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Background: Regulations?
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Past two years:
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OR – 2 recalls due to pesticide contaminated cannabis
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CA – established safety regulations to go into effect in 2018
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CO – multiple recalls due to pesticide contamination
Effects of Pesticides on Consumers
Medicinal Population:
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Already immuno‐compromised
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Inhaling cannabis ‐> pesticides are directly deposited in lungs
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Oral cannabis ‐> organs will facilitate some pesticide
decomposition.