SPSFAM Meeting eBook March 2017

3/9/2017

Background:  Regulations? • Past two years:

• OR – 2 recalls due to pesticide contaminated cannabis • CA – established safety regulations to go into effect in 2018 • CO – multiple recalls due to pesticide contamination

Effects of Pesticides on Consumers Medicinal Population:  ◦ Already immuno‐compromised ◦ Inhaling cannabis ‐> pesticides are directly deposited in lungs ◦ Oral cannabis ‐> organs will facilitate some pesticide  decomposition.

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