In a prior blog on my site dedicated to Cannabis Consumer Safety News, Eye On Cannabis (dot org!), I examined how cannabis testing is performed, and how important precision in processes and audits are vital to maintaining the integrity of test results. …

Another Way States Can Leverage Their Power To Protect Cannabis Consumers — Two weeks ago, I talked about the underused power of off-the-shelf testing — there’s another important tool that states underutilize, which is blind proficiency tests. Until cannabis becomes federally legal, there is no entity better poised to run these tests that are so important to understanding the accuracy of results…

In Case You Missed These Stories — I’ve been posting headlines and stories at Eye On Cannabis to keep track of some of the stories I see about testing — they often come up again! Here are the entries for March of 2023. Arkansas New Arkansas lawsuit from patient targets cultivators BOLD Team, Osage Creek Cultivation and…

Many Oregon Growers Have Decided the Best Solution to Mold In their Crop is to Fight the Regulations — On March 31st, a ‘new’ rule went into effect for Oregon cannabis testing standards. I put new in quotes because this rule isn’t an emergency or anything — this rule has actually been a long time coming (over a year to prepare!). …

A Lot of Times, What You Need to Know Isn’t On The Label One of the surprising things for me to discover was just how inconsistent states were in their labeling laws — and how opaque cannabis testing is for consumers seeking to understand what’s in their cannabis (and what’s…

250,000 THC Potency Test Results From METRC Summarized in a Few Images. — Potency Histogram Series I based this potency histogram series on the whole number of the test result. These group potency results by frequency. I’ve rounded the potency results to the nearest whole number to make the information more digestible. 2018 Potency 2018 looks pretty normal, actually. 2019 Potency

I Just Felt Like Playing with the Data Method: I received 2 large csv files from the state totalling 32 Megabytes. Those files detailed 250,000 THC Potency Results and corresponding rows for Moisture Percentage (I wrote about my findings here). …

If the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission Has to Recall Product from the Shelves from Over A Year Ago, How Effective is Monitoring of State-Mandated Testing? — After months of listening to a variety of experts on the subject, I believe that Oregon’s cannabis testing, as it’s performed now, creates a product that is paradoxically both over-tested and under-safe. …

Editing to Add: This is a developing story that I first posted at 5 PM on 12/2. I have been editing and updating. OLCC supplied more information in an update at 8 PM on 12/2. …

Then There Were Ten. — A couple of weeks ago, I had the great opportunity to go on the podcast Marijuana Mind and talk testing. It was during that show that Cynthia Brewer, one of the show hosts, helped round out my list of ways labs cheat. A few months ago, I came up with…

Something’s Gotta Give, and it Will Be Consumer Faith in Science. — Testing Issues In Oregon: A Brief History of How We Got Here Testing issues have been endemic in Oregon. They were notably present since at least 2015, which was the year, the Oregonian did a massive multi-part story covering shortfalls meant to inform residents of issues within the newly forming recreational cannabis industry. Not only were there issues in pesticides getting through…

Without action, public and industry trust in cannabis laboratories will continue to erode. — I enjoy writing about cannabis science because it’s an exciting time for cannabis. I like helping other people to understand what they are seeking from their cannabis experience — and figuring out how to get it. …

Oregon’s Lab Testing Issues Revealed in Experiment — Since it was marketed to cannabis consumers as an important metric for the cannabis experience, THC content for flower has dominated the cannabis space. States re-enforced this notion during legalization by emphasizing THC on labels and regulating cannabis and hemp via THC / Delta 9 content. …

I Bought Some So You Don’t Have To. — Over the past six months I’ve been working with several labs to try to explore what is going on with THC potency testing in the state of Oregon, and I’ve written a series of articles about it. Yesterday, on Leafly, I saw some flower advertised as 44% THC that was…

Methods Bad Actor Cannabis Testing Labs Use to Artificially Inflate THC Potency Results for Flower. — I’ve written quite a bit about inconsistencies in THC potency results in the state of Oregon and the overall erosion of trust in cannabis testing because of it. I am working with a far more credentialed researcher to start to get to the bottom of the results that I received…

THC Chasing is Killing Honest Growers, Labs, and Retailers — Provocative, click-baity title, I know, but cannabis lovers — I need your attention because we need to talk about something serious. We aren’t doing right by this plant that gives so much. Chasing the highest THC (‘THC Chasing’) when purchasing at dispensaries has the potential to kill this industry by…

Three Years of Data Show Similar Patterns to Washington and Nevada. — About a month ago, I wrote a story about how THC had the potential to destroy the cannabis industry, especially small businesses because as a discretionary threshold, it’s a highly corruptible metric. …

Alternative cannabinoid manufacturers often boast they have the effects consumers want without Delta-9 THC —in this marketplace, can the test results be trusted? — Over the past several months, I’ve had the honor to be working with laboratories in Oregon on a project to demonstrate the power and efficacy of cannabis science. Much like the consumers I’ve disparaged, I’ve mainly focused my efforts on THC — mainly the over-reporting of THC.

Today I gave oral testimony regarding some rule changes proposed for Oregon’s cannabis testing. It’ll take me a few days to investigate and process what I heard, but I learned a lot from participating in and listening to the hearing. Here’s what I said. My name’s Jamie Toth. I’m a…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some rumors that caught my attention in a piece titled, “Is THC Bad For Cannabis?” I’ve spent the past several weeks trying to get at how, exactly, to answer the questions I posed in that article. I started at what I felt…