The Oregon Court of Appeals called for a temporary halt to a new marijuana lab-testing requirement for aspergillus, a type of mold that has led to recalls in several legal cannabis markets.
Oregon marijuana cultivators warned that if the state’s new “zero-tolerance” mandate for aspergillus went into force, it would put them out of business, Portland TV station KOIN reported.
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The decision is effective immediately, and cultivators told KOIN they’re relieved considering the outdoor cannabis harvest is near.
The court wrote in its ruling that state regulators should have looked for a more flexible way of regulating the mold.
In the ruling, according to Willamette Week, the court said it “… considered the irreparable harm to petitioners in the absence of a stay, petitioners’ likelihood of success on the merits, and the risk of harm to the public is a stay is granted and, in
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