Florida regulators recently cracked down on several licensed medical marijuana testing labs, tightening the screws on a part of the cannabis industry that is increasingly coming under fire across the country.
The issues of inflated THC potency results and lab shopping are hot topics in the cannabis industry right now.
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The situation is multifaceted, including:
A growing public mistrust of marijuana testing-lab results. A pervasive trend among marijuana businesses to shop for labs that will give them favorable test results. Testing labs that say they are struggling to retain market share and losing money as unethical counterparts gain new clients by inflating THC potency numbers.
It’s even causing a race to the bottom in which labs are offering lower and lower prices for testing in order to compete.
The obsession around potency and the subsequent related problems have led to an increasing call for regulators to
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