Salutations,
...needs to be accessible to the general population...
Indeed, not to mention that home-growing was confiscated in 2 provinces.
Hopefully there's some labs around!
IMO there should be one next to every monopoly (SQdC) door, or even better yet: peace of mind shouldn't have come as an option years after "legal" operations actually started, and if we consider a traditional "black market" already beats their prices twice (especially decent products sold as "organic"...) then i'd also argue testing needs to be made mandatory and consequently included into those artificially-inflated bills.
...Canvas Labs in Vancouver... ...$60 per test and do cannabinoid profile, terpene, microbiological, pesticide etc.. They also do the full panel health Canada test but that is around $600
Finally, one of the real costs from Trudeau's "Légaleezation" started to be revealed. That's the canadian way of "saving" youth from falling into the hands of "organized rime", once claimed by reporter Pascal Robidas, via our national French-speaking TV network, to belong for the most part to asian mafia...
Next stop: Made-in-China tests at Walmart!
Thanks so much this is exactly what I was looking for!
Well i concur but the old stories of myclobutanil still haunt my last-decade memory:
Statement from Health Canada on Mandatory Testing of Medical Cannabis for Unauthorized Pesticides (2017-May-5)
« ...leaf samples at Hydropothecary tested positive for myclobutanil at low level concentrations of between 0.012 and 0.023 parts per million (ppm)... »
Which is about when i started to mock Hexo/Hydropothecary over "
Kosher Zyklon", in days when there were
17 "PCPs" compared to the
96 we got so far. During Harper's reign it was just "
banned", now we'd have to prove it's been there 1st:
Mandatory cannabis testing for pesticide active ingredients - List and limits
2.0 - Limits of quantification of the mandatory cannabis testing for pesticide active ingredients
Myclobutanil
Fresh cannabis & plants: 0.01 ppm
Dried cannabis: 0.02 ppm
Cannabis oil: 0.01 ppm
Although in principle i find most convenient for consumers to be offered lab-quality "Safety Screening" services it still makes me think of the synergy effect presumably obtained from combining savvy non-detection mix levels taken from a list of 96... As i recall those limits were established using resources which may exceed the financial capacity of
3rd-party players as that one mentioned above, with no apparent identification of the front door located at their advertised address.
Let remind ourselves that multiple toxicities don't simply add up: it multiplies. This means one could mix "traces" by the dozen in order to manage repelling insects and remain "legal" nonetheless, because of how safety got defined with bigot prohibitionists at the helm, since it's always been about a cat 'n mouse game - e.g. catch me if you can - and i may even argue only the future's consumers will find out how far this joke on us went, in a decade or two. But i may as well get accused of promoting conspiracy ideas, so...
Anyway there's a .PDF document referred to by Health Canada:
Multiresidue Method of Analysis of Pesticides in Medical Cannabis (2018-Nov-1)
I didn't read it myself.
Good day, have fun!!
