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Alaska just lost one of its three cannabis testing facilities

Alaska just lost one of its three cannabis testing facilities

April 6, 2018

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor One of Alaska’s three testing facilities for cannabis is closing, and it’s connected to the industry’s banking problem. Wells Fargo decided to withdraw...

Medical cannabis potency testing to expand in Colorado

Medical cannabis potency testing to expand in Colorado

Sara Tiradossi October 10, 2017

Colorado’s Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division has recently announced its plan to expand medical cannabis potency testing beginning next month. The department considered the testing...

Pesticide testing now mandatory for all Oregon cannabis

Pesticide testing now mandatory for all Oregon cannabis

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen September 3, 2017

Oregon’s social cannabis program released an announcement on Wednesday which declared every batch of licensed cannabis in the market must be tested for pesticides. Last fall, Oregon-based cannabis...

Social cannabis licenses will be issued in California beginning January 1

Social cannabis licenses will be issued in California beginning January 1

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 31, 2017

California will begin issuing licenses allowing businesses to sell cannabis for social use on January 1. After a business submits a license application, the state will contact the local city or county...

EPA refuses to test pesticides while cannabis still federally illegal

EPA refuses to test pesticides while cannabis still federally illegal

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 7, 2017

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a statement in which it refused to regulate pesticides used on cannabis crops because of its federally illegal status. With 29 states allowing medical...

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