by creating access to pot..even if that pot is unsafe.

Let me spell that out for you.

If you do not have adequate access to safe pot you could grow your own and allege your entitled to make a medical necessity defense. The home delivery bill is written to eliminate a medical necessity defense.It is a law enforcement bill period. Watch who testifies for it.

You really have to watch the advocates closely. You can tell what they advocate for by asking why they are there. Is Kinsbury around the WSLCB for patients? Well if he was he would be writing letters on the failures of ESSB 5052.

Mr. Kingsbury's work seems to be centered on the creation of a new tax and the elimination of a loop hole that only those in law enforcement are concerned about.

I am not seeing a real patient activist here. I am looking at more of a political operative in my opinion.


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