Are you smoking pesticides? Canada decides against chemical testing of medical marijuana

‘If there’s one thing you want to be sure of when you’re smoking cannabis for medicinal uses, its that the plant you’re using hasn’t been treated with chemicals that can make you even sicker. While this concept may seem like an obvious statement, Health Canada has recently admitted that they do not know how widespread the use of banned pesticides is in the medical cannabis growing industry.
Apparently, the regulatory agency has been allowing growers to police themselves when it comes to the use of potentially hazardous chemicals, like myclobutanil.
During a briefing with The Globe And Mail, a senior Health Canada official confessed that the department had not been testing cannabis growers to ensure they were not, in fact, using myclobutanil — which is prohibited and known to create hydrogen cyanide when heated.’
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