Marijuana Pesticide Contamination Becomes Health Concern
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For all you pot smokers, legal and otherwise;

Better know where you weed is coming from because unscrupulous growers are using Pesticides that are made for use on lawns and causing havoc on public lands and peoples health. Time to set up dispensaries for the distribution to patients and standards to prevent such unhealthy practices but you illegal smokers are on your own, unless you live in Washington or Colorado.

But it doesn't look like Obama, an admitted pot smoker and cigarette addict is going anywhere toward legalization or growing standards and instead seems hell bent, against campaign promises and states rights on the continued prosecution of pot at the federal level. Perhaps it will take a Republican, like Nixon opening to China to stop this reefer madness.................But don't hold your breath because Big Pharma and the Prison/Industrial complex, huge political campaign contributors want to keep it illegal.

The following is excerpted from the Huffington Post.

Experts warn that unwelcome chemicals, including pesticides, may be tagging along with the THC and threatening the health of marijuana users.

"There's a pretty considerable amount of contaminated cannabis," said Jeff Raber of The Werc Shop, a Pasadena, Calif.-based lab that tests products primarily for California dispensaries.

"There are no application standards," he added. "Since we're not telling growers that they're allowed to use anything, they often use whatever they can get their hands on. And that's a lot of bad things."

Many of the chemicals applied to pot plants are intended only for lawns and other non-edibles. Medical cannabis samples collected in Los Angeles have been found to contain pesticide residues at levels 1600 times the legal digestible amount.

Because the product is generally inhaled rather than eaten, any toxins it carries have an even more direct route into the lungs and blood stream. Raber noted the situation is all the more concerning for patients smoking medical cannabis, whose health problems could make them more vulnerable to the risks pesticide exposure brings -- especially if they suffer from a liver disease.

Still illegal in the eyes of the federal government, marijuana use is condoned by a growing number of states. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia now allow the medical use of cannabis, and Colorado and Washington recently approved pot for recreational use. Many of the states where some form of marijuana use is legal, including Washington, have begun drafting regulations that would require independent labs to test products before they are sold.............. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24...28122.html
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