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Highgrade Labs is an accredited, multi-state cannabis testing laboratory. In Arizona, cannabis products must be tested for pesticides, heavy metals, harmful microbes, and other contaminants before they can be sold in dispensaries. According to azmarijuana.com, there are nearly 120 medical marijuana dispensaries operating in Arizona.
“Our team of professionals at Highgrade uses the state-of-the-art technology to generate accurate results quickly and consistently. We take pride in working with our grower and processor clients,” said Lavicky. Kyle Tarver will be operating at the new Phoenix location and they expect to hire anywhere between 10 – 20 employees over the next year or so.
Are Oklahoma Cannabis Companies Misleading Patients by Mislabeling on Purpose? The lawsuit claims that 15 major cannabis players allege that their THC and CBD levels in their products do not match their labels. Here is the bad part – in some cases this is intentional.
This is not the first time this has happened and seems to be a constant topic especially here in Oklahoma lately. In 2017 a study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that nearly 70% of all CBD products sold via the internet in the United States were mislabeled. In fact, the accuracy of within 1 to 2 percent was hard to find.
Oklahoma Gazette spoke with three Oklahoma City metro cannabis laboratories about their processes and submitted a flower sample for review.
Several labs in the Oklahoma City metro have been operating since well before sample testing became a requirement, and savvy cannabis consumers by now have no doubt seen at least one comparison of similar samples (often from the same batch, if not the same plant) with varying numbers, including THC and CBD potency. The question is, Who is right?
On Nov. 8, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of a recent run of testing, announcing that vitamin E acetate had been found in the lungs of all 29 victims of the disease whose samples were tested.
The discovery was made by bronchoalveolar lavage, or BAL, injecting saline into the lungs of the patients, suctioning it out and testing the results.
The CDC refers to vaping illness as “e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury,” or EVALI.
