Marijuana testing labs barred from taking samples from individuals

[kag]

Source: Boulder Daily Camera

The kitchen of Brian and Meghan Wilson's rental home in Denver's Washington Park neighborhood looked like a chemistry lab. Using beakers, glass dishes and a botanical extractor, the couple coaxed oil from dispensary-bought marijuana plants, desperate to control the epileptic seizures of their 3-year-old daughter, Vivian.

Before giving it to the little girl, who likes to draw on an easel and play with her toothbrush, the Wilsons took their homemade oil to a Denver marijuana testing lab to make sure the dosage was correct.

All of that stopped after state regulators began informing marijuana testing labs that as a condition of holding a state license to test, they may only accept samples from licensed recreational pot shops, infused-product manufacturers and medical marijuana dispensaries.

Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/marijuana/ci_25688115/marijuana-testing-labs-barred-from-taking-samples-from

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I don't understand. If they're trying to regulate every ounce of pot in the state, why not allow individuals to have their pot tested? It seems to me that that would HELP them regulate it.

[jtuck004]

1. "Uruguay leader calls Colorado pot law 'a fiction'" I wonder why? n/t

[pipoman]

9. So you agree with him? Did you read what he said?

[bitchkitty]

13. I don't think he read the article that accompanies that headline.

Genetic markers in government grown cannabis, and illegal to possess anything but govt. pot.

[pipoman]

14. And arrested for this and prosecuted for that. ...

[jtuck004]

16. Maybe he read it and wonders if the pres sees the irony. n/t

[drm604]

2. I wonder if the Wilson's can get licensed as a manufacturer or dispensary?

Could they maybe have someone who is licensed take the sample to the lab for them? Would that be legal?

[1monster]

4. My guess is that the licensed dispensaries would not want people doing their own cannabis

medicines... just like big pharmacies do their best to keep drugs they manufacture under their complete control. I don't imagine that all cannabis dispensaries are in it for pure altruistic reasons.

[drm604]

5. They're buying their MJ from a licensed dispensary which is profiting from those purchases.

They could pay that dispensary to have the extract tested for them. Everybody wins.

[1monster]

6. Your suggestion simply backs up my contention: that the dispensaries want to keep control

of the product in their own hands.

[drm604]

7. I'm not posting to either back or dispute your contention or anyone elses.

I didn't post in order to argue about how much control dispensaries have. I'm simply trying to suggest a solution for their problem. Railing against the dispensaries is secondary to getting this little girl the medicine she needs.

[notadmblnd]

8. No, they're not in it for pure reasons. However, many have to buy their product from someone

I do know a couple of people who produce oil, butter and edibles for a dispensary. So no, all dispensaries do not necessarily produce their own product. Many are more than happy when they find a good quality product they can purchase for resale.

[bluedigger]

3. I think they are trying to discourage private growers.

Eventually it's inevitable that there will be bud competitions just like there are homebrewing competitions today, but the home grower, at present, doesn't have similar technology to the homebrewer's ability to measure specific gravity and infer alcoholic content, etc. (If that's how it works, more or less.) Just like any good American industry, the legislators want to favor corporations over the private producer. Seems like a good opportunity for an inventor to develop a home THC potency kit to me.

[jmowreader]

15. There is one, but it's expensive

http://www.cannalyticssupply.com

What prevents pot stores from becoming forwarding points? Charge five bucks extra as a handling fee.

[RoccoR5955]

10. Bring on the corporate weed industry.

That is what this is all adding up to.
A big industry with its own high paid lobbyists, to pay off the legislative body, in the corporations' favor.

[WhiteTara]

11. Time for public service from the retailers. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. This is stupid. Individual can grow their own under state law, but they can't get it tested?

That makes no sense.

[DeSwiss]

17. And this is why I don't want ANY government control of cannabis.

- NONE.

K&R

[randr]

18. I have a medical marijuana license

I am also a provider able to grow plants for others with medical licenses.
I have not as yet needed to test any product but it would make very good sense to me that I be given access to testing labs to determine the potency and usefulness of the herb I grow. We are, after all, legal patients entitled to a medication prescribed by our doctors and endorsed by the State.
This is an example of how ignorant the Colorado legislators are when it comes to making decisions about the end of marijuana prohibition.

[RainDog]

19. These half measure (state-level only) are not good enough

No one is going to go back to the old drug warrior days of the 80s. That time is gone. Reagan is dead. Reagan conservatism is embalmed in too many politicians - but they are woefully behind the curve on this issue.

Time to catch up, pols - your stupidity is harming people and costing revenue that could be better spent in other ways.

Congress - join the 21st century, you geezers.

[RogerGreen]

20. Home Marijuana Testing Kits

I do not take to labs for testing marijuana. I have purchased a home testing kits and used to test the product at home.