In 2020, Arizonans voted to legalize recreational marijuana, and it opened the door for both local and national marijuana companies to flood the market. But cannabis is not as highly regulated in Arizona as one might expect.
Arizona, like most states with legal marijuana and testing rules, requires growers to submit the products to state-licensed labs before marijuana is sold on dispensary shelves. But unlike other states, regulators here don’t do their own testing to ensure the weed is safe.
In this bonus episode of The Gaggle, an azcentral.com podcast, Arizona Republic business reporter Ryan Randazzo talks with hosts Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Ron Hansen about how he got a lab to test products he bought, and how results came back showing some of that cannabis was contaminated with a pesticide.
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