RE: Majority of Cannabis Samples Coming Up Moldy

I don't see any details about quantity of infesting species. Given how cannabis is prepared for consumption, protocols that can preclude any presence of mold species are probably prohibitively expensive. Back in the day, and across jurisdictions today that restrict cannabis to black markets, it is highly likely that mold was and is present in those products.

Mold isn't one thing, just like car isn't. How much of what was present, and what health risks are or aren't potential to those species at those loads are pretty important information we don't have.

I appreciate the general heads up, but would appreciate details if your source had them.

Thanks!

Edit: I saw you provided source material, which is awesome. I followed a link and found this:

"Dispensaries that sourced their products from state-tested wholesale suppliers were "set up to fail," according to another owner whose dispensary failed the random assessment."

"As the state tracking system (METRC) would show us, the product was tested/process-validated and okay to be sold to the public. Otherwise, if the product has been marked as failed, as a retail facility, we would not have even been able to accept it into our facility's system," says another dispensary owner with inventory that failed testing. "If we had any inclination that the product would not have passed testing, we would have not received or purchased the product wholesale. We are debating whether or not to take legal action against the vendor for this inconvenience and loss of business that we have experienced."

Given the product was evaluated and tested prior to wholesaling to retailers, it appears that different standards are being applied by the city than apply to growers that supply to retailers. I reckon the city is playing some kind of power politics with retailers, and that their condemnation of 80% of products that had previously been safety tested and passed is pressure on retailers.

I remember failing to pay bribes to a planning department water inspector once, and a similar problem with getting my permits signed off on ensued.