Legal weed means safer weed. Government regulations protect the millions of Americans toking up from dangerous pesticides, molds, and other contaminants.
At least that’s the promise.
Washington’s pot-safety regulations have allowed a number of bad practices to slip through the cracks since the legal market opened in 2014. Regulators last year suspended one of the labs licensed by the state to test legal weed, Testing Technologies of Poulsbo, after an audit of the lab showed it had failed less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the weed tested at its facility. Poor lab practices meant an “extremely real” possibility that pot that should have failed safety tests made it to the market, according the audit obtained in a record request. Scary stuff. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) suspended Testing Technologies for 180 days, but it seems the message didn’t land hard enough.
